How To Recover Files Using TestDisk on MacOS

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I recently had an issue with my USB Drive won't recognized on my mac and I needed the files inside. As a result, I made a research on how to recover files without obviously losing them. After many trial and errors, I've found a great software named "TestDisk". This program does what I need and even more than that. I really like this program because unlike its alternatives, it is not behind any paywall or subscription and it works as its supposed to be. It is also open-sourced and works on drives that are formatted in NTFS, which is great. Although, in my case, the drive was formatted in exFAT. Anyway, I solved my issue in that manner and decide to create a tutorial on How To Recover Files Using TestDisk on MacOS.
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- TestDisk Download: www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestD...
- TestDisk Documentation: www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
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@unfiltered.banjara 3 года назад

Yooo my man. This saved my life today. Cheers and love for the good work. Sending you prayers man.

@leneay9 3 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is a very helpful guide. I like how you always say what you pressed, because I was a little confused with this program at first.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Glad it helped, thank you for your kind feedback!

@NyihaNgotho Год назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! I was about to give up on my lost data, but then I found your video. God Bless you!

@samdekker90 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a ton! You helped save my 2 hours of lost GoPro footage that just disappeared from my SD card

@a--b 11 месяцев назад

Very helpful. Thanks for the guidance :)

@dpanster19 Год назад

Thank you so much! Saved my corrupted drive for me!

@nightknight669 3 года назад

Thank you very much ! super helpful guide.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Glad it helped!

@thiagobicudo8405 Год назад

Thank you so much. Help me a lot

@asmrmoongirl Год назад

Amazing.. you're a legend thank yo so much 😘

@DansOgar 3 года назад

Did you solved it with exFAT in this video? :) Really nice, because I had hard to understand the manual from the creator of TestDisk. But awesome program.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Yes, I've also used it to recover files from NTFS partition on my mac as well. It is a great program !

@DansOgar 3 года назад

@@TheGitGuild Do I need to install it? Because that brew doesnt work.

@phylumofthefree Год назад

It took a few tries...but I got it to work to recover files from a 128GB gopro card. Thanks

@urbanskargren9310 2 года назад

Hi.When I choose the disk (2:20 in your video), it says "Write access for this media is not available", although my drive has full privilegies. Can I safely choose "Continue even if write access is not available"? I have tried to unmount and mount, and restarted, but no success

@jon-paularjoon1324 Год назад

Is this only for restoring data from an external drive? As the sudo testdisk command only works when I have an external drive attached? When I run the command and it's not attached, I get "No harddisk found"

@dilansirin1519 Год назад

Still works. thanks.

@andreamazzotta7108 3 года назад

Very helpful guide to follow up....unfortunately in my case I get stuck at the "quick search" stage: terminal doesn't return any result even after 8 hours, and it's only a 500GB external disk :(

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Since it is an external drive it can take a while, but 8hrs is too much I think. Unfortunately some corrupt sector in the drive may cause this issue and I don’t know if a solution exists in testdisk. You may want to try other alternatives like ddrescue. Good luck!

@FirstLadyyyyyyy Год назад

Hello. Can you please tell me does this method keep the structure of the data inside the external drive I want to restore? I want to restore a huge external drive where data are listed in several files. I want to keep the files and the structure I have, but the usual restoring programs don't do that. Is it possible by using this program?

@MILLERFILMPRODUCTIONS 2 года назад

Hi, I've got a special issue. I accidentally used my extern media hdd as a timemaschine and deleted the disc. But I stoped the timemaschine until it started to make a backup on that drive. Now its a apfs drive and completely empty. I did not write some date on that hdd, and stellar and also testdisk is showing me, that there is still 3725gib datas of a 4000gib drive on it. Is it possible to recover the index or something without recovery all the data and wait for days?.. greetings.

@theshineyone1111 3 года назад

Great video. When i try and analyze the disk i get stuck on Warning: Bad starting sector (CHS and LBA don't match) No partition is bootable However i was able to access it one time. Any suggestions?

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Thank you! I've made a brief research and found out an answer from an admin from cgsecurity's site. According to that you can try the following: - "Try TestDisk, Advanced, Boot, RebuildBS, List. If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit"

@broom6958 Год назад

It shows the incorrect disk size: 980MB instead of 1TB. Any idea what to do? I don't know how to change the HD jumper settings.

@bohdan8557 3 месяца назад

Thanks!!

@pausadinha Год назад

Hello. I can't see my usb pen drive on terminal but i see it on the disk utility, it shows up on disk utility but it's not mounted and is also not recognised on terminal. What should i do? The pen usb drive also ejects itself after a few minutes (10min). Can you please help me? I have a lot of important information in this pen drive. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards

@MK-co6uf 3 года назад

When I press “list files” it says “no file found, filesystem may be damaged”. I know there is a lot of data on it :( Is that game over? Help please.

@FunkyMonkeyman17 3 года назад

Hi when I press P I get this message "Support for this filesystem wasn't enabled during compilation." Hope I can get access to my external disk, unable to mount but able to see files on it.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Sounds like your file system may damaged. I just released another file recovery video using a program named "Photorec". Give it a shot, it may help you out.

@alfredojaquez6519 3 года назад

If I received a partition can't be recovered error, is there a way to fix this?

@jaylopez9203 2 года назад

for me the software is getting stuck and doesnt do any thing first it got stuck on 17 minutes and 30 seconds not sure if m doing something wrong

@ericktrejoEP 2 года назад

holy shit this saved me! I accidentally formatted my girlfriend's SD card along with all of her pictures from her recent family trip. death was near but I got them back.

@TheGitGuild 2 года назад

Glad to hear that, good job!

@Mike-lu1pt 6 месяцев назад

life and file saver!

@FE0070 3 года назад

I have proposition of video - how to recover partitions using testdisk. Just delete all partitions, make new partiton table, write. Recover old one. I checked there is no such video on YT.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

This method sounds good but deleting and creating partitions may cause permanent data loss, and if someone is inexperienced with those things they may end up it a unwanted situation, since testdisk is not super easy program to use. But anyway, thanks for the suggestion!

@AsifZeeshan Месяц назад

is there any way to recover from macbook deleted from recycle as well on internal drive?

@lemondere 3 года назад

at 4:00 I hit "enter" on EFI but you said "do not hit enter". It showed some 'analysis' occuring that I cancelled. Do you know if anything happened? It seems like nothing.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Probably it didn’t went well but your data may still be recoverable. Try taking the same approach as I do and if that didn’t work as well, then try making a “Deeper Search”. Good luck!

@pcphotography9108 3 года назад

I'm trying a deeper search right now. I did not have "P" as List Items, instead "P" was showing "Primary". The deeper search is taking quite a bit longer, so I will have to revisit.

@lemsita7 4 месяца назад

it says i dont have a disk to do this, so i cant do it then? i still need to recover some files i already deleted even from the trash

@christhomas6426 Месяц назад

Hello, after I hit ‘p’ , I didn’t see any files, I only got “support for this file system hasn’t been implemented”. Can you please let me know what I can do? Thank you!

@herimedadus8702 Год назад

This is amazing app God bless developer

@abigailpalomo4863 3 года назад

Hi I can't seem to copy the command from Homebrew to my terminal. My terminal says "process completed" and I don't know what to do

@abigailpalomo4863 3 года назад

@Dennis Grayson thank you for your reply however, roticman does paid services and i unfortunately do not have the means to pay. Thank you for the help though.

@hamara7188 Год назад

Hi, when i copied photorec to terminal ,i got msg No hard disk found You need to be root to use PhotoRec.i did the root but still i got no hard disk, any help appreciated.

@Daniel-qo9uv 6 месяцев назад

Hi for ARM Apple Silicone which option should I chose: [Intel ] Intel/PC partition [EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...) [Humax ] Humax partition table [Mac ] Apple partition map (legacy) [None ] Non partitioned media [Sun ] Sun Solaris partition [XBox ] XBox partition [Return ] Return to disk selection Thanks

@Daniel-qo9uv 6 месяцев назад

I think it might be [EFI GPT]

@jaminawittke7613 3 года назад

After choosing my external drive it says 'Write access for this media is not available. Test Disk won't be able to modify it?' I can either 'Continue' or 'quit and return to disk selection'?

@jaminawittke7613 3 года назад

Thank you so much for the help, I feel like I'm so close...but I have a new problem. I tried copying the files to Desktop and downloads, both times I can't find them, even though they said they have copied. Will they be in a zip file? Do you know what name? as it isn't under TestDisk :s

@Jonathan-lz9rk 3 года назад

how to avoid the malware thing? cheers

@phylumofthefree 6 месяцев назад

mine says Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged. that it? game over?

@yasminaaznagui3324 3 года назад

hello please help me when I tape in termine sudo test desk and I enter my passwd hi tell me sudo: test desk: not command not found. what I need to do please

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Because you are not installed it properly. Be sure to either install it by homebrew or if you manually downloaded go into its directory from terminal. For example, if its on desktop, use “cd desktop” etc.

@thetechziguy 3 года назад

Hi! I installed testdisk from chrome and dragged testdisk on terminal but somehow it says bad cpu type. What does that mean and how can i fix this?

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

I am not sure. But from what I've found, installing it via Homebrew should work, give it a try.

@markusbrunner2383 2 года назад

wrong software. had the same problem and changed from 32-bit to 64-bit software. after that it worked

@Mrs.ToesTDTP 3 месяца назад

For those not running any software and only using terminal make sure your testdisk file is on your desktop: Once terminal is opened type the following: cd desktop [enter] cd {name of test disk file} [enter] sudo ./testdisk [enter] Enter login password for your computer [enter] This will help you open terminal in root.

@ramezredarr 3 года назад

when I type in terminal it tells me: -bash: brew: command not found how can I solve this pleasee?

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

You need to install homebrew. You can find details on: brew.sh

@Loopycerys 3 года назад

i dont have a house icon in terminal? it wont let me do anything when i run testdisk, it keeps saying that process has been completed as soon as i open the app

@sailamarie483 3 года назад

I have the same problem!

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Ok, so if you download the zip you still need to use terminal. But I recommend using a program named 'Homebrew'. Go to Homebrew's site, then paste the command shown in the site into your terminal. Once its done, you can follow along with the video and install testdisk from there. So, I hope it helps, good luck!

@REFUGIO507 3 года назад

Hello! After I type "Sudo Test Disk" it simply says "command not found".

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

There might be few things to cause that. You may have not installed testdisk properly so first check that. Then make sure that testdisk was in your environment variables, to find more about that look up ./bash-profile or ./bashrc directories. Oh and finally also if you downloaded the zip version, make sure that you first go into its directory by "cd testdisk-7.2-WIP" command. Hope it will work!

@ramezredarr 3 года назад

@@TheGitGuild how to make sure that the installed file in its directory ?

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

@@ramezredarr If you've installed it using the homebrew then it should be added to the environment variables. But if you downloaded it directly, then you have to either add it to the environment var. or just put the executable in the directory that you're working on.

@joshualohs 3 года назад

Hi, I tried to use testdisk to recover some files from my erased Macintosh HD and it said write access for this media is not available. How can I do this, can you please help me thank you.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

This is possibly caused by program trying to modify a mounted disk. Unmount it and try again, it may help.

@joshualohs 3 года назад

@@TheGitGuild Thanks for answering, however when I check in the disk utility it doesn't let me press the mount/unmount button

@ondrejjanoska660 3 года назад

@@TheGitGuild same here

@randomtrendz 5 месяцев назад

When I press my disk and enter nothing happens it’s like it’s froze

@Letter2thepresidentz 3 года назад

Can you help me out i get this message after typing "P" ; Support for this filesystem hasn't been implemented.

@TheGitGuild 3 года назад

Possibly your file system was damaged. Try using “PhotoRec”, it might help.

@builderspluscustomhomesand2146 3 года назад

Ok he does not explain that some macs don't have homebrew. For those that tried using brew and got "command not found", I was able to install it. Just copy the below code into terminal and it will install homebrew. /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" YES INCLUDE THE QUOTES (COPY AND PASTE AS YOU SEE ABOVE)... It will download all the stuff that needs to run homebrew. Let it do it's thing, it takes a while(at least on my slow early 2014 mac mini). You'll be asked to pop your password in for more dependencies. Pop it in, let it flow. It'll tap Homebrew/core and download more. Yes takes FOREVER friends, just bare with it lol. At this point after it's done hogging up time lol, it 's done installing. NOW you can go with the video op's process by typing brew install testdisk and so on, works just fine installing. sudo testdisk...etc. For those on newest updates like Big Sur, when your mac says something about the program needing permission, let it.

@stephanieyap8645 2 года назад

Thanks!!

@zetmalfoy 5 месяцев назад

bro ur turkish lol

@Somereasonstolive 3 года назад

not working when i try to brew this shows up: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found Error: Failed to download resource "testdisk_bottle_manifest" Download failed: ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/testdisk/manifests/7.1