Use APFS (SSD) or Mac OS Extended, Journaled (HDD) always unless you need exFAT or FAT (MBR) or NTFS for Windows or Linux. Some Apple's apps like Photos and Final Cut do not properly work on non-Mac filesystems. View in context Similar questions Converting an Exfat drive to APFS...
The drive you are attempting to recover is a disk with a reformatted Ext2/3/4FS partition. This article only applies to Ext2/3/4FS formatted devices. If you need to recover data from other disks, see our other articles: From an XFS Disk (Linux): Data Recovery from an XFS Disk Fr...
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Make a copy of the downloaded drivers to a CD, DVD, or a USB flash drive. Copy these drivers to the storage media because they will be erased from the hard drive once it is formatted. Step 4 Once all the necessary drivers have been copied, insert the Windows installer CD in the optic...
Is there anything I can do or is the drive dead. I have tried multiple computers, windows, linux, and MacOS. Unfortunately this is a "legacy product," and WD doesn't provide support. The weird thing is I can still store files pretty reliably. I don't care about data, just want the...
but rather a feature I turned on. This caused Windows to install additional software — the technology I use to run the virtual machines that I use in videos and use for examples. I fired up one of the VMs, also preserved on the D: drive, and found I needed to tweak its settings be...
This sounds similar... I have seen this with an exos x16 where the seachest tool crashed and didn't finish the formatting to 4096b. Drive was unrecoverable in windows and linux with raid controllers and hbas and had to be rma'ed. Reactions: Samir S...
My Mac seemed to have eaten my 4TB external USB drive - was formatted APFS encrypted. The volume just disappeared while running and I had to reboot and when it came back the volume could not be unlocked / mounted natively. I tried a whole heap of methods (https://github.com/libyal/...
For Linux: Parted Magic Parted Magic is a great tool in general, and it does include a few tools for helping to restore a deleted partition. First, if you want to make a mirror of the drive for data recovery purposes, you can certainly do that as it is a part of Parted Magic's br...
However connecting the same array to an NetApp HBA, an Ubuntu Live USB install running this command: sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sgX (where X is drive number) Worked out all just fine in the end after being connected to either the NetApp/PMC 111-00341+F2 & B2 ...