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ddrecovery

Post subject: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: 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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data-medics

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: September 14th, 2016, 13:04

Joined: April 3rd, 2011, 0:19
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Location: Providence, RI

What program are you working with to recover it?

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ddrecovery

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: 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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data-medics

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: September 14th, 2016, 14:18

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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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pcimage

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: September 14th, 2016, 14:49

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

Data rescue 3 or 4 running on a Mac usually produces the best results in my experience.

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ddrecovery

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: 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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ddrecovery

Post subject: Re: HFS Recovery Question

Posted: September 18th, 2016, 14:27

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ddrecovery wrote:

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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