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Intended Boot USB creation wiped storage HD - Recovery possible?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1807684" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>OK, the fact it has been written to, and 6GB of installer put on it is going to make rescue challenging. At this point, if you want to try, there are utilities (none cheap) to try. You can look at Data Rescue to see if it's worth trying to recover. Bear in mind that even if you recover the data, it's going to have generic names, not the names of the original files. In addition, you are likely to get lots of partial files, particularly of image files with just part of the image. That was my experience when I tried to rescue a drive. It was totally frustrating because of the lost filenames. As I recall, you also need a secondary drive because what DR does is to try to recover the files by copying what it finds to a different drive. That way the damaged drive is left intact and unchanged just in case DR doesn't work.</p><p></p><p>And not to rub salt in the wound, but a backup plan should be frequent enough that you can "afford" to lose the files since the last backup. I do TM backups once daily, plus a clone backup twice a day. I have software that makes it automatic and happens without manual intervention, so I don't even have to think about it.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.prosofteng.com/mac-data-recovery/" target="_blank">https://www.prosofteng.com/mac-data-recovery/</a> is where to get Data Rescue</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1807684, member: 396914"] OK, the fact it has been written to, and 6GB of installer put on it is going to make rescue challenging. At this point, if you want to try, there are utilities (none cheap) to try. You can look at Data Rescue to see if it's worth trying to recover. Bear in mind that even if you recover the data, it's going to have generic names, not the names of the original files. In addition, you are likely to get lots of partial files, particularly of image files with just part of the image. That was my experience when I tried to rescue a drive. It was totally frustrating because of the lost filenames. As I recall, you also need a secondary drive because what DR does is to try to recover the files by copying what it finds to a different drive. That way the damaged drive is left intact and unchanged just in case DR doesn't work. And not to rub salt in the wound, but a backup plan should be frequent enough that you can "afford" to lose the files since the last backup. I do TM backups once daily, plus a clone backup twice a day. I have software that makes it automatic and happens without manual intervention, so I don't even have to think about it. [url]https://www.prosofteng.com/mac-data-recovery/[/url] is where to get Data Rescue [/QUOTE]
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