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I’ve got a 1st generation Time capsule and the power supply is fried. I removed the 500gb Seagate drive with no problem and installed it in a USB enclosure. Neither OSX nor Windows see the drive as anything usable. Both ask me to format the drive before I can use it. I’m not too concerned about the Time Machine backups that are on it but I was using is as a network drive as well and would like to try to recover those files.
You need 3rd Party Mac Data Recovery Data software. Ones that I have found useful are Data Rescue 3, and DiskWarrior. DiskWarrior can often resurrect mugged Master Directory Data. DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. It does not attempt to solve all of the possible problems that can occur with a disk. It specializes in eliminating directory errors – the most common problems Mac OS users have with their disks. Data Rescue 3 is the only utility that focuses on data recovery as opposed to hard drive repair. However if there are physical problems with the drive software will not cure a hardware problem. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it.
