(btw, his screencaps show he was using TestDisk 6.1, I have 7. Or could someone provide some information or instruction on how to proceed? I have a decent understanding of what blocks are, but not so much with sectors.ĭoes someone know how this really should work? should I and Is there a way to convert sector numbers to blocks?

I should think this could be a difference in blocks vs sectors. This doesn't make sense, and when i try his approach I get 'map is not big enough' I am getting a different 'device' size of 42949672295 blocks, rather than 7814037127 sectors. Install testdisk on Mac OSX JAmber Jain About the App App name: testdisk App description: TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility App website: Install the App Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key. In the online instructions, he shows an example of typing in the same numbers from testdisk partition size output (sectors?) in pdisk (blocks?) and it seemed to work for him. I found instructions online to use testdisk and then pdisk to fix the partition. Well, windows system restore failed and in the process it seems to have initialized all my mac partitions to showing unmounted partitions named as 'disk1s2', etc. Running a mac pro with 4 drives, multiple partitions - 2 drives for mac partitions and 2 for windows partitions,įinally got around to trying to repair an unbootable windows installation using windows system restore.

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