MPB 15 2011 with Sierra on an ssd.
ssd is almost dead, Mac OS (Sierra) isn't loading with a folder with question mark showing on boot. The drive is detected in bios though, which gives me hope 🙂
I've taken it out of mac, connected to a regular pc & checked with mhdd & it shows dead & unrecoverable sectors on it.
Disk utility from mac internet recovery isn't showing any partitions on the drive & cannot make an image because of input/output error.
So I've googled & installed "Data Rescue 4" https://www.prosofteng.com/data-rescue-recovery-software on another MBP & made a bootable rescue usb to try to recover data, but this thing isn't working properly 🙁
Is there anything else I could use? I'd like to boot from smth which I can put on a usb with f.e. Rufus & either recover data to another usb hdd or make a sector by sector clone of an ssd drive with an option to skip dead/unreadable sectors to work on it on another machine.
Please recommend smth you tested & works well with Macs.
Thanks!
Best Answer
The best way to recover is to restore from your backup. Assuming you don't have a backup, you could try Disk Warrior, as I've found it tends to work well. Although damaged SSDs are trickier than hard drives, it may work.