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External Harddrive problem...

2007-09-08, 7:59 AM #1

Andrew L

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My friend pluged in an external harddrive into a Mac laptop (OSX) and then pulled it out. The MAC fliped out and was like hey buddy you didnt eject me.

So now when he tries to plug in the external into any PC it wants to format the drive.

If he puts it in the MAC it wont do anything... WTF

Is there any way to get past that and not format (salvage) all the goodies on that harddrive? Or is it all lost now....

PS im talking to my friend on the phone right now :rant:

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2007-09-08, 9:18 AM #2

NoESC

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he probably initialized the drive under mac, which kills everything.

gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT

2007-09-08, 10:27 AM #3

Andrew L

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so there is no way to recover the data at all?

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2007-09-08, 11:40 AM #4

NoESC

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no you're pretty much boned

gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT

2007-09-08, 12:03 PM #5

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Yup. You're :gbk:

2007-09-08, 12:04 PM #6

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What? It didn't format the drive. All the data should still be there. What partition type was it? For example, google "ntfs file recovery" if it was NTFS.

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2007-09-08, 1:06 PM #7

Obi_Kwiet

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http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/datarecovery.shtml

That should do the trick.

2007-09-08, 3:53 PM #8

NoESC

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no you're boned sorry

gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT

2007-09-08, 3:59 PM #9

Jay

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Originally posted by Anovis:

Yup. You're :gbk:

2007-09-08, 4:19 PM #10

Rob

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2007-09-09, 8:45 AM #11

NoESC

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wouldn't lose his data

gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT

2007-09-10, 7:47 PM #12

TSM_Bguitar

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I thought macs didn't have problems.

The commercial said "stuff just works on a mac" I'm so confused..!?!?

2007-09-10, 11:49 PM #13

Martyn

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It does just work. His data was obviously wrong.

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2007-09-11, 4:28 AM #14

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Originally posted by NoESC:

he probably initialized the drive under mac, which kills everything.

That's bollocks, I copy files between my mac and PC on the external HDD all the time. As long as it's FAT32 you shouldn't have a problem.

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2007-09-11, 4:40 AM #15

Martyn

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Originally posted by fishstickz:

That's bollocks, I copy files between my mac and PC on the external HDD all the time. As long as it's FAT32 you shouldn't have a problem.

Aye, me too.

2007-09-11, 6:15 AM #16

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Well... if you plugged it into a MAC... what file format was the disk written in because unless it's FAT, FAT 32 or NTFS Windows will have to format the disk before it can read it.

2007-09-11, 8:36 AM #17

Andrew L

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who knows what file format it was....

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2007-09-11, 8:41 AM #18

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Originally posted by Andrew L:

who knows what file format it was....

My friend, you and you alone can answer that... we don't know it's not our hard drive, most times you should keep track of your file format though. :suicide: