---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: Using HD > 128GB in G4 Macs! Date: Tuesday, 12. April 2011 From: Valter Prahlad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > Il giorno 9-04-2011 10:08, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: > >> But... now I'm afraid that partitioning the "new" disk area could alter > >> the existing partitions (I like them, I already have 5 partitions on my > >> boot disk :-). > >> I know it shouldn't happen... > > > > It won't happen. > > It did happen!
I'm sorry for that. My experiences where different, Disk Utility would just add a partition and leave the others as they were. > I booted from the Tiger DVD, went to Disk Utility, set up the "free space" > into MacOS format, hit "Partition" button... and all my data was gone! > :-((( (to be honest, Disk Utility informed me that it would happen) I used Leopard, and it didn't warn about loosing data. > My previous partitions remained as they were, but they "lost" any data on > them (evidently, Disk Utility rewrote the whole Partition Map, not just the > new one) > So, beware!!! That's an odd behaviour in Tiger. I didn't know that since I used a Leopard- DVD. But this is no excuse. I shouldn't have postulated that your paritions are safe. I'm terribly sorry. > Thanks God, I backed up (almost) everything. Good! > But something went lost (I was hopeful I wouldn't experience this) > > Does anybody know some way to "get back" the lost data? > (at least on the partitions I didn't write anything on... > Data is still there, obviously, it's just the directory got deleted, I > think) Sorry, I don't. A completely reformated HFS+ volume is not so easy to repair, if it is possible at all. I once had such a situation in Linux, ext2 filesystem, and there wasn't a chance to recover the files. The problem is fragmentation. Otherwise you could use a command line tool that searches for file types in the low-level data on the volume that otherwise looks like bit noise. But if a file is fragmentet, and the original HFS+ filesystem is lost (which it is by reformating), there is not much left to search for. I'm terribly sorry, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
