2

While installing bootcamp I accidentally deleted (clean) the entire disk, now my entire data is gone. I saved it as it was in an image on an external disk. Disk utility won't mount the file and even when I mount it from command line, it won't repair the disk.

I used Testdisk and it's telling me that currently my partition looks like this: enter image description here

when I run "deep search", it finds these two partitions: enter image description here Now how can I restore my data? How can I restore the correct partition table?

Photorec gives me this partition structure: enter image description here

Alv123
  • 121
  • Macbook Pro Mid2012, disk is 750GB HDD. I don't understand why it shows those 2 partitions. I tried Photorec too and it displays a different partition structure. I updated the opening post. Can I not simply recreate a default partition table? It was a GUID partition table. – Alv123 Feb 27 '19 at 20:03
  • Why are you using this utility to recreate the partition table? – Allan Feb 27 '19 at 20:10
  • I tried to following this instructions but it won't work https://perrohunter.com/repair-a-mac-os-x-hfs-partition-table/ – Alv123 Feb 27 '19 at 20:14
  • Are you just trying to rebuild the partition table or trying to recover your data? – Allan Feb 27 '19 at 20:20
  • I understood that in order to recover the data I need to rebuild the partition structure. The data should be still there. I didn't overwrite the data. – Alv123 Feb 27 '19 at 20:26
  • Use a tool like Disk Drill to recover your data. You can rebuild your partition if you know the start and end sectors for each - do you have that info? – Allan Feb 27 '19 at 20:28
  • no that's why I was asking if there aren't default values for that – Alv123 Feb 27 '19 at 20:31
  • There's no default size for BC. You pick the size - minimum is 64GB – Allan Feb 27 '19 at 20:34
  • drivesaver.com give them a call for a price quote. maybe it would even be reasonable. – historystamp Feb 28 '19 at 00:07
  • "Stellar Phoenix Macintosh - Mac data recovery software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes and even from initialized disks." They have a trial version, so I guess you can see if your data can be recovered... http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm – historystamp Feb 28 '19 at 00:09
  • FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have: -- been accidentally deleted. -- become unreadable due to media faults. -- been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted. – historystamp Feb 28 '19 at 00:10

0 Answers0