Erase Windows 7 HD on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and need to recover - URGENT

[nickrick]

Hi,

I made a mistake when I want to format Mac HD but I erase HD which I have Windows 7 on it which is HD only for Win 7 and I use for separate boot not in bootcamp.
What I do: I was in disk utility and click HD and click on Erase but I didn't create Partition table. After that I realize that was Windows 7 HD which I use to boot separately from Mac OS X. I use Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.8. (Mac Pro 1.1). I use test disk to recover HD but I can't backup files which is in folders.
How to safely backup this drive?
Any solutions for this problem?

Thank you

Nick

 

[Ben8472]

very important

don't doctor around with it atm!

do you remember if it had 1 partition and was it all ntfs? what type of mac do you have?

 

[Spacedust]

very important

don't doctor around with it atm!

do you remember if it had 1 partition and was it all ntfs? what type of mac do you have?

Always have a vhd image of your Windows 7 disk.

 

[nickrick]

1 HD and 1 partition (250GB) NTFS (Windows 7, 64bit), I have Mac Pro 1.1

very important

don't doctor around with it atm!

do you remember if it had 1 partition and was it all ntfs? what type of mac do you have?

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easy to say.. but I never imagine that I will delete that HD but when you have 3 hard disks with 250 GB in machine than it is possible to pick wrong one

Always have a vhd image of your Windows 7 disk.

 

[theSeb]

http://www.recoverdatatools.com/

I used these products when I lost my partition. It recovered nearly all of my files. You do have to pay for it and I didn't find a product that would allow recovery for free.

 

[nickrick]

thank you for info, my situation is little complicated because I delete NTFS partition with disk utility on mac and software recognize it like mac hard drive but there are Windows files, as I told before I used Test Disk which is great I were rescue several HD with this tool (it is free) but in this situation I can see folder on HD but I can't access to files.
It is not problem to buy software but only thing is important that is this software capable to solve this problem.

http://www.recoverdatatools.com/

I used these products when I lost my partition. It recovered nearly all of my files. You do have to pay for it and I didn't find a product that would allow recovery for free.

 

[theSeb]

The free trial will show you if it can recover the data. My situation was kind of similar. I managed to use windows recovery to write over my entire hdd and lost my mac osx partition. The tool above got my files back.

 

[nickrick]

The free trial will show you if it can recover the data. My situation was kind of similar. I managed to use windows recovery to write over my entire hdd and lost my mac osx partition. The tool above got my files back.

Right now I download it and will try to recover with this. I hope it works.
thx

 

[Loa]

Hello,

If it was a properly formatted NTFS drive and you can't recover it from the Mac side, try pulling it out of the Mac and try to recover the files using a windows PC and apps. Maybe you'll get better luck.

As for back-ups, this is your lesson: always have a back-up of data you would mind loosing. Always.

Loa

 

[theSeb]

Hello,

If it was a properly formatted NTFS drive and you can't recover it from the Mac side, try pulling it out of the Mac and try to recover the files using a windows PC and apps. Maybe you'll get better luck.

As for back-ups, this is your lesson: always have a back-up of data you would mind loosing. Always.

Loa

Yup. That's what I did. It's a long story but for various reasons I had just deleted my backup 5 minutes before I destroyed my partition. Lesson learnt. I did have another off site backup but it was 2 weeks old.

 

[nickrick]

I try this software and it looks that will be ok now I have to order this app.

thank you

Yup. That's what I did. It's a long story but for various reasons I had just deleted my backup 5 minutes before I destroyed my partition. Lesson learnt. I did have another off site backup but it was 2 weeks old.