It has been running for a while, but the results don't look any better than what they may look like from PhotoRec. I found an app called Disk Drill that has a trial. I was hoping to find something that would do a better job, but it sounds like I'm SOL since the partition was overwritten. It works, but the resulting files can be a chore to sort through. I've used PhotoRec before when attempting to recover files our users have accidentally deleted. Immediately turned off Laptop 1 after the process stopped. Noticed that the restore was happening REALLY fast and saw what I did, and clicked Stop/Cancel (whatever the option was) about 39023 times (but knew it was already too late). Mistakenly put Laptop 1 (the source laptop) in the Destination field, then clicked Restore. Selected the newly created partition, then selected the "Restore" tab. To clarify - Here's a sort-of 'step by step' of what happened (all within Disk Utility):Įrased the drive in Laptop 2 by selecting the drive and going to the "Erase" tab, creating one Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. What do the knowledgeable IT folks of Spiceworks recommend as my next course of action? Is this something DiskWarrior would be able to fix? Is there other software I should look into? I assume that the files themselves are most likely untouched. (I'm not a file system expert, so forgive me if my terminology isn't correct.) I'm fairly certain, since the source laptop was an empty partition, that all that happened to my laptop was the partition table or whatever was "cleared". *pre-registers for stomach surgery at local hospital* I specified my laptop as the destination. *scratches head, looks at the specified source*ĬRAP. No problem, I'll use mine as the source! I wiped the hard drive of the MacBook Pro to be imaged, then did a clone. Fortunately, I also have one of these MacBook Pros. Whenever one has needed to be set up, our process has been to use one of the others and clone it using Target Disk Mode and the Disk Utility (booted from OS X install media). We have a handful of 1 year old MacBook Pros that don't like our standard OS X image (not sure why, but because we have less than 10 it's never been a priority to figure out). I'm sure you can sense where this is going before I even start. I'm officially turning in my "sysadmin" card as I just did a major goof.
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