Found partition but cannot list files or recover it
Posted: 17 Aug 2013, 20:08
Hello,
I would need your expert advise for the following issue: It seems I deleted by mistake the partition in my external hard disk WD 750GB which I have been using with a Mac computer. I lost all my data while trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard OS on my Mac (I was following a tutorial which suggested to create a new external partition and I naively used my WD and something went wrong), everything in there disappeared and I am trying to recover the partition with TestDisk but eventually I always get an error message. It would be great if somebody could help me.
The thing is, when I connect the USB, 2 hard disks appear: disk1 and rdisk1, what is the difference between them? I normally chose disk1 instead of rdisk1.
Next step it is also a bit confusing because I have a MacBook (Mac OS X 10.5.8, Intel Core), so it should be a mac partition detected but instead it is an EFI GTP one (perhaps the one I was creating).
I decided to try first with Mac and do a quick search. TestDisk detects my lost partition but I cannot list the files in that partition and an error appears and I am not able to go futher. I did also a deeper search which took almost 24h and I got no new partitions after that.
If I select EFI for the partition search instead of Mac, something similar appears, and I never can have access to the files in the partition.
Could anyone give me a hand with this? I don’t know if I should try to fix the heads/cylinders warning with the advanced options or try other way to recover the partition…
Thank you very much for your help,
Beatriz
I would need your expert advise for the following issue: It seems I deleted by mistake the partition in my external hard disk WD 750GB which I have been using with a Mac computer. I lost all my data while trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard OS on my Mac (I was following a tutorial which suggested to create a new external partition and I naively used my WD and something went wrong), everything in there disappeared and I am trying to recover the partition with TestDisk but eventually I always get an error message. It would be great if somebody could help me.
The thing is, when I connect the USB, 2 hard disks appear: disk1 and rdisk1, what is the difference between them? I normally chose disk1 instead of rdisk1.
Next step it is also a bit confusing because I have a MacBook (Mac OS X 10.5.8, Intel Core), so it should be a mac partition detected but instead it is an EFI GTP one (perhaps the one I was creating).
I decided to try first with Mac and do a quick search. TestDisk detects my lost partition but I cannot list the files in that partition and an error appears and I am not able to go futher. I did also a deeper search which took almost 24h and I got no new partitions after that.
If I select EFI for the partition search instead of Mac, something similar appears, and I never can have access to the files in the partition.
Could anyone give me a hand with this? I don’t know if I should try to fix the heads/cylinders warning with the advanced options or try other way to recover the partition…
Thank you very much for your help,
Beatriz