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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Restore a Mac Drive With Wiped Out Partition Table
joshuacurtiss - Aug 3, 2005 - 9:42 pm
Hello,
I recently ran a PowerPC Linux installer and in the process unintentionally wiped out both my Mac drives' partition tables. On my data drive I had many gigabytes of video. I did not reformat the drive or install anything on it; as soon as I realized it wiped out the partition table, I aborted everything.
So theoretically I have a drive with all data intact, absent the original partition table. What is the best way for me to restore my original HFS+ volume? I have Norton Utilities 8, but its Volume Recover program requires a formatted drive. I didn't know if I might take a chance of losing some data if I were to do this. If there is a better, more secure way to retrieve this data, I would rather try that first. Do you have any recommendations?
Thank you so much for your help.
Joshua Curtiss
I recently ran a PowerPC Linux installer and in the process unintentionally wiped out both my Mac drives' partition tables. On my data drive I had many gigabytes of video. I did not reformat the drive or install anything on it; as soon as I realized it wiped out the partition table, I aborted everything.
So theoretically I have a drive with all data intact, absent the original partition table. What is the best way for me to restore my original HFS+ volume? I have Norton Utilities 8, but its Volume Recover program requires a formatted drive. I didn't know if I might take a chance of losing some data if I were to do this. If there is a better, more secure way to retrieve this data, I would rather try that first. Do you have any recommendations?
Thank you so much for your help.
Joshua Curtiss
Khama - Aug 3, 2005 - 9:58 pm
I recommend getting a copy of Disk Warrior from Allsoft.
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
See if that helps. If not I dont know what to tell you. That program has saved dozens of drives for me.
If not, then unless you can boot it into Target Mode - "T" on startup - and see the files that way, I think that professional data recovery is your only option.
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http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
See if that helps. If not I dont know what to tell you. That program has saved dozens of drives for me.
If not, then unless you can boot it into Target Mode - "T" on startup - and see the files that way, I think that professional data recovery is your only option.
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*The service is free, so please let us know what is happening even if you get going some other way, we need to know when to close out questions Thanks
* Volunteers LOVE feedback! It helps us become
joshuacurtiss - Aug 3, 2005 - 11:20 pm
Hi, thanks for your response. One of DiskWarriors requirements, explicitly taken from the website and the manual, is: "The disk to be rebuilt must be locally connected, must not be write protected, must have a valid partition map and must have a case-insensitive directory." My drive's partition map has been wiped out, thus it will not work. In fact, it will not even show my drive in the list of drives it will repair. Thanks for your help.
Josh
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