(after this recovery) on my current drive, and how I believe the This is how the partition map looked on my old drive, how it looks now If you’re doing this, I recommend going with gdisk straight away. See below for correct settings.Īfter this (I actually tried to boot after step 3, did not work), my OS Trying the same thing with gdisk (which is on the gparted live CD)Īnd succeeding.Try to set types and names right using parted, and failing.I verified the snug fit with my old install. Use parted to make 3 partitions, using the numbers from testdiskĪnd squeezing partition 2 right in between (starting one sectorĪfter end of partition 1, ending one sector before start of.

This is how I, inefficiently, set my partition table straight: Is slightly better – it allows sector specifications but is unaware of Partitions, and the partition type list is quite short. I could not even find how to define sector boundaries for

USB, it should be easy to compare details and get everything right.Īs it turns out, gparted (the GNOME GUI for parted) is extremely With both my troubled drive and my old install connected on LiveCD (easier than building or finding parted/gdisk binaries for OS X, Partition is right in between these two! FixingĪs testdisk does not support writing Mac/GPT partition tables, I tookĪ phone camera photo of the results above and booted into the gparted The DOS_FAT_32 partition contains EFI data the HFS partitionĬontains OS X Lion Recovery data.

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