Q: file recovery after partition deletion

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?

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Posted on Aug 9, 2015 3:15 AM

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by ThePianist97,

ThePianist97 Aug 23, 2015 4:01 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 23, 2015 4:01 PM in response to ThePianist97

whats with this EFI thing here?
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Loner T Aug 23, 2015 4:18 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 23, 2015 4:18 PM in response to ThePianist97

This is your EFI directory. It contains a copy of the boot firmware.
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ThePianist97 Aug 23, 2015 4:35 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 23, 2015 4:35 PM in response to Loner T

ah, its just never been there before, so what can you tell from the results?
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Loner T Aug 23, 2015 7:08 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 23, 2015 7:08 PM in response to ThePianist97

The EFI partition is normally no mounted. Can you expand the directory structure? If you cannot see it, you need to boot in recovery console, mount it and see what is in it.

You can see an example of EFI in OS X won't boot after installing Windows 10 - Late 2013 Mac Pro .
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 4:32 AM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 4:32 AM in response to Loner T

How do i expand the directory structure?
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Loner T Aug 24, 2015 8:30 AM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 24, 2015 8:30 AM in response to ThePianist97

Click of the arrow/pointer in front of the directory name so it is pointing downwards, rather than horizontally.
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Loner T

I'm really sorry but can you show me what you mean, that is confusing to me?
or should i just eject it?
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Loner T Aug 24, 2015 12:47 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 24, 2015 12:47 PM in response to ThePianist97

Please see
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 1:24 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 1:24 PM in response to Loner T

ok, thanks, this is what i got
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Loner T Aug 24, 2015 2:51 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 24, 2015 2:51 PM in response to ThePianist97

This looks normal. My Mac had an EFI Update. Is your software fully up to date for your version of OSX?
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 3:16 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 3:16 PM in response to Loner T

yeah, its all updated
what can you say about the most recent command entries i did then?
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Loner T Aug 24, 2015 3:27 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 24, 2015 3:27 PM in response to ThePianist97

The goal was to check your EFI folder for any remnants of Microsoft updating the EFI partition. I am not sure if there is much we can do using tools we have. You can try commercial tools (DiskWarrior, Stellar Phoenix,...) to see if they help.
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 3:37 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 3:37 PM in response to Loner T

ok well as far as your expert opinion goes, d'you have a general percentage chance you reckon i have to recover any of my microsoft data?
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Loner T Aug 24, 2015 3:45 PM in response to ThePianist97
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Aug 24, 2015 3:45 PM in response to ThePianist97

Please try Stellar Phoenix - http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-software.php .
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ThePianist97 Aug 24, 2015 4:13 PM in response to Loner T
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Aug 24, 2015 4:13 PM in response to Loner T

ok, downloaded, which one do i select?
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