Brandon Roots Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Can anyone recommend a good Data Recovery Utility for an HFS+ drive partition? I have tried Data Rescue II, TestDisk (open source), and Stellar's Data Recovery, all to no avail. My trouble started when I installed MacDrive to have access to my HFS+ external hard drive in Windows XP. When my firewire drive failed to show under 'My Computer' I made the mistake of selecting Partition -> Rename in the MacDrive menu. DONT DO THIS, it will result in a new partition replacing any existing partitions on your drive. I was horrified to discover my drive, along with all of my work, was wiped clean. So far I was able to get pretty far with Data Rescue II, after doing a "Thorough Scan" (which took 5 hours) all of my files showed up in the viewer, but I was unable to actually recover any of the files because none of the "Allocation Blocks Layout" block size and offset options work, so I just end up with corrupted files. I am desperate, please help. P.S. Games in Win XP on my MacBook Pro are awesome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 This is quite a common problem, unfortunately. The best solution I've found is DiskWarrior. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1607760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 hahahaaa........I´m pretty sure that brandon is really happy now, receiving a response after 4 years - guys the post is from april 2006 ! but it´s still a good question and has to be updated time after time - my choice: r-studio http://www.r-tt.com - it also recovers offline apple softraids......brillant! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1608032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcos lopes Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Man Im with the same problem. I lost my partition with all my work, just because F*&%&$&@&$ MACDRIVE. Im trying data rescue 3 now, but until not end. Can you find a better solution? Sorry about my poor english. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1665674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 r-studio is the best choice try the demo if it works. I bought it to recover my lost raid - awesome Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1665723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytrox Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 if your disk is just broken try also diskwarrior. it has saved my lifea couple of times. I suggest to use the latest version on snow cause it give errors frequently. the best solution is a partition with leopard, possibly on a real mac (like an old g5), with that you are really in good hands Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1665754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 thanks for the reccomendations everyone, i would like to disclaimer for everyone else to NOT use macdrive. If you must do anything install it, get access to the files you need then remove it. Long time member here with words of wisdom, hopefully i can recover all my files Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14317-macdrive-lost-all-data-recovery-options/#findComment-1766497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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