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?

  • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    7 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…