Need help for recovering data

[lilTume]

So heres the deal.

My neighbour gave me broken external USB SATA HDD (Samsung 2TB) and I need see which one is broken; The HDD its self or the controller. I put the HDD to my computer for test, its running, no weird sounds etc. But I cant open it. It does not show in My computer, but in Disk Management it does. I cant assign letter for it, only thing that I can do is to Delete it, everything else is grayed. Can it be uncompatible with windows, 'cause it has been used with Mac. It shows up like HDD from linux machine, I think. Its in two partition, another is about 100MB system reserved like-ish partition and another is for data, and I can only see that reserved partition in CMD diskpart.

 

 

Help!?

[lilTume]

Bump

[dragoon20005]

if it was used for Mac 

 

the format of the file or the drive will not be recognize by windows

 

 

the reserved partition contains the information about the format of the data

 

 

so you are saying that the data partition cannot be seen even with Linux?

 

 

if so the data is kinda a goner

[lilTume]

if it was used for Mac 

 

the format of the file or the drive will not be recognize by windows

 

 

the reserved partition contains the information about the format of the data

 

 

so you are saying that the data partition cannot be seen even with Linux?

 

 

if so the data is kinda a goner

No I have not tried on linux. It just seems like its Linux Disk on windows. I thought also that, cause its been formatted with Mac it will only work with mac? I try to put that disk to my own External HDD case and give that to my neigbour and say that he grabs everything he needs.