Strange hard drive issue

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Hello all,

I have searched the site but cannot find anything that matches my issue. I have a Mac which I work on, and have a Seagate 1TB external drive where I keep all of my images. I have no internet access for 2 weeks (A long story) and I needed to upload approximately 300 images to an external site. I took the hard drive to a friends house to use their wifi and tried there, but due to their laptop being Windows, the hard drive was recognised but not the contents. (I issue it was because it was a Windows machine)

So I took the hard drive home, plugged it back into my Mac and lo and behold it's not being recognised by the Mac. There is a spinning noise when I first plug it in, but that stops after a minute. The light on the front of the hard drive is no longer though? There's obviously power getting to the drive because it's spinning.

Any ideas as to what I can do/what the issue may be? I have 10,000 odd images on there and I'd rather not lose them if possible!!

Thanks in advance,

Nick
 
Worth doing a Google search e.g. : Here
That link is old and may or not help but there may well be other available answers. :)
 
I suspect that the windows machine will have tried to initialize the MBR master boot record in an attempt to access it.
This will probably have rendered the disk now unreadable by your mac.

recovery software possibly.
other than that revert to your backup.
 
Mr Bump said:
I suspect that the windows machine will have tried to initialize the MBR master boot record in an attempt to access it.
This will probably have rendered the disk now unreadable by your mac.

recovery software possibly.
other than that revert to your backup.
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Seagate have sent me a link to some recovery software for a windows machine. The guy reckons it may be better to try and rcover on Windows and then transfer it to a new drive. fingers crossed as this is my back up.
 
NickTB said:
Seagate have sent me a link to some recovery software for a windows machine. The guy reckons it may be better to try and rcover on Windows and then transfer it to a new drive. fingers crossed as this is my back up.
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If it's your backup why not just reformat and backup again.
 
No
 
Windows has no native support for Apple HFS/HFS+/APFS.
Please think very carefully before running Windows based recovery software on your only copy of a Mac drive.
 
Tori_T said:
Windows has no native support for Apple HFS/HFS+/APFS.
Please think very carefully before running Windows based recovery software on your only copy of a Mac drive.
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Thanks,

It didn't work anyway, speaking to a recovery company now
 
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