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any advice with how to proceed to save the partition? is it possible to fix with TestDisk?

Ok, the new bigger drive that i was trying to migrate to was a brand new Seagate Momentus 750GB. I did format it via Disk Utility first, standard default Mac OS Extended Journaled. The biggest mistake was that i named it "Macintosh HD", the same as the old one, so it was too easy to mix it up w/ the ...

Ok.. it finally finished the Deep Scan - - here's the report...

Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 625142448 1 1 (RO)

The harddisk (320 GB / 298 GiB) seems too small! (< 882 GB / 821 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...

The following partitions can't be ...

Deep Scan Just finished I think, but it still says 50%...

Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 625142448 1 1 (RO)
Analyse cylinder 312770560/625142447: 50%


Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
MS Data 171500380 171510619 10240 [IPODRESOURC]
check_FAT: Unusual ...

In a pickle. Made a few bad choices, and am in need of assistance. Goal was to migrate data from a 320GB drive to a new 750GB drive. looked up online, got advice to use Disk Utility (within Lions Recovery mode) to "Restore" data from the old drive to the new one. Only problem was the I chose the the ...