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Hi,

I have a bunch of HP drives that all contain a Virtual CD drive/phantom bloatware volume. When ever I mount my drive, a Virtual CD shows up with garbage HP software I don't want. When I eject it, it just re-appears a moment later. Very frustrating.

These show up in Disk Utility but are read ...

Have you read the step by step guide?

That's the first place to start - this forum doesn't have a massive membership, so I don't expect anyone to spend the time detailing all the procedures.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

Lastly Files on the EFI partition:

UPDATE:

I am able to mount this drive on a PC and format as NTFS. This newly formatted drive will mount on my mac as a generic empty drive.

However, when I try to format as HFS+ with disktutil or GUI app, the format fails, and the procedure renders the drive unreadable to the mac again.

But ...

Thank you Fiona.

Yes, this is an EXT 1TB drive.

After I recovered the data with Testdisk, I attempted to format the drive with Disk Utilites in OSX. The process was partially completed, then failed with the error noted above.

I then tried Drive Genius and it failed to initialize the drive also ...

So, the good news is I was able to fully recover 100% of my corrupt data on my 1TB drive using testdisk to copy data.Thank you!

Once I recovered what I needed, I used MAC DiskUtil to try to erase the drive. The erase got about 40% done then DiskUtil gives me the following error:

"Disk Erase ...

Hello,

I am running Testdisk in Terminal under OSX. Just a couple of simple questions:

When I path down to the desired folder I am trying to recover files from, Subfolder are generally listed alphabetical - but I have many folders that show up randomly, out of alphabetical order. Because this ...

Thank you both for the reply.

I never thought to copy the data using Testdisk. I will attempt to copy some files, and if I see success, I will expand my copy scope greater and greater. How does Testdisk locate the data when copying? Is it different then how the OS would access the data structure ...

First, thank you so much for a such a wonderful tool in Test Disk! I know it can help me solve some issues I've been having, but after repeated attempts, and reading the Wiki page numerous times, I am at a loss as to how best to solve my issue.

If anyone can help, I will try to be brief, but ...