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Re-booted into Ubuntu Linux, installed hfsprogs (for HFS+ support) and started GParted. In the lower panel, I right-clicked the recently cleaned disk and initialized it as GPT. (Warning: This command will delete the entire disk make sure you have selected the correct disk to 'clean')Īfter this, I opened the Disk Management tool, by clicking the start icon and typing diskmgmt.msc

Note the number of the disk you need to re-initialize and type (without the curly brackets).

Next, list the disks connected to the system, by typing.

Right-click the " Command Prompt" result and click "Run as administrator".

To do this, I booted Windows and opened a Command Prompt window: And that the GUID Partition Table (or GPT) allows partitions larger than 2 TB.

Tried formatting it and got an error similar to " the maximum partition size cannot be larger than 2 TB."įurther research showed that this error is actually a limitation of the MBR partition table. Next, I started GParted ( a free partition editor for Linux) and selected the new disk from the top right corner. So, I installed a package to enable write support, by starting Terminal and typing: sudo apt-get install hfsprogs The version I use (16.04.3) has HFS+ read support, but no write support. Transmac threw a " cannot format" error and I couldn't find the format option in Paragon HFS+.Īnother option I use often is a live boot of Ubuntu Linux. Both are commercial software, with free trials. Some forums suggested using Transmac or Paragon HFS+. However, this particular client wanted the data to be delivered on a new 3TB external disk formatted in HFS+ format.

I usually dump the recovered data onto a FAT or NTFS drive. Previously, I have read data from Apple's HFS+ file system (also known as Mac OS Extended) using TestDisk and other similar tools, on my Windows 10 machine. Recently, a Mac formatted hard disk came in for data recovery.