Data recovery for OS X
Solution 1
I ultimately did use TRK, which does support HFS+. I had to do a fair amount of Googling to get mounting to work, but I ended up with this:
# mount -r -t hfsplus /dev/sda2 /sda2
-r
mounts the drive read-only (to avoid any further damage to data) and -t hfsplus
tells it you're mounting a HFS+ partition. (hfsplus
didn't show up in the man page or with man -?
– I spent at least half an hour figuring that one out.)
I then mounted a shared drive on a Windows server.
# mount -t cifs -o username=**** //server-ip/share /mnt0
It will ask for your password and mount the share.
Since my Windows server runs Windows Server 2008, I had to allow unsigned SMB connections. (I was getting the error smb signing is mandatory and we have disabled it
.) Fire up regedit and navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
and change requiresecuritysignature
to 0
.
Solution 2
You could try using PhotoRec, which is free, open source, and has some similar capabilities. It's on the Knoppix Live CD along with TestDisk.
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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josh3736 almost 2 years
I've got a Mac that won't boot and I'd like to recover whatever data I can before wiping the hard drive and reinstalling. I'm looking for something similar to TRK (which is Windows-centric) — boot from CD, mount the hard drive, and copy to a network share.
I just noticed TRK does appear to support HFS+; has anyone had success with this?
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josh3736 over 13 yearsExternal drives cost money; using software to copy to my existing file server is free. Also, taking the hard drive out of a MacBook Pro voids the warranty, which means that is not an option.
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Nisba over 6 yearsdoes this work also with APFS?