I tried to install a hard drive on a stardom external raid drive. it created a partition that required me to initialize the disk. i of course did not initialize the disk as the hard drive is loaded with data that cannot be lost. since i created the partition, the hard drive is no longer recognize on my mac pro. how do i recover the volume label?
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How do I recover the volume label?
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I'm a bit confused. You say you declined when Disk Utility advised you it needed to initialize the disk to create a partition yet then you go on to say you created a partition in the next sentence.
If you've somehow managed to mess up the partitions on the drive would disconnect it immediately to keep from overwriting data and use FileSalvage.
the hard drive was running smoothly in osx. but when i installed it to the raid drive, a partition was created (replaced the original volume label) the new partition cannot be recognized in osx. that's why disc utility asked me to initialize the disc.