My Sad Story...

[spanakorizo]

in my attempt to install the macOsX in a partition i "maybe" lost 120GB of data

everything started 2 days ago that i said ,ok thats enough with VMware its time to test it in native

and decide if it really worths to give a damn

There are some problems here...(that shouldn't be but happened on me)

my DISKs are 2 IDE and one SATA

i wanted in the beggining to install the macOsx in a small(10gb) partition so i made it FAT32

when i booted from darwin in native mode i realized that cant recognize the SATA

i say ok i will go to XP and make a partition in IDE disk

i allready have 2 partitions in the 2 IDE disks ,so if i make another one i will have 5 Disks

nevermind i create the partition in the 2nd IDE disk and i boot native again to install the OSX

the utilityDisk recognize the disk and i choose to erase the 3rd partition i made in the 2ND IDE disk

installation goes well,for the 1st time i can move the mouse with no frames lose,1st time i can hear CLEAR sound with no skips.

After 15 minutes i boot to OSX and im very happy

everything goes well and its so fast!

i fix a kext for my ethernet (marvel yukon) and i chose to restart

NOW THE MOVIE STARTS ...

i cant boot nowhere

neither OSX and XP

i remembered something about fix the mbr with fdisk

i go crazy a little but i say..relax man fix the mbr ,boot from xp and change the boot.ini with chain

ok...i cant find fdisk (not in XP)

after somehours i create (from a friend) a boot disk with fdisk inside

i start fdisk and i must f*** things for my 1st time...

restart and im in XP again

how sweet

but can i stop now??

of course not i must boot to OSX ,is allready installed there

noway to boot,XP dont either recognize the drive that OSX is installed

fdisk again ,cant make the partition active,cant make the partition boot

from this point i must totally f***ed the drives,with new partitions and delete partitions etc etc

i started creating partitions also in my 1st IDE drive and almost corrupt the boot in xp

yesterday partition magic was recognizing my 2 IDE disks YELLOW (BAD) and couldnt see the other 2 DISKS (partitions on them)

ALSO YELLOW the 1st disk that has the XP and everything in it!

i reboot for some reason and when i boot to XP i realize the XP have disapeared my 2 DRIVES!!

60+60GB

the one full of games (DONT GIVE A {censored})

and the other SERIOUS data

from this point i have try MANY undelete,repair partition softwares

the one could save my 1 partition (60gb) but ...the 60gb of GAMES(@#$#@%)

so it left the other 60GB as free (cause close to this drive was the OSX format drive and it @!#@!)

i mounted the 60GB drive (DIDNT FORMAT IT OFFCOURSE THE DATA ARE INSIDE I KNOW IT)

and now with r-studio i started check (`1 hour...)

i see that it recognize files and folders inside but im not sure if i;ll can save them

so this is all guys

my opinion?

allways backup your data

and dont experiment with bootsectors and disks full of data

use EMPTY DISKS

i go now...r-studio just finished ,i can see some folders

[SilverZero]

GetDataBack for FAT or NTFS is a great tool for data recovery. As long as you haven't written new data off of the partition, you can probably still recover it. It's kinda messy, because that means old files that were never written over (just recycled) are still there, too, but more is better than none, right?

 

I've been there, man. Data and OS recovery is just a part of the ride sometimes. You learn something new every time, but usually not what you need the next time. Good luck.

[spanakorizo]

i think r-studio is very good

i opened r-studioFAT cause the new partition (supposed to be empty unformatted)

found ALL the files but couldnt recovered cause the REAL disk was NTFS

i used now the rstudio FAT cause windows recognize this DISK with the corrupted data as FAT16

but ofcourse its not fat16

now i opened the r-studio NTFS and i rescan that drive

i think that im gonna save my files now...i want to blv

in this drive nothing was modified cause as you realize as when the partition deleted by accident

so did the drive,so nothing changed..nothing

the scan is faster now,i think in 20-30 minutes i will be sure what will happen

if i could save from the beggining this 60GB and not the 60GB of games i wouldnt be so pissed

its unfair

thats why i keep trying now

there are good "memories" inside i dont want to lose

i have recovered data in the past

data that i deleted by accident

now NOTHING has been deleted ...everything must be there UNMODIFIED

lets pray

[spanakorizo]

...

it can recover all the files but what i was affraid happened

the files are mp3(the most)

so it messed with the sectors

all the mp3 are WRONG

i choose to play Z.mp3 (example)

and i can hear the half of A.mp3 with D.mp3 at the end

i will try another program

I DIDNT WRIGHT NOTHING TO THIS DISK

how this happened

maybe convert it NTFS again?

but not to format it

ill see if this can happen

[spanakorizo]

SilverZero THANK YOU

WITH THE SOFTWARE YOU TOLD ME

RIGHT NOW I CAN HEAR ALL THE MUSIC NOT CORRUPTED!!!

I GO TO PASTE IN A SAFE DISK!!

I LEFT IT TO SCAN ONLY FOR 1 MINUTE AND I PRESSED CANCEL

TO SEE WHAT IT FOUND(IF THE MP3S ARE CORRUPTED AGAIN)

AND IT FOUND EVERYTHING...I EVEN OPENED MY VIDEO CLIPS!!!

THANKZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[SilverZero]

I'm really glad you got some files back. Like I said, recovering data can be tough because you have to wade through all the old half-deleted files from the past to find your current ones, but it sounds like you've got a handle on it.

 

Good luck!

[aberracus]

Data rescue II will recover everything of your osx partition i did it for me after i formated my hd