Bootcamp Newbie
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not the most tech savvy person in the world so I would need lots of slow talk
Anyhow, there is this basketball text sim game that I want to get, however, it only runs on Windows 2000 or older. I want to minimize my costs and know that I can do bootcamp but then I'd still have to buy an operating system.
Also, if I do bootcamp am I then stuck with always using Windows and not my normal Mac OS?
EddieK76 wrote:
Worded that wrong. It runs on Windows2000 or newer. Sorry for that.....
OK, then Windows in Boot Camp is also an option, I would recommend Win 7 for it's speed & security, depending on the age of your Mac you may be able to install XP, bit I wouldn't.
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Hello,
I am trying to set up an Intel Imac running Snow for my daughter. I got the Mac side looking how I wanted and then decided to install bootcamp. Up til now I have used Virtual Box so I am a bootcamp newbie and a windows newbie but not so much a mac newbie. The partitioning seemed to go O.K and installing the XP was really easy - so I should have suspected trouble was looming!
Windows installed O.K but there were problems when I then tried to install the BootCamp drivers. I got error messages saying that the windows installer needed updating.
This leaves me unable to boot out of Windows and switch back to Mac. Even if I start up with my finger on the alt button, it goes straight to Windows. I have also tried booting up with an external firewire drive attached (with has OS installed) but, again, the alt key won't give me the option of switching to it. I've tried booting up with the Snow disc in the disc drive holding down the C key. It goes straight into windows.
I thought my XP disc included SP2, but now I suspect it doesn't. Its a really old disc. I downloaded SP2 on my other machine, burned it to a cd and tried to install it on the windows machine. I get an error message saying that there isn't enough space to install it, it needs 4mb more (weird?).
I have tried going into the snow disc from within windows and installing the drivers separately, but it won't work.
I suspect the alt key might not work because windows doesn't recognise the keyboard properly?
Can anyone help me escape windows?
Once I get back into Mac X, my plan is to delete the existing bootcamp partition, set it up again but bigger (currently it's 10GB) and then re-install windows, install SP 2, install the BootCamp drivers. And then keep my fingers crossed.
But I'm wondering if I should just stick with Virtual Box!When I put in the Mac X dvd it autoruns and I get the message: "this package requires a newer version of the windows installer. Do you want to update this version of the Windows Installer on your system."
Click - "yes", get "the required resource UPDATE is missing" and it quits
Click - "no", get "setup was cancelled"
I downloaded the windows installer update on another mac, burned it to cd and tried to install it on the windows mac. I got a message about 'this requires SP 2' and it cancelled. I then manually downloaded SP 2 (which I had thought was included in my windows disc anyway) on my other Mac and tried to install that in the same way, and got a message about how there wasn't enough space to install it.
Whatever I do - I can't seem to boot back to Mac.
I'd happily wipe the computer and reinstall Mac and start again - if only I knew how to reinstall Mac X when the computer only boots up in windows. -
Help Please. Bootcamp installation error. Mac newbie
Hello.
I just bought a brand new 24" iMac about two weeks ago. Downloaded BootCamp beta today, updated all software and firmware. Installed bootcamp, installed Windows Media Center 2005 SP2. Before that I created a new 32gb partition to keep the FAT system the same. This is my first Mac, I love OS X, unfortunately I need to run ESRI GIS software which is only PC compatible. Anyway, Windows installs, I try ejecting the CD, and it would not ehect. I restarted the computer to go back to OS X, but the disc never ejected, and it reads off the installation disc. I can not boot OS X now. How can I get the disc out, without OS X? And/Or what should I do to safe the least amount of hassle. I installed this POS OS on its own partition. I am very windows and computer literate, but this one just seems to scratch my head. My nervous than anything, spent over $2700 said and done, and I don't feel like problems within two weeks already. Any help would be appreciated. Thank YouNL4J wrote:
Awesome links. Also helped me. I sold my powerbook g4 before because of terrible it was to run virtual pc ... now debating if I should do bootcamp or parallels option ... probably going with parallels ...
Smart idea: My advice is to install BootCamp (with fat partition/Vol) but use Parallels with that as its Win Drive.
*Virtual pc is an Emulator which is utterly different technology and with heavy overheads.*
Don't believe most of the negative stuff you'll read here about parallels - it's almost all wrong/caused by misunderstanding.
Pre-leopard (which i don't use) BootCamp is BETA. Don't trust it.
Use parallels and have it use the Windows Partition.
It's not emulation - in most case it's stable, megafast flexible and reliable.
It is 'Virtualisation - a technology around in Mainframes for years and the Virtual Machine approach is the way of the future (on most platforms):
one example : people have argued for VM Fusion (or BootCamp) over Parallells because 'Parallels only uses one processor and VM will use 2 - or 4.. and 'BootCamp is 'Native'....
Wrong.
VM will use 2 - but in doing so usually slows the Mac down unnecessarily - with Parallels, The VM gets one or more processor/cores... the OS X Stream usually gets its own one or more processors/cores...
Parallels IS 'Native'Intel.
*BootCamp (pre-Leopard) is BETA*. (=no support... and you'll get little when it isn't because BETA almost all your problems will be with "third party products" like Windoze or Windoze Apps doing truly stoopid things.. I doubt you can get much M$ support for running windoze under BootCamp or any of the VM solutions... not that you get much M$ support anyway
*Apple are never really going to support Windoze - why shd they: NOT their product... Vice versa.*
Parallels is usually faster than fusion VM and often faster than booting into windoze.
(Exceptions : fancy 3d grafix cards - just a driver issue - which is still an issue with the others anyway and is being upgraded all the time)
Otherwise, It's often even faster than equivalent 'Native Windoze' Boxen (no I don't really know why either ... .
Parallels and other VM products allow you to run multiple VMs: 95, 98,XP,Vista,Linux... at supa high speed and all in their own windows while OS X continues 'doing its stuff'!!
Amazing stuff: If you have any brains these days, you really only need to buy ONE PC: a good Intel Mac, and run the best set up & optimised VM product you can find, and whatever OSs you fancy!
For my money - ATM, that's a Mac with windoze partitions on drives and a top quality VM product like Parallels...
(A lot of 'non technical' ppl simply don't 'get' this stuff... wikipedia can help, google reviews, benchmarks etc.. - e.g. grab a fast Flash drive.. format as HFS+ and use from OS X => as fast as possible. Format as Windoze, use on/from Mac and it may be 10 times as slow, V/V and so on....)
With OS X, Parallels, correctly-formatted Win Drives, correctly setup and optimised you really have the best of all possible worlds. BUT: stay in the Mac world. DON'T use rubbishy windoze programs that were NOT designed to work in a Virtualised environment (MacDrive etc etc) or you will get probs (use TCP/IP Networking or Shared folders etc instead - not that you really need much of anything like MacDrive, anyway the Mac & VM can read and write all that...)
My ('post College') Kids all switched to Macs set up this way.
They only ever use BottCamp for some games.
They do have Parallels but rarely need to use any Windoze stuff anyway.. - oh and 'They are SO Cool" and "we love them.."
They'll never go back (sell yr M$oft shares short
Best of luck. -
Do I really need an optical drive (external) for my MacBook Air to install Win 7 with Bootcamp?
I have a Macbook Air (11" if it matters, the tiny one) that was purchased late last year, new. I would like to install Bootcamp and be able to boot into Windows 7, 64 bit. I have a Windows 7 Professional disk, which I would have to find an optical drive of some sort to install. The Boot Camp PDF guide doesn't mention the use of any kind of USB bootable install. In fact, I often see (on Apple support pages) that an external optical drive is required for Macbook Airs.
Is this the case? If not, does anyone have any advice on how to make sure this goes smoothly? I'm a bit of a newbie to Macs. Thanks.
(Note: I didn't select my OSX operating system, but it's been updated regularly.)Thank you Rysz, but (if you scroll up & read my original post you will discover) I don't own my new MacBook Pro...yet! I'm just researching ahead of time to help me make the decision. The customized MBP I have saved in my cart is over $3000 (incl the 3-yr support plan). So it's going to take me a little bit of research before I decide or before I can really justify the purchase.
I just wanted to be prepared for all the inevitable technical / learning-curve headaches that I will experience IF I take the plunge. And as everyone has experienced, when you're new to and making your first purchase of a different technology, and you don't know what to expect about a purchase, you ultimately get it home, set it up and find it didn't come with all the necessary interface devices, converters or cables, etc. And of course the online purchase procedure wizard doesn't tell you or ask you what else you will need if you want to perform a specific task.
But I'm sure (if) once I do make the purchase, I will definitely be back here to pick everyone's brains! These communities are fantastic. Thanks again! -
Yet Another Hard Drive Question from a Mac Newbie
I apologize in advance for the length of this post -- as I state in the subject line, I am a complete Mac newbie.
I just took delivery yesterday on a new (early 2008) Mac Pro. I purchased and installed an additional 8GB RAM, and ordered it with a 500GB HD (Seagate, it looks like) and purchased two 750GB Hitachi HDs for bays 2 and 3. I will be doing a fair amount of photo editing, and also plan to partition the OS drive to run XP using bootcamp, but also plan to use VM Fusion.
I am thinking of partitioning the boot drive with 250GB for OS X and apps, 150 GB for XP and apps, and ~66 remaining possibly to be used as scratch memory for CS3, though it sounds like this may not be enough. The bay 2 Hitachi would be used for all my user data (photos, music, docs, etc.) bay 3 would be for backup initially, possibly using Time Machine? (other recommendations welcomed). As space becomes an issue in the future, I will invest in a fourth internal HD, and at least 2TB external HDs for backup.
Does this seem like a reasonable plan? If so, how do I go about formatting the drives and installing boot camp, Fusion, etc., and in what order? Also, how best do I organize my existing files from my current Windows machine as I copy them to the new user data HD, so they can be accessed as needed by both OS X and XP?
Thanks for your help.I like the boot volume to never get beyond 50% used. Enough room for burning dual-layer DVDs can be 50GB for best results. And to force the system to use the first outer tracks.
I hope you are concurrently zeroing both drives. SoftRAID is my choice for driver for RAIDs and you can cancel safely at any time. There are also excellent tools for checking sectors and mapping out bad blocks.
I put Vista on its own 10K Raptor. I had it on the boot drive but I am always changing my mind, my drives and setup. Vista needs at least 40GB and that is with all my major documents and files on another drive which holds 150GB out of 450GB.
You set the preference for what drive to use as scratch in CS3 or other programs. And you want to disable Spotlight indexing on any scratch or editing partition. Scratch can be a drive, a volume, a stripped array. Any 'normal' partition though don't use the default (journaling) feature is all.
How large? I'd have to see and know how large files, work flow, and how long you work between projects. The nice thing, erase the scratch volume between projects but it is possible to use 300GB when you work on 1.5GB files and above.
One early Mac Pro owner wasn't able to work as they wanted until they had 10-12GB RAM, boot RAID0, and RAIDs for scratch and data (saving 2GB files and not having to wait forever, which even a minute can feel like forever).
Disk Utility: Partition. You can even partition 2+ drives, just make them the same, and first create 2 partitions (100GB on each?) and then stripe the first "Untitled 1" of each into 100GB x n array. Stripe or mirror the "Untitled 2" or leave those are two unique non-RAID volumes. Sounds harder than it is.
Scratch = temp space and designed to not be saved, to be erased as needed.
SoftRAID.com 3.6.6 makes it easy to create, delete, erase volumes and arrays as needed. Leopard has improved on non-RAID but not with RAIDs (for those that change their minds). -
Hello. I bought a new iMac 27" with the following specs:
3.5GHz Intel Core i7 Quad-Core (Haswell)
32GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
3TB Fusion Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Graphics (4GB)
27" LED-Backlit IPS Display
2560 x 1440 Native Resolution
802.11ac/a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, SDXC Card Reader
720p FaceTime HD Camera, Dual Mics
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (64-bit)
After installing all Mac update, used Bootcamp to create a Windows 7 drive. Everything went fine to a point. While in my Mac OS i can see the windows partition just fine and see/edit documents. However, when in the Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, I cannot see the mac os in my computer at all.
Can someone please help this mac owner newbie? This process worked fine on my mac mini and i have no troubles. It is just on my new iMac that it wont work/show the highlighted paragraph above
Any ideas and/or help would be greatly appreciated.I understand that much. On my MAC Mini, if you look above at original post, I CAN see both OS while in the Windows 7 partition or the MAC OS. This is NOT the case on my iMac. Again, when in the MAC OS I can see the windows partion and move information between the two that way. When in the WINDOWS partition, the only one that shows is the Windows OS from my computer or network. The only way you can tell its even a MAC is the bootcamp icon in the bottom right corner of toolbar. Both have same version of MAC OS so both should work same way.. When i double click on my computer, it should show both the Windows drive AND the MAC (as does my mini and another iMac 21.5 that i have). This iMac does not do that - only shows windows.
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Installing Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit on Bootcamp issue
Hi I'm a newbie, I would like to install Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit using boot camp. I went into boot camp to partition and split the 1 terabyte hardrive. half is for Leopard, the other half is for Windows Vista.
I followed the steps and popped in the disk, awhile later I get a message saying "Where do you want to install Windows?"
It's showing:
Disk 0 Partition 1 200 mb primary
Disk 0 Partition 2 466 gb Primary
Disk 0 unallocated space 128 mb
Disk 0 partition 3 Boot camp 464 gb Primary.
which ever one I click on it says "Windows Cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS"
I can't get passed this part, what do I do?
Any help is greatly appreciatedHi Stuart,
Vista needs its system partition to be formatted with NTFS.
The BootCamp Asistant does a pre-format with FAT32 since OSX can not write to NTFS partitions (only read).
Therefor you have to reformat the Windows partition with the Vista Installer to NTFS.
See page 11 of the BootCamp Setup Guide found here http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ (and it's also part of the BootCamp Assistant).
Regards
Stefan -
Can't boot windows 7 installed by bootcamp
On my iMac I installed windows 7 x64 professional by bootcamp. I did the instalation with 4GB RAM. Windows boots perfectly!
After that i change my RAM for 16 GB (4x4GB same plates). OS X booting is still perfect, but windows cant boot and it shows me only mistakes, and it offers me to make recovery. by the way with 16GB RAM recovery fails too.
P.S. i have bootcamp 5.0I find the solve. i have the same type of RAM-plates but 2 of them was produced earlier than the second one.
to resolve my problem you need to install you RAM-plates correctly.
i have two plates A-type(earlier) and two plates B-type(later)
iMac as everyone known has 4 slots for RAM
Left Right
| 1L(1) | | 1R(3) |
| 2L (2) | | 2R(4) |
When i placed wy RAM this way
Left Right
| 1L(A) | | 1R(A) |
| 2L (B) | | 2R(B) |
my windows didnt want to start, and send me a request for recovery
But today when i placed my RAM this way
Left Right
| 1L(A) | | 1R(B) |
| 2L (A) | | 2R(B) |
problems gone.
maybe its a problem of only newbies in Mac-using? So am I. -
From a MAC newbie running an iMac I7, 8GB, 1TB
Can some of the experts out they give me a suggestion on using Bootcamp vs. VMWare to run Windows games and applications. I like the idea of running the Windows applications while SL is also running (VMWare solution?) but not sure if this would have problems that bootcamp would not. Games would be few but would include things such as L4D2 and others. Windows could be any version suggested.FlaParrotHead wrote:
From a MAC newbie running an iMac I7, 8GB, 1TB
Can some of the experts out they give me a suggestion on using Bootcamp vs. VMWare to run Windows games and applications. I like the idea of running the Windows applications while SL is also running (VMWare solution?) but not sure if this would have problems that bootcamp would not. Games would be few but would include things such as L4D2 and others. Windows could be any version suggested.
It really depends on what you want to achieve.
Bootcamp is a full Windows environment running natively. Which means you cannot access your OSX programs. If you have to use both set of programs, you'll be switching a lot. However, since it's running native instead of emulated it will perform a lot better when you're doing CPU/GPU-heavy tasks.
VMWare is emulated into your OSX environment. You'll be running two operating systems at the same time. This means you can access that one Windows program you'll need during your usual OSX usertime, but heavy programs like games will run poorly due to having massive overhead on everything the Windows environment has to calculate.
So basically, you really need to decide how you will be using your Windows environment!
As a side note: I don't know about VMWare, but there's also Parallels Desktop, which can run your bootcamp-Windows partition emulated into OSX. You could access all your programs through Parallels (it's the same concept as VMWare) and when you want to play a game, or do heavy calculating, you can reboot into the same environment but through Bootcamp (thus native) and do what you want to do.
--Edit
According to this url: [http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/migrate.html#c169967]
You can make VMWare create an image of your Bootcamp partition. I don't think vmware can actually run the Bootcamp partition emulated.
According to this url: [http://www.askdavetaylor.com/usewinxp_boot_camp_partition_inparallels.html]
You can make Parallels emulate your bootcamp partition, do your things, and reboot to Windows and still have it working.
So if you intend to combine both Bootcamp and emulation, my bet would be on Parallels.
However this is purely on what I can find online, I may as well be wrong on either VMWare or Parallels.
Hope this was helpful, eventhough it's not a clear answer
Message was edited by: Roald Hoolwerf -
This is a related question to that described in:
(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1857176&tstart=0) of today which I note has been "Answered" and therefore may not be viewed further.
Hi guys!
This is a separate but related topic that I would like advice on. I have partitioned, via BootCamp, my drive to OS X and Windows XP. I have Intego VirusBarrier on the OS X side and BitDefender 2009 on the Windows side. In the 15 minutes or so on Explorer to choose and download an anti virus package for Windows I picked up 6 viruses which BitDefender identified and disinfected. I intend to use Windows for PC games but obviously there will be those few occasions when I will use Explorer (I see no need to use Hotmail).
My Mac is connected to the net via broadband. My question is this: when I am playing games with Explorer not in use (I.E. I have quit it) am I still exposed to viruses because I am still connected to the net via my broadband? As a follow up would it be better to break my broadband connection (turn off the router) as a belt and braces?
Many thanks guys I am a bit of a newbie with Bootcamp and Windows let alone viruses!When you have your iMac running Windows it will be open to virus's just like any PC would be. Remember when you run Windows you have turned your machine into a Windows machine and are open to any and all the issues any Window's machines can have. It sounds like you come from the Windows world and if you want to continue using Windows you should be ready for the same issues you had on a dedicated Windows machine. If you turn off your router when using a PC to protect yourself then you should probably do the same thing.
The good news is if you are affected by some malware when using Windows it will only affect the Windows volume and should not affect the OS X volume. -
Hey
I'm having a similar problem as everyone else in this posting. I have 5 partitions. 3 of which I created for my Mac OS Lion installation, Windows 7 installation and a 3rd for storage. Everything was running fine for quite sometime until recently. My Windows 7 installation has suddenly stopped booting. Instead of a start up screen I get:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
File: \BOOT\BCD
Status: 0xc000000d
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data
Mac OS Lion starts up fine. I'm unable to mount my "Bootcamp" partition nor the "Storage" partition. On top of that "Storage" has been renamed to "disk0s5". When I installed Windows 7 it didn't recognize the "Storage" partition that was created in Lion so it merged what it thought was free diskspace (I'm assuming the same space that Mac OS recognized as Storage) to the Root Drive of Windows 7 (Bootcamp).
Are you able to assist?I find the solve. i have the same type of RAM-plates but 2 of them was produced earlier than the second one.
to resolve my problem you need to install you RAM-plates correctly.
i have two plates A-type(earlier) and two plates B-type(later)
iMac as everyone known has 4 slots for RAM
Left Right
| 1L(1) | | 1R(3) |
| 2L (2) | | 2R(4) |
When i placed wy RAM this way
Left Right
| 1L(A) | | 1R(A) |
| 2L (B) | | 2R(B) |
my windows didnt want to start, and send me a request for recovery
But today when i placed my RAM this way
Left Right
| 1L(A) | | 1R(B) |
| 2L (A) | | 2R(B) |
problems gone.
maybe its a problem of only newbies in Mac-using? So am I. -
Hi all, I'm a newbie at mac-windows stuff and hope to get to-the-point info here rather than go through endless forum pages.
I'll be getting a 13" MBP (2.7GHz) with 8GB RAM in a few days' time. I plan to install windows on the MBP to run some windows-based software.
1) Windows 7 -- 32bit or 64bit? advantages, disadvantages?
2) I see bootcamp, parallels etc. Do i just need bootcamp or is parallels also needed? Does the latter cause any lag?
3) What other apps are needed? What does the whole process involve?
4) What are the potential issues that I might encounter during the process of getting Windows on the MBP?
Thanks in advance!This is a great topic!
1) Windows 7 64bit would be recommended
2) Bootcamp will work fine but requires that you restart your mac to access Windows.
Parallels allows you to run Mac and Windows together.
3) You will not NEED any other apps. Apple provides everything you need.
The process involves partitioning your Macintosh HD, installing the disc, formatting the partition out of Journaled to NTFS, then going through the Windows install process. (very easy)
4) You may run into a problem if in the first boot.
My Support question
Solution credit of iChristo:
1. Run Boot Camp Assistant from Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Applications -> Utilities)
2. Create a partition for the Windows installation using Boot Camp Assistant
3. Plugin your install disc and install Windows 7
4. The system will reboot a couple of times during the installation
5. *The problem:* The second time the system reboots, you the see the Windows red-green-blue-yellow animated logo, and then the screen goes black and hangs infinitely.
6. Press and hold the power button on your iMac until it shuts down.
7. Start the iMac again holding “alt” key, so you can select and load Max OS X Snow Leopard again.
8. Run any application that let you work with NTFS partitions (e.g. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X or MacFuse)
9. Find the file “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ATIKMDAG.SYS” on your BOOTCAMP partition, and simply delete it.
10. Restart you iMac, and boot up Windows 7
11. Now Windows 7 should boot normally
12. Run update windows utility and install Boot Camp drivers from the Mac OS X install disc -
With Bootcamp partitioning, am I able to install MS Office 2010 for Windows or is it still the Mac version? I need to use Access & it's not in the Mac version. Sorry for all the newbie questions...thanks for any input!
You can use any version of office that runs on your installed Windows version. Any program that runs on Windows will run on your Boot Camp installed Windows just the same as the program would run on a Windows PC.
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Bootcamp Cannot create a partition
As a newbie to mac, i thought it would be pretty easy to use the assistant to install W7.
Following the bootcamp procedure, Bootcamp assistant fails to create a partition.
"Your disk could not be partitioned. An error occurred while partitioning disk." No other information leads me to understand the problem
So i tried to verify disk problems and repair but no luck.
I looked online and some suggestions include restarting the computer in single mode and running /sbin/fsck -fy but despite that same problem.
So i thought i would try to just create a normal partition using disk utility (nothing to do with windows 7 etc).The error is as follows:
"This core storage operation is not allowed on a sparse logical volume"
Can anyone help?
I have a Macbook pro 15 retina (mid 2014) running Yosemite 10.10.1Miteshs-MacBook-Pro:~ Mitesh$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 250.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *249.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
014EED50-5E1E-4B80-AC25-2BE81077D83E
Unlocked Encrypted
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 1D2A644C-DAAC-496C-9506-E32FC1C64606
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
|
+-< Physical Volume E7639A7B-7A3D-4DF1-9B59-A87D771E6552
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 29E1E880-0EA9-4CF1-82C3-AE6D0B9B2676
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: AES-XTS
Conversion Status: Converting
Conversion Direction: forward
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: Yes
|
+-> Logical Volume 014EED50-5E1E-4B80-AC25-2BE81077D83E
Disk: disk1
Status: Online
Size (Total): 249821659136 B (249.8 GB)
Conversion Progress: Paused
Revertible: No
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 488555536 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
488965176 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
490234712 7
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header -
Bootcamp Woes...Should be easy for you pros
Alright I'm gonna break this down as simple as possible
1) I had two partitions one large mac partition and one 80GB windows 7 partition. I tried to shrink my mac side and it created and empty space pushing the windows partition from number 4 partition to number 5.
2) I found a discussion on here using gdisc and I guess it moved 5 to 1 or made it look that way and did something to the MBR. I followed someones example. This brought my windows partition back but made my mac side disappear...and I know its still in there lurking.
3) Ive tried several utilities and tools. Some found the files but I need to actually boot the mac side to make a recovery ( I want my applications and everything) If I could just boot it one more time to make a recovery image then I could wipe my whole computer and start over.
4) The closest I got to finding the best information but I still didnt want to fix it was disk-boot-repair by sourceforge. Keep in mind that I can ONLY access windows at the moment. So don't even mention a mac side related solution....believe me I wish it was this simple.
Below are the images (excuse my crappy pictures) from the disk-boot-repair you can see that it sees the mac osx and something just isnt lined up right. The disk-boot-repair won't fix it because it found an EMI. Which I think is a good thing because I need that right?
Forgive me for sounding like a newb through all this but I got myself into this mess and I plan on fixing it and I'm learning along the way. Any help and I would be forever grateful.
RobbieI appreciate your effort but I'm not even sure you read my post. I know now thats what I should have done and I messed up.
Now I'm trying to fix it. My mac files still exist somewhere on my hard drive. I just cant get it to boot because when I used gdisk it changed my partition numbers, MBR, etc.
I just need my mac to boot one more time to make a backup or figure out how to access the files enough to make a backup that I can restore. Then I will wipe hard drive, re-install. Use bootcamp assit. Restore windows and restore mac files.
I have too many important files to let this slide. This is why I'm going to all this effort. Using all these tools to try and get it to boot one more time. Should I have made a backup when I could still get the mac side to boot yes. But I know its all still there somewhere just not pointed in the right place when I try to boot.
Thanks
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