First of all you don't run things that irreversibly change the disk you're trying to recover data from (I mean before making a complete image of the disk). Second you shouldn't be trying to fix some exFAT file system with a Mac disk utility. Use a Windows machine and chkdsk. For good measure you can do a surface scan too, in case this is where your problems are coming from (HD Tune for example in Windows, badblocks in Linux, I'm sure Mac will have something too).
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Use a Windows machine and chkdsk.
NEVER do that
For good measure you can do a surface scan too
yea, sure, kill it completely
NEVER do that
But what, run the mac something?! NOTE: everything I recommended is AFTER YOU MADE AN IMAGE OF THE DISK!
yea, sure, kill it completely
Well, if it's dead already how you can confirm it, at least to take out of circulation?
and what good would chkdsk do on the image?
I wasn't suggesting to run it on the image, just to have the image for reference before doing unpredictable things you can't undo, but if you want you can run it there too for a test (even better have a reflinked copy so you can play as much as you like). It'll just flag/correct if possible whatever inconsistencies you have in the filesystem, with its native tool. What's wrong with that?
It'll just flag/correct if possible whatever inconsistencies you have in the filesystem, with its native tool.
Nothing wrong I guess, as long as you don't care about the data
Restore from backups or get the new drive and redownload the movies. Other option, you may try to shuck the drive if that is external drive.
Alternatively, you may send your drive to data recovery shop, however, it won't be cheap.
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