Stiksi
Dec 9, 2007, 04:52 PM
I managed to fry nearly 250 gigs of data on my USB hard drive while partitioning.
I was splitting a 500 Gb drive into a FAT32 partition with all the old data on the drive and a 170 gig HFS+ partition to use as a backup volume for my macbook's internal hard drive. There was plenty of room and the Disk Utility assured me that nothing would be erased.
However, disk utility only took a few seconds to complete and when I looked at the resulting partitions - nothing. There is absolutely no data on the disk. Wasn't this data loss bug supposed to be fixed already?! :(
Is there anything I can do? Of course, I have no backups so basically I just threw away a lot of pretty important stuff. I know there was a warning in disk utility to "just in case" backup my data but still...
Does anyone know of a rescue software which could help? All advice will be greatly appreciated!
I was splitting a 500 Gb drive into a FAT32 partition with all the old data on the drive and a 170 gig HFS+ partition to use as a backup volume for my macbook's internal hard drive. There was plenty of room and the Disk Utility assured me that nothing would be erased.
However, disk utility only took a few seconds to complete and when I looked at the resulting partitions - nothing. There is absolutely no data on the disk. Wasn't this data loss bug supposed to be fixed already?! :(
Is there anything I can do? Of course, I have no backups so basically I just threw away a lot of pretty important stuff. I know there was a warning in disk utility to "just in case" backup my data but still...
Does anyone know of a rescue software which could help? All advice will be greatly appreciated!
