Accidentically formatted external HDD on MAC
Posted: 13 Jan 2020, 15:29
Greetings,
a friend of mine asked for help when unintentionally formatting an HDD on a MAC. It is an INTENSO 3 TB and she used the disk to transfer data from the MAC to some (music) devices only capable of reading Windows-FS. I don't know what the original FS was (FAT or NTFS) and my friend doesn't know as well.
When checking the partition table with parted I see following result:
Is it possible to recover the complete Windows partition at all? I assume the relevant data was overwritten by the MAC tool and hence the FAT-FS cannot be recovered, right?
I tried to recover the partition with testdisk using different configurations (EFI, Intel, Mac), but to no avail . The only files that can be recovered are files created by Mac (directory .Spotlight-V100).
Thank you,
Klaus
PS: I do have logs of the various testdisk runs which I can post on demand. I want to keep at least this first posting clear and not overloaded
a friend of mine asked for help when unintentionally formatting an HDD on a MAC. It is an INTENSO 3 TB and she used the disk to transfer data from the MAC to some (music) devices only capable of reading Windows-FS. I don't know what the original FS was (FAT or NTFS) and my friend doesn't know as well.
When checking the partition table with parted I see following result:
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Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Model: Intenso USB 3.0 Device (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: mac
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 4096B 262kB 258kB Apple
2 262kB 3001GB 3001GB fat32
I tried to recover the partition with testdisk using different configurations (EFI, Intel, Mac), but to no avail . The only files that can be recovered are files created by Mac (directory .Spotlight-V100).
Thank you,
Klaus
PS: I do have logs of the various testdisk runs which I can post on demand. I want to keep at least this first posting clear and not overloaded