How to recover lost 200GB

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How to recover lost 200GB

Hello all,

I'm fairly new to the sub, therefore sorry if I make any mistakes.

I didn't know that it would delete all my files etc. if I deleted the iMac from my iCloud account. So it happened, included the bootcamp. I didn't really care for the files since I will sell it anyway. But, how can I restore the 200GB back to the iMac? There are 2 ''untitled'' drives now. 1 of them is called SATA-drive and the other nothing except ''untitled'' (that was the bootcamp.)

Thank you and looking forward to hear for your help!

Kind regards

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 4:01 AM

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Answer 1

pinkstones

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Jun 19, 2016 5:21 AM in response to NGUYEN67

Do you have a Time Machine backup from before you deleted what you did? If so, restore your system back to that point.

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Answer 2

Jun 19, 2016 5:24 AM in response to NGUYEN67

Please explain in more detail what happened. Removing you iMac from your iCloud account would not remove your bootcamp partition.

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NGUYEN67 Author

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Jun 19, 2016 5:40 AM in response to pinkstones

Hello,

No, I did not! But that doesn't bother me, I just want to add the remain 200GB back to the iMac instead of being nowhere now

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Answer 4

pinkstones

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Jun 19, 2016 5:42 AM in response to NGUYEN67

Well, if you don't have a Time Machine backup, I don't see how it's possible to restore that information. You can't pull it out of thin air.

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NGUYEN67 Author

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Jun 19, 2016 5:43 AM in response to Community User

I logged into iCloud.com to remove the device from iCloud.com, little did I know that it would delete everything my iMac, so I installed as a new one and so the bootcamp is gone. If I opened the start up disks, there is only 1 instead of 2. No problem for me since I'm gonna give it away soon, but, the 200GB is somewhere which I don't know. If I open ''about this mac'' and go to storage, there's 2 untitled disks. 1 disk 300GB, that's the one I'm using now, the iMac, the other 200GB, is unknown.

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Answer 6

Linc Davis

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Jun 19, 2016 7:25 AM in response to NGUYEN67

If you mean that you have 200 GB of data in iCloud, and you signed out of iCloud, then the data is still in iCloud. All you have to do is sign back in (either on this Mac or another one) and the data will be restored.

If you mean that you deleted the data from iCloud and you have no backups, then see below.

To restore files deleted from iCloud Drive, sign in to icloud.com, select Settings, and click Restore Files in the lower left corner of the page.

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Answer 7

Jun 19, 2016 9:02 AM in response to NGUYEN67

Are you saying you deleted everything from your hard drive and you had a Boot Camp partition? If so, there is only one way to remove Windows and return your drive to a single OSX partition. That way is to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove Windows and the Boot Camp partition. If this is your situation, visit the Boot Camp Community where this issue is discussed repeatedly.

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