I am trying to recover some photos from an old Mac mini HD. The machine would not boot, and would not boot into safe mode. It has reportedly been in that condition for over five years. The Mac mini was a 2006 model. The HD is a Seagate Momentus 5400 2 (80 GB). Other than trying to boot the machine, nothing was tried five years ago when the problem started.
So, I removed the HD and connected it to my MBP with a USB to SATA Hard Disk Drive Converter.
The disk did not mount in finder.
Using Disk Utility the disk was visible, but not mounted. (There was just an outline of the drive.). It showed a size of 79.68 GB. It also showed “USB External Physical Volume • Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”
The "get info" results:
I tried to run First Aid. After a moment I received this response:
I clicked "mount" and the drive started spinning, which lasted for several minutes, with no results.
I went into Terminal and typed diskutil list
Results:
Any ideas?
So, I removed the HD and connected it to my MBP with a USB to SATA Hard Disk Drive Converter.
The disk did not mount in finder.
Using Disk Utility the disk was visible, but not mounted. (There was just an outline of the drive.). It showed a size of 79.68 GB. It also showed “USB External Physical Volume • Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”
The "get info" results:
Volume name : Macintosh HD
Volume type : Physical Volume
BSD device node : disk2s2
File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection : USB
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
Writable : Yes
Is case-sensitive : No
File system UUID : E0E13E5B-6E8E-3F8D-9B4A-1F8ADADC5590
Volume capacity : 79,682,387,968
Owners enabled : No
Is encrypted : No
Can be verified : Yes
Can be repaired : Yes
Bootable : No
Journaled : No
Disk number : 2
Partition number : 2
Media name :
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : Yes
Solid state : No
S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported
Parent disks : disk2
I tried to run First Aid. After a moment I received this response:
Running First Aid on “Macintosh HD” (disk2s2)
Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk2s2
File system check exit code is 8.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed.
Operation failed…
I clicked "mount" and the drive started spinning, which lasted for several minutes, with no results.
I went into Terminal and typed diskutil list
Results:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 250.8 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +250.8 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 160.8 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 46.3 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 510.4 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *80.0 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 79.7 GB disk2s2
Any ideas?