What to do next, need advice on saving work data..

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gaston101
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What to do next, need advice on saving work data..

#1 Post by gaston101 »

Hello, a couple of days ago I did a quite devastating mistake when I deleted the partitions on my main hard drive.
My computer is a Macbook pro, running a 512Gb SSD drive. I created a partition for bootcamp to install Windows 10. Popped in a Windows 10 USB installer. The installer told me something about not being able to install on the drive, terms like GPT and MBR where used. I very very stupidly ended up running [iu]diskpart clean[/u], after believing I could do that on the selected partition, but as it should, it wiped the drive, leaving me with one single partition.

I paniked, and shut down the computer. The last few days I've been trying to get back what I lost without any luck. I have been cautious only reading from the disk and not to make matters worse.

My current setup is that I'm running Linux Mint from a USB-stick, and I've installed TestDisk to this temporary system, but I'm confused about the results of the scans, aswell as what do next.

One big problem, I suspect, is that I used Mac OS X's FileVault to keep the hard drive encrypted, which I guess means that I will never be able to get any files back if I don't get back into OS X and decrypt FileVault.

I'll post screenshots of my progress below. I can not thank anyone enough that manages or tries to help me with this.

Launching test disk:
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Selected disk, options showed. Selected EFI GPT
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Selected Analyze, this turned up:
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Results of Quick scan:
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Continued with Deeper scan, results are quite distubing. A long long list of HFS volumes, this is just roughly one third of the results.
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So I'm lost, it seems that the Beginning part is way to high doesn't it, I'm guessing block part 0 > 765000000 holds my lost partition, but is it lost forever

I'll also include the log to this post.

Again, any help, wildly appriciated, any suggestions, anything.

Regards
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gaston101
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Re: What to do next, need advice on saving work data..

#2 Post by gaston101 »

A modest bump, I haven't got any further, tried scans with different partition table types but no luck. Does anyone have any idea what to do here?

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