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Any way to recover a hard drive accidentally erased in Disk Utility?
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I might be out of my depth with TestDisk. I just get this error:
zsh: bad CPU type in executable: /Users/USERNAME/Downloads/testdisk-7.2-WIP/testdisk
You have to install the 64 bits version. If you do not have brew installed, run in Terminal
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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
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brew install testdisk
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sudo testdiskI have no idea why that worked, but it did!
I see seven drives, but I only have three external drives plugged in: a 4TB drive (the one I wanted to delete, and eventually did) is showing up twice, the 2TB SSD I'm trying to recover is showing up three times, as is a 30GB USB drive I have plugged in. Which of the three 2TB disks do I select?
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And then what do I do after that?
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I've gotten to the point where I selected the partition I believe is the missing drive and it's asking me:
Write partition table, confirm? Y/N
I assume I select Y?
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How can I be sure they're the right partitions? Only one HFS candidate is showing up when I select the drive, so I figure that has to be it. But why does the software list three drives instead of one when it lists directories?
Also I can't write because the software says this drive is write-protected. I'm still having that error even when I eject the drive in Disk Utility.
Thanks again for the help, clearly I am a bit clueless about this.
Leave just the 2TB SSD you want to recover connected, disconnect the others.
Thanks. The issue is even when I do this I see three 2TB drives listed. It lists some drives twice.
And now for some reason (unrelated) my Mac won't boot up. Can I do this same process on a PC even though it doesn't read HFS?
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EDIT: and how long should this process take? A couple days like some data recovery tools or will it instantaneously rebuild the directory and the files will all be there?
I've been able to go through the whole process but it says the partition type (HFS) isn't supported. I think I might be SOL. But this seems like the right tool for the job, it just didn't work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
Edit: photo rec is finding files, at least. But unfortunately I need them organized according to the partition.
Edit: photo rec is finding files, at least. But unfortunately I need them organized according to the partition.
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