Macbook Pro lost partition on Boot Drive
Posted: 20 Apr 2012, 00:25
OK... so here's what happened. My Macbook Pro crashed or whatever you want to call it... spinning beach ball of death. I forced shutdown it by holding the power button down and when I tried to reboot all I got was the flashing question mark in the folder. I tried to reboot by holding down the option key to pick a system (i have mac os x 10.7.3 and also a bootcamp partition with Windows 7) neither showed up at the System startup Manager, nor did the Lion Recovery Disk... nothing, nada, all that happened was an arrow came on the screen and it just sat there. So, I did some google searching and ended up downloading a program called DiskDrill. That program ended up seeing the hard drive and my files. It basically told me that my partition was lost or something... so I did some more searching and found testdisk. Can testdisk rebuild my partition?
I'm beside myself here... I don't know what to do... it looks like the MS Data partition is my boot camp partition and it seems to be intact and gives me the option to List my files and they are there... But the Mac HFS partition... the one I NEED seems to have problems... HELP.... please....
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Disk /dev/rdisk6 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 976773168 1 1
The harddisk (500 GB / 465 GiB) seems too small! (< 783 GB / 729 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> Mac HFS 764864724 1529319811 764455088
MS Data 976773119 1187411959 210638841