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HELP! Problem after Bootcamp attempt
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1513520" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>If you've formatted the OS X partition, and it sounds like you have, those files won't show up when the drive is connected to another Mac. Even if the files are still there the directory structure no longer shows where the files are on the drive. For all practical purposes the files don't exist as far as an OS is concerned.It's a bit like looking fort your car in a parking garage with thousands of other cars and all identifying landmarks have been removed from the lot. </p><p></p><p>I have used <a href="http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/" target="_blank">DiskWarrior </a> and <a href="http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php" target="_blank">Data Rescue</a> in the past to recover deleted files but it's something of a crap shoot. If the directory structure simply needs to be repaired you may have a shot and Disk Warrior is probably best, Recovering a lost file or two is sometimes possible but the difficulty increases exponentially when the entire OS must be recovered</p><p></p><p>If the OS X partition has been replaced by the Windows partition then it's probably a lost cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1513520, member: 131855"] If you've formatted the OS X partition, and it sounds like you have, those files won't show up when the drive is connected to another Mac. Even if the files are still there the directory structure no longer shows where the files are on the drive. For all practical purposes the files don't exist as far as an OS is concerned.It's a bit like looking fort your car in a parking garage with thousands of other cars and all identifying landmarks have been removed from the lot. I have used [url=http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/]DiskWarrior [/url] and [url=http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php]Data Rescue[/url] in the past to recover deleted files but it's something of a crap shoot. If the directory structure simply needs to be repaired you may have a shot and Disk Warrior is probably best, Recovering a lost file or two is sometimes possible but the difficulty increases exponentially when the entire OS must be recovered If the OS X partition has been replaced by the Windows partition then it's probably a lost cause. [/QUOTE]
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