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hard drive recovery?
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So, here is what happened. I am really stupid. Like, really really stupid.
So I have an SSD in my hard drive bay and an HDD in my optical bay with a bracket. System/Apps on the SSD, everything else - HDD.
Last night I tried dual booting linux and deleted everything on both drives by accident. Yeah. I had the SSD backed up so I can boot to OSX but since my entire home folder is now missing, I can only log onto the Guest account.
Am I going to have to reinstall Mountain Lion from the recovery partition or is there a way to restore everything from the hard drive I erased? It is around 170gb.
Pleaaaase advise. If I have to start over, it's not the end of the world - my music and movies are backed up so thats whatever its mostly just various documents I've accumulated but I would very much like to get them back, if I can.
Thanks!!!
Jack
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So you didn't back up the HDD? At all? No Time Machine, Dropbox, Carbonite, anything?
I think you're kind of screwed.
Steve
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There are companies that do that kind of thing. Its not cheep. Though yours may be easier that one dredged up from the bottom of the Nile.
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Even if you could recover your erased hard drive, it is not advisable to use a recovered system, but a cleanly installed one and put your files and configurations back in.
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