Big Sur Accidentally Installed on External Hard Drive

Somehow I accidentally installed Big Sur on my external hard drive. Lots of obvious mistakes that I learned from here (back up and disconnect external hard drive before update). I can't locate any of the files that was on the external hard drive. Is there some way or some program that can help me recover these files? I'm hoping someone can help me!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 29, 2020 9:21 AM

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mery211 Author

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Posted on Feb 18, 2021 8:30 PM

I found my files!!!

You need to open Disk Utility. See if you can find a section of the hard drive that has an "other volumes" area. Right click to see that section in Finder. When in Finder, type Command + Shift + . to see the hidden files. Go to the one called volumes. That's where my files were located!

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