I recently had a 2011 macbook pro break down on me. I managed to salvage the hard drive and plug it in to my desktop pc with an extra sata cable I had lying around. Disk management recognized the disk but i cannot view any of the contents inside. What should I do now?
Trying to recover data from laptop hdd
- Thread starter sam171712
- Start date
ThatVietGuy
Titan
- Nov 6, 2007
- 11,718
- 314
- 70,240
SuperSoph_WD
Glorious
- Jul 30, 2014
- 6,758
- 3
- 45,960
Hey there, sam171712!
You'd need to use a third-party utility in order to read a Mac OS HDD on your Windows PC like the one in the link that ThatVietGuy provided. This is because the drive is formatted in HFS+, which is the file system for Mac OS X, while your desktop PC works with NTFS drives.
Your other option is to use a dock station and plug the drive on a Mac computer, where it should get recognized properly and you should be able to access your files without any issues.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1637722/accessing-apple-internal-harddrive-windows.html
Hope this was helpful! Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD
You'd need to use a third-party utility in order to read a Mac OS HDD on your Windows PC like the one in the link that ThatVietGuy provided. This is because the drive is formatted in HFS+, which is the file system for Mac OS X, while your desktop PC works with NTFS drives.
Your other option is to use a dock station and plug the drive on a Mac computer, where it should get recognized properly and you should be able to access your files without any issues.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1637722/accessing-apple-internal-harddrive-windows.html
Hope this was helpful! Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD
TRENDING THREADS
-
-
-
-
RTX 4070 vs RX 7900 GRE faceoff: Which mainstream graphics card is better?- Started by Admin
- Replies: 5
-
Question Seagate Ironwolf as single harddrive - ERC disabled?
- Started by Mumintroll
- Replies: 5
-
-
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram