Missing Partition

[Reddkryten]

Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone could help or offer advice on this one.

I haven’t used my MacBook for quite a few months (moved house and I was on a project that took me away from home). Yesterday I wanted to watch a video, so I booted up, plugged in the external drive... and nothing.

The drive is powering up my mac can see a partition called disc2s2 but is unable to mount it. I vageuly remember partitioning the drive (for dual boot with windows maybe?) however I’m sure there was a second partition with my media on there.

Is there anyway of accessing it or anything I can do?

If not, everything is backed up on my time machine so little to nothing has been lost, however I’d like to make an attempt at recovery is possible.
[doublepost=1535450436][/doublepost]Forgot to mention, running first aid on the external drive returns no errors and the partition map appears to be okay.

However when I run first aid on the partition I can see, it fails. File system check exit code is 8. It is a ms dos (FAT) formatted partition.

 

[jeboles]

Being a FAT volume, try running check disk from Windows. It that don't work, you can try TestDisk.

 

[Reddkryten]

I’ll try that, although the partition I can’t see, I am fairly certain it was mac formatted, will that make a difference?