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I managed to recover the files I need. Solution was to analyze the drive, write the partition table, then I used EaseUs data recovery trial software to get the files. The program was not able to recover the files before, but writing the partition table apparently affected it.

Screen Shot 2016-11-24 at 20.02.49.png It now looks like this. Before disk utility could not see any volumes but writing the partition table made those two appear. Only problem is I cannot mount the "Storage" (the volume that has my files) and fsck says it is read-only, so I cannot repair the ...

testdisk and fsck are usually safe to use but it's always better to have a sector by sector copy of the original disk (see ddrescue example in the documentation).
Ok so I tried doing the superblock method but the problem is I can only see two partitions, Screen Shot 2016-11-23 at 22.15.50.png and ...

You can try TestDisk, Advanced, set the type to HFS+, Superblock
If it doesn't work, try fsck (see https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf for details)
If you have no success, it also possible to use PhotoRec to recover your files but it will not recover the original file structure and original ...

I accidentally formatted my whole OS X storage drive to exFAT in windows and then copied a 100mb file in there. I've tried using other recovery tools and they can find most of my stuff, but they would require paying before getting the actual files back.
I tried using TestDisk on osx but the ...