Corrupt Filesystem HD Recovery Issues
October 18th, 2013
So i attempted to use Disk Utility (DU) in osx as well as disk warrior, data recovery 3, super duper, and a few other programs that have helped me take baby steps toward data recovery.
The drive is now dead, but I was able to make a full clone of the drive with data recovery 3. The issue I have here is when i try to mount the HD clone.dmg I get a message telling me ” the following disk images couldn’t be opened image – HD Clone.dmg reason – no mountable file systems”. The no mountable file systems part is the same failure reason i could not get the dead drive to mount in DU. So this leaves me to believe that because the drive was formatted to HFS+ and has a/few bad sectors in the filesystem this is what hinders my data recovery.
I have tried to convert the dmg to a dmg with a read/write image format, but i get an input/output error (I/O) before the process can be competed.
So this is kind of where i am stuck and not sure what the next best option is for recovery. I was thinking about attempting to use Synchronize! pro x 6.3 but i am unable to find a working serial number.
Info:
I’m on my mbp running current version of osx lion.
the drive was 500gb, so the dmg that does not want to mount is also 500gb
I have another external that is 2tb, so i have enough space and workspaces to continue with any actions that are recommended.
If anyone has any idea on what i should do next, your help is greatly appreciated.
Let me know if you need any more information as well.
Thanks,
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I don’t know if I read your post right or not, but if you are trying to open/extract a .dmg file (to access your files), then you could try 7zip, providing your image file is ok it will open it for you, allowing you to extract what you need. I have never used the mac version, but the windows version works well…..
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html