I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where’s my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn’t boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don’t think the disk can last another full copy session…

Testdisk can show the data, there’s a way to tell windows that the files are there?

  • Beefy-Tootz@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    I don’t have an answer for certain, but I suspect this may be the usual problem with windows not being able to see or recognize certain file systems. If you have a Linux live drive available, or a VM, you could peek at it through there to see if it’s actually been copied

    • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      4·
      5 months ago

      it looks like fast boot in order to save me 10 seconds on boot restored the FAT state from before the copy

      i booted on another operating system and i see all the files, but the contents are all wrong, looks like everything is gone…