HELP!!timemachine formatted my external drive
dear support,
I have a macbook pro and it is in extended warranty. serial number C0******FT1.
I wanted to take back up of my contents as i was nearing my exhaustion of 500 GB space.
So this is what i did.
1. I have only one hard drive which is 2TB and it is windows formatted.
2. i released 500 GB in that using windows tool to ensure i dont loose my data.
3. then i connected the drive to mac and opened time machine.
4. it detected only the 500GB partition and said do you want to use this for time machine. i SAID OK.
5. it erased the complete data of 1 TB in it (which was in windows format)
this being the story, i can understand that mac just would have erased the MBR or some important information that is required for the drive to be identified. but data would not be lost. because the operation of setting the disk took hardly a second.
Can you please help me what instructions should i follow so that i can recover the data.
your help would be lifesaving as I have all my lifetime data into that.
thanks and regards
vinod
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