[zeuzzz]

Ive managed to wipe a lot of files off my 1gb seagate barracuda. I was re-formatting it to reinstall mac OSX on one of my partitions, and forgot that the Partition Utility on OSX formats the whole drive and not just the partition you want to install OSX on. So I've got 2 FAT32 partitions and a HFS one with OSX on.

Can I get the data back from the two partitions that have been wiped? I'll happily wipe OSX to get the data back, its got a lot of uni work in that I need.

 

[Networks]

What type partition was on it before ? What recovery programs have you already tried to scan the drive with

 

[tyza]

What type partition was on it before ? What recovery programs have you already tried to scan the drive with

that and

http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtition-or-files-in-your-computer-194492.html

 

[zeuzzz]

Ok so ive been a dunce and since made it a lot harder (I presume) to get back my data. I got frustrated with installing OSX, and each time I try to install I have to reformat the drive. Done it eight times now (******* kernal panicks, kexts, DSDT's and apple drivers are driving me mad!) each time partitioning it into different amounts of partitions over the original ones.

Does this mean I am now pretty much totally screwed?

Testdisk is on 96% atm but says "Invalid FAT boot sector" so far.

 

[Rits]

Try to use a free trail of Mac data recovery software:

Data Recovery HFS Software for deleted files & formatted data recovery from Mac HFS partitions


or

Formatted HFS drive recovery

 

[zeuzzz]

^ Thanks I'll try them in a minute.

Now I can see my old D:\ but its says its maximum capacity is 63 gigs even if I try to re-format the whole drive. Should be 1TB.

Guess that do do with the mac format partitions it doesn't recognise?

Oh and to make things a bit more complex, the actual data I am trying to recover is not from a mac format drive, its from a nornal NTFS which I have since formatted over with HFS formatting numerous times. Is that going to prove an issue?

 

[Alt-rtt]

I think, searching for file signatures is the only option left.

 

[zeuzzz]

That "recover data for mac" program hangs when it gets to about 2500 partitions found, and it takes hours to get to that point.

As I cant use the drive in windows does anyone know how I can format it back to NTFS in DOS before windows opens? I've given up now. Might have been able to do it if I hadn't formatted it so many times since the data was lost.

 

[zeuzzz]

Ok something is screwed. Windows only shows there being 63 gig on the drive even if I reformat it. BIOS does show its 1GB but I'm not sure what to do now

 

[zeuzzz]

Bump, sorry to bump so quick but ive got uni work due in within a week and now got to catch up on a months work The quicker I can work out why my 1tb Hard drive is only showing 63 available the better. Also my other 1tb external drive is not loading up at all when I plug it in, but thats a secondary issue. I even formatted my 1TB internal drive to FAT32 in dos by running cmd in windows, and even though DOS says it does have 1TB on it windows still shows it as only having 63 GB which is not enough for my music programs to do my work