I am trying to restore an accidentally formatted flash drive.
The drive was previously formatted on Mac, probably HFS+
It is now formatted in Windows as exFat.
What I have done already:
1. Started TestDisk and selected the correct media
2. Selected [EFI GPT] partition table type, which was detected automatically. (I have also tried Intel and Mac to no avail)
3. Selected [Advanced] and changed the type to Mac HFS -> HFS +
4. Selected [Superblock] (seemed like the only reasonable option, the other option being [Image Creation])
5. After selecting [Superblock] it reproted:
Volume header
Bad
Backup volume header
HFS+ OK
Sectors are not identical.
6. Tried [Backup BS] which reported:
Write error: Can't overwrite HFS/HFS+ main volume header
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I have also tried analyzing the media:
[Quick search] brings me:
P MS Data Start 64 End 250068991 Size in sectors 250068928
[Deeper search] brings an MS Data pertiotns and lost of Mac HFS ones with HFS+ blocksize=4096 and NO Backup
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The log file is attached.
Any advice is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Restore accidentally formatted partition
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Re: Restore accidentally formatted partition
TestDisk can't overwrite the superblock because the partition is actually mounted.
Start a Terminal, run "mount", you should see the reformated partition listed, run "umount /dev/XXX" (replace XXX by the correct value)
Once it's done, run TestDisk again, the disk should not be identified as RO (Read Only) this time. Try again to rewrite the superblock.
Start a Terminal, run "mount", you should see the reformated partition listed, run "umount /dev/XXX" (replace XXX by the correct value)
Once it's done, run TestDisk again, the disk should not be identified as RO (Read Only) this time. Try again to rewrite the superblock.