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just bought a new hard drive, spent the whole day partitioning

and relocating films, music and pictures from various computers, formatted a partition in OS X to HFS+….. and ******* disk utility corrupted the partition map and i’ve lost everything…… not readable by Partition Magic, Gparted, OS X, anything…. so ******* annoying!!! ARGH

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (3 minutes after post)

wish I could help.

All I can offer you is a knowing look. Been there, done that.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (9 minutes after post)

i’m fairly confident it’s the partition tables. but frankly it’s too late,

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (42 minutes after post)

Gparted couldn’t guess the start and end of the different partitions? I’ve had luck with that before.. Beware there are two different things.. gnome partition editor and gnu parted.. Obviously one is based on the other.. but I had more luck recovering partitions with the console parted utility. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/in… start that thing up and tell it to guess the beginning and ends of your partitions, it will create a new partition table for you.. I honestly think it can be done.. I’m sorry if it’s all gone

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (7 hours, 45 minutes after post)

i’ve tried that, no luck :)

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