I have an old mac with a dying hfs hdd with failing SMART. I copied 2tb of data on an exfat drive but windows only sees only 3 directories and 80gb. Where’s my other stuff? Now after I did that long copy session that lasted a whole day, the disk died from stress and the mac doesn’t boot anymore. Even if it boots, i don’t think the disk can last another full copy session…
Testdisk can show the data, there’s a way to tell windows that the files are there?
it looks like fast boot in order to save me 10 seconds on boot restored the FAT state from before the copy
i booted on another operating system and i see all the files, but the contents are all wrong, looks like everything is gone…
Shit. I’m really sorry to hear that man!