Timeline for How to recover my harddrive if I can't see it in the disk utility
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| Feb 3, 2014 at 11:09 | comment | added | Rhubarb | thanks, you get the checkmark and the point. I'm now trying - and failing - to get files selectively from the TM disk onto the new machine. apple.stackexchange.com/questions/119705/… if you have any tips on that, be much appreciated | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 10:48 | vote | accept | Rhubarb | ||
| Jan 31, 2014 at 14:08 | comment | added | Andrew U. | It is worth a shot but if the issue is hard drive cable then you can't. If you can access/see the drive but have issues copying/rescuing data then you got a bad drive. | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 12:19 | comment | added | Rhubarb | Is there any chance I'll be able to get at it through Target Disk mode, if I get a thunder-bolt->firewire adapter for my new macbook? | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 11:30 | comment | added | Andrew U. | A hardware defect can come at anytime and show itself in many ways. It doesn't have to be limited to a single sector. It might be that the hard drive was working hard in the background to overcome many bad sectors and then failed. The HDD could also have a SMART failure. But like I said, hopefully the cable which would mean that access through external enclosure is still possible. Fingers crossed for ya | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Rhubarb | thanks Andrew, I wondered about the cable possibility, but it's odd that the problem occurred when I hard shutdown during a screen-lock (ie all my apps were open but I just couldn't do anything) - that seems more like a boot-sector corruption than a cable issue. then again, I should be able to see the disk in that case. And perhaps a cable failure caused the lockup | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 11:05 | history | answered | Andrew U. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |