Good Evening!
Sorry - not sure where to post this, but Im trying to do this in OS X - so this has to be a good starting point.
Long story short - A friends Windows Laptop died. He has asked me to recover some data. I've taken the HDD out and stuck it in an external caddy. Connected the drive up and extracted a file he needed using Disk Utility. He then mentions it'd be great if I could move ~40GB of personal photos. I thought this would be a bit much to copy to my Mac and then to his machine. So got his new Windows machine and connected the old HDD using the same caddy.
Windows has asked for permission to view his documents. After permitting this the drive now appears un-readable! I've put the drive back on my Mac, it won't mount. In Disk Utility I see three partitions, none of which I appear to be able to do anything with (labelled as ExFAT - Im sure they were originally NTFS). I've Verified the disk and get;
"Main boot region is invalid. Trying alternate boot region."
When I try to repair the disk I get;
"Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk2s3”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
I've tried to manually mount the partition, but Disk Utility just briefly flashes.
I've tried searching for a couple of solutions online, DiskWarrior cannot see the drive. StellarPhoenix can see the drive, reports it as NTFS swell but seems to crash my Mac a couple of million clusters into reading the drive.
Any ideas chaps?
Sorry - not sure where to post this, but Im trying to do this in OS X - so this has to be a good starting point.
Long story short - A friends Windows Laptop died. He has asked me to recover some data. I've taken the HDD out and stuck it in an external caddy. Connected the drive up and extracted a file he needed using Disk Utility. He then mentions it'd be great if I could move ~40GB of personal photos. I thought this would be a bit much to copy to my Mac and then to his machine. So got his new Windows machine and connected the old HDD using the same caddy.
Windows has asked for permission to view his documents. After permitting this the drive now appears un-readable! I've put the drive back on my Mac, it won't mount. In Disk Utility I see three partitions, none of which I appear to be able to do anything with (labelled as ExFAT - Im sure they were originally NTFS). I've Verified the disk and get;
"Main boot region is invalid. Trying alternate boot region."
When I try to repair the disk I get;
"Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk2s3”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
I've tried to manually mount the partition, but Disk Utility just briefly flashes.
I've tried searching for a couple of solutions online, DiskWarrior cannot see the drive. StellarPhoenix can see the drive, reports it as NTFS swell but seems to crash my Mac a couple of million clusters into reading the drive.
Any ideas chaps?