ThePhased Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hi, I've got a drive that is seriously messed up right now. It's a 80gb with 2 partitions (NTFS (primary), and FAT32) and 24gb's of unallocated space. In the OSX drive utility I screwed up big time and although I thought I only had the 24gb of unallocated space selected (the two other partitions were locked with that little icon) I ended up partitioning the entire drive as a HFS+ volume. I know a little about recovering partitions and tried to recover the drive using Acronis Rescue Disk, but it failed at seeing any partitions to recover on the drive and it thinks the drive is 80gb unallocated. I assume this is because Acronis does not support HFS+ partitioning/recovery. Here is what I need to do: Recover the partition table of the drive. (I assume the partition table before was whatever is used with NTFS) Recover the NTFS (primary) partition and or the FAT32 partition. I did not format anything. Only partition changes were made. I am not sure if this makes things easier or harder to recover. I am pretty upset at myself right now because I have client work on the drive that I did not back up and I could be in a lot of trouble if I dont find a way to recover at least one of the partitions. Does anyone know of a app that supports HFS+ recovery and NTFS/FAT32 recovery and or has any suggestion on what I should do. I'm willing to pay someone to do this too if It comes to it. I live in the SF Bay Area. If anyone knows any good data recovery businesses please let me know. I am freaking out right now about this because I need this data by the end of the week. I never thought I would be the one to do this...\ Any comments would be greatly appreciated. I don't have anything to go on right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 For NTFS and Fat32, use R-Studio (windows. PM me for infos). I know of no software to recover HFS+, sorry. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/#findComment-329658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbadboy Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Try Acronis Disk Director Suite, i was able to got back my partitions successfully Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/#findComment-329693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aufgedyng Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 As for HFS+ I've just tried Data Rescue II worked perfect on my external 600Gb drive where the patitiontable got totally trashed. The only downside is that you can only use it to recover files and copy to another volume. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/#findComment-330184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhased Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Thanks guys, yeah I was able to get acronis to recover one of the partitions. Fortunately the one that I needed.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/#findComment-330413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1r3f1ght3r Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 same thing happened to me.... well kind of..... used diskpart on the wrong partition (HFS+) Acronis worked great. just needed to change the ID back to AF and all the data was recovered. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46054-recovering-ntfsfat32-partitions-inside-a-accidently-partitioned-hfs-volume/#findComment-330636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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