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Howdy Folks
I'm Bob Smith, new to the forum, amateur to Mac!
I've done a silly thing... I've got a 1TB external drive which I use for all of my Media storage (pics, music, films, etc) and whilst creating a partition I clicked - instead of + in disk utility!
It would appear that I've lost all of my files!
However, after the event I unplugged straight away, and now I keep getting asked to initialize the unit.
So I'm wondering, since I've not actually done anything to it yet, can I retrieve my lost data? When I plugged it into my other computer its still asking to Initialize, so I'm really hoping the data's still there!
In all honesty, I can get the music & such back, but there's about 8 years worth of photos that I'll cry if I lose.
I'd like to avoid taking it to a recovery service if I can do it myself first.
Cheers
Bob
I'm Bob Smith, new to the forum, amateur to Mac!
I've done a silly thing... I've got a 1TB external drive which I use for all of my Media storage (pics, music, films, etc) and whilst creating a partition I clicked - instead of + in disk utility!
It would appear that I've lost all of my files!
However, after the event I unplugged straight away, and now I keep getting asked to initialize the unit.
So I'm wondering, since I've not actually done anything to it yet, can I retrieve my lost data? When I plugged it into my other computer its still asking to Initialize, so I'm really hoping the data's still there!
In all honesty, I can get the music & such back, but there's about 8 years worth of photos that I'll cry if I lose.
I'd like to avoid taking it to a recovery service if I can do it myself first.
Cheers
Bob