Hi all, again, i've seen all this come up in the past, but i had to install some repair drivers as my mac functions were not working properly after the windows 10 update. it also meant i was unable to use my macbook's trackpad too! I accidentally selected the option on bootcamp assistant to delete an existing partition and have now literally lost all my college work and everything. Is there anything at all i can do to recover files?
MacBook Pro, null
Did you delete your Windows partition using BCA? If yes, you may be able to use Testdisk to scan and see if it is recoverable.
Yeah, i accidentally selected both options on BCA which deleted my partition, is Testdisk reliable freeware? and how should i scan with this.
Thanks for the Reply too!
You can download it from http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download . It is a good tool. You can see the initial startup screen at http://imgur.com/a/PjmnK .
I am on a 13 in MBP late 2011. I modified BC info.plist for usb intall process of windows 8.1 because of broken optical drive. In the process I deleted my OS X drive and was left with only windows partition. My initial OS X drive contains everything I have done in the last three years of Mechanical Engineering which I need for developing my Cap stone to get this degree. Safe to call me an idiot for not creating a backup before reconfiguring my computer. Help me dude..
Can you start a new discussion? If Windows is bootable, please download GPT Fdisk from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ on the Windows side. Do not do any writes to the OSX partition or change partitions in any way.
Thanks Loner, i have been able to run it however I'm generally struggling with detecting the deleted windows partition and also writing the structure to the disk fails, could you possibly give me a hand?
Many thanks.
Can you post a screen shot similar to the following?
I don't have the gdisk application currently so I'm not sure what you want me to post specifically, but i'll screenshot my process to show you, Here i am unsure which to select as my computer is a macbook that had a partition?
If i select the detected partition table format, this happens: and again, am unsure what to select here.
And if i do write to the EFI partition, it says this which is unfortunate because, past here, I'm stuck.
It does bring up a DOS FAT_32 partition upon selecting a Mac partition table but it is all a bit out of my knowledgeable area, Thank you for helping me get this far however 🙂
1. Do not write to the partition tables. It will negate any recovery attempts.
2. Do not use left/right arrow/cursor keys anywhere in Testdisk.
3. Select any partition and run a Deeper Search. It is unlikely that a Quick Search will show any reasonable recoverable partitions.
4. I would also suggest OS X: Installing OS X on an external volume - Apple Support and booting from it to minimize any writes to the disk that we are trying to recover.
Ok, thanks, i am currently running a deeper search and will get back to you with the results
Here are my screenshots throughout the deep scan process including its current state ( the last screenshot), any advice?
This is a list of unrecoverable partitions. Press Enter to Continue and post the list of viable and recoverable partitions you see.
file recovery after partition deletion
