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mjsmike

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Sep 10, 2014
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Hi there,


I had a problem last night while updating my backup of one particular drive (both external). About half way through the backup (using CCC) my Mac shut down and after restarting, my source drive wouldn’t mount and the destination drive had only cloned 600GB of 1.72TB.


I can see the source drive in Disk Utility and have tried to repair the disk multiple times. Sometimes it says it has repaired but twice now it says ‘Invalid Node Structure’.


I’ve tried typing the following into terminal with no luck: sudo /sbin/fsck_hfs -yprd /dev/disk5s2 replacing disk5s2 with my own disks information.


Now the drive mounts and says there is 1.72TB of data there but finder freezes if i try to access it.


Is there anything else i can try?


Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
Thanks. I just tried Disk Warrior but it can't see the disk. Even though Disk Utility can.
 
Disk warrior is the best bet, i think you can create a boot disk from it. If that doesn't work, then the chance of successful recovery is low.

May be there are some good free Linux software can do similar (or even better) job, but I am not familiar in this area.
 
mjsmike said:
Any other ideas?
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Another one you can try is Prosoft's Data Rescue.

But it sounds like your drive might be beyond help (without getting into seriously expensive data recovery services)
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mjsmike said:
Any other ideas?
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BTW, this is a classic Mac Pro? Have you checked all the cables connections and try removing and reinstalling the hard drive, and all those sorts of common troubleshooting practices?
 
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ixxx69 said:
Another one you can try is Prosoft's Data Rescue.

But it sounds like your drive might be beyond help (without getting into seriously expensive data recovery services)
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BTW, this is a classic Mac Pro? Have you checked all the cables connections and try removing and reinstalling the hard drive, and all those sorts of common troubleshooting practices?
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I can vouch for Prosoft's Data Rescue. While not super recent, it did work to recover what I thought would be lost data from a friend's drive. Granted it took days to run, it recovered most of it.
 
Yes its a classic mac pro. Tried different usb ports and even installing the drive in one of the 4 slots inside but that causes the mac to freeze on startup. The drive shows up in disk utility but the volume is greyed out. After preparing the disk, it mounts but freezes if i try to open it. Yet it still says 1.72TB of data is on there.
 
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