Bootcamp OSX partition keeps corrupting
I have a client that I have set up a Bootcamp system for with Mountain Lion/Win7. This is a mid 2011 MB Pro 13", Core 2duo, 8GB RAM, 720 GB HD. I set it up for him and the first night switching from Windows to OSX with the "option" key method at restart. When selecting the OSX partition it started to boot then shut down. I worked on the phone several hours with him and couldn't figure it out.
I picked up the MB Pro and reinstalled Mountain Lion and got it working again. One week has passed and he just let me know that OSX will not boot again.
What could be the issue here? HD failure is my first thought? Any ideas would be most helpful. Thanks in advance!
It could be a drive hardware failure, or it could be other factors. If the user is using the standard Windows 7 backup software, they could be corrupting their own MacOS partition by performing a test backup/restore. If you or they have loaded drivers to give them write access to their HFS+ partitions, they could be doing many different things to corrupt the partition. Using any windows based partitioning tools or drive maintenance tool might also be corrupting the drive. There are a very few windows based tools which actively support working with Mac HFS+ volumes, so using anything other than those could be the source of corruption.
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Yeah I reinstalled osx 10.9.1 and installed all my apps, put everything back then used bootcamp to create a partition for windows then used wineclone to install my windows 8.1 backup. I jumped from windows > osx > windows > osx inside an hour to move around a few things and I forgot verify bootcamp after I installed the backup and that last time I booted to osx it was corrupted. I used disk utility from my external installation and the recovery partition and both times they need repaired which only came up with the backup and wipe notification window. There have been two occasions where I was able to fix the osx partition from my external osx installation and continue using osx quite perfectly but usually the partition becomes un-mountable after it fails to repair. Usually when this has happened the twenty something times before it's after a prolonged period of a few weeks using windows.
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IMac won't boot OsX Partition after Bootcamp install/uninstall.
Hello,
I have bought 2 late 2012 21.5 iMacs last year and have used both the same way. Here is what happened with one of them recently.
Fisrt af all I've installed bootcamp 1 year ago in both iMacs without issues and was ok so far, and was using exclusively Windows 7 partition. The trouble iMac started with some startup issues during boot/reboot (screen was frozen with green/grey horizontal lines), but worked fine after following manual start up.
Lately I've been trying to boot from OsX partition and it freezes in the apple logo every time.
I have already done the SMC / PRAM procedures, without success.
I have tried to download and do a fresh OsX install (Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite). Can't boot from Mavericks / Yosemite flash drive install (both freeze at apple logo - horizontal lines), and only had partial success with one Mountain Lion 10.8.5 flash drive install that booted all right and the first part of the installation process was ok, but after the initial reboot, it happened to freeze the same way before.
The iMac failed to boot in safe mode (stops booting at 25% and then freezes on apple logo), and show no issues with AHT tests.
I can boot in single user mode, but it reboots after a few seconds. I noticed some errors messages during this boot.
It fails to boot in verbose mode, showing a few lines of errors (images attached), and then freezes in a green horizontal line screen.
I can still boot from Bootcamp flash drive and Ubuntu Flash drive, and install both OS. The only issue is with OsX itself. I have used Gparted in Ubuntu to Format the hole partition to HFS+, and can't find any errors in hard drive tests.
I thought about buying a thunderbolt cable and try to do a Clone of my other iMac, but don't know if it will work.
Any other tests/suggestions about this issue?
Regards,Fixed the problem with this setup
Of course this means i just lost 4GB.
Let me tell the full story.
In the beginning, long ago, once upon a time. My iMac had 2x2GB ram sticks which were in the two DIMM1 Banks. I then told myself "I WANT MORE RAM BECAUSE LOLZ". So i bought 2x4GB ram sticks. The two empty slots were Bank 0/DIMM0 and Bank 1/DIMM 0. and I added them in there. having done that, I booted OS X up, worked great, had 12GB, everything was shiny and beautiful. Soon after I wanted to try it out on windows. I restarted my computer and BAM the blinking cursor just sits there, being stubborn and all. I then told myself "holy balls, this new ram i got is bonkers" (them words, I blame the language filter). Then after giving it a little thought, i just asked myself if it was because I had ram from two different manufacturers. I removed my old ram, which has nice Samsung stickers on them, and booted it up on windows. Still had the same problem, I then decided that maybe this is all really mentally challenged so to win I had to think like a retard. I took my new ram and inserted it in the same slots where my old ram sticks were (DIMM1 Banks), booted windows up and IT WORKED.
I still hold all of my WHYs on this subject but I will keep messing around to see if I find a better solution than just leaving both DIMM0 banks empty -
IMac 27" (late 2011), Mountain Lion, Bootcamp, and OSX partition disappearing and refusing to mount
Hey all,
I'm putting this as a question in the discussion forms for bootcamp as I'm not sure where else to put it, but I resolved an issue I was having and having spent all of yesterday and the day before reading through this community and some others looking for answers and mostly seeing "hope you have backups, time to format!" (which to me is not always the best answer), I thought I would put it here for search purposes (with all the key words I had to use) in case anyone else has a similar issue.
My scenario was this:
2011 27" iMac with Mountain Lion installed and Windows 7 installed on a boot camp partition.
1) Haven't been in windows in a while, wanted to play some windows only steam games. Load windows 7. All is well. Have fun. Time to reboot into osx.
2) Reboot using bootcamp toolbar icon.
3) Wander away from computer. Come back to find windows 7 has loaded again. "That's weird", I think. Reboot again, this time hold down option key to select boot device.
4) Discover the only options are the Bootcamp partition and the Recovery partition. OSX "Macintosh HD" partition has disappeared. Huh.
5) Load recovery partition and load disk utility.
6) Review disk utility to discover the Macintosh HD partition shows up in the list, but won't mount. Run verify and repair tools. Errors are as follows: Invalid node structure, invalid key length, invalid record count, etc etc. Running a repair fails - disk utility advises me to back up and erase the drive and that the partition is unrepairable. No offense disk utility, but I think I'll try a few more options first.
7) Purchase DiskWarrior on advice of multiple posters in other threads and general online consensus of it being capable of fixing these sorts of errors. Go through process of loading bootable dvd.
8) Diskwarrior cannot see the Macintosh HD partition. This is bad. Review more threads. Advice is that if diskwarrior can't fix it, hope you have backups and wipe the drive. Likely to be hardware failure. I'm skeptical of hardware failure, because windows is chugging along running fine if I boot into it, and I ran a scan of the windows partition and it came back clean. SMART status is also showing the drive is ok. However, running out of options and starting to lose hope.
9) Follow advice in this support topic: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417?viewlocale=de_de Both safe mode and disk utility aren't options (safe mode won't work without it seeing the partition) so sounds like fsck is the final option.
10) Start up in Single User Mode (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492). Run fsck per instructions. It reports back ok.
11) Realize fsck is checking the recovery partition, and not my damaged OSX partition. Realize I don't know anything about unix commands and have no idea how to tell fsck to check a different partition.
12) Learn that I need to find out what the drive id is for the damaged partition. Reboot, load up disk utility, select greyed out "macintosh HD" partition, click info. Write down the id: disk0s2 (likely to be the default for you as well if you have one drive in your imac and a default bootcamp install).
13) Go back into single user mode and type the following (without quotes): "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2"
14) (Forgot to copy down exactly what it said at this point, but gist of it was that the drive had errors and isnt repairable). Feel like ****, thinking this is unlikely to resolve itself nicely.
15) With nothing to lose, try to force fsck to rebuild the catalog - "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" I found this syntax on some forums and can't find the thread again. I have no idea what the -rc and -d do that -fy don't, but if someone can let me know, that'd be cool. Either way, this resulted in something actually happening. Tells me it is "rebuilding catalogue b-tree". Still, finishes with a bunch of errors about improperly linked files, more node errors, etc etc.
16) Retry "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2". It seems to be doing stuff now, even though there are lots of errors. Continue to re-run fsck using this syntax. Probably ran it 10-15 times. Takes over an hour. Finally, minimal errors being reported.
17) Realize that perhaps I should try Diskwarrior again now, since I've managed to do soemthing to the partition with fsck.
18) Run Diskwarrior from bootable DVD. Success! It now sees the damaged partition. Reports that it has a bunch of damaged crtitical files, and needs to be repaired, but hey, at least it can see it.
19) Let Diskwarrior do its thing, and reboot.
20) Boot from repaired OSX partition. Rejoice. Immediately plug back in the timemachine drive you foolishly unplugged to take away over the holidays and neglected to plug back in before you had commenced work on stuff you didnt want to lose through formatting, which is why you are so desperate to recover files rather than wiping and restoring from time machine backups and avoiding this whole mess.
TL;DR - If Disk Utility and DriveWarrior fail you, try running fsck (using different syntax that apple recommends) as many times as it takes to get the partition to a stage where diskwarrior can see it. All advice I saw for similar questions was to erase, reinstall OSX, and restore from time machine backup. For those of you who are foolish like me and had files that werent time machine'd, or those who operate without, maybe try this.
Hope this helps!What -rc & -d do.
From: The fsck_hfs manual page.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages /man8/fsck_hfs.8.html
-d Display debugging information. This option may provide useful information when fsck_hfs cannot repair a damaged file system.
-r Rebuild the catalog btree. This is synonymous with -Rc.
-R flags Rebuilds the requested btree. The following flags are supported:
a Attribute btree
c Catalog btree
e Extents overflow btree
I had the same problem as you but unfortunately "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" is failing saying: "The volume could not be verified completely." I believe it's supposed to be telling me the partition's name (normally "Macintosh HD") between 'volume' and 'could' because there's 3 spaces in between the words.
"fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2" is failing with the same error.
I tried "fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk0s2" since the c appears redundant with a lowercase R. and it again says it cannot be verified completely and adds "volume check failed with error 7". Which unfortunately is not documented on the fsck_hfs man page!
Unfortunately for me, Diskwarrior still can't see my busted Mac OS partition. -
Bootcamp partition missing after resizing OSX partition
Hi,
Please help me, after resizing OSX partition, i can't go back to windows, and i see bootcamp partition change to disk0s4 on disk utility
After find solution on this discussions site, I try to follow Lonner T way on "Missing Operating system_ " After installing Yosemite
but i have different problem :
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 292614464 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
293024104 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
294293640 98285432
392579072 97654784 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856 863
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
And try using testdisk
output
> MS Data
392579071 490862590 98283520
After that I follow this solution
Rebuild using start/end offsets from Testdisk DeepSearch using GPT Fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/)
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4 (part 4)
392579071- Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+1072318457 (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
I have problem on point 9,
output
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk0: 490234752 sectors, 233.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): FB335EA6-2601-48E6-87FE-1208E28CCAF9
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 490234718
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 98285430 sectors (46.9 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 293024103 139.5 GiB AF00 Customer
3 293024104 294293639 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD
4 392579064 490234718 46.6 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
Command (? for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 4
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (4-128, default 4): 4
First sector (34-490234718, default = 294293640) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 392579071
Information: Moved requested sector from 392579071 to 392579064 in
order to align on 8-sector boundaries.
Use 'l' on the experts' menu to adjust alignment
Last sector (392579064-490234718, default = 490234718) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 98283520
Last sector (392579064-490234718, default = 490234718) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:
Please help meLoner T wrote:
Thank you.
No, I am who should be thanking to you
This is output from deepsearch
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, March 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO)
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI]
D EFI System 46 409645 409600 [EFI]
D Mac HFS 409640 293024103 292614464
D Mac HFS 978664 293593127 292614464
D Mac HFS 980528 293594991 292614464
D Mac HFS 982464 293596927 292614464
D Mac HFS 984072 293598535 292614464
D Mac HFS 985904 293600367 292614464
D Mac HFS 986416 293600879 292614464
D Mac HFS 986976 293601439 292614464
D Mac HFS 987440 293601903 292614464
D Mac HFS 988224 293602687 292614464
D Mac HFS 990104 293604567 292614464
D Mac HFS 991640 293606103 292614464
D Mac HFS 992112 293606575 292614464
D Mac HFS 992408 293606871 292614464
D Mac HFS 992656 293607119 292614464
D Mac HFS 992752 293607215 292614464
D Mac HFS 992960 293607423 292614464
D Mac HFS 993224 293607687 292614464
D Mac HFS 993552 293608015 292614464
D Mac HFS 994248 293608711 292614464
D Mac HFS 995560 293610023 292614464
D Mac HFS 995656 293610119 292614464
D Mac HFS 996304 293610767 292614464
D Mac HFS 998056 293612519 292614464
D Mac HFS 999112 293613575 292614464
D Mac HFS 999248 293613711 292614464
D Mac HFS 999352 293613815 292614464
D Mac HFS 999488 293613951 292614464
D Mac HFS 999624 293614087 292614464
D Mac HFS 999824 293614287 292614464
D Mac HFS 1000120 293614583 292614464
D Mac HFS 1000336 293614799 292614464
D Mac HFS 1000432 293614895 292614464
D Mac HFS 1000664 293615127 292614464
D Mac HFS 1000928 293615391 292614464
D Mac HFS 1001096 293615559 292614464
D Mac HFS 1001240 293615703 292614464
D Mac HFS 1001344 293615807 292614464
D Mac HFS 1001680 293616143 292614464
D Mac HFS 1002568 293617031 292614464
D Mac HFS 1004272 293618735 292614464
D Mac HFS 1004432 293618895 292614464
D Mac HFS 1004640 293619103 292614464
D Mac HFS 1005944 293620407 292614464
D Mac HFS 1007784 293622247 292614464
D Mac HFS 1008160 293622623 292614464
D Mac HFS 1010000 293624463 292614464
D Mac HFS 1011552 293626015 292614464
D Mac HFS 1013400 293627863 292614464
D Mac HFS 1015504 293629967 292614464
D Mac HFS 1015840 293630303 292614464
D Mac HFS 1017736 293632199 292614464
D Mac HFS 1018104 293632567 292614464
D Mac HFS 1018688 293633151 292614464
D Mac HFS 1020480 293634943 292614464
D Mac HFS 1021352 293635815 292614464
D Mac HFS 1022328 293636791 292614464
D Mac HFS 1022936 293637399 292614464
D Mac HFS 1023256 293637719 292614464
D Mac HFS 1023584 293638047 292614464
D Mac HFS 1024904 293639367 292614464
D Mac HFS 1025288 293639751 292614464
D Mac HFS 1025464 293639927 292614464
D Mac HFS 1026095 293640558 292614464
D MS Data 149383904 149386783 2880 [EFISECTOR]
D MS Data 149387723 149393896 6174
D MS Data 149393896 149400069 6174 [Boot]
D MS Data 173916696 173919575 2880 [EFISECTOR]
D MS Data 173919576 173922455 2880 [EFISECTOR]
D Mac HFS 196270356 294293643 98023288
D Mac HFS 196273461 294296748 98023288
D Mac HFS 196273589 294296876 98023288
D Mac HFS 196273765 294297052 98023288
D Mac HFS 196273853 294297140 98023288
D Mac HFS 196273949 294297236 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274197 294297484 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274381 294297668 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274517 294297804 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274709 294297996 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274877 294298164 98023288
D Mac HFS 196274997 294298284 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275109 294298396 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275213 294298500 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275381 294298668 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275661 294298948 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275821 294299108 98023288
D Mac HFS 196275917 294299204 98023288
D Mac HFS 196276141 294299428 98023288
D Mac HFS 196276245 294299532 98023288
D Mac HFS 196276381 294299668 98023288
D Mac HFS 196276549 294299836 98023288
D Mac HFS 196276637 294299924 98023288
D MS Data 261292840 418075424 156782585
D Mac HFS 291754572 293024107 1269536
D Mac HFS 291754640 293024175 1269536
D Mac HFS 291754712 293024247 1269536
D Mac HFS 291754816 293024351 1269536
D Mac HFS 291754888 293024423 1269536
D Mac HFS 291754968 293024503 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755040 293024575 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755112 293024647 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755184 293024719 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755264 293024799 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755336 293024871 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755416 293024951 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755488 293025023 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755592 293025127 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755664 293025199 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755768 293025303 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755840 293025375 1269536
D Mac HFS 291755944 293025479 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756016 293025551 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756120 293025655 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756192 293025727 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756296 293025831 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756335 293025870 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756407 293025942 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756487 293026022 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756559 293026094 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756639 293026174 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756711 293026246 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756791 293026326 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756863 293026398 1269536
D Mac HFS 291756943 293026478 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757015 293026550 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291757247 293026782 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757319 293026854 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757399 293026934 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757471 293027006 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757575 293027110 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757647 293027182 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757751 293027286 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757823 293027358 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757903 293027438 1269536
D Mac HFS 291757975 293027510 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758079 293027614 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758151 293027686 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291758303 293027838 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758383 293027918 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758455 293027990 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758535 293028070 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758607 293028142 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758687 293028222 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758759 293028294 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758839 293028374 1269536
D Mac HFS 291758911 293028446 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759015 293028550 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759087 293028622 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759167 293028702 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759239 293028774 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759319 293028854 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759391 293028926 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759471 293029006 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759543 293029078 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291759927 293029462 1269536
D Mac HFS 291759999 293029534 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760079 293029614 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760151 293029686 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760231 293029766 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760303 293029838 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760383 293029918 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760455 293029990 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760535 293030070 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291760687 293030222 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760759 293030294 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760839 293030374 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760911 293030446 1269536
D Mac HFS 291760991 293030526 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761063 293030598 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761143 293030678 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761215 293030750 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761295 293030830 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761367 293030902 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761447 293030982 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761519 293031054 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761599 293031134 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291761751 293031286 1269536
D Mac HFS 291761823 293031358 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291761975 293031510 1269536
D Mac HFS 291762055 293031590 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291762511 293032046 1269536
D Mac HFS 291762583 293032118 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291762967 293032502 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291763191 293032726 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291763575 293033110 1269536
D Mac HFS 291763647 293033182 1269536
D Mac HFS 291763727 293033262 1269536
D Mac HFS 291763799 293033334 1269536
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D Mac HFS 291763951 293033486 1269536
D Mac HFS 291764031 293033566 1269536
D Mac HFS 291764103 293033638 1269536
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D MS Data 395884960 395891133 6174 [Boot]
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Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
P=Primary D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 49 GB / 46 GiB
And I have to P :list all MS Data
still same output
In all MS Data
Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged.
Only on sector "boot"
dr-xr-xr-x
0
0
0 16-Feb-2005 04:33 .
dr-xr-xr-x
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0 16-Feb-2005 04:33 ..
dr-xr-xr-x
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0 16-Feb-2005 04:33 System Volume Information -
Is it possible to resize a OSX partition without affecting a Bootcamp partition?
I have a new SSD drive but its only 120GB. I want to clone the entire drivevbut I cannot do this since my original SSD was 128GB. My OSX partition is 60GB and my Bootcamp partition takes up the rest. I know you cannot resize the Bootcamp partition but could I resize the OSX partition down to 50GB without affecting Bootcamp from booting up? Resizing the OSX partition, I should be able to clone my old drive to the new drive.
It doesn't matter how big a physical drive is. With a Mac partition, it also doesn't matter what the size of the source and target partitions are. The only thing that matters is if the amount of live data you're cloning will fit on the target drive.
Your current partition is 60GB. I would imagine it's not filled to the last byte of space. So as an example, let's say there's 40GB of data on it.
The target drive only needs to be a bit larger than that. Though preferably with a fair amount of free space so if you boot to it, the OS isn't running on a drive with virtually no operating room. So the target partition should be about 50GB.
Unlike Windows, Mac partitions do not dynamically change size to match the source. -
Disk Problems, OSX partition will not repair is Windows CHKDSK the culprit?
Hi,
I have both Snow Leopard (fully updated) and Windows 7 on Bootcamp partition on my MacBook Pro.
Repairing Permissions on my Mac OS 10.6.4 partition had become a very regular with 'Java' permission problems always seeming to be a very regular and common one.
Anyhow, I thought it appropriate and logical to run the WIndows 7 equivalent of disk-verify/disk-repair/permission-repair and therefore run CHKDSK at 'CMD' level and this appeared to run accordingly without problems.
At some point/days later, my Mac OS appeared to be slow and having a lot of spinny-ball, therefore verified Macintosh HD volume-disk with Disk Utility and showed to have lots of problem. Disk Utility Repair has failed having tried it many times and not even Drive Genius 3 is able to repair or rebuild it on this occasion however I was able to run a 'Scan' on it from Drive Genius 3 and it reported thankfully that there was NO bad blocks.
The error thats returned repeatedly when doing a repair is "Incorrect number of thread records" which is reported immediately after "Checking Catalog File"
Not keen on the thought of having to format, re-install and then re-setup the system even from a Super-Duper backup copy that I had made previously (minus some data since).
However, my questions are:
1. Is it possible that the Windows 7 'CHKDSK' command may have possibly caused this despite the fact that it would have or should have only performed it's operations on the BOOTCAMP disk partition?
2. Is it possible to reformat and restore any previously backed-up images to a single disk partition _without upsetting the other Partition and OS_ residing on it (albeit on the same overall physical disk), i.e. Restoring my Mac OS X SuperDuper backup image back onto the current Mac partition... and would the same apply if ever having to restore a Windows 7 Acronis backup image back onto the current BOOTCAMP partition.
3. Would there be another alternative before a drastic reformat and recovery of the Mac OSX partition (if that's even possible without affecting BOOTCAMP - from question 2 above)
Advice would be much appreciated, many thanx.At the time I had run the 'CHKDSK' command from within Windows, from the 'Run' command prompt located within the Start Menu.
Fortunately I still have the previous HDD that originally came with the MacBook Pro before I upgraded the internal drive some time ago and therefore I have been able to boot externally from this and continue to do so until I've decided what to do, which looks like a recovery from the previous super-duper backup will be inevitable.
I guess I'm unlikely to come across any software or fix that will be capable of correcting the 'faulty number of thread records' being reported after the 'Checking Catalog File' disk repair check routine, however if I find a solution then I'll post it here, otherwise an eventual recovery/install it is.
Under Fortuny's revelation, I will procede with MacDrive with caution and probably disable it if ever running a Windows CHKDSK again (if indeed this is the underlying cause of the problem). And under your advise 'The hatter' I shall certainly look into the Windows system file checker alternative, thanks. -
Can't install windows to mac osx partition!
Hi, I had 2 partitions in my macbook pro, 1 for mac osx and 1 for bootcamp, and I wanted to install mac osx to a firewire hard drive, but i messed it up and installed mac osx OVER the bootcamp partition.
Now I have 2 mac osx partitions on the macbook pro, and can't reformat the partition to reinstall bootcamp.
Is there a way to reformat that partition and reinstall bootcamp (windows)?
Thanks in advance!That is why backup should be #1 and last.
You have to return (ie, reformat) your drive probably back to one partition with just Mac OS before you can use Boot Camp Assistant.
While at it, just clone one of your Mac OS volumes over to FW now. Later, with Windows installed, make an image of that (WinClone) while in Mac OS to your FW drive also. -
Can I reinstall OS X without impacting my Bootcamp XP partition
I'm going to reformat and install OS X on my main partition on my MBP but as wondering if I could leave my bootcamp partition and XP installation "as is". I do hope I can do this without reinstalling XP or making any other changes??
Yep, you will be fine using the Leopard CD and re-installing it on the OSx partition. Your Windows partition will remain intact.
Axel F. -
Windows can't find OSX partition
Windows, both under Boot Camp, and Parallels 6, used to be able to recognize the partition on which OSX is installed. It stopped recognizing it and I don't know why or how to fix it. My version of OSX is Snow Leopard; version of Windows is Vista Home Premium (32 bit). I have been thinking of upgrading to OSX Lion. Would that fix the problem? I am also thinking of upgrading to Parallels 7, but doubt that it would fix the problem since Windows does not recognized OSX partition even in Boot Camp.
I don't know if it's the same, but I removed a lot of devices in Device Manager (for example the and they get automatically reinstalled)
For example I uninstalled "Apple Broadcom Built-in Bluetooth" and "Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator" under Bluetooth Radios and all devices under Human Interface Devices. To the point that no mouses or keyboards worked and I had to plug-in a wired USB mouse to go on...
When I say that I lost the bluetooth connectivity, I mean only my BT mouse (a MS Sculpt Touch mouse I bought yesterday. My Apple Wireless Keyboard works.
But my mouse dissapeared after reinstalling the bootcamp software and I can't for the life of me reinstall it again. It gets discovered but it gets an authentication error before pairing. Alternatively, I can right-click on the discovered mouse and check the HID BT services and when I OK it starts installing to dissapear after getting "succesfully installed drivers" -
Deleted OSX partition after installing windows
I installed windows 8 in bootcamp, everything was fine and working properly. I have now deleted the osx partition and was wondering if i ever wanted it back could i use the internet recovery to do so, as i don't have a disk or anything that came with my mbp 15" 2014?
Hello nathanwragg96,
The article linked below provides further information regarding OS X Recovery and Internet Recovery. In the event that the existing Recovery partition is removed or damaged, Internet Recovery can be invoked via CMD + Option + R at boot.
OS X: About OS X Recovery
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718
Regards,
Allen -
Problems accessing osx partition when in windows
Hi!
I've been running bootcamp with windows xp to play game's as smoothly as possible for some time.
Until this day it has been working really great with MacDrive as a way to get access to the osx partition when im in windows.. But suddenly, after doing the firmware update this morning, i cant access the osx partition when in windows, actually, windows cant find the partition at all anymore.. This is a problem since all my games are on the osx partition. Could it be the firmware update that did it, or is there something wrong with the windows partition? And finally, how can i fix this?
Im greatful for all kinds of respons, thank you!
if it is any help, i got a macbook pro.yup
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I am going to install win xp via bootcamp on i5 27" imac. I will be using xp to run Paint Shop Pro(197 mb) for photo editing. No gaming. No video editing.
Will the 32 gb partition be adequate for this purpose. I normally edit 2 to 4 mb files. Cloning and rudimentary layer work are probably most memory hogging tasks I will be performing.
I am also curious as to the resolution that paint shop pro will run on the 27" screen.
ThanksHi,
I am in the fortunate (no pun) position to have a Mac Pro with four harddisks in it.
I simply made a 100GB FAT32 partition on one of them and use it for file tranfers between OSX and Windows XP.
For the XP system partition I have always used (from the very beginning in my PC heydays) exclusively NTFS.
I find NTFS far more stable and robust than FAT32 and the inability of OSX to write to NTFS without help added to this feeling.
Also later Windows version (Vista and WIndows 7) need to have their system on a NTFS partition.
I would never ever allow my BootCamp Windows to write to my OSX partitions, due to viruses and the like...
The other way round allowing OSX to write to NTFS Windows partitions sounds not that bad to me, if I have to go that way.
If I would have to go that way then I would first tryout the free NTFS-3G before and see how it 'behaves' before shelling out money for Paragon or Tuxera.
All this with a descent backup strategy for may valuable files, which I already have.
One thing to consider that there are tools for BootCamp Windows that allow a resizing of the partition later on. WinClone and/or CampTune.
http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/
But this resizing can only be done if the partition uses NTFS as file system, so another one for NTFS.
rEFIt is a Boot-Menu and Toolkit that I mainly use as a Boot-Menu at startup to avoid the neccessity of the 'Option'-key to choose which OS to boot.
With the Option-key you have to press it at the 'correct' moment, rEFIt displays all bootable partitions in a Menu for a given time (30 seconds is default) before automatically booting the default one (defined by you).
Since I have three OSX version (10.4 to 10.6) plus Windows plus a 'playfield' for testing apps, I find rEFIt far more convenient that the Option-key.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps
Stefan -
Min Bootcamp Win7 and keep space for scratch 2nd 1TB internal drive
Hi all
Would appreciate some advice.
I have a MacPro and a second 1TB (blank) internal drive (arriving today)
I'd like to install Windows 7 on the 2nd drive and have the rest of the drive usable by the Mac for spare space, scratch etc. I don't need a large space for Win 7 - only a couple of Apps and Office. 32 Gig would SEEM enough?
Looking for most flexible solution. ie copying files between systems. being able to clean Win7 (remove easily and reinsntall) if issues.
Some posts mention Bootcamp on a second drive seems to take the whole drive by default and not make it easily accessible from the Mac - definitely don't want this scenario.
?Hi deepshade,
have a look/read at the BootCamp Installation Guide to be found here http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ or inside the BootCamp Assistant in OSX.
Especially the pages 6 and following.
In essence, partition the second HD to one partition (using GPT as partition scheme (Option-button)) and MacOS Extended (Journaled) as file system.
Then use the BootCamp Assistant to repartition that HD to two partitions making the needed Windows partition.
32GB might be too small for your useage. In general about 40GB are recommended but with installing Office and some other apps I would recommend something in the 70-80GB area.
And since resizing the Windows partition is quite a hassle to do, I wouldn't think "too small"
It might be needed for the Windows installation to pull-out the HD in Bay1 (and according the Installation Guide this might also be the case just for the repartitioning with the BootCamp Assistant), so you should think about a temporary clone of your OSX from HD1 to the OSX partition on HD2, but your mileage might vary on this.
And lastly FYI, there is a whole Forum dedicated to Apples BootCamp here http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
Regards
Stefan -
Okay so i had a Windows and OSX partition on my MBP. well today i got windows i tried to install it useing Bootcamp. Well when it got to the section where it asks me to choose where i want to install windows there was only one partition. So i exited out and restarted my macbook and OSX is completely gone. When i hold option when i reboot it only shows the Windows partition and nothing else.....
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