After endless hours of digging and frustration, I figured out that I had somehow wiped the partition map. There's lots of info about testdisk but no clear instruction as to how to restore the partition map. Pdisk is recommended for restoring old Apple Partition Maps, but that doesn't work for Intel Macs. The answer is stupid-simple. After running Quick Analyze on the messed up hard drive, choose to Write the found partition to the hard drive. You don't have to use any different programs, or copy sector sizes or anything. Just quick analyze and write the partition back. This has allowed me to access all of my files on that hard drive again. I'm now happily copying them over to my new inheritance (a nice, big iMac.)
tag: testdisk, partition map, restore OSX partition map, recover OSX hard drive, Intel Mac
tag: testdisk, partition map, restore OSX partition map, recover OSX hard drive, Intel Mac
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