I have successfully recovered a clients data from a malfunctioning LaCie Big Disk. A big thanks to all who helped me with this problem. I recovered the data onto a new 1.5tb Seagate External Hard Drive. The problem is that I used my PC to recover the data and the drive is a FAT partition. My client is able to Read the files just fine, but is unable to Write to the drive.

I now need to transfer the data onto another external drive (which I have). Then partition the Seagate to HFS+ and bring the data back across. I tried this within the Mac OS and I received an error in the middle of the transfer. It said something about the drive had a problem transferring a video file. Transfer haulted. I also tried to use Carbon Copy Cloner, but it will not work with FAT partitions. What is the best procedure to get the data into a HFS+ partition so that my client can read/write onto the drive?

Thank you in advance.
Dustin

I could be wrong, the MAC should be able to read and write on a FAT32 partition. Are you sure it isn't formatted NTFS? As far as I know MACs can read NTFS but not write.

No, that should be accurate.

MacDrive is a good software for that sort of thing as well

_________________
You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

Your movie file probably crossed the 4GB FAT32 limit and corrupted the file. Any files over 4GBs would be corrupt. Carbon Copy Cloner will only do HFS to HFS from my experience. There might be a full version that gets around this. Mac can read/write FAT32. Why would you recover your customer’s data to a different file system?

_________________
Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

Mac can only read NTFS, not write

The video file may be larger the 4gb and FAT32 has that restriction.

If it needs to be able to read on a mac and you have single files over 4gb, you need to make sure the Format of the Drive is HFS+ that you are copying to.

good luck

My mistake. You guys are correct. The filesystem in NTFS on the Seagate Drive. Is there any way to get around the 4GB transfer limit? How can I transfer these files over?

Thanks,
Dustin

Since MAC will read NTFS, why not just use a MAC to copy the files to an HFS+ partition? or if a MAC is unavliable just use MacDrive as drc suggested to copy the data to an HFS+ partition?

NTFS Seagate drive --> Copy to HFS+ Mule drive --> Format Seagate drive as HFS+ --> Copy data from Mule back to Seagate drive.

How do I create a HFS+ partition using disk utility?

My options are:
Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Mac OS Extended
Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled)
Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)
MS-DOS (FAT)

I'm just not sure which is HFS+. Will I still have the problem with the 4gb transfer limit going from NTFS to HFS+?

Thanks,
Dustin

They are all HFS+, I don't know a lot about MAC file structures, but we always use Mac OS Extended (Journaled), seems more stable.

Check out http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2355 for more info on the subject

Will I still have the problem with the 4gb transfer limit going from NTFS to HFS+?

Shouldn't, neither have that limitation.

I'm thinking the error I'm getting may not be from the 4gb limit.

"The Finder Can't complete the operation because some data in "lld-portfolio photography.indd" can't be read or written." (Error code - 36)

Any ideas?

Again not familiar with MACs, but it sounds like its having I/O issues either reading the data from source or writing it to destination, I'm leaving that answer to the Gurus

I am still have an issue with this transfer. Are there any experts that have any ideas on how to transfer this data over? Application suggestions?

Thank you,
Dustin

The error I get when transferring from the NTFS drive to the HFS+ drive is "The Finder Can't complete the operation because some data in "100_2289.jpg" can't be read or written. (Error code - 36)

Is there any mac program that I can use to repair the file structures or delete the files that can't be copied? That way I can make complete the transfer. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dustin

In this case, why aren't you using the Mac to do this recovery? Once you have the drive cloned, connect the clone the mac and recover the data to the HFS+ formatted 1.5TB Seagate that you have. In most cases, once you have the clone, you need only copy the data over with CarbonCopyCloner, anyway. You may need to repair the FS with DiskWarrior or recover the data with Data Rescue.

_________________
Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery