recovery of MAC HFS+ file system

[hiljak]

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

[dobrevjetser]

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

Best regards,

Dobre

[Steve]

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 ..

[jono-ats]

Data Rescue Mac is the best.

FileSalvage is another option.

Jon

[pninja]

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

[dobrevjetser]

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

[drHDD]

is there winhex template for APFS?