Accidental Formatting of partition
Posted: 18 May 2015, 03:30
Hello,
So to make this story as short as possible:
Have MacBook Pro. Installed Windows 7 through bootcamp. Recently had to format an external drive, was not paying attention, quick formatted my Mac_HD partition by mistake with FAT32 (possibly 2-3 times because I kept getting an error when trying to do so, was not paying attention but basically it kept telling me I could not partition the drive). I realized this and immediately restarted my machine, can no longer successfully boot to Windows 7. Took external HDD and installed OSX on it, am now running test disk deeper search, which seems like it will take hours.
Questions:
After what I did, can I recover the Mac HD partition?
If not, can I at least make Windows 7 work again?
I was unable to figure out for certain if the partition that looks like the Mac partition is actually the right one(would look inside but could not find any of the files or it would tell me something was wrong with the filesystem. Can deeper search find something else really?
Thanks for any and all help.
IronD
So to make this story as short as possible:
Have MacBook Pro. Installed Windows 7 through bootcamp. Recently had to format an external drive, was not paying attention, quick formatted my Mac_HD partition by mistake with FAT32 (possibly 2-3 times because I kept getting an error when trying to do so, was not paying attention but basically it kept telling me I could not partition the drive). I realized this and immediately restarted my machine, can no longer successfully boot to Windows 7. Took external HDD and installed OSX on it, am now running test disk deeper search, which seems like it will take hours.
Questions:
After what I did, can I recover the Mac HD partition?
If not, can I at least make Windows 7 work again?
I was unable to figure out for certain if the partition that looks like the Mac partition is actually the right one(would look inside but could not find any of the files or it would tell me something was wrong with the filesystem. Can deeper search find something else really?
Thanks for any and all help.
IronD