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I accidentally formated my 1TB WD external hard drive to exFAT and lost everything. I ment to format my USB flash drive and clicked on the wrong one, I made a huge mistake. I know the partition is still there because disk drill and test disk both found it and can be recovered. However, I dont want to pay $89 for disk drill unless I have to. So, I downloaded test disk and followed step by step directions. My computer is not rooted. Here is the problem; since my computer is not rooted it tells me to use the sudo command which I do. Once I select the lost partition it tells me "Write access is not available." Heres what it says in test disk:
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
Main Page - CGSecurity
Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB (RO)
Write access for this media is not available.
TestDisk won't be able to modify it.
- No partition from this disk must be mounted:
Open the Disk Utility (In Finder -> Application -> Utility folder)
and press Unmount button for each volume from this disk
- This media may be physically write-protected, check the jumpers.
>[ Continue ] Continue even if write access isn't available
[ Quit ] Return to disk selection
I went into disk utility and unmounted the only one that was mounted and still no luck. How do I fix this, so I can recover my lost partition and restore my external hard drive?? Please help!!
Thanks
TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
Main Page - CGSecurity
Disk /dev/rdisk1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB (RO)
Write access for this media is not available.
TestDisk won't be able to modify it.
- No partition from this disk must be mounted:
Open the Disk Utility (In Finder -> Application -> Utility folder)
and press Unmount button for each volume from this disk
- This media may be physically write-protected, check the jumpers.
>[ Continue ] Continue even if write access isn't available
[ Quit ] Return to disk selection
I went into disk utility and unmounted the only one that was mounted and still no luck. How do I fix this, so I can recover my lost partition and restore my external hard drive?? Please help!!
Thanks