Paragon Drivers knocked my drive offline and cannot be mounted or repaired by Disk Utility!
Hi all, for a little background on how I got here see the 2nd page of the post here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251171411?page=2
Long story short, I installed Paragon Disk Manager on my macbook pro 2012 non-retina, running El Capitan. Everything was working just fine, but I had a huge emergency with another machine (2012 iMac / Catalina) I used it on, where it hosed the hard drive horrifically.
In a semi panic, I decided I should uninstall the Paragon software from my mac and proceed to do so. I also decided I should immediately do a clone (restore) of my main drive to an external, just in case things went sideways. I restarted from a High Sierra install and on the attempt to do the restores they both failed and dropped the disks offline. On restart they both had lost their labels, could not mount. They are no appearing as only disk0s2 and disk0s4 respectively in Disk Utility and it can neither mount nor repair them.
I am absolutely terrified to lose these, as I am a big idiot who has not performed a time machine backup for a very long time... I have plenty of spare drives and think the best first step would be to duplicate what is there now, in case other repair attempts do worse damage. I am not a complete noob, and hope that I can do something to get back in working order.
I am 99% confident this issue is revolving around the Paragon software drivers, as review of the post I listed above makes clear their are issues, and I never had trouble with this drive system before the actions I took listed above. FWIW: I am thinking re-installing the Paragon software might be the way to fix this?
Please can anyone more experienced than me give me some direction, so i do not do anything more stupid than I already have? I would be forever grateful and am sure the universe will repay your kindness...
Signed:
a humble idiot in dire need of help...
PS: Screen shots that I hope might be helpful below...
Disk Utility screenshot, my main disk I hope to recover is the intel 512 listed first with two partitions:
MacBook Pro
