jajal Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Guys I need your help I want to install hackintosh in my laptop in my HDD there are 4 partitions. 1. System Reserved -> for win 7 2. SYSTEM -> OS win 7 3. DATA -> My data 4. OSX86 -> for hackintosh for more details, view this following picture At first I doing format at OSX86 partition to be "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" file system, but when install I forgot to choose customize, so when i cancel it. I re install the hackintosh again. Suddenly "DATA" partition disappear ( And become unallocated space In "DATA" partition contains many important files How to recover the "DATA" partition ??? (not recover the files) Many many thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jihaa Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I'm sorry to tell you this, but there is nothing you can do to recover a whole partition table if you didn't make any Ghost backups of it (Norton Ghost)... You can, however undelete your files - which would be the best idea now IMO. You can either repair your Win partition and boot to Windows and use an undelete software there, or use a Linux live disc and a linux undelete tool from a USB drive. Don't waste your time, and most importantly DON'T install anything until you recovered your files, because they might get overwritten! Hope it helped... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldpig Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 because OSX installation has destroyed EFI (that is called system reserved partition). sorry for hear that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addy2k Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I would recommend the use of a live cd if you need those files back. In fact it is absolutely possible to restore lost/deleted/overwritten partition tables. Or at least there is software out there, that can find the partitions and recreate the old partition structure. Just google "Partition Recovery" and read a bit about it. If you avoid to write new data to the former partitions, chances are good, that you can get your files back. I personally would avoid using the harddisk to boot up any OS, since data will be written to the harddisk, which could destroy files that could possibly be restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 How to recover the "DATA" partition ??? (not recover the files) Try this: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnssaienlyMac Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Try this: http://www.cgsecurit...g/wiki/TestDisk THAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!! YOU SAVED ME FROM A VERY HUGE DISASTER! Using my old friend TestDisk did the job!!! Thank you so very much again & again you deserve a billion $ for what you've done (INDIRECTLY)! I deleted EFI Partition to create a new one, because it stopped booting,and then the whole disk space became unallocated.but TestDisk saved the day! CHEERS! You're The Best GRinGo!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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