Gpt recover: /dev/disk1: recovered primary GPT header from secondary Gpt recover: /dev/disk1: recovered primary GPT table from secondary
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort. Or the deletion of important system files. WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss IronMan:~ nbalkota$ sudo gpt recover /dev/disk1 I would guess the disk did not like being unplugged without using the eject command…Īnyway, salvation can come at no cost by using the Terminal in Mac OS X (assuming you have administrative rights): Don’t ask me how it got corrupted in the first place. In Disk Utility the drive device was listed, but no volume could be mounted due to a corrupted partition map.
Now, I take pride in having never ever lost any data on my Macs since 1998, so I was concerned this might be the end of my record… The disk you inserted you inserted was not readable by this computer. Today, as I intended to perform my regular Time Machine backup, I got welcomed by a very scary message when I connected my external hard disk to my MacBook.