Comments on: Video: Removing your Apple TV’s hard drive to recover media files

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:20:54 +0000

Rick,
Unfortunately not… at least not easily. The Apple TV drive is formatted as HFS+, which is a Mac file system. You could use a program like MacDrive to read HFS+ drives on Windows, but I haven’t tried it with an Apple TV.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:52:34 +0000

Will this process work if you are recovering the data (pictures) to a windows based PC?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:01:40 +0000

If you take apart the Apple TV (as in the video), what format are the photos in? Does the Apple TV store them in a lower res format like iPods do? Thanks…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:02:52 +0000

Is it possible to recover the photos on the Apple TV without taking it apart and attaching the USB HDD Adapter?

By: Ant

Ant — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:43:34 +0000

TR,
It sounds like your data was already gone before the drive was hooked up to your Mac. Did you apply an Apple TV update recently? Were you experiencing problems before this?

By: TR

TR — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:42:58 +0000

This did not work for me!!! I followed the directions and saw the folder structure, but there was nothing in the folders. When I put it all back together, the apple tv was wiped clean. I don’t know what happened, but be careful trying this.

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:29:05 +0000

Yes, you can recover photos from the Apple TV as well. They are located in the media folder, which you can access once the hard drive is connected to a Mac.

By: Cruz

Cruz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:46:52 +0000

Is possible to rescue the photos on the Apple TV to the Mac?