I am trying repair hosed partitions on a Macbook. It has a 500 GB drive and as far as I know, it was a standard install with no Bootcamp. I ran testdisk and it found:
EFI System 40 409639 Mac HFS 439566 975533517
I used gdisk to delete and then recreate the partitions as testdisk showed them but it still won't boot. I then tried every other variation I could think of but have not been able to fix it as of yet. I have tried it with another third partition between the ones shown above. I have tried every possible variation of the partition codes being ef00, af00, af05 and ab00.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone help? I keep looking on google for someone who has listed the default partitioning scheme for a 500 GB, but I can't find it. Does anybody here on the forum have a 500 GB HD in their Mac and could give me their partitioning so I can match it? All the ones I see on google are setup with Bootcamp and that won't help. Can anybody help? Anybody have any ideas at all for restoring this HDD so that I can resuce files or even boot? Thanks!!