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  • Re: Failed USB External Hard Drive

    From David Brooks@BDB@invalid.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc on Mon Aug 8 11:39:29 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.misc

    On 07/08/2022 23:28, Wade Garrett wrote:
    Got an old Samsung 640 GB external HD I used for encrypted Time Machine backups several years ago. I tried looking at it today and it was error message city.

    It won't mount and failed the Disk Utility First Aid scan. Any ideas way
    to get at the (not really important) data?

    <SNIP>

    You could try Disk Drill

    https://www.cleverfiles.com

    It has worked for me, even on a damaged Microsoft Windows machine!
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    Kind regards,
    David B.
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