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Internal HD with missing volume!

#1 flyman

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 04:57 AM

Hi Everyone,

I have a 150gb Raptor running Windows XP on my MacPro and unfortunately it'll no longer mount on the desktop.

When tested with TechTool Pro and Drive Genius, the drive is recognised but in both instances the volume didn't show.
Exactly the same happened with Disk Utility and the System Profiler.

I've spoken with Apple and their recomendation is to re-initialise the drive which I really don't want to do as stupidly I dont have a back-up :blush:

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 05:11 AM

DataRescue?

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 05:27 AM

flyman, on October 2nd 2009, 12:57 PM, said:

I've spoken with Apple and their recomendation is to re-initialise the drive which I really don't want to do as stupidly I dont have a back-up :blush:

Keep in mind that when you do a "normal" re-initialisation the data on the drive is not actually overwritten. It's very likely that you could rescue all (or at least most) data from that drive when you re-initialise it and then run some un-deleting app on it.

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 07:51 AM

But first you should run the latest version of DiskWarrior. A couple times DiskWarrior has rescued a my hard drive when no other program could even see it.

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Posted 02 October 2009 - 08:19 AM

charmin, on October 2nd 2009, 04:11 AM, said:

DataRescue?

Well I tried Data Rescue but without any success but thanks for the tip anyway.

the Battle Cat, on October 2nd 2009, 06:51 AM, said:

But first you should run the latest version of DiskWarrior. A couple times DiskWarrior has rescued a my hard drive when no other program could even see it.

Do you know if DiskWarrior will recover an NTFS volume?