Can't recover data

[Toklex]

Hey

 

I'm trying to recover old data of a lacie HDD from like 2006 but I can't seem to get access to it.

When I plug it in using a mini usb to usb A cable (using usb 2.0 port) the drive is not recognised in file explorer in windows 10 pro 64 bit but it is recognised in device manager. I can't seem to open it, the only options I have in device/drive manager is to put it "offline" or to make it dynamic. 

I've tried using Testdisk and the program does indeed recognise the drive and can get the backup from it. But the backup seems to be rather large (250 GB) and I only have 50 GB available on my own 256 GB drive. 

 

How can I get and view this data on this drive directly? I'm sure that this drive isn't even 50% filled up because all it was used for was backing up mails and photos from back in 2006 so it can't be taking up that much space.

 

Really hope that somebody can help me with this!

[MojangYang]

Can you get a new hdd and install it to your working pc, then Bach the data onto there?

[MojangYang]

Or just connect the old drive to your motherboard using SATA cable

[Toklex]

2 minutes ago, MojangYang said:

Can you get a new hdd and install it to your working pc, then Bach the data onto there?

If I really have to then yes I can but I was hoping for like a trick within windows so I can simply access and view it.

 

It's an external drive and was used in a mac btw

[SSD Sean]

Is it formatted in a way Windows can recognize? FAT32 or exFAT or NTFS? You won't be able to access it without Linux or another Apple PC or by downloading a software to communicate the file system to Windows. Just burn a linux live CD/USB (ubuntu is fine), and then use that live OS to access your files. 

[Toklex]

On 10/15/2018 at 4:20 AM, SeanSSD said:

Is it formatted in a way Windows can recognize? FAT32 or exFAT or NTFS? You won't be able to access it without Linux or another Apple PC or by downloading a software to communicate the file system to Windows. Just burn a linux live CD/USB (ubuntu is fine), and then use that live OS to access your files. 

Got into the drive by using paragon hfs+ but all of the files are spread out over 41000 directories. Do you maybe know a program like ccleaner that can analyse the disk but more advanced because ccleaner can find all of the photos etc but I can't select them all and move them all at once to a different folder. Tried deleting them (was hoping that the deleted file would end up in trashbin so I could simply recover it from there and place it into a folder) but it permanently deletes it.

 

Would using linux help or will it pretty much give the same result as what I have right now? 

[SSD Sean]

Give Linux a shot. In my experiences these HFS+ translator programs don’t work right half the time...above being an example. And it might not even be HFS+, it could be something else. Also, since it isn’t a Windows compatible file system by default, it won’t have the same recycle bin support, unless you can enable it in the recycle bin’s settings and the translation software supports it.

 

Linux should see the data properly, as it really is and treat it like how an apple PC would. Just use a live CD/USB to see...it takes like 20 minutes at most.

[Toklex]

On 10/17/2018 at 5:55 PM, SeanSSD said:

Give Linux a shot. In my experiences these HFS+ translator programs don’t work right half the time...above being an example. And it might not even be HFS+, it could be something else. Also, since it isn’t a Windows compatible file system by default, it won’t have the same recycle bin support, unless you can enable it in the recycle bin’s settings and the translation software supports it.

 

Linux should see the data properly, as it really is and treat it like how an apple PC would. Just use a live CD/USB to see...it takes like 20 minutes at most.

Tried it, didn't work it still gave me all the different folders.

[barondeau]

EaseUS data recovery, you can view whats on there pretty well using it, used it personally to get data off of m friends failing laptop drive. It is pretty easy to use, and one of the best in the business

[Toklex]

1 hour ago, barondeau said:

EaseUS data recovery, you can view whats on there pretty well using it, used it personally to get data off of m friends failing laptop drive. It is pretty easy to use, and one of the best in the business

The trial only lets you recover 2 GB, how did you do it?

[barondeau]

look up free keys

[Toklex]

23 hours ago, barondeau said:

look up free keys

do they actually ever work

 

Ok thx worked!