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<blockquote data-quote="gaas" data-source="post: 1167238" data-attributes="member: 186043"><p>Hi all!</p><p>I am new to the forum and I am a fool. </p><p></p><p>I had to join because of this-</p><p></p><p>I was using an external drive to access pro tools session files and audio off of as I mixed on my new 8 core westmere mac pro. I decided to use two internal drives to boot off of to use 2 versions of pro tools hd. Everything went smoothly. I decided to roll back from 10.6.4 to 10.5.4 on the other drive so I could use PT7.4.2. I obtained the os and decided to make a bootable partition on my external drive for some stupid reason. Big mistake. </p><p></p><p>I sized a small partition. I decided to hit enter thinking nothing would happen. It split into 2 dives. As I did this I noticed that the original lacie drive was mac extended, not journaled. The new partition was os extended journaled, specified to 20 gb. After I did this two drives mounted and all my files on the original disappeared. </p><p></p><p>So I download testdisk and tried that walk through where you rebuild the tables and it didnt give me the same prompts so I quit it immediately. </p><p></p><p>What do you think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gaas, post: 1167238, member: 186043"] Hi all! I am new to the forum and I am a fool. I had to join because of this- I was using an external drive to access pro tools session files and audio off of as I mixed on my new 8 core westmere mac pro. I decided to use two internal drives to boot off of to use 2 versions of pro tools hd. Everything went smoothly. I decided to roll back from 10.6.4 to 10.5.4 on the other drive so I could use PT7.4.2. I obtained the os and decided to make a bootable partition on my external drive for some stupid reason. Big mistake. I sized a small partition. I decided to hit enter thinking nothing would happen. It split into 2 dives. As I did this I noticed that the original lacie drive was mac extended, not journaled. The new partition was os extended journaled, specified to 20 gb. After I did this two drives mounted and all my files on the original disappeared. So I download testdisk and tried that walk through where you rebuild the tables and it didnt give me the same prompts so I quit it immediately. What do you think? [/QUOTE]
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