There are free and open source tools that, with a tiny bit of getting your hands dirty in a terminal, will get your partition back up to a point where it will either be fixed or be put in a position where you'll be able to copy your data off and reformat your disk. Once you've determined that you are in a situation that you need special tools to be able to recover your partition and data, then you'll need to decide how you want to proceed by choosing from the type of recovery tools available. In fact, I even advise against powering down the system unless absolutely necessary.
It's very important to assess the situation as prudently as possible before acting.
I can't say how many times someone has come to me to recover a partition or data, only to find out that a forced disk check, copying new files to the partition, or switching to a new machine has caused permanent unrecoverable damage to the files. Well, not until at the very least you can assess that the device truly has a damaged partition. Here's how!įirst rule about data recovery and fixing disk partitions is that you do NOT want to make any changes to the environment, the disk in question, the partition, etc. Luckily, I used some recovery tools, both free and paid, to not only fix my partition, but to also get my data back onto another redundant networked attached storage array called a Synology Diskstation. I could see the Drobo in my Disk Utility, but I could not see the 8 TB partition with my archived data. I recently had to restore some archived data that I had "responsibly" stored on a redundant storage backup device called a Drobo that unfortunately for me, decided to have an HFS+ filesystem partition failure.
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