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How to recover an ereased partition?

I erased the partition on an external drive. My Security Option was "don't erase data" so it should be relatively easy to recover. However I would prefer not to pay $200 for a copy of Boomerang. Any other suggestions? Many thanks!

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MacBook Pro with lots of extra stuff, Mac OS X (10.5), iPhone in pocket, iPod in car, Adobe everything

Posted on Dec 8, 2007 6:43 PM

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TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

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Posted on Dec 8, 2007 6:51 PM

I have used Data Rescue II. It got me back up and running. Although, it does cost $99. That's half though and if it really matters that's a good price to get your stuff back.

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J Michael Author

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Dec 9, 2007 3:58 PM in response to TheGuyintheProjectionBooth

You: "Then you should be well aware that nothing is free."
Me: "I have the free versions of these products"

Super Duper
Carbon Copy Cloner
Encrypt This!
SyncTwoFolders

Give it up, please. This is closed.

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KJK555

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Dec 9, 2007 5:43 PM in response to J Michael

Under the GNU license is a command line disk recovery program called TESTDISK

It saved my bacon one time. I used it under Tiger. It should work fine under Leopard, especially if you compile it under Leopard:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

J Michael Author

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Dec 9, 2007 6:06 PM in response to KJK555

Awesome, thanks. This is just what I was looking for. Much appreciated.

How to recover an ereased partition?