Undeletable partition!

Hi Everyone,
I have one problem: Long story short, I had a bootcamp partition, without problems. I then deleted (Well you learn by your mistakes..) my keychains AND files related to it trying to fix an Isight constant freeze problem...
My Mac could not connect to the Internet so I decided to reinstall everything.
I launched with the DVD and "C" reinstalled everything. the former partition was still there.
OTHER MISTAKE i did the same thing to the partition ( reinstalling the full OS). after the that the Mac was just displaying the blue screen so i Reinstalled the Os on the big drive and use the disk utilities on the partition but it was still on my desktop.
Last mistake i went in disk utilities, unmount the drive (It disapeared from the desktop at least) and then right click on it and choose delete, but it refused.
Now the disk is greyish and i cannot either checck permissions, verify or repair...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Ugo

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Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB *
DISKPART> list volume
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Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C OS NTFS Partition 186 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 D DATA NTFS Partition 130 GB Healthy
Volume 3 F DOWNLOADS NTFS Partition 128 GB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 5 Recovery NTFS Partition 900 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 6 Restore NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy Hidden
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This file may be useful. Please suggest me how can I use these files to reset and refresh my OS. I used some dir commands as follows to get list of these files:
dir /s >f:\list.txt
dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
Some files were system files so these file were not shown by first dir command. So I used second dir command.
Output of dir /s >f:\list.txt
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
Directory of D:\recovered1
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $Extend
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Files Detected by their Signatures
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Recovery
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> System Volume Information
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $RmMetadata
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $TxfLog
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 17:36 65,536 $TxfLog.blf
29-07-2014 17:36 10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000001
18-04-2014 00:18 10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000002
3 File(s) 21,037,056 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Firefox
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Internet Explorer
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Pick an app
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Unkown Application
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Windows Photo Viewer
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .xml
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox\.xml
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 1,091 00000150.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 1,336 005f05b0.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 1,091 005f05b8.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 488 015c7e34.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 472 015d68fd.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 472 015d6bc3.xml
6 File(s) 4,950 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .gif
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer\.gif
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:01 2,428 003aca99.gif
29-07-2014 19:01 814 0047c75d.gif
29-07-2014 19:01 472 00b2846d.gif
3 File(s) 3,714 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .cab
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .ico
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.cab
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 17,317,845 000c98e2.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 92,631,005 0027defd.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 7,539 00334cf3.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 15,731 0066bf8e.cab
4 File(s) 109,972,120 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.ico
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027d8d6.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027d8df.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8eb.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8ee.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8f2.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027dbef.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 10,134 0027dbfb.ico
7 File(s) 26,034 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .ogg
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .rb
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.ogg
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 194,667 00369b71.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 173,149 0036b2a1.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 13,178 0036b527.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 19,244 0036e009.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 169,220 0036e18a.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 114,800 0036f031.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 22,325 0037003d.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 42,628 003703fd.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 319,493 00370bc2.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 68,812 00373cfa.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 89,541 00373e29.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 65,697 00375384.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 42,955 00376d11.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 85,254 0037847f.ogg
14 File(s) 1,420,963 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.rb
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:01 3,058,238,593 00eebc9d.rb
1 File(s) 3,058,238,593 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .jpg
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .png
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.jpg
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 12,296 0027dbce.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 41,093 003933da.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 25,067 00396fae.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 2,303 003c5891.jpg
4 File(s) 80,759 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.png
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 64,902 0035b639.png
29-07-2014 18:59 530 0039c185.png
29-07-2014 18:59 556 003be59e.png
29-07-2014 18:59 1,023 003ed468.png
29-07-2014 18:59 1,704 003f1ec0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 624 003f252a.png
29-07-2014 18:59 13,777 0043a2c0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,897 00441e87.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,915 00442a6c.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,973 00442b91.png
29-07-2014 18:59 468 004433ca.png
29-07-2014 18:59 363 00443501.png
29-07-2014 18:59 238 00443be0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 331 00443fd9.png
29-07-2014 18:59 457 004442ad.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,868 004444a7.png
29-07-2014 18:59 268 004446af.png
29-07-2014 18:59 280 004448d1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 257 004449f1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,158 00b962d1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 54,191 016a8a54.png
29-07-2014 18:59 4,224 017350e3.png
29-07-2014 18:59 4,241 01735f08.png
23 File(s) 162,245 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> Logs
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> WindowsRE
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\Logs
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\WindowsRE
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\System Volume Information
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Total Files Listed:
65 File(s) 3,190,946,434 bytes
65 Dir(s) 178,172,325,888 bytes free
dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
Directory of D:\recovered1
17-04-2014 23:37 2,560 $AttrDef
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $BadClus
17-04-2014 23:37 655,680 $Bitmap
17-04-2014 23:37 8,192 $Boot
17-04-2014 23:37 67,108,864 $LogFile
17-04-2014 23:37 262,144 $MFT
17-04-2014 23:37 4,096 $MFTMirr
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Secure
17-04-2014 23:37 131,072 $UpCase
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Volume
10 File(s) 68,172,608 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $ObjId
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Quota
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Reparse
01-05-2014 09:24 0 $UsnJrnl
4 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Repair
1 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
17-04-2014 23:37 100 $Tops
1 File(s) 100 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\Logs
30-04-2014 06:12 1,336 Reload.xml
1 File(s) 1,336 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\WindowsRE
18-06-2013 20:38 3,170,304 boot.sdi
29-04-2014 17:13 1,091 ReAgent.xml
26-04-2014 23:06 255,077,005 Winre.wim
3 File(s) 258,248,400 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\System Volume Information
18-04-2014 00:19 20,480 tracking.log
1 File(s) 20,480 bytes
Total Files Listed:
21 File(s) 326,442,924 bytes
0 Dir(s) 178,172,325,888 bytes free
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Hello, I installed linux usign rEFIT correctly, but now I want to remove the partition and combine the Linux and the Linux swap partition back into the whole partition.
So, I was wondering if anyone knows how to simply combine the partitions and remove the Linux Partition off of my computer.
With rEFIt it hasn't been updated in ages, there is another like EFI program that has taken over their function in that area.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
The uninstall instructions to remove the EFI program from your EFI firmware parittion is here, but like the rest it hasn't been updated since Snow Leopard days back in 2011. So it's unknown how things will go with Lion, Mountain Lion or Maverick.
You should FOR SURE, clone your OS X partition to a external JHFS+ (GUID OS X Extended Journaled) drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, which you can then hold option/alt key and boot from it (provided your EFI firmware is still working. LOL. (but you can still direct access files from another Mac, or Windows with MacDrive or Linux)
Make a bootable clone of your boot drive
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/c1s3_remove.html
You likely should also create a EFI firmware restore cd, this will return the at boot key commands at the second attempt to boot the machine after the firmware has been applied.
Get your model identifier correct (OS X System Profiler or Apple's Hardware Test)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
and download (on another Mac) the correct firmware: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
Apply using these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2213
Now you should be WAY overprepared for nearly anything.
As you should know, EFI is a firmware partition, and programs like rEFIt can be installed there and then are loaded (second boot) into NVRAM (I believe.)
Once rEFIt is removed, you use the option/alt keys at boot to use Startup Manager to get into OS X (f you have it)

Continual deleted partitions on MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

Sock939 AMD 3500+ not ever oc'd
v 1.8 bios
2x512 Corsair 3200 doublesided dual channel, on default bios settings
1 Western Dig 40g IDE ch0
2 Maxtor SerialATA 120g on Sata 1+2
2 Hitachi SerialATA 160g on Sata 3+4
No raid enabled
1 Plextor 8x DVD/RW CD/RW
1 Sony CD rom 40x
1 3.5 floppy
600w power supply
AC97 onboard sound
Windows xp 32-bit
Windows xp 64-bit
NT file systems
Almost every time I reboot, cold or warm I lose a partition on Sata3 or Sata4. I have to re-activate the drive in windows partition manager and then I have to start Partition Magic and undelete my partitions when they dissappear...really frustrating! I've tried all versions of Nforce drivers, bios versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, created new partitions and re-formated, changed cables. Is there anything I'm missing or is this an inherent motherboard problem?
At my witts end!

I hadn't thought of that one. It would make sense.
I have to thank you both for you great help. It worked like a charm. What would the internet be without folks like you?
Thanks BigTime!!!!

[SOLVED] How to recover removed partition?

Hello.
I had 600 GB usb drive with a lot of information. It's structure was created via Palimpsest program in a such way:
1)Format drive
1a)Scheme: Don't partiton. Click: Format.
1b)Are you shure? Click: Format.
2)Format volume.
2a)Type: Ext4. Click: Format.
2b)Are you shure? Click: Format.
So, it hasn't partitions as /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdc2 etc, but entire device partition /dev/sdc.
Accidentally, when I decided to format another 8 GB usb-stick in the same way, I applied steps 1-1a-1b on 600 GB usb drive. So the drive was cleaned. But the data is still on it, because this steps are concerning partition table (it takes some seconds), and not disk content.
Are any ways to return everything in original state?
I tried testdisk, bit it doesn't find any files.
Thanks for possible help.
Last edited by roina (2011-11-21 16:48:56)

Nevertheless I solved this problem. Yes, testdisk didn't find any files on the drive, but it correctly determine the type of the previously deleted partition (ext4) and wrote the recipe for forthcoming actions "fsck.ext4 -p -b superblock -B blocksize device". I substituted my options:
fsck.ext4 -b 32768 -B 4096 /dev/sdd
and restored etherything. I checked this method on another USB-stick by comparison of md5sums bethore deletion and after restoration: they were identical.
During finding solution I also tested one program for windows which was also capable for undeliting in this situation, but it's free version undeleted only files less than 64kB. So the first described method works perfect.

Format and partition external drive if you want dual use Mac / PC

I had purchased from the Apple store in France a portable hard drive Iomega eGO USB 2.0/FireWire ov 250 Go capacity (P/N 31713900; Model: RPHD-C; S/N: FEAJ02011V)
Originally formatted HFS+, it would mount on any of my Mac desktops with Firewire, easily on the iMac using USB and with great difficulty on the iBook with the two USB plugs (together). It did not mount on any windows PC I had used for tests (so reformatting it FAT(32) or NTFS was *not an option).
I had reformatted it FAT32 using the iMac under mac OS 10.5 for use on multiple computers including Windows PC's. The drive would now accept to:
Mount on the iMac and iBook using Firewire
Mount on the iMac using USB, but it will NOT:
1 - Mount on the iBook using USB, nor
2 - Mount on any Windows PC using USB
The solution was found at the office with our IT helpdesk.
Whether I format it FAT 32 or NTFS (using the Paragon NTFS for mac OS X 10.5) on my iMac under OS 10.5, including when I do the same on another external drive than the Iomega, the PC would not recognise it while it would always mount on a Mac and it was even impossible on the PC to reformat it. The solution is (at least in windows world), you need to (1) format the drive, AND (2) partition the drive, even if this involves creating a single partition. Using Disk Utility of the Mac, I had only formatted the drive and not partitioned it into a single partition and Disk utility did not request that from me. The drive as prepared was perfectly usable on any Mac anyway.
The cure was to go back to the imac which had formatted it, mount it (it mounts), (1) reformat and (2) partition, using a single partition.
Then, the drive would instantly be recognised on the PC as a F drive, whether under FAT 32 or under NTFS.
The blame is in me and on the Apple Drive utility which did not help me (trust it would have been worse in windows world, but this is a bad mark on disk utility)
My suggestion to Apple would be that Disk Utilisty should tell us, once we have formatted a drive (HFS+, FAT 32 or NTFS using Parangon) that we are not done yet and still must create the partition(s), even if we only need one partition.
HTH

Hi Michel-Ange
You are talking to other user like yourself here and not Apple. If you wish to make a suggestion to Apple, I suggest you do it at this site - http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Allan

Data Recovery from Partitioned and formatted Bit Locker Encrypted Drive

Recently because of some issues in windows 7 installation from windows 8 installed OS. it was giving as the disc is dynamic windows can not be installed on it. so at last after struggling hard no other solution i partitioned and formatted my whole
drive so all data gone included the drive which was encrypted by bit lockers.
For recovery i used many software such as ontrack easy recover, get data back, recovery my files professional edition but still i couldnt able to recover my data from that drive. then i found some suggestion Using CMD to decrypt my data first
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523219(WS.10).aspx
where it shows it successfully decrypt my data at that moment my drives were in RAW format excluding on which windows is installed and then in CMD i check Chdsk which also shows no problem found. but now problem is still i coudnt able to recover
my data then i format the drive D and again tried to recover data using above software after decryption still no result.
Now i need assistance how i can recover my encrypted drive as it was partitioned and also formatted but decrypted also as i have its recovery key too. thanks

Hi ,
I am afraid that we cannot get the data back if the drive has been formatted even if use the
BitLocker Repair Tool.
You’d better contact your local data recovery center to try to get data back.
Tracy Cai
TechNet Community Support

HT201250 Can I partition my external hard drive and use one partion for time machine and the other one for data that i may want to use in different computers?

I have this doubt. I've just bought an external drive, especifically a Seagate GoFlex Desk 3 tb.
I want to know if it is recomendable to make a partion exclusively for time machine and let another one so I can put there music, photos, videos, etc that I should need to use or copy to another computer.
May half and half, 1.5 tb for time machine and 1.5 tb for data.
I have an internal hard drive of 500 GB (499.25 GB) in my macbook pro.
Any recommendation?

As I said, yes. Be sure your Time Machine partition has at least 1 TB for backups.
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to two (2). Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.

Using a partition to share files among multiple computers?

I have a small business with just a few employees and we currently share all of our business files which are hosted on my Macbook Pro. These files include an Aperture library, an iPhoto library, and a bunch of just plain old files, including a fairly large Filemaker database. I like having these files on my computer so that I can access them quickly (without lag), and this is particularly important for the database and the photo libraries. And since I am often working 'after hours' its easy for me to be on the move (even if its just a move to my couch!) and still have quick and easy access to the work files.
However, we're having some major problems with file permissions. Sometimes (and seemingly randomly) employees can't open files because they don't have permission' and often I need to reset the permissions on files my employees create in order to open them myself. iPhoto needs to "repair" the photo library just about any time a different user opens it up. It looks like we just lost a couple hours worth of work yyesterday tagging photos in iPhoto since they mysterously dissapeared when I opened iPhoto this morning.
So we need a solution that will get us around this permissions nightmare. I read one suggestion about putting iPhoto/Aperture libraries on an external HD and sharing them that way, however, totting a hard drive around might get akward, especially if I am working after hours, and I Don't know that it solves our issue with the rest of our work files. At this point I would be willing to invest in a Mac Mini server if that would solve some problems, but that would probably leave me with slower access to the files than I currently enjoy.
So the thought came to me, why don't I partition my hard drive and use half of it for all the work files? Could I set it up so permissions are ignored on that partitions as is reccommened for the external HD solution? Are there other solutions, or pitfalls with this solution that I'm not considering?

ArisaemaDracontium wrote:
I'd like to use the method described in the following link. Can I do this with a partition instead of an external drive?:
Yes.
Can I partition my drive without whiping it entirely and then having to restore everything?
Probably. See #3 in Using Disk Utility.
Also, the "Alternative Method" mentions using a disk image. My experience with disk images is limited to those temporary "disks" used when installing new software that are erased when put in the trash or the computer restarts. Is there such thing as a perminent disk image?
Yes. You can create and keep them anywhere. They're kind of like a disk-within-a-disk. They have their own format, directories, etc. For example, some folks use encrypted disk images for their sensitive files.
There are a few considerations:
Only one user can access it at a time, so if you use Fast User Switching and one user has it open, others won't be able to use it.
You'll need to put it in each user's Login Items so it will be mounted at login, per the article.
The contents will not be backed-up while it's mounted.
(But, in many cases the iPhoto Library won't be backed-up by Time Machine while the iPhoto app is open, no matter where it is.)

Undeletable partition!

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