Time Machine nuked external

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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SmugLeaf
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Time Machine nuked external

#1 Post by SmugLeaf »

So my friend just gave me this 1TB WD Passport.
It was plugged into a Mac and apparently the Mac thought it was ok to reformat the NTFS drive into HFS+ and start using it for Time Machine. She yanked it ASAP but it seems to have written 20-30 odd MiBs of stuff.

I think I'm stuck using photorec and starting over but I want to give testdisk a shot.
I've been trying both the analyse and advanced menus. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Rec ... _partition

But I can't seem to get anything useful. http://dpaste.com/1RR90NW
It does talk about NTFS farther down. Is this enough to rebuild the MBR (or GPT, I'm not even sure what WD ships on these drives)

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     MS Data                567622795  567628968       6174
     NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
     MS Data                567628968  567635141       6174 [Boot]
     NTFS, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
     MS Data                617457435  617463608       6174
     NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
     MS Data                617463608  617469781       6174 [Boot]
     NTFS, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
     MS Data                617988947  617995120       6174
     NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
     MS Data                617995120  618001293       6174 [Boot]
     NTFS, blocksize=512, 3161 KB / 3087 KiB
Any hints would be great.

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