kingsteven Posted September 20, 2007 Share Posted September 20, 2007 This is completley off-topic and probabbly down to my own stupidity rather than a Disk Manager problem, but I'm seriously stuck, and was wondering if anyone here could help... I just got OSX running on my PC earlier today, and wanted to format an old disk as FAT32 so it could be read by both Mac OS and Windows... Instead of repartitioning my NTFS drive, I added another old drive on my secondary IDE channel... I loaded up OSX, ran disk manager and formatted the drive (it was showing as 18GB, and my large NTFS drive is 300, so I was pretty sure it was the right drive) the drive format failed, and when I rebooted into windows (to give partition magic a go) I found my 300GB drive mangled, filenames like "#"Éz³¥.b╔" giving me "x is not accessible." errors whenever I double click anything... :censored2: I have Easy Recovery Pro from an drive-failure last year, and I've been pretty careful not to corrupt anything further by not letting Scandisk at it... Easy Recovery is showing two partitions "Unidentified" (279GB) and "FAT32" (18.43GB)... So I'm hoping all the data in the "Unidentified" partition is still intact... Any advice on what I should do next? Is there any quick-fix where I could convert the disk back to NTFS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63808-serious-problem-disk-manager-mangled-my-ntfs-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsteven Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 Using EasyRecovery Pro I scanned the entire drive for NTFS partitions and it found the old 298GB partition. I'm now carefully recovering my (mostly un-backed up) files... Including about 2 years worth of my own music, and a ton of mp3s. Scary stuff In closing, I LOVE EASY RECOVERY :D :D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63808-serious-problem-disk-manager-mangled-my-ntfs-disk/#findComment-451575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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