Help With Erased Hard Drive

GarethBah

hi guys, basically long story short, i was using bootcamp and tried to increase the allowance of ubuntu but i messed up and deleted my partion, so i had to reinstall osx, to do so i had to erase/re-partion my hard drive, i'm wondering is it possible to get any files back, i need 1 word document i have the rest backed up.

Thanks

ZENER

I presume you didn't have a Time Machine back-up ?

I've recovered files from a formatted Mac Drive using Mac Forensic Lab in the past so it is possible but can take quite a few hours to complete. It's not cheap though !!

This is a cheaper option but still costs 90 dollars !! I'm sure there must be a free/cheaper option out there somewhere ?!

Ken

Talisman

Data Rescue can recover such files. Try the trial version to see if the file can be found.

Liameter

bedlam wrote: »

If you really want to try something, get Photorec and have it scan the unallocated space.

This download expands to something that includes a folder called "Darwin". Nothing inside will run as an application on my G4 OS10.4.11. How does one install it?

NullZer0

I don't know much about Mac File System architecture but I'm sure this is recoverable if you can mount it with a linux CD (I'd be very suprised if you couldn't).

Liameter

Ah, OK, I was only vaguely interested as I already own "Data Rescue". Having read this, I won't bother with "Photorec". But I'm sure that others will be grateful for the information!

Hugh_C

Critical Data Services out in Finglas offer a recovery service. Very thoroughand professional. Expensive but I suspect they'd find your files for you. Software alternatives are likely to reduce your chances of a full recovery.