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 Post subject: HFS Recovery Question
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 12:34 
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I have a HFS HDD that been reformatted. HFS reformat is usually much more devastating to the file system than say NTFS, but with this recovery I get pretty much all the folder structure and file names but the files are all 0KB and do not open. I have not seen this before? I do get a large chunk of data in RAW however.

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 13:04 
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What program are you working with to recover it?

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 13:57 
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data-medics wrote:
What program are you working with to recover it?

Tried most of the popular ones to see if anything changes. UFS Pro, R-Studio and some not so popular ones. All give the same result.

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
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I saw an odd case similar to this once where most files all showed as 512Kb size. I think Data Rescue 4 was able to handle it fairly well though.

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
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Data rescue 3 or 4 running on a Mac usually produces the best results in my experience.

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
PostPosted: September 14th, 2016, 15:16 
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data-medics wrote:
I saw an odd case similar to this once where most files all showed as 512Kb size. I think Data Rescue 4 was able to handle it fairly well though.

I will give it a try and let you know.

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 Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question
PostPosted: September 18th, 2016, 14:27 
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data-medics wrote:
I saw an odd case similar to this once where most files all showed as 512Kb size. I think Data Rescue 4 was able to handle it fairly well though.

I will give it a try and let you know.

Worked great, thanks.

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