{"id":289,"date":"2018-06-01T04:38:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2018-06-01T04:38:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T04:38:19","slug":"repair-inaccessible-or-damaged-hfs-volume-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/repair-inaccessible-or-damaged-hfs-volume-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair Inaccessible or Damaged HFS Volume on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HFS-Corrupt-Fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Partitioning can be extremely useful to create multiple accounts, use as a backup or even have multiple bootable areas. Hence, almost everyone uses partitions due to numerous benefits it offers.<\/p>\n<p>As with any storage area, these partitions can also get corrupted from time to time due to various reasons. Some of the most common ones are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improper formatting\/partitioning of the drive<\/li>\n<li>System power off during a write operation (Does not happen always but it\u2019s all about timing)<\/li>\n<li>Virus attacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to any of these reasons or other reasons, you can end up with some or all of the partitions\/volumes becoming inaccessible. If this happens, stop using the system\/drive until you are ready to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Some troubleshooting steps are explained in this article. Read on to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution 1: Mount the drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before we assume something is wrong with the drive, it is a good idea to mount it if it\u2019s not already mounted automatically. You can do this through Disk Utility.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <strong>Finder<\/strong> and click on <strong>Applications<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Then find <strong>Utilities &gt; Disk Utility<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Here you\u2019ll see a list of un-mounted devices on the left. Select the desired volume and click on <strong>Mount<\/strong> in the toolbar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If the volume does not mount, proceed to the next troubleshooting step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution 2: Repair disk using Disk Utility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disk Utility also provides an option to repair a disk if there are any issues. For this step, you\u2019ll have to enter Disk Utility through recovery mode. Follow the steps below to repair your volume.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When your Mac starts up, click <strong>Command + R <\/strong>upon hearing a chime<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>utility<\/strong> menu, select <strong>Disk Utility<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Then select the <strong>volume<\/strong> on which you\u2019d like to run First Aid<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>First Aid<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Run<\/strong> and Disk Utility will start its repair process<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If the repair is successful, Disk Utility reports the same and you\u2019re done here. If it reports\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018Unable to repair the disk\u2019 or \u2018The disk is about to fail\u2019, then you will have to backup data and format the drive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to access data from inaccessible drives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to access and backup data from inaccessible volumes, you will need specialized data recovery tools. Hi5 Software provides the best in class partition recovery tool to suit your needs. It is capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/mac\/hfs-partition-recovery.html\">HFS partition recovery<\/a> with complete folder structure and data intact.<\/p>\n<p>All kinds of files such as photos, videos, documents, etc. can be recovered using the tool. It supports around 300 types of files.<\/p>\n<p>It can work with all file systems such as HFS, HFS+ etc. And all Mac OS versions starting from OS 10.5 are supported.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have recovered data, you can safely format the volume to fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to format HFS volume on Mac?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disk Utility in Mac is a multi-talented tool that provides a format option as well. Follow the steps below to format your inaccessible volume.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When your Mac starts up, click <strong>Command + R<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the utility menu, select <strong>Disk Utility<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Here, select the <strong>volume<\/strong> from the menu on the left<\/li>\n<li>Then click on <strong>Erase<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Format menu<\/strong> and choose the type of <strong>file system<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enter a <strong>name<\/strong> for the volume<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Security Options<\/strong>, choose how much security you want on the erased data<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Erase <\/strong>and you\u2019re done. Your chosen volume will be formatted and this should fix the issue for you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partitioning can be extremely useful to create multiple accounts, use as a backup or even have multiple bootable areas. Hence, almost everyone uses partitions due to numerous benefits it offers. As with any storage area, these partitions can also get corrupted from time to time due to various reasons. Some of the most common ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/repair-inaccessible-or-damaged-hfs-volume-on-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Repair Inaccessible or Damaged HFS Volume on Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hi5software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}