I messed up and created a third partition on my external hard drive, which erased the partition with all of my media on it (most importantly documents, but also music and movies). Currently I can access the partition with my Time Machine backups, but the partition with my media is gone. Using a different third party software, iSkysoft Data Recovery, I found the location of the original media partition. Partition 3 is my media, and Partition 5 is my Time Machine backups. BUT, 3 and 5 overlap sectors. How can this be? If I can only save one partition, I would opt for Partition 3, but if it's possible I would like to save both.
Test Disk also found both of these partitions, but again, I can't restore both of them because the sectors overlap. I don't know what to do moving forward.
Disk /dev/disk1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
>D EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI]
D EFI System 46 409645 409600 [EFI]
D Mac HFS 409640 914916023 914506384
D Mac HFS 439631 977334150 976894520
D Mac HFS 439800 977334319 976894520
D Mac HFS 440033 977334552 976894520
D Mac HFS 440178 977334697 976894520
D Mac HFS 440331 977334850 976894520
D Mac HFS 440748 977335267 976894520
D Mac HFS 441005 977335524 976894520
D Mac HFS 441214 977335733 976894520
D Mac HFS 441583 977336102 976894520
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
FAT32, blocksize=512, 209 MB / 200 MiB
Disk /dev/disk1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D Mac HFS 1973918 977670597 975696680
D Mac HFS 1977675 977674354 975696680
D Mac HFS 1981219 977677898 975696680
>P Mac HFS 914916020 1829422403 914506384
D MS Data 915178168 977304159 62125992 [FOR WINDOWS]
D MS Data 915178174 977304165 62125992 [FOR WINDOWS]
D Mac HFS 977566304 1953262983 975696680
D Mac HFS 977599489 1953296168 975696680
D Mac HFS 977599963 1953296642 975696680
D Mac HFS 977600236 1953296915 975696680
D Mac HFS 977602933 1953299612 975696680
D Mac HFS 977603798 1953300477 975696680
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type,
Enter: to continue
HFS+ blocksize=4096, 468 GB / 436 GiB
Disk /dev/disk1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D MS Data 915178168 977304159 62125992 [FOR WINDOWS]
D MS Data 915178174 977304165 62125992 [FOR WINDOWS]
>P Mac HFS 977566304 1953262983 975696680
D Mac HFS 977599489 1953296168 975696680
D Mac HFS 977599963 1953296642 975696680
D Mac HFS 977600236 1953296915 975696680
D Mac HFS 977602933 1953299612 975696680
D Mac HFS 977603798 1953300477 975696680
D Mac HFS 977604967 1953301646 975696680
D Mac HFS 977605296 1953301975 975696680
D Mac HFS 977605657 1953302336 975696680
D Mac HFS 977609258 1953305937 975696680
Structure: Bad. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type,
Enter: to continue
HFS+ blocksize=4096 + Backup, 499 GB / 465 GiB
Reformatted the wrong partition...
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Re: Reformatted the wrong partition...
Without the full testdisk.log file, it's difficult to give you a correct solution.
With the first software, partition 3 overlaps with partition 2, 4 and 5.
If the partition has been reformated, you can use PhotoRec on this partition to recover your data but you will not recover the original filenames.
With the first software, partition 3 overlaps with partition 2, 4 and 5.
If the partition has been reformated, you can use PhotoRec on this partition to recover your data but you will not recover the original filenames.
Re: Reformatted the wrong partition...
Can I just have TestDisk write a new partition map with only Partition 3?
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Re: Reformatted the wrong partition...
Us ethe arrow keys to set the partition 3 to P(rimary) and the other partitions as D(eleted).