Hello,

I have recenty pulled an image from a failed MAC drive. My recovery equipment is all Windows based (NTFA and FAT). I have tried to copy the recovered RAW image to another drive and connect that to a working Mac G4 via USB enclosure, however, the Mac OS (OS-X) says the drive is not of a recognizable file system and either needs repaired or initialized.

I can scan the image with R-studio which gives me a bunch of files sorted by type, but they have incorrect filenames (all sequential numbers).

What is the typical way to get the data back to a usable format (with the correct names)? I have read about a program called TransMac. Anyone used this? Could this do what I need? Thanks

You can use winhex forensic (on a pc) or data rescue (on a mac).
For macs i prefer data rescue.

Best regards,

Dobre

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if you have cloned byte for byte and mac doesn't recognise, then the file system is corrupt ..afaik R-studio doesn't read hfs+..
Winhex will with the correct template , Transmac works well, Stellar works , and there are a couple more ..
You can also try a Linux Live CD , if I'm not mistaken it has Hfs+ support.
sometimes you have to physically repair the file system... if you do , Apple has very good documentation of the HFS+ layout ..

Data Rescue Mac is the best.

FileSalvage is another option.

Jon

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Hi,

You may try Stellar Phoenix MAC (Windows or MAC versioN).
It is slow, but very powerful product.
And also you may try R-studio V4.0 that supports HFS+.

regards
Pninja

In my humble opinion, Rstudio is good for imaging and raid reconstruction etc.. but for file retrieval it misses files or retrieves them bad. Not my preferable product.

Dobre

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is there winhex template for APFS?