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boot camp erased my Mac HD, only XP shows, can I recover ?

by ailunchiu Apr 16, 2009 11:48PM PDT

Hi,
I am getting a big trouble that without saving backups, I installed xp in my mac osx leopard by uses of boot camp. Is it still possible to get my files back? I heard some data files can be recover, but not for photoshop CS3 psd and illustrator CS3 ai extension files. Any clue about recovering it back? since I'd formatted the Mac HD, which there's only XP exist now. I am not sure i can recover this mac, and even if I could recover it back, am I still be able to keep up all psd. ai files? please help.

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What did you do?

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Apr 17, 2009 6:47AM PDT

I'm not sure I understand all of your question or how you got in this state.
So you installed XP onto your hard drive using Boot Camp which partitioned your disk into two separate partitions.
1. Why did you think that your did not have any files left on the Mac partion?
2. What prompted the Format of the Mac Partition and what did you use to format it?
3. With the use of a decent file recovery program, you "may" be able to pull stuff the Mac partition, even after you formatted it, but that would suppose that you could actually boot from that partition. Can you?
4. Did you think that you had lost all your data because you could not see the Mac partition when running Windows. (Without the use of third party software, windows cannot read from, or write to an HFS+(Journaled) disk which is what your Mac partition was formatted as.

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