Partition Find & Mount implements a new concept of deleted or lost partition recovery. It works in the most convenient way possible — by locating and mounting partitions into the system, thus making those lost partitions available to you like any generic disk volume. Partition Find & Mount will also work in case any Boot Record (including the Master Boot Record) is missing, damaged or overwritten.
Partition Find & Mount is:
- Easy to use. You do not need special knowledge to use the software.
- Safe to your data. There is no possible way you could get things worse.
- Free for personal use. Use it as much as you like.
Lost important data? Give it a try. Partition Find & Mount is free for personal use!
How To Recover a Deleted or Lost Partition on a Mac. To recover entire partitions that have either been lost or deleted, we’ll need a larger solution. TestDisk is a great tool for recovering whole partitions. Open source and available on multiple platforms, it’s the go-to tool for big jobs like this. Unlike the recovery partition, a full image backup means you won’t need to waste time reloading programs, updating to the current versions, and recreating all of your files. And storing it on an external hard drive means migrate your system to new hardware if the original hard drive fails, denying you access to the recovery partition stored.
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Master Boot Record
Master Boot Record is a hidden area on your hard drive that contains all information about disk partitions (sometimes also called volumes or logical drives). If it gets erased or damaged, you may completely lose access to your data.
Lost or deleted partitions can be found with Partition Find and Mount. In the easiest case, if MBR is the only structure that is corrupted, it will take just a second for Partitions Find & Mount to find all partitions!
After partitions are found, you can mount them to the system, making them visible as usual read-only disk volumes.
When Find & Mount tool does not work
Partition Find & Mount software is designed to find lost or deleted partitions in the most convenient way, however, it may not work if the file system on a partition or hard drive itself is severely damaged.
I partitioned my MacBook Pro into 2 volumes so I could dual boot Mavericks and Yosemite Developer Preview. After testing Yosemite, I found out that it was stable enough to run on my main partition. I installed it on my main partition replacing Mavericks and deleted the second partition which included Yosemite. While deleting, somehow I was left with an empty partition called 'Free Space' which I cannot delete.
I am pretty sure the problem isn't related to Yosemite being a developer preview as it could've happened under an previous stable OS. How can I merge my 'Free Space' partition with Macintosh HD?
MacBook Pro with Retina display 13-inch Late 2013
2.8GHz Intel Core i7
16GB RAM
Intel Iris graphics
512GB SSD
OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2
Missing Recovery Partition Mac
Posted on Jun 24, 2014 3:10 AM