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thanks for the advice, I have managed to recover all the files on this drive using a program called red undead. The fiels are movies in the r3d format. photorec also got them but without metadata.

By the way, I wasn't correct saying that finder can't see the drive. It can see the drive, it thinks it's called HDD3.

It is 200gb, and contains 3 files:

testfile
testfile_2m
testfile_16M

Am I correct in thinking I should destroy this partition, as it was created with incorrect numbers from my ...

Previous to this log, I had incorrectly scanned using testdisk and HFS, not GPT EFI

It gave me this info:

Disk /dev/disk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
HFS 3516034640 3906766983 390732344

I then tried to create a partition using this:

sudo gpt ...

thanks so much for looking into this! here is the log file:



Sun Sep 6 21:47:43 2015
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Darwin, kernel 14.0.0 (Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 19 00 ...

Hi all...

I've got a bad drive with no partition. It's a mac drive, HFS

I've run test disk and got the following result:

Disk /dev/disk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
HFS 3516034640 3906766983 390732344

check_FAT: Bad jump in FAT partition

I've ...