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  1. podge100

    Cataclysmic External Hard Drive Fail

    my seagate expansion external hard drive is formally kaputt. It doesn't show up on my desktop or in disk utility. I am not sure what has happened. I can't do any first aid on it because it is not there. I have switched usb ports and tried on another laptop. Squat. Can anyone help with what...
  2. Gregzo

    iMazing | Manage your iPhone. Your Way.

    Hi everyone! I'm Greg, one of the developers of iMazing. We've been around for a while (remember Diskaid?), and somehow haven't started a thread here in all those years... I guess we were waiting for Dark Mode to come into the spotlight! iMazing is the ultimate iOS device manager. We aim...
  3. U

    SSD adapter to USB for MacBook Air (2013-2014)

    Hello, Background: I'm the proud and despondent owner of a Macbook Air that's apparently died after I forgot it on the garden table for the time it took to be rained on... The machine won't boot, won't talk to me when I ask for forgiveness either-- sadly, I think she's done. Machine: All I...
  4. R

    Diskdrill license

    Accidentally I have formatted one of my external HDD's exFAT partition. I have installed diskdrill but can't recover with free version. Is there a better free app? Or can anyone share a license? Or is there anyone sell a old diskdrill license?
  5. H

    Upgrading MacBook Pro, Mid 2010, 15 inch

    My pro is 500 GB HD, 4 G Ram. I have used less than 90 GB total. I tried to update the OS from Mavericks to High Sierra and it "crashed and burned" even though HS specs on Apple said it would work with my computer. Here's the dumb part: Never backed up anything! Took it to repair shop. Told...
  6. aliensporebomb

    iPhone X "I Got the X" - but some of my old data is gone from encrypted backup

    Well I now own a iPhoneX 256 in the grey color... But I ran into a problem relating to my old phones data: Before this all went down I backed up my 7+ to my iMac (with the encryption so as to keep my healthkit data and some other things) as it was starting to have a number of minor problems...
  7. V

    How to extract data from iphone backup

    HELP!! I've accidentally erased all my notes permanently on my iphone, but they are still in one of my backup files. Went on icloud but the permanent deletion had already synced. Wondering if any of you already had that problem. I don't really trust these third party apps because they have no...
  8. P

    How do I recover deleted pictures from Compact Flash Drive?

    I am looking for the data recovery tool to retrieve my deleted pictures from CF drive. How would I make sure if my picture format is supported? Please help me with 2-3 best software option.
  9. alizxm

    SSD Stopped Working, Now it says "Disk is not readable" Please help.

    This is the first time I'm writing at any forums online in my life! So you can tell how desperate I am to get this issue fixed. I am somewhat in at the outset of a lawsuit and my SDD drive just stopped working. Here's a summary of what happened and what I did: I have a macbook pro mid 2012 and...
  10. seitsme

    Data recovery s/w for external hdd-usb wd passport problem

    hi all, Due to the fact i was trying to install high sierra on my macbook (macbook 6,1 -late 2009) i moved some files on an old external WD passport hdd with usb connection. It seems this hdd now, after HSierra install is not showing contents at all. It shows capacity used/free correctly...
  11. Z

    Hard drive issue...

    Hello, I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place - so hopefully I am or someone can redirect me! About a month ago I stupidly stood on the right hand corner of my Macbook Pro... Directly on top of where the hard drive can be found! I straight away opened my mac and I'd completely cracked...
  12. asdavis10

    Fusion Drive HDD Data Recovery

    Anyone had any luck recovering data from a HDD where the SSD had failed? Terminal doesn't even show the Logical Volume of the HDD so that it can be forced to mount. Only the EFI partition mounts. I'd certainly never buy a Mac with Fusion Drive and keep them as one disk. Quite the headache if one...
  13. dpaanlka

    Data recovery from dead G4 MDD.

    Hello All, Long ago my father's Power Mac G4 MDD died. It featured two IDE hard drives that were paired by Disk Utility in a "concatenated disk set". We've all long since moved onto modern Macs however he now realizes there are photos on there he wants to retrieve. He went out without my...
  14. P

    "OS X Base System" - Data is gone

    Hello, I was recently attempting to update one of my apps through the App Store, and the computer was shut off during the installation. Now the hard drive reads "OS X Base System", and only has 6GB of data on the drive. If I go into the drive, I am unable to find my user folder with any of my...
  15. S

    Error Code -36 (probably corrupted file)

    Tried to transfer a .mts video file from a exFAT formatted external drive to my Mac Pro running El Capitan, had the below error. The Finder cant complete the operation because some data in "FileName.mts.MTS" cant be read or written. (Error code -36). - Yes the file name has two .mts in it...
  16. Wabash1KC

    SATA to USB/Data Recovery

    Hey all. So, about a year ago, I was just a month or so into deployment when my 2013 13" MacBook Pro crashed. It had been sitting in a dry, cool room and never moved, so I'm 100% certain it was not physically damaged; it just crapped out in the middle of watching a movie. That hard drive was...
  17. D

    General Using Jailbreak to enhance data recovery?

    Hi, First off i'd just like to say im a bit of a newb to jailbreaking in general. I had some images on an old ipad, these weren't photos taken on the camera, but photos saved from online. I've since lost access to these photos and need to get them back! I've tried a few ios recovery softwares...
  18. basilt

    How to Recover NTFS win7 hdd, after format to OSX Journal ext

    hello, Tonight while trying to install ELcap on my 1.1 (2.1) mp... I selected one HDD which was bootable with win 7 ultimate formated NTFS used to flash my card. HDD was mainly Win7 with only 1 folder with drivers and I THINK another folder with some very important video files, which i cannot...
  19. G

    External Hard Drive not Showing up on Mac

    Hey all, So I'm in the process of switching files from my family's mac to my laptop. We have an external Seagate 1TB drive that has a bunch of my stuff on it. It's formatted for Mac but I thought it was also able to switch to PC as well (didn't do research and this is in fact not true) so I go...
  20. T

    Migrate entire iMessage history FROM Macbook Pro TO iPhone 5s

    Hi everyone I have trawled the internet trying to find help on this - and fear that there may not be an answer...but I am willing to try any method available to try and fix this. Bit of background (note - my actual question relates to moving iMessage history from macbook to iPhone, but will...