Help with missing partition - Mac OS
Posted: 05 Aug 2012, 19:50
I have a MacBook Pro with two partitions set up on the hard drive--one for the OS and another for DATA. Last week, I decided to upgrade to the latest OS Mountain Lion by erasing and installing the system on the OS partition. Although the install went fine, I noticed my DATA partition was missing. Here are additional details about this missing partition and some of the steps I've taken:
I would appreciate any help or suggestions. I can upload any log files or whatever is needed to help.
- In Disk Utility, the drive showed up as "disk0s4" and would not mount. The drive capacity was corrected. I tried to perform a "repair disk", but nothing would happen.
- I created a recovery boot CD with several tools, including Testdisk. When I quickly "analyze" the drive, it comes back with 4 partitions, one is my OS partition, but I have no clue what the other two are.
- Doing a "deep" analyze, I get a strange list of partitions with crazy characters.
I would appreciate any help or suggestions. I can upload any log files or whatever is needed to help.