How to recover my invisible HD again?
- by pattulus
I made this several times now, but this time something bad happened.
What I did:
I installed Windows 7 at a 32GB partition on my slot 2 HD in my MacPro.
Windows 7 made a 105MB partition… I knew this before, but what I didn’t know
was that this partition is now on my slot 4 HD. My home folder, my private
videos and some other stuff are on this 1TB drive.
What I found out so far:
I’m currently logged in as another admin since my OS partition as well as the two
other HD's aren't harmed.
Disk Utility:
… only shows the 105MB NTSF partition on this 1TB volume. It isn’t showing my
old 1TB partition/ex-HD named "storehouse". Only the partition tab is telling me
that there now is a 1TB empty free unpartitioned space.
Data Rescue II:
… is showing the Volume as it used to be with it's old Name "storehouse".
A quick scan and a thorough scan both were done in 1 second which leds me to
the conclusion that there's isn’t something deleted at all (» hope!). Data Rescue
doesn’t even mention the damn "system reserved" partition.
Drive Genius:
… also shows the old partition and doesn’t mention the new one. But looking
at the info it tells me under "content":
FDisk_partition_scheme (instead of Apple_partition_scheme). Well D'oh….
Tech Tools:
… doesn’t show the volume, otherwise I'd might have been
tempted to press rebuild/repair.
What to do next??
I think the best approach is to buy another 1TB HD and let Disk
Warrior Clone my old one to it… just to be on the safe side.
But what is the best thing to do after this… ???
