Mac Xperts - Partition Lost
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- fusionpixel
Does anyone has any experience with the following?
Partitioned external HD; archived files on Partition 1; next day realized I needed another partition so "added" one. Now the data on Partition 1 is gone. Is there any way to retrieve it? Using Mac OS 10.3.8; the partitioning program was "Disk Utility", part of OS X.
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Im not a mac person so I really dont know exactly what to suggest. You all Mac Experts have any ideas?
- rasko40
umm when you make partitions you zero the hard drive as far as I know...
- k0na_an0k0
maybe disk warrior?
- johndiggity0
should not have done that.
- sparker0
unless you used an app that can dynamically resize partitions, then no...you can't just recover the data.
now, an expensive data recovery place might be able to get it back...but i doubt it.
resizing a single, existing partition will wipe out any data on the partition.
you have to use something like parted or partition magic.
but, i don't know of any foss ones for os x. parted is a linux app.
- rasko40
in conclusion:
you are fucked.
- fusionpixel0
in conclusion, it wasnt me, it was a friend.
anyways, I found this sofware:
http://www.micromat.com/tt_pro_4…
anyone knows if it is any good?
also, I found this info:
First, a warning! If you have a Mac and think about partitioning a hard drive, be warned that it is not possible to have HFS- and non-HFS partitions on the same disk! The reason is that HFS writes some information on the sectors of the hard drive where the partition table is usually located. There is a warning in the small print in the Mac help. But: If you have a disk that is already partitioned, say, with three FAT32 partitions, you can select one of them in the disk utility and try to format it with HFS. The disk utility will allow this without any warning! However, it will fail soon with an error message, but then it is already too late: The partition table has been destroyed, and you cannot mount any partition on that drive any more.
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given is for PC, but shoudnt MAC have something similar?
more info in test disks