recovery of data after quick format
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Right first off I have been a total cock...
I was trying to set up a boot camp partition on my macbook and install xp as a dual boot. I went through the boot camp assistant and created what I thought was a 10 gig partition. I stopped the assistant and went back to it and started the windows install. I did a quick format of the partition or what I thought was the partition but this was actually the whole drive! I didn't do this once but twice and started the windows install until i realised what i was doing.
Now obviously my mac wont boot into anything. Now being a cock and working IT i would have usually backed it up before touching it up but being my own machine I didn't bother!
I have done some research it looks like i should be able to recover it using some software. Has anyone got any experience of doing this? The original partitions were HFS and I have now formatted it as NTFS.
What are the chances of me getting the files back?
I was trying to set up a boot camp partition on my macbook and install xp as a dual boot. I went through the boot camp assistant and created what I thought was a 10 gig partition. I stopped the assistant and went back to it and started the windows install. I did a quick format of the partition or what I thought was the partition but this was actually the whole drive! I didn't do this once but twice and started the windows install until i realised what i was doing.
Now obviously my mac wont boot into anything. Now being a cock and working IT i would have usually backed it up before touching it up but being my own machine I didn't bother!
I have done some research it looks like i should be able to recover it using some software. Has anyone got any experience of doing this? The original partitions were HFS and I have now formatted it as NTFS.
What are the chances of me getting the files back?
Edited by stneville on Sunday 14th November 20:45
thanks for the replys, Testdisk looks like its going to do the job. I am going to do some thing I should have done in the beginning and clone the original disk.
I have bought a caddy to connect it to another PC running Linux. My question is what is the best way to clone this disk exactly how it is now. I don't want to work on the original disk but at the same time I don't want to mess it up any more than it is now.
I have done some reading and it looks like DD will copy the disk but will it be exactly the same as it is now and not just the data it can see? I was going to attempt to clone it to a partition on an external hard drive any one see this being a problem?
I have bought a caddy to connect it to another PC running Linux. My question is what is the best way to clone this disk exactly how it is now. I don't want to work on the original disk but at the same time I don't want to mess it up any more than it is now.
I have done some reading and it looks like DD will copy the disk but will it be exactly the same as it is now and not just the data it can see? I was going to attempt to clone it to a partition on an external hard drive any one see this being a problem?
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