Oh no....I screwed up my partition table

[ScuseMe]

After getting Windows to reorganize my 2TB HFS+ partitions, I decided to create a small 300 GB partition on one of the volumes and format as NTFS for use in Boot Camp. I did this with iPartition (which was very easy), and when I booted into Win7 - all my HFS+ partitions, and the new NTFS partition were visible to Win7. I was a happy camper.

After playing around in in windows for a while, I booted back into OS X, and much to my horror, all the HFS+ partitions on that drive, *except* for the new NTFS one, were not there! iPartition just shows a 300 GB contiguous space called Windows Work. In fact, my 2TB drive is now a 300 GB NTFS drive with a little free space. The rest of the 2TB's are gone....in OS X that is!

I really need to get this data back so I can use it in OS X, so could anybody please tell me what I did wrong and how to get this volume's partitioning back to the way it was.

Thanks you every so much!

 

[balamw]

Can you post what showpart sees on this drive? Do you still have the utility?

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[ScuseMe]

Thanks balamw, but I got it fixed. The strange this is that it looked liked the 2 TB drive was only 300 GB (the size of the Win partition I made). I think I caused this all by using Disk Management in Win7 to rename that 300 GB NTFS partition I created for it (duh!). I think DM messed up the GUID partitioning tables.

Luckily I could use testdisk to rebuild all the partitions (except the 300 GB NTFS one). I think I'll take the advice on the net to dedicate an external drive to Win7 and not share drives. It's too risky.

 

[balamw]

I think I mentioned this in the other thread, but the other alternative form many forms of data is to stick it on a NAS and access it that way.

No problems sharing between OSes and even different machines because the real file system is abstracted away by the NAS.

I wouldn't do that if I was editing lots of video, but for most other applications NAS over Gigabit can be pretty darn close to USB 2.0 speeds.

B