But that just mess everything up, and take for ever to browse through. Some other program tries to collect similar files, like all you JPGs for instance. It scans all your files and add the files and recover in the correct order where it finds the files in the directory. It runs in the terminal on OSX/MacOS, Linux and Windows. I found online a program called Photorec. Most of them are useless and suddenly I got a failure message in one of them and the whole drive were wiped. Then I found a program online that were supposed to be able to scan my drive on a windows. TestDisk is a cross-platform tool and runs on almost any desktop operating system: Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and even NetBSD. If you are using Mac OS X or Linux, get that version. The 32-bit version will work fine on most versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. There is a Windows 64-bit version, but it lacks some features. I recommend getting the plain old Windows version. I tried to remove that partition but that only made it worse. Download the latest stable release of TestDisk.

And if I tried the drive on a Mac, everything was protected. !!!! Don't do that !!!! That didn't work at all. I know that Mac partitions aren't easy to open on windows, but everything is possible.ĭamn, I followed a stupid tip online that I should just create a new partition in a Windows format. I needed som files on a drive that were Mac formated and try to get the files, fast and easy.

I had a harddrive failure and it were all my fault.

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