Boot Camp related hard drive corruption?

The other day, my OS X 10.5.1 partition completely crashed on me after several switched between it and the Boot Camp partition on my MBP (XP Pro SP2). I just happened to glance at my OS X partition using MacDrive and it told me that the partition was corrupt and unreadable. Confused, I tried to boot into OS X with no success, it just hung at the Apple screen. I had to completely erase the partition, reinstall Tiger, and upgrade again to Leopard. Has anyone else heard of this happening, or experienced it? Could it somehow be related to MacDrive? I had been moving stuff back and forth, and saving stuff to the OS X partition from the Windows partition. Is that part of the problem? I just don't want it to happen again! The Windows partition was unharmed, btw.

First off, thanks for your reply. Second, yes, MacDrive is compatible with my OS version, it's designed specifically for Boot Camp. I haven't been using Time Machine because it completely takes over the external and I need the drive that I have (besides my iPod) for classes at my university that use PCs, so that option's out. I had kinda slacked off recently about backing up files, but still almost everything was saved onto my iPod. Speaking of which, the reason I can't use my iPod for my class is because it involves recording audio using Pro Tools, and for some reason the iPod drive is too slow. Do iPods get fragmented, and should I periodically do a reformat of it? That would certainly free up my 320 GB external for Time Machine use.
As far as the DVD repair, how do you do that? I thought the only option was "erase and install" when going back to Tiger. Or do you mean bot from the Leopard DVD?
Sorry about the kind of rambling post, but I wanted to make sure to be specific.

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My mac won't boot from the hard drive

Hi Everyone
Yesterday, I tried to dual boot my mac using the Bootcamp Assistant. The hard drive partitioned fine & then started the Windows setup. About half way through it found a corrupt file & cancelled the install. It went back to OSX absolutely fine & was working perfectly. I deleted the partition that had been created & then noticed that the amount of free space on my hard drive was missing the 20GB that I had partitioned off for Windows. I used OnyX to try & find the missing 20GB; it finished & then I tried to open Safari & received an error message. I tried again & received the same message so tried to restart the mac & ever since it hasn't wanted to boot using the hard drive.
It will boot from the CD & I can use the Disc Utility to see the hard drive (which makes me think that the mac is seeing it) & can verify & repair both the disc itself & the Disc Permissions but if I click Startup Disc I only get 2 options: The DVD itself & Network Drive. I also can't re-install OSX onto the Hard Drive as it comes up with an exclamation mark & wont let me go any further in the process.
I'm hoping that someone will have an answer other than erasing my hard drive & starting again (which isn't that big a problem as I backed up all the important bits before starting any of this!)

Why did you wipe the drive?
Were you having problems?
If you were those problem may be related to a failing hard drive and that is why the TM backup could be restored.
In you topic header you say the system won't boot from the SL DVD, But it di for you to wipe the drive. Then it should again boot from the SL DVD.
Insert the DVD and reboot, hold down the Option key and select the Optical drive, SL DVD, as the Boot source.

Set Bios to Boot from 2nd Hard Drive

Hello HP forum!
I have a situation that I am afraid may be hardware related, so this is my last attempt for help before I let it go.
In this laptop, I have two hard drive slots with two hard drives. The second hard drive was used as an HP backup/restore drive as shipped from the factory.
I would like to format and install an OS onto the 2nd drive for easy-peesy dual booting. (This is a work computer, so easy + time-efficient + low-risk is optimal). I have actually done this already, but the BIOS does not seem to detect two bootable hard drives. In the BIOS (pretty sure not EFI) boot list, it simply shows the option to boot from "Notebook Hard Drive", which boots from the 1st drive.
In my 1st Drive's Windows 7, I can read the contents of the 2nd disk, so it is definitely functional. Also, replacing the 1st drive with the 2nd drive, I can successfully boot from it, so it is bootable. This seems to imply that my hardware understands that there are two drives, but the BIOS does not recognize that port to be a bootable option, but only a storage option... I guess?
My question is, then, how can I set up my computer to give me the option to boot from either drive? Is it even possible on this hardware?
Thanks
Rex

Did you make sure to update your bios as that could be something that might require a bios update? Also if you can't see or locate that second drive in the BIOS you might not have the option to boot from the second drive? Does the bios also give you the option to boot from the cd drive? Your asking us to see a boot bios screen and unless some has your same make/model no everyone will be able to confirm or see what your asking so unless you can do more looking at all your bios options you might not have the option to boot from the second drive port.
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Hard Drive Corrupt?

I am trying to reinstall OSX Tiger onto My Imac. Here's what I have tried.
Booting from external Hard drive with Basic OSX installed.
Disk Utility shows the Hard drive as ok. Repairs are all ok.
Also used Disk Warrior and Drive Genius to Scan Drive. Everything seems ok. Yet I still cannot install the system.
I've tried to restore and Image through disk Utility and NetRestore as well.
Also have tried just installing from an original Disk not luck.
I keep getting an Input/Output Error.
I'm not sure what this means and I'm starting to believe that the Hard Drive is corrupt.

It's likely that your drive is failing, if you have any data you need to save, try and get it off before the drive fails entirely. If you can, take the drive out and put it in an enclosure, see if it works then, but it's likely on its way out.

Why won't my iMac 27" boot from external hard drive?

I have a new 27in Intel i5 dual core 3.6GHz iMac. It works wonderfully.
My question is this. I have a Pleides Ice Cube external hard drive with a USB 2.0/Firewire enclosure with a 500GB hard drive. I used diskutility to format the hard drive as a GUID Partition Table. I then used SuperDuper to clone the iMac OS 10.6.7 and Apps over to it.
I can select the external drive in System Preferences/Startup Disk to boot from, but when booting the iMac gets as far as the white screen then just stops loading.
I have tried both the USB connection and the Firewire connection (with a Firewire 800 to 400 cable).
I have run Disk Utility and repaired the disk and the preferences.
I have used Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory as well, but the iMac will not boot from the drive.
It does boot from the original DVD's and its own hard drive.
My old 24" iMac had no trouble booting from this hard drive or any of the others I have collected over the years, so I am reluctant to think it is the external drive. It is something to do with this particular processor Snow Leopard and external drives.

It sounds like something in the SuperDuper clone might not have copied well. To get the full answer on that I would check with Apple or SuperDuper to see if they support each other.
As a quick test, if you restart and immediately press and hold "option" on your keyboard do you see your external HD as an option to boot from? If so, click it and see if the boot runs any differently, but if you don't see it at all that could show that the problem is more deep rooted.
Personally, if looking in to either of those didn't give me any other info to go on, I would reformat and start the clone again. BTW, do you know for sure GUID Partition is the format you'd want to do this on? Generally macs use "Mac OS Extended" and some external HDs can use "FAT32" (if you want them to work well with Windows)
Hope that gives a little direction
Alex

How to set up Boot Camp on second drive?

On Drive bay 2 and 3 I have setup as a RAID which has OSX Installed. I want to install Boot Camp onto the Drive in bay 1. When I run the Boot Camp Assistant, it tells me I can't partition an external drive. What am I doing wrong?

You should always have an alternate boot drive that is not on a RAID. Upgrade to 10.5.2 if you have not already. You can use Disk Utility and partition the whole drive for Windows as Master Boot Record and FAT or setup partitions. You could also use the default GUID partition scheme and have FAT and HFS+, your choice.
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X86 install was successful, but now I can't boot from the hard drive

I have successfully installed Solaris 10 for x86 from the bootable CD ROMs. However, now, after removing the CD-ROM from the drive and booting from the hard disk I am having problems.
The system attempts to boot. It displays the Solaris Primary Boot Subsytem v2.0 screen...pauses for 15 seconds...then reboots itself. And it continues this process.
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Application to scan and repair hard drive corruption?

Hi, my 2nd internal drive ran out of space and I'm afraid that there was hard drive corruption. Some of the video icon's weren't showing up and when I click on the video to play I kept getting beach balls. it seems to be better now but is there an application that can detect if there's any hard drive corruption? thanks

Stuart Lawrence wrote:
The hard drive seems to be ok now. I have 90gb's of free space on it. What do you think happened to it?
I couldn't say. But 90GBs should be plenty of free space to work with.
You might launch Disk Utility and check something though:
You will notice that the drive appears twice int he sidebar of Disk Utility.
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HP Pavilion 500-210 QE Can't boot from any hard drive.

Good Evening. As you can see from the subject, my computer just can't boot from any hard drive that I put on it. I tried swapping the power supply, the SATA cable, resetting the BIOS, enabling legacy boot, changing from AHCI to IDE and RAID...
When I get to the BIOS setup, I can see the hard drive and its specifications, but it just won't boot or show up when I'm trying to install a new OS. I'm not an expert, but I think the problem might be in the motherboard SATA ports, but I'm not sure. Just to make sure, I did try another hard drive and it didn't work aswell.
I was also thinking about buying an external hard drive and instaling my OS on that, but I don't even know if that's possible and I would really like to have my computer working again.
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What is the installed operating system?
Did you make a recovery disk set?
Did you happen to make a Windows 8.1 startup disk or USB recovery thumbdrive?
Have you tested the hard disk?
Press the power button and then immediately tap the Esc key. In the Startup menu, choose F2 for Diagnostics. In the HP Basic System Diagnostics menu choose hard disk. Run the test and post the results here.
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If you want to install a different operating system then you will have to make a few changes in the BIOS configuration. Secure Boot is turned on by default for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. If you try installing a different OS without turning this off then your system won't boot up. You may be running into this if you are trying to install another operating system.
The image below is what will be seen in the BIOS of your PC in the security tab --> . In the secure boot configuration options do not clear the secure boot keys! Those keys are your operating system license activation keys.
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Booting from external hard drive on intel-based MacBook Pro

Good day everyone. I know similar questions were raised in this community, but I still have some questions.
I have MacBook Pro(late 2011) with OS X 10.7.5 and external hard drive with Ubuntu 13.04, from wich i can boot succefully on my PC. But MacBook Pro will not boot from my external drive, no matter which key/combination i use during restart.
After googling I found some answers to my initial question, how to boot from external hard drive
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1852633?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/faq/macbook-pro-boot-from-exte rnal-firewire-or-usb-drive.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1948
As I understand I need to format my external hard drive into GUID partition type and this will be enough to be able to boot from it on my mac?
With this new partition type, will I be able to install ubuntu again on my external drive?
Does GUID partition type supports NTFS, ext4 and FAT32, linux swap?(I use ntfs for big files, ext4 as partition for ubuntu and fat32, because i use windows, linux and osx)
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here is info on my e-drive

LowLuster wrote:
The only OS that will boot from an external drive is Mac OS X or maybe Linux. For OS X to be installed on any drive it need to be formatted Mac OS Extended and have GUID partition table.
As for Linux I'm not that familiar with it but again for a Mac to boot it need an EFI partition on the drive and I don't think that is possible with NTFS or FAT32 let alone the native Linux format.
Went to wiki to learn more on efi but found artice on uefi.
Operating system loaders are a class of the UEFI applications. As such, they are stored as files on a file system that can be accessed by the firmware, called EFI System partition (ESP). Supported file systems include FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12, and supported partition table scheme is GPT only. UEFI does not rely on a boot sector, although ESP provides space for it as part of the backwards compatibility.[26]
Here is FAQ on official uefi website.
Can UEFI Secure Boot be adopted and implemented by a variety of operating systems?
UEFI specifications are platform-independent, supporting multiple platforms and architectures. In addition, UEFI specifications are designed to promote cross-functionality, as well as to support broad adoption across multiple operating systems, including Windows as well as Linux-based operating systems. The specifications are robust and can potentially complement—or even advance—other distributions, such as Linux-based distributions.
And here is wiki article on GPT expaining OS support.
It is obvious both uefi and GPT are ok with Linux and file systems such as FAT32, ext4 and NTFS.
I guess there is no much difference(or is that the same thing?) between uefi and efi used in Macs.
In your answer to Stark Industries you said that mac can boot linux from external hard drive, well this is not the info i got of official website and it is still my question, because your answer is very inconclusive and your info is partially incorrect

Hard drive corruption

Hallo
I wanted to reinstall a game I play but when I install it I get this error:
The installer was unable to read the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft Installer\Movies.mpq". This error may be caused by problems with the media or drive at C:\--for example, a scratched or dirty CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, hard drive corruption, or a networking problem while downloading the installer. (The data being read was "enGB\WOW_Intro_BC_1024.avi", and the error code was 5.) If this problem persists, please contact Blizzard Technical Support. (Converter::Load)
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Sounds like you need to download the game again, the original files may have been corrupted or deleted.
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I believe my ipads hard drive corrupted when i went from my macbook to a pc...I can get to the screen with cord and itunes but cant get past there to desktop of ipad...Any help would be appreciated....

I believe my ipads hard drive corrupted when i went from my macbook to a pc...I can get to the screen with cord and itunes but cant get past there to desktop of ipad...Any help would be appreciated....

Try using this article to help with your iPad not showing up in iTunes---
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538 -This deals with the device not being recognized in iTunes for Windows
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Wont boot if external hard drive is on

PC wont boot if external hard drive is turned on. If I turn them off boots fine. This has happened since day one.

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Turn "them off" implies more than one.
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Firewire Hard Drive corrupts OS Lion and will not boot

I have re-installed OS lion on my macbook pro 5-6 times now. There seems to be some conflict with my firewire hard drive enclosure which causing it not to boot shortly after using it when restarting. I am trying to get all my data off this hard drive.
When I boot in Verbose Command + V
I get this error which goes into a loop and does not allow the computer to boot.
ERROR: Firewire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
ERROR: Firewire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
ERROR: Firewire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
ERROR: Firewire (OHCI) TI ID 8025 built-in: handleUnrecoverableErrorInt
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Fixed it without even reinstalling the OS this time. I connected a firewire 400 cable between the mac book pro and my other mac and held down the "t" key to boot the dead macbook pro as a hard drive on my other mac. The hard drive didn't show up but it seem to get it out of the loop it was locked in not allowing it to boot and unable to reinstall the OS. After restarting it booted right back up like normal.
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Install Win7 64bit in a USB hard drive through some tools,when start windows the microsoft logo appear,get blue screen.
***stop:0x0000007B(0x80786B58,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.If this is the first you've seen this stop error screen restart your computer .If this screen appears again.follow these steps:Check for viruses on your computer.Remove any newly hard drives or hard drive controllers.Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly.Configured and terminated.Run DCHKDSK/F to check for hard drive corrption,and then restart your computer.
Technical:
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