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3 points by manoftheisle ↗ HN
I was backing up my data on a newly bought seagate harddisk and after putting the macbook to sleep the harddisk wouldn't mount anymore.

Disk Utility said to run "First Aid" but it would just return a 0 error.

Booting up windows saved the date, the OS mentioned straightforward that the disk is damaged and needs repair. It repaired it.

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warrenm
You put your laptop to sleep in the middle of a backup?
wruza
What an amazing story!

Windows is famous for its autorepair, partially because it loved to randomly autodestruct back in the day. Not surprising it has better repair capabilities than Mac.

My PC periodically goes blue screen at boot, which began after physical cleanup. After restart windows fixes the issue, so I just sleep-cycle it instead of powering on/off. But sometimes I have to restart anyway. Pretty sure any other OS would be long dead at this point.

manoftheisle
Your taunting comment is not helpful.
wruza
Taunting? I see that the first sentence may read like that, but it wasn’t intentional. Sorry if it bothered you. I shared the story because there’s no question and no issue left in the OP, so I guessed the implied question was why (why would you post it otherwise). The retrospective explains it. Windows past instabilities are the reason it has better repair capabilities.
johnklos
Do you expect repair of a Windows filesystem (ExFAT) to work better on a Mac than on a Windows system?
manoftheisle
No, but I certainly don't want Mac to break my harddisks.

Edit: It's the equivalent of repairing a broken screen on a phone but you only realise upon returning home that it stopped working entirely, but the shopman says he is not liable and refuses to give you another service or refund you.

johnklos
Sure, I get that.

How is Windows support for Mac filesystem? ;)