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Stiksi

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Dec 7, 2007
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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!
 
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