MacBook Pro :: Deleted Startup And Recovery Drives - How To Get Back All Info From External Hard Drive

Jun 2, 2014

I deleted my startup and recovery drives.  I still have every thing on external hard drive but cannot get my drives back on internal drive.  Is there anyway to get those drives back and get all my info from my external drive back on my computer?

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MacBook Pro

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The stpes I followed was to go to disk utility then select the hard drive and click erase (not knowing this would erase evrything). 

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.5.1)

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