bootcamp-related data recovery problem

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Not entirely sure this is the best place to ask this, but seems close enough.

My '09 MBP's hard drive, which has a bootcamp partition on it, failed last week. I do have backups of most of the important information on the hard drive, but there were a few pretty vital documents that got lost because they were created in between scheduled backups.

At any rate, in an effort to recover those few files that didn't make it into the most recent backup, I took out the hard drive and hooked it up via USB like an external drive to my new MBP to try and extract the files myself (a tactic which has worked for me in the past).

This worked, sort of. I was able to read the hard drive and extract files...but only from the windows partition. This is problematic because the files I really need to get back are on the OSX partition, and I haven't been able to find any suggestions on how to get this fixed.

Any thoughts are much appreciated.
 

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2017 27" iMac, 10.5" iPad Pro, iPhone 8, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 Mini, Numerous iPods, Monterey
Since you removed the drive and have it in a USB carrier, try using Data Recovery software. The best in my opinion is Data Rescue 3 from Prosoft. I believe they have a trial version that you can try first.
 

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