Changed Files System Type by MAC

[darkosski]

hi guys i have a little issue not critical but interesting to me, I took my external hard drive and connected it to my mac at the office, the mac complained it could not read the drive for what ever reason, so i initilized the hdd on the mac, it changed the partition to Linux or so it seems, if i wanted to go back and get the old partition info from the drive which was NTFS before the mac initilize what the best program to use in your opinion. I used to use GetdataBack but that works only on NTFS or FAT as far as i know.

[dmarques]

Hi,

You cannot reverse the process.
It eventually could be done, but to be honest no one will loose time doing it.
Best option you have is to recover data with GDB for example, and then reformat.

[northwind]

GDB will not read Ext3 or HFS partitions, I think.

Try R-Studio or UFS.

[mr_spokk]

if i wanted to go back and get the old partition info from the drive which was NTFS before the mac initilize

Any recovery SW for NTFS will do, like GDB, R-Studio or simular.
Scan the whole drive for NTFS, and get your files off it...
Mac don't write Linux

@Northwind, he had NTFS before he put it into the Mac...therefore he should not search for HFS+

Regards/ Bosse

[northwind]

Right, I thought he formatted disk using his MAC in HFS+.