external hard drive recovery software Mac

[Decster]

external hard drive recovery software Mac

anyone use any before?

Any recommendations?

preferably free, but whatever works...

TIA

 

[Loiq]

I just sent the drive back, just out of warranty.... 18 months freecom recovered it all and sent me a new drive.

2 drives for the costs of one shagged one....

There might some advice on the manufacturers website about it.... best of luck...

 

[Decster]

I just sent the drive back, just out of warranty.... 18 months freecom recovered it all and sent me a new drive.

2 drives for the costs of one shagged one....

There might some advice on the manufacturers website about it.... best of luck...

Seagate, about 4 years old....

Cheers.

 

[ianf]

Not free, but it will let you try before you buy.

https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

Lots of Seagate drives have a 5 year warranty btw.

Can you replace and restore, or do you have data you stand to lose?

 

[immigrant]

I managed to accidentally wipe a drive recently and had some success recovering the data using an application called Data Rescue which was free IIRC.

The only issue was that the recovered files were renamed in sequential order, e.g. D0000113.xls. So you lost the meaningful filenames but the file extension and data integrity was maintained.

To find particular documents again I normally use Spotlight to search for a term I was certain was present in the file or similar scroll through the listing using preview to show the cover page.

Note this will only work if a delete was involved but not a 'strong' delete or format.

 

[Decster]

Not free, but it will let you try before you buy.

https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

Lots of Seagate drives have a 5 year warranty btw.

Can you replace and restore, or do you have data you stand to lose?

Have contacted seagate, so awaiting a reply.

gonna try their seatools software later with a pc..

i have 2360+ images to lose....they are alot backed up on DVDs but would like to recover the ext HD if poss...

Cheers

 

[Decster]

I managed to accidentally wipe a drive recently and had some success recovering the data using an application called Data Rescue which was free IIRC.

The only issue was that the recovered files were renamed in sequential order, e.g. D0000113.xls. So you lost the meaningful filenames but the file extension and data integrity was maintained.

To find particular documents again I normally use Spotlight to search for a term I was certain was present in the file or similar scroll through the listing using preview to show the cover page.

Note this will only work if a delete was involved but not a 'strong' delete or format.

Drive wasn't wipe as such. it was part of a crash and when restarted the mac it was not reading anything.....

 

[JediJase]

I just had a

lacie external hdd fail on me the other week, so I ripped the hdd out of the box an plugged it into my pc and she works just fine. seems the case failed and not the hdd.