I need to recover a bit of data that was emptied from my trash. Do I need a huge external hard drive to recover to, for my Mac with about 250 gb?
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I used a 1T that I already had; it was more than enough.The external HD depends on how much data you stored in it.250 should be enough, in my opinion.
318886
I used a 1T that I already had; it was more than enough. The external HD depends on how much data you stored in it. 250 should be enough, in my opinion.
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You should be able to recover just the files that you want, assuming you can locate them (meaning that they haven't been overwritten yet) and you can identify the names of the files. (In the case of a really bad disc crash, you might only find hundreds of now un-named files that need to be opened individually to figure out which is which. This is rare, though, and doesn't sound like what you're dealing with.)
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You just need a drive large enough to hold the files you are looking to recover. Please contact our support team if you need any help.877-477-6763 option #2.
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At this moment I am pulling data off an external USB drive that appeared to be totally dead. Clack, click, whiirrrrrrrr and never came online. I froze it. Not kidding: http://www.emergingtechs.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/ Mine works for about 1/2hr until the drive warms up again, then back into the freezer. Given this scenario it makes sense to know what is critical, get it first, and get the non-essential stuff later. All my important stuff is already recovered and now I'm copying over 40GB of "nice to have" stuff. As soon as this process is over I'm going to improve my backup scenario!
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That's the answer I'm looking for. I have tried to recover a very important file myself with no luck so far! Nothing in the instructions that even gets into recovering files. I am afraid we may have lost them forever!
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Can't help with any specific advice as I am using my drive with a Mac, but I can't see why there would be a problem. If you received a drive pre-formatted for a Macintosh, then doubtless, you need to use a Windows program to reformat it. Good Luck!
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after further investigation you may need a easy transfer cable from mac to mac. usb cable is good for mac to external hard drive.
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I am using a 500Gb hard drive (the original that came with the Mac). In the original spot I've installed a 320Gb SSD drive. But I believe that if the Hard Drive has the same form factor, it doesn't matter the capacity.
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You should be able to access most files that have a common app (Mac and PC) - the challenge will be saving any updates.Typically PC formatted external drives are FAT32, which will convert to the MAC, but not able to be write enabled back.The exception will be music and photos, they should be available for iTunes and iPhoto imports.
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I reformatted using just my MacBook Pro -no software needed. Also, u can call WD and their tech person will walk u thru it. No charge, very easy & fast.
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I plugged it into a computer running Windows 7 and it saw the HD but files were not accessible. Formatted MacOS extended (journaled).
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If it worked and I don't think it would, you would be waisting about $200 dollars on functionality you don't need. Buy an Mac compatible external hard drive instead and use Time Machine to back up with it.
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The 20 gigs that are unavailable also account for a recovery partition. There is software available to make a usb recovery drive so you can recover that space if you want.
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I transferred 750GB HD from a MacBook Pro to a 1TB Hybrid drive. It claimed it was going to take 2 days 9 hours using the Macs own OS but it actually took around 14 hours or so to transfer all the data and OS.
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Not quite sure as I recently replaced my harddrive on my mac with the exact same one that I had in it before. Maybe contacting Seagate directly might be a better alternative.
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I wrote you a response (which is below) but I realized you might be confused as to what this product is. This isn't an external hard drive. It's a hard drive enclosure, it's basically an empty shell that holds a hard drive. You have to buy the actual drive separately You should be good in that direction PC to Mac. Windows uses the NT File System on it's drives, Mac's can read those files and copy them to the mac, but mac's can't write to a NTFS drive. So you couldn't add or save anything on to the drive. A solution for this would be to make a partition that's FAT32 both mac and windows can read and write to that, it's the file system flash drives usually have. Sometimes there's a 32GB limit on FAT32 drives so you might not be able to turn the whole drive into it. But you can partition one drive into multiple parts.
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Because I do not know what operating system you are using or the backup software that you employ, I can't answer your question directly. In general, I believe that you may be able to delete files to free up disk space for backup depending on your particular hardware/software configuration. HOWEVER, during the deleting of the existing backup files, you will have no backup which will be a real problem if your main hard drive crashes in the process. Secondly, I am on a Mac computer I do not use the Seagate backup software. Instead I use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) which backs up my changed files once each day. With this software, I can delete any files from the backup drive to free up space (be sure to empty to trash to really free up the space), then CCC will only rewrite these files if they are specified for backup on your primary disk. This method may or may not be applicable for PC backup software or other Mac backup software. I realize that this is quite a wishy-washy answer to your question, for this I apologize. Good luck.
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yes, unless one is a mac..then no. you will have to re format the hard drive after using it for a mac.
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i used it to recover photos I deleteted by mistake. The photos came back unorganized, not the way I had them.