HFS partition recovery(wrongly formatted as NTFS)

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nofearman
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HFS partition recovery(wrongly formatted as NTFS)

#1 Post by nofearman »

Hello All,

I wrongly formatted my wife's external hard drive. it was HFS before. She was using it with macbook air.

I put it toa windows and formatted NTFS. Is it possible to recover HFS partition?
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Re: HFS partition recovery(wrongly formatted as NTFS)

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Try TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search...
There is a chpater about partition recovery in https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
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