Time Machine formated my harddrive

[MacTown06]

I have an external hard drive that I use to store files I want to transport around. it used to be filled with files that were very important to me. i gave it to a mac buddy who accidentally pushed "ok" to the time machine backup thing. It deleted everything. it put it in a format that I dont know how to mount.

suggestions?

please save my files!

[nolimit974]

What format was everything put in?

[gamblor01]

The format is probably going to be HFS+. I don't know if your files are still going to be indexed (though obviously they are still on the drive...it's just a matter of whether or not you can get to them), but there is an hfsplus option for mount. Just do something like:

mkdir /mnt/foo
mount -t hfsplus /name/of/device /mnt/foo


Good luck!

[michaelk]

The filesystem type does not matter since you will not be able to access your files by mounting the drive. As long as erase disk was not selected during the format process your files should still be there. I would copy the hard drive to a data file via the dd command to safeguard the data. You can try using a data recovery application like test disk.