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black magic formatted disks not able to be read in windows

PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 6:30 pm
by technowiz65
Any disks formatted in black magic can not be read when inserted in windows 10 it wants to format and delete all my files! I shoot 5 days and need my data please help!! It plays back fine on camera so I know data there :shock:

Re: black magic formatted disks not able to be read in windo

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:22 am
by waltervolpatto
Assuming that the issue is the formatting type and that is Mac, you can try some apps that can read Mac format:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-read-mac-formatted-drive-windows/

Re: black magic formatted disks not able to be read in windo

PostPosted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:26 am
by Denis Kazlowski
technowiz65 wrote:Any disks formatted in black magic can not be read when inserted in windows 10 it wants to format and delete all my files! I shoot 5 days and need my data please help!! It plays back fine on camera so I know data there :shock:


I believe the default format is HFS+ in camera which Windows 10 cannot read by default. You may want to look into that.