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    PhotoRec for Mac?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Brain191, Dec 14, 2009.

  1. Brain191

    Brain191 Notebook Consultant

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    I am trying to restore a pocket drive for a friend who's backup program when crazy and deleted the entire drive but all of my recovery programs are for Windows so instead of just running Fusion and using that, I am trying to use an OS X program and found a Mac version of PhotoRec.

    Anyone have any tips for using it? I didn't know it was a terminal program and am attempting to get the hang of it...
     
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    Brain191 Notebook Consultant

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    Okay so has anyone used it before? I am figured most of it out but it won't let me choose to save the recovered data to my external drive. I think this is because my external is NTSF (windows format). I use NTSF-3G so my Mac has never had any problems reading and writing to it but for some reason Photorec won't let me select it... any ideas?
     
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    crazycanuk Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sorry, no idea, I use photorec regularly but have a dedicated win2K box for running it. never tried it on any of my mac's. you should be able to create a separate folder on your machine to direct the output to there then copy it to external when complete
     
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    I was thinking about that too but the drive I am recoving from is 500GB and I don't have 60GB or so open on my mac... The external I am using is also 500GB but windows...
     
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    Crap, okay that does complicate things slightly. im guessing no other externals you can format quickly into HSF.

    IF I get time this evening I may try to toss it on one of my UB's and see if I can get it to work.
     
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    Okay no worries man, I was just hopping someone would have experience with photorec and can offer some pointers. All else fails, I am going to my parents house this weekend and can just use their windows desktop to scan the drive.
     
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