Questions tagged [hfs+]
HFS Plus or HFS+ is a file system developed by Apple Inc. to replace their Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system used in Macintosh computers (or other systems running Mac OS).
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Recovery data from a double (accidentally) formatted HDD HFS+
Could be possible recovery original HDD data from a double formatted HDD?
I have erroneous repeated the formatting on a working disk twice, could be possible recovery original one table allocation ...
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Mounting an HFS + External Drive
I have a Windows computer at home, and a company sent me an external HDD formatted as HFS+.
It doesn't read on my Windows machine. I'm planning to use a software called Paragon to access the files, ...
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Create APFS/HFS+ partition on Linux and share it via network
I want to store all my files and documents on a local server at my home instead locally on a single PC.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to create a APFS or HFS+ partition on a Linux system (like ...
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repair GUID after changing HFS+ partition drive letter in Windows
I have a non-boot HFS+ partition. After changing the drive letter in Windows diskmgmt.msc, I can no longer see the drive in OS X. I can see the drive and its contents in Windows. Apparently this is ...
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Install macOS Big Sur to HFS+ partition on a clean new HDD/SSD
Is it possible? May be by editing some scripts on the installation media... Or just by selecting a setting I've missed during installation.
And prevent further converting HFS+ to APFS in the future.
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ddrescue encounters read errors only, no good reads at all
I tried to rescue a disk connected via USB to a Linux box using GNU ddrescue, but after running over the first 2 GB it couldn't rescue anything but instead reported only read errors. To avoid further ...
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Is there anyway to revert my mac to HFS from APFS?
Most of the time spent on my mac is spent on bootcamp or linux distros, but i have noticed that the main partition cannot be accessed by windows since it is APFS. Since the only way to access APFS is ...
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Back up old time machine backup without mac
A long while ago, I owned a macbook for several years, and backed it up on to an external hd with time machine. I no longer have a functioning mac, but I do have the original drive, and the hd. I've ...
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Restrictions when using diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume
I wrote a very simple brute force script on my Mac that runs the $ diskutil coreStorage unlockVolume <UUID> -passphrase <PASSWORD> command against a HFS+ encrypted drive by going through a ...
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Formatting an external hard drive from HFS to NTFS/exFAT
I have a 2TB external hard drive which I formatted to HFS to store Mac backups since 2014. I also made a 200GB exFAT partition so that it would work with Windows. So currently there is 1.8GB HFS ...
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Create a hybrid .iso directly from a Mac/PC hybrid CD?
I have several dozen hybrid Mac/PC CDs and would like to create .iso images of them. The Mac partitions are HFS and HFS+, the PC partitions are ISO9660.
Currently, I copy the Mac content after ...
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Is it possible to restore data from a Harddrive after it had been formatted from HFS+ to NTFS and windows has been installed?
Sorry for the long title, but I got a serious problem that I couldnt fix even after hours of search and recovery through recovery software.
At this point I dont even know if its even possible to ...
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Repairing SSD , broken GPT
I am not a tech-savvy person , but i am also not a tech-blind-person , just your average noob user .
I have this Crucial M4 SSD 128GB i got myself from workplace storage . The admins said i can have ...
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How to mount file as a HFS+ filesystem in linux?
I am trying to mount a file that will act as a read/write HFS+ filesystem. I am using arch linux based distro so I installed hfsprogs and hfsutils. In debian based distros hfsprogs should be enough.
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How to shrink VirtualBox vdi for HFS+ guest OS
I have a VirtualBox guest OS drive formatted as HFS+ which is 20GB. I resized it's hard disk virtual media vdi file to 40GB and now want to reduce it to 32GB.
The extra 20GB I added to the vdi with ...
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