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I copied 2TB of data on an exfat disk from a dying Mac. Then on Windows this data is (almost) missing (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where's my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn't boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don't think the disk can last another full copy session...

Testdisk can show the data, there's a way to tell windows that the files are there?

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[–] Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

i installed macos on an external usb drive (surprised it let me do that), then booting from that i installed ddrescue via homebrew, then i was able to copy the files to the exfat partition

wasted a whole weekend for that...