Old HFS partition broken?

I have an older HDD (maybe from around 2014). It's unreadable on my current Mac (M2 MBP running 13.4). But under Ubuntu, I was able to confirm it's formatted as HFS+. It's an 8TB WD Red HDD.

It doesn't mount automatically when I plug it in, and when I try to mount it manually from Disk Utility, it tells me:

Could not mount “disk5s2”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.)

Is there anything I can do to repair / recover this partition?

Posted on Jun 10, 2023 9:21 AM

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Barney-15E

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Jun 10, 2023 2:03 PM in response to Kurt Lang

It’s formatted HFS+, not HFS.

Kurt Lang

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Jun 10, 2023 2:16 PM in response to Barney-15E

You are correct. I was going by the topic title and assuming the OP knew the drive is specifically HFS, and not HFS+. And sheesh, how did I miss this? I was able to confirm it's formatted as HFS+

Kurt Lang

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Jun 10, 2023 9:41 AM in response to mbp20111

Mojave was the last version of macOS / OS X that could read an HFS volume. You'll have to connect the drive to a Mac running an OS no later than Mojave.

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