Urgent Help - Partition Dissapeared

[caveman017]

I was messing around, installing OSX on my external HD on its own partition (30GB) of my 1TB drive. Somehow or another, I messed up something, and now my 900GB partition doesn't show up in OSX, Windows or Linux anymore as anything. I DIDNT format it, just messed with the MBR I think.... and Windows sees it as a "RAW" partition, whatever that means.

How do I get it back?

 

[Jeff7]

(Timewarp, OP is caveman017)

1) Don't write ANYTHING to the drive.
2) R-Studio
3) Copy everything off of the drive to another one.

or

2) Wait until someone posts a freeware option, if there are any available.
Who knows, maybe you can download Knoppix Linux, boot off of that, and see if it can see the partition.

3) Maybe there's a utility that can repair the partition tables.

 

[spaceman]

EASEUS.com

 

[caveman017]

Link above is censored

 

[caveman017]

Edit: nevermind. Thanks!

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: caveman017
Link above is censored

e a s e u s .com
data recovery wizard
worked great for reocvering data from RAW partitions
not sure why its censored

 

[aE0n]

Ive used Diskpatch which is better because it will fix the partition table so you don't have to recover all the files to another location. It boots from a CD, then you can scan your HDD for lost partition tables and repair them. There a step by step guide. Unfortunately it's not free.
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/DiskPatch.htm

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: aE0n
Ive used Diskpatch which is better because it will fix the partition table so you don't have to recover all the files to another location. It boots from a CD, then you can scan your HDD for lost partition tables and repair them. There a step by step guide. Unfortunately it's not free.
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/DiskPatch.htm

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