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3TB GPT HFs partition recovery error

Posted: 22 Mar 2012, 21:57
by yassersh2001
mac drive 9 corrupt my external WD 3 tb GPT hfs partition green HD
my partition map are
p- efi start 40 end 409600
p-HFS+ start 409640 end 580270983
when i try to manual add partition with start end sectors methods for efi its done with no error
when i add HFS+partition and wrote the end sector its changed from 580270983 >15600563 with total space 749GB only
i try to use GPT partition map from another hd with the same partition map but same result
i noticed that pdisk and test disk only read max 2TB by sectors length but with search and deep search i can write more than 2TB sector length but with wrong map with manual modify only can add 2tb

Re: 3TB GPT HFs partition recovery error

Posted: 23 Mar 2012, 08:07
by Fiona
Do you have an older Power PC or an Intel MAC?
Intel Mac uses EFI GPT and you need not pdisk.
You can write your partition directly in TestDisk.