How to Recover Data from Uninitialized Disk?.How Do I Initialize a Disk without Losing Data?.Why My Hard Disk Became Unknown And Not Initialized?.Maybe not the right way to sort it but it worked with my limited resources and knowledge. After a few goes with the terminal on my Mac, I gave up, fired up an XP VMWare machine, mounted and disconnected it correctly and all was well as far as OS X was worried. Fortunately it turns out my housemate had used my ext drive and not shut it down properly when unplugging his XP laptop. Cheers for the follow up and some good info (cookie points awarded etc ). Not much hope of recovering anything useful in that case! There are other levels of reformatting that for security reasons write data to each block and then erase that data. Any hope of recovery fades quickly with time and activity! It can be recovered fairly easily with Symantec, Data Rescue and dozens of others.īut, the hard drive space that has the data is considered 'fair game' by the operating system for over-writing with new data. But the actual data is still on your drive.
The name of the file, when it was created, modified, etc.
It may be too late, but at the simplest level of initializing only the directory information is gone. Had a problem with an external ntfs disc last night that someone suggested initialising. There are technical differences between the terms, and there are different levels of security, but the result is your data will be gone. Yes indeed! Reformatting and initializing will erase all of your data. Yep, just dropped "initialize disc mac" into google and the first few returns talked about it being the same thing Not 100% sure as I'm very new to mac myself but I think it is. Is initializing a disk on a mac computer equivalent to formatting it? does it erase the data? Posted: Wed 7:12 pm Post subject: initializing external disk Users browsing this topic:0 Security Fans, 0 Stealth Security Fans Registered Security Fans: None | Recent Posts initializing external disk
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