Hi all (: needing assistance with OSX 10.5 on Vmware

[paul921]

Hi all..

Decided to join here, as this seems the most promising group. 

I am a IT Technician, busy with data recovery for a client, and she has an Omega rev drive, in which disks are formatted in HFS+ format. 

I have tried to use Windows drivers to recognize the drive, but doesn't work. Suspect this is due to the fact this drive uses the UDF format, and Windows thinks it's a CD-Rom. 

apparently the last version of mac these drives supported was osx 10.5, which lead me down the last resort road of setting up a OSX 10.5 Virtual machine on VMWare. 

I downloaded a virtual image, and opened with VMware, and on my test machine it worked on first boot. My Test machine is an AMD A4 CPU with radeon graphics.

When I booted the same image on the laptop with Vmware, the apple logo kept on spinning. upon rebooting with  -v I found this was looping "localhost ReportCrash " Laptop is an Intel Core i5 with 8gb RAM. 

I was advised that for Leopard, I needed to disable virtualization in the BIOS, which I did on the laptop, then VmWare first gave a BSOD, then said that it wouldn't start as VT-X was disabled.

Will send more specific info upon request. 

Thanks in advance. 

Edited February 13, 2024 by paul921

[Cyberdevs]

@paul921

Welcome to Insanelymac.com

 

For recovering the HFS+ format you don't need to install OS X or macOS to be able to access the disk, there is an application called R-Studio which can read the HFS/HFS+ volumes and you can do the data recovery easily, the R-Studio isn't free of course but you can use it in demo mode to see if you can access the hard disk and if all the data are available then you can decide to purchase it if you want.

 

There's also another application by Paragon called Paragon HFS which enables windows to mount and read/write data on HFS/HFS+ formatted disks.

 

But if you want to use VMWare to install OS X or macOS on a virtual machine to access that disk you are going to need to use an application called Unlocker for VMWare which available for download in our downloads section:

See this topic:

 

[paul921]

3 hours ago, Cyberdevs said:

@paul921

Welcome to Insanelymac.com

 

For recovering the HFS+ format you don't need to install OS X or macOS to be able to access the disk, there is an application called R-Studio which can read the HFS/HFS+ volumes and you can do the data recovery easily, the R-Studio isn't free of course but you can use it in demo mode to see if you can access the hard disk and if all the data are available then you can decide to purchase it if you want.

 

There's also another application by Paragon called Paragon HFS which enables windows to mount and read/write data on HFS/HFS+ formatted disks.

 

But if you want to use VMWare to install OS X or macOS on a virtual machine to access that disk you are going to need to use an application called Unlocker for VMWare which available for download in our downloads section:

See this topic:

 

Thank you for the welcome 🙂

Will check out R-Studio, the only issue is that these Rev disks are mounted as CD-Drives, and use the UDF file system, which is a mission on it's own. I attempted with Paragon HFS, and still coudn't access any data.  The drive comes up as RAW on Windows, despite having HFS drivers installed. 

Also tried using Unlocker, and it works fine on my desktop, but not on the laptop. laptop the apple boot logo just spins.