I tried doing one thing at a time, I changed the ext4 partition to deleted, rebooted, and then I changed the first HFS entry to primary. Changing the second HFS entry to primary was setting off the "Invalid partition structure" message, so I did not change the second entry.
It worked! After I ...
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- 20 Mar 2020, 19:38
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
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- 20 Mar 2020, 16:58
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
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Re: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
I opened testdisk, selected the drive and the EFI GPT partition map, then selected "Analyze" and "Quick Search". I changed the HFS partition entries to primary and the ext4 partition to deleted. On the next screen it says: "Invalid partition structure."
- 20 Mar 2020, 16:46
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
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Re: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
OK, I will try that and see how it goes. Thank you!
- 19 Mar 2020, 01:25
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
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Overwrote HFS partition with incorrect partition table
I have a 2TB external hard drive with a 1TB ext4 partition, an EFI partition, and a 1 TB HFS partition (Mac OS extended, case sensitive, journaled). The ext4 partition was corrupted when the hard drive fell on floor and was disconnected from my laptop while files were being copied from it to another ...