[Boot Camp]I lost Mac OS X and my macbook air is running only windows.
Hi i am new here and i have a problem with my mac.
"I had Mac OS X v10.7 in my macbook air. Than with the help of boot camp i installed win8 sucessfully allocation 40GB of space for it.
After that i went to win 8 admin tools > disk management and i did shrink that volume to 25 GB for C: drive & other 15 GB for backup.
And afte that i lost my OSX and i now only have win8 installed in my mac even i press OPTION at when mac restarts i only see win8 there aint mac osx.
and at disk management i see other 196GB of space as unallocated.and i have some very imprortant files there. And now how to get my files & mac osx back.."
Please Help.
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
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