Recovering deleted HFS+ partition on Windows
Posted: 29 May 2018, 20:23
I was working on reformatting a drive for a coworker but just after I had started, they told me they hadn't taken anything off of it yet and didn't know they'd lose their data. The drive is an external HDD with HFS+, and I was reformatting it on a pc. I managed to abort the process almost immediately, and there seems to be no data lost (scanned it with a freeware program), but the partition is gone.
A friend who works for apple support directed me to TestDisk as a free soultion to recover, so i'm trying it out, but I have a question about the user interface and he isn't available. I scanned the drive and it says there are two partitions (which I knew) one is DOS_FAT_32, and the other is HFS. TestDisk says that they are both P by default, but I was expecting the FAT partition to have a P and the HFS partition to have a D, for deleted. Assuming that this is just a small error or i'm not understanding the output of the scan correctly, I still just want to recover the partition without deleting any of the data that was contained within it, so the data can be accessed again. To do this, do I set both partitions to P and then just continue through the prompts? or will that create a new partition and overwrite the old data?
Thanks.
A friend who works for apple support directed me to TestDisk as a free soultion to recover, so i'm trying it out, but I have a question about the user interface and he isn't available. I scanned the drive and it says there are two partitions (which I knew) one is DOS_FAT_32, and the other is HFS. TestDisk says that they are both P by default, but I was expecting the FAT partition to have a P and the HFS partition to have a D, for deleted. Assuming that this is just a small error or i'm not understanding the output of the scan correctly, I still just want to recover the partition without deleting any of the data that was contained within it, so the data can be accessed again. To do this, do I set both partitions to P and then just continue through the prompts? or will that create a new partition and overwrite the old data?
Thanks.