A couple months ago I had a data corruption resulting in loss of data, more than 20 years of my work, from an external hard drive (WD 1TB) and Macbook pro (500 GB). Everything was wiped. Apple restored the system on Macbook pro. Following, I had to buy 2 new external hard drive for recovery work (2TB Seagate & 1TB WD Passport).
- As a first step, I cloned the Macbook pro into WD passport.
- Using Data Rescue 3, I tried to recover the data from external WD into external Seagate. Process was successful, output data was recovered and restored files. However, recovered data did not have any titles and their directories which I believe is normal.
- Than I tried to recover computers data from external clone (500GB in 1TB WD Passport). However, this time my recovery file was a dmg file (D-00001.dmg) instead of recovered and restored files. Additionally, I could not open this dmg file. I tried various mounting programs, but they all failed.
Prosoft customer support, first suggested enabling expert futures then selecting the file to scan in detailed view for deep scan. In my case this was not possible. As seen in 1st picture, the highlighted volume is the clone that I want to scan (500 GB in external 1TB WD My Passport).
In Enabled Expert Features and in Detail View, I cannot select the Macintosh HD2 with Add file to scan selection. The reason for that is computer detects Macintosh HD2 as a device rather than its container WD My Passport, as seen in 2nd picture.
Prosofts second suggestion is preparing a disk image of the computers hard drive or clone. I have not done this yet because I do not want to buy another external hard drive.
- I have been using the computer for a long time, therefore making an disk image of the hard drive is not logical. Probably, everything has been over written by daily usage.
- Making a disk image of the clone to work is an option, however, I am not sure that I will be able recover anything with this path. Because, the hard drive was already reformatted by Apple before I cloned it. Now, preparing a disk image from this clone will probably result in loss of recoverable (if there is) data.
Is there any expert who can help in this case?
Very best,
- As a first step, I cloned the Macbook pro into WD passport.
- Using Data Rescue 3, I tried to recover the data from external WD into external Seagate. Process was successful, output data was recovered and restored files. However, recovered data did not have any titles and their directories which I believe is normal.
- Than I tried to recover computers data from external clone (500GB in 1TB WD Passport). However, this time my recovery file was a dmg file (D-00001.dmg) instead of recovered and restored files. Additionally, I could not open this dmg file. I tried various mounting programs, but they all failed.
Prosoft customer support, first suggested enabling expert futures then selecting the file to scan in detailed view for deep scan. In my case this was not possible. As seen in 1st picture, the highlighted volume is the clone that I want to scan (500 GB in external 1TB WD My Passport).
In Enabled Expert Features and in Detail View, I cannot select the Macintosh HD2 with Add file to scan selection. The reason for that is computer detects Macintosh HD2 as a device rather than its container WD My Passport, as seen in 2nd picture.
Prosofts second suggestion is preparing a disk image of the computers hard drive or clone. I have not done this yet because I do not want to buy another external hard drive.
- I have been using the computer for a long time, therefore making an disk image of the hard drive is not logical. Probably, everything has been over written by daily usage.
- Making a disk image of the clone to work is an option, however, I am not sure that I will be able recover anything with this path. Because, the hard drive was already reformatted by Apple before I cloned it. Now, preparing a disk image from this clone will probably result in loss of recoverable (if there is) data.
Is there any expert who can help in this case?
Very best,
