Bootcamp partitioning got stuck... now what?
I wanted to create a split partition with bootcamp. I'm using snow leopard on MBPro.
I used bootcamp assistant, chose a split partition and selected next. The progress bar moved for about 15 minutes before it froze. it froze for several hours and refused to move. The whole computer locked up. I did a hard shutdown and rebooted it. Now when I go to bootcamp assistant, it won't let me do a split partition because mac is "using" about 3/4 of my HDD. (appears to be used data amount + attempted partition size). I don't know how to undo a partition attempt. I can't tell if there's another partition on my HDD. Also, I tried doing a recovery with my snow leopard CD, but all I get is a grey apple and NO activity. I can see no way to break down the "used" partition.
My mac is messed up. I cannot do a recovery on it.
It is the type of thing that anyone would say have backup, will happen.
And to shrink the partition ahead of time to the desired amount to see if you do have abiltiy and enough free ungramentd (consolidated) free space.
Booting from another volume to repair the drive FIRST ahead of time doesn't hurt.
Normally takes less than 5 minutes more like 2-3 minutes to create a partition.
Clean install and restore from TimeMachine is one way. Installs and updates tend to fragment free space all over the drive. Cloning and an erase and restore considates free space so it will work.
You would be lucky to have a bootable system, and to repair and do Safe Boot and try to get a clone or DU Restore Image made.
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today i try to boot into windows and i get an error report screen saying that some new software or hardware may be causing startup to fail (of course, not specifying which software or hardware that might be). it then lists the different startup options i have: safe mode, safe mode with networking, safemode with command propt, as it last worked, or start windows normally. ive tried just about all of the options listed and what happens is, if using a safe mode option, a bunch of file names scroll up the screen making it seem as though windows is about to startup and then it immediately restarts my computer again. repeating the whole process. when i select the "start windows normally" option it does the same thing without the files scrolling up.
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I got infected now what should I do?
Hello
I have a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact.
Today I turned on the wireless, clicked the "Gmail" official application to read my emails. Then the phone started doing things itself, so it went to "Settings menu button", "uninstall" and was trying to uninstall "CM Security", but i turned off the wireless button from my modem in time. So he could'nt uninstall it.
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Now I uninstalled half of apps on my phone, and I have not connected it to the internet anymore.
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This will factory reset your phone
Switch off your phone and unplug from Pc (Hold volume up and power for around 10 seconds)
Start PC Companion and select Support zone then Update my phone/tablet then in Blue Repair my phone/tablet and follow the onscreen instructions - When prompted connect your phone still switched off holding volume down or back button - This should start the repair or reformat process
If you are using Windows 8/8.1 or a 64bit operating system then adjust the settings for PC Companion and run in compatibility mode and chose Windows 7 or XP
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Got drivers now what - bluetooth.
My phone will pair but not connect with a Dell laptop running win7.1, some of the bluetooth services, eg AAS have no driver in std windows.
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What next.
Chris@chrisaaaaa
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http://support.sonymobile.com/global-en/contactUs/
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so when I connect my phone ... I get this:
So this means:
New hardware found: the driver for your Apple Mobile Device needs to be installed:
1) search for drivers and install (recommended)
2) try again later
3) Do not give this message again for this machine
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and my computer doesn't won't to recognise my phone...
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Eudora to Mail: got mailboxes, now what about attachments?
I've finally had to give up on Eudora, even though Mail STILL doesn't do all the nice things Eudora does, but I haven't found any other alternatives. I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on a MacBook Pro...not going to Mavericks yet because of imcompatible software at work.
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Success: moving bootcamp partition to an external drive
Background
Due to the relatively small, non-exchangable SSD on my Mac, I'd limited the bootcamp partition to 50GB when installing Windows. I needed to install new software in Windows, but was running out of space fast and didn't have the necessary space on the Windows side. I don't use Windows that often and for that reason, I wanted to move the Bootcamp partition to an external hard drive, freeing up space for the Mac side on the internal SSD. I'd read many conflicting reports on the web, some claiming they'd done it successfully, while others said it would be impossible, because Windows 7 wouldn't run from an external drive. I had a HDD in a USB 3 enclosure, and first tried to install Windows to this (using various guides on the web). I was very close to success with this USB 3 drive, but Windows would fail during start-up. Most reports claiming to have successfully been able to run Windows 7 from an external drive, had used Thunderbolt drives, so I decided to get myself a Lacie Rugged USB 3/Thunderbolt series Solid State Drive.
Hardware used
MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display (mid 2012), 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD
Lacie Rugged USB 3/Thunderbolt series, 120GB Solid State Drive
Software used
Mac OS X Mavericks, 10.9.2
Windows 7 Ultimate
Plus several free downloads from the internet, see description below.
Procedure
Step 1: Get the Thunderbolt drive to work under your Bootcamp Windows 7 installation.
This should be simple enough, but proved to be a little tricky. Here’s what I did (assumes you are running Mac OS X before you begin):
1. Make sure your Thunderbolt drive is disconnected before proceeding.
2. Restart your Mac and hold down the option key (alt key on some keyboards) during startup.
3. Choose the Windows drive to start up Windows 7 on your Bootcamp partition.
4. After log in to Windows 7, download the necessary driver software for your Thunderbolt drive (find it at the manufacturer’s homepage of your Thunderbolt drive - in my case lacie.com).
5. If the downloaded driver installer is in a compressed format (like zip for example) be sure to decompress it before running the driver installer.
6. Shut down your computer.
7. Connect your Thunderbolt drive to your computer.
8. Start up in Windows 7 (see items 2 & 3 above) and if it all went well, you should now be able to see your Thunderbolt drive under Start>Computer.
Step 2: Format your Thunderbolt drive in NTFS-format.
Still running Windows 7 with your Thunderbolt drive connected and visible to the system, it is now time to format your external Thunderbolt drive in NTFS-format. There are several ways of doing this. I used the procedure described here at tedhhack.co.uk.
Step 3: Follow the directions at intowindows.com to clean install Windows 7 onto your external Thunderbolt drive.
As described at intowindows.com, this involves downloading Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) and running command line tools. At step 9 in the described process at intowindows.com, at the point where the installer asks if the drive you are installing to is a USB hard disk, the correct input is Y for yes, even if your external drive is a Thunderbolt drive (and obviously not a USB hard disk).
At step 10 in the described process at intowindows.com (Reboot your PC), remember to hold down the option (or alt) key at every restart in the installation process, so as not to start up in Mac OS X. Also, since your machine now has two Windows 7 installations, Windows Boot Manager will appear and ask you to “Choose an operating system to start” and there is a list of two Windows.
I don’t know how to tell which one is on the external drive and which one is on the internal drive at this point, but I started with the top one on the list and this turned out to be the one I wanted (the newly installed one on the external drive). If you pick the wrong one (on the internal drive) at first, simply restart the computer and choose the other one. You know you got the right one when the installation process continues and asks for further input.
After the Windows installation is complete (there will be at least one other restart required - remember to hold down the option (alt) key to start up in Windows, and choose the same Windows on the list in the Windows Boot Manager), you’ll be running a freshly installed, but crippled Windows 7, as you still haven’t installed the specific drivers for your hardware. But don’t worry, that will be fixed in the next step.
Step 4: Clone your Bootcamp partition from your internal drive to the external Thunderbolt drive.
In this step you will copy all the software, drivers, settings and other files from your Bootcamp partition on your internal drive to your external Thunderbolt drive. The easiest way to do that is to clone your Windows partition - and to that end you’ll need to download some free software: AOMEI Backupper Standard 2.0 fits the bill perfectly, as it will let you clone at the same time as resizing the partition to fit your external Thunderbolt drive (I went from a 50GB internal Bootcamp partition to a 120GB external Thunderbolt SSD).
1. Download AOMEI Backupper Standard 2.0 (I used the 17MB download for Windows 7), install it, and run it.
2. In the left column choose “Clone” and in the right column choose “Partition Clone”. By choosing Partition Clone instead of Disk clone, you won’t ruin the newly created (but invisible) boot partition on the external Thunderbolt drive.
3. Press Next and choose your internal Bootcamp partition as the Source Disk.
4. Press Next again and choose your external Thunderbolt drive (your newly installed Windows 7) as the Destination Disk.
5. Press Next again and you’ll get a warning that you will erase the contents of the destination partition and it asks if this is what you really want to do. Press Yes to this question.
6. Next screen is an Operation Summery. Toward the bottom of the Operation Summery screen there are a few interesting options: Edit Size of Partition, Clone Sector by Sector and Align Partition to Optimize for SSD.
7. If your destination partition is larger than your source destination like mine was, press Edit Size of Partition. This will take you to another screen, where you can drag to resize the partition. I dragged this all the way to the right to give Windows 7 the full size of my external Thunderbolt drive.
8. Leave the checkbox Clone Sector by Sector unchecked.
9. If your external Thunderbolt drive is an SSD, put a check in the checkbox entitled Align Partition to Optimize for SSD.
10. Now press the Start Clone button.
11. When the cloning process is done, exit AOMEI Backupper and restart your computer (holding down the option or alt key) to start up in your new clone of your old Windows 7 with all the same software, drivers, settings and files.
Step 5: Enjoy running all your Windows 7 applications from your external Thunderbolt drive!
Step 6: Here is where I need help/advice – can I remove the Bootcamp partition on my internal drive now?
I am reluctant to entirely remove the Bootcamp partition from my internal drive, as I am unsure whether this will disable me from starting up in Windows. I would love to hear from anyone here with insight on the matter.Step 6: Here is where I need help/advice – can I remove the Bootcamp partition on my internal drive now?
To answer my own question in Step 6 above, no, or at least I haven't found a way yet...
Here's what I've done so far:
Used the Bootcamp Assistant to remove the bootcamp partition on my internal drive.
Booted the system with the option (alt) key pressed down and now there was NO Windows drive to choose.
Therefore I used the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows back onto my internal drive (including installing Bootcamp drivers in the Windows environment). This time I chose the minimum partition of 20GB for the Windows installation on the internal drive.
Booted into the new Windows on the internal drive and installed the drivers for my Thunderbolt drive.
Restarted with the option (alt) key pressed down, chose the Windows drive, but Windows Boot Manager still didn't pop up to allow me to choose the Windows installation on the external Thunderbolt drive.
Booted from the Windows DVD and chose Repair.
Restarted with the option (alt) key pressed down, chose the Windows drive, and now Windows Boot Manager finally popped up, which allowed me to choose the Windows installation on the external Thunderbolt drive again, phew!
So, I can run Windows 7 from the external Thunderbolt drive, but I have to use 20GB of my internal drive for a Windows installation I'll never use. Not the best solution, but at least I've saved 30GB of space compared to my previous Bootcamp partition - and I now have enough space to install the Windows 7 software I need on the external Thunderbolt drive... -
Can't mount bootcamp partition in 10.9.5
Hi, I'm only able to boot into my bootcamp partition by restarting the computer and holding down alt/option. When I'm in OSX, I'm only able to see the partition in Disk Utility, and it's greyed out there. I just installed Windows 8, updated to windows 8.1, and then installed a mavericks update. I guess somewhere along the line the bootcamp partition got disconnected from mavericks?
I did some googling and I think I need to do something in gdisk to fix it, but I'm not sure how that works. Here's my output from
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 967470968] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 967880608 - 1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969150464 - 983451648] HPFS/QNX/AUX
and from sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/rdisk0': Undefined error: 0
Any help would be appreciated! I already installed gdisk successfully, just have no idea how to use it.Yeah, and actually I tried using gdisk because I hadn't gotten any replies, I really messed up what I had and now I can't boot into windows ^^;
Here's a new version of those previous two. Somehow BOOTCAMP turned into XENIX, I have no idea how or what that means (nothing good probably)
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 967470968] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 967880608 - 1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 03 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 969150464 - 984373248] XENIX /usr
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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 967470968 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
967880608 1269544 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
969150152 312
969150464 984373248 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header
And here's some other stuff that might be helpful
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 495.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 504.0 GB disk0s4
sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
409640 967470968 2 GPT part - "Untitled"
967880608 1269544 3 GPT part - "Recovery HD"
969150152 312
969150464 984373248 4 GPT part - "BOOTCAMP"
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header -
Unable to boot up/into (win7) bootcamp partition following Mountain Lion upgrade
Greetings to all, I hope somebody could please help me with this issue;
A few days ago I upgraded to mountain lion, and immediately after the upgrade was completed and the system rebooted, I discovered that a new partition (Recovery-10.8) had suddenly come into existence in place of my bootcamp partition upon holding alt on boot. My bootcamp partition does show up now after re-syncing boot tables in rEFIt, though all that happens while booting up is a missing operating system error. I tried the win7 boot dvd, but it does not and did not see the partition; but very strangely, it referred to my computer as %1, and my account name in OS X is simply “1”. This leads me to believe that my bootcamp partition got knocked back a spot due to the introduction of that pesky new partition, a problem all too similar to many others’ pleas for help, though too individually complex for a simple copy and paste type of a solution~ and for a lowly user like me to tackle.
Please do help me good sirs,
Regards,
Royce
P.s. bootcamp partition never showed on startup disk
P.p.s. in disk utility it cannot be mounted, is referred to as disk0s4, and is greyed outI see two things. First, notice this fourth line from your GPT. It says ~73GB of disk space is not allocated to any partition, it's free space. Why?
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 742851896 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
743261536 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
744531072 153633664
898164736 78608384 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
The good news is that partition 4 for Windows in the GPT and MBR have the same start - end sectors. However in the MBR no partition is marked bootable. One must be bootable and it's customary for Apple to mark the Windows partition bootable. I strongly suspect this is why Windows is not a boot option, and it's rather easy to fix.
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 898164736 - 78608384] Win95 FAT32L
My suggestion is that you reclaim the missing free space before you proceed with MBR repair, but missing ~73GB of space isn't hurting anything. Try the following and report back:
diskutil list /dev/disk0
diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0 limits
Again both are read-only commands and do not alter the disk information in any way. -
Keep Bootcamp partition after am OS downgrade?
After a bit of a battle I now have W7 sitting on my 10.6.2 Bootcamp partition. I now wish to 'downgrade' to 10.5.8 because it is impossible to run Palm and iSync on SL.
Will my W7 partition survive the reinstall of Leopard? Will it be accessible from Leopard and how will I ensure that it is? I would prefer to do a full install than a restore from Time Machine as the earlier install was getting a bit flakey - a bit like Windows (do others find this happens?)I'm afraid you are concerned over nothing. Windows boots on its own as does OS X. Installing a lesser version of OS X will have no impact on your Windows installation as I said at first. The dual boot option will still be there. If you want a means of recovery just in case, then download WinClone - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - and use it to make a backup archive of your Windows partition. Since WinClone is an OS X application you can create and restore the archive directly from OS X.
Your loss of dual booting in other systems has more to do with the nature of the bootloader, how it's installed, and that Windows can blow it. That's not the case with the Mac. Boot Camp Assistant sets up an independent partition fully compatible with Windows but allowing each operating system to exist independently of the other.
There's nothing wrong with GRUB. Some Linux users rely on GRUB to provide dual boot capability between Linux and OS X. That's because the Apple hardware and software are not delivered with Linux in mind - only Windows. For two reasons: 1. A large number of potential Mac customers need or want to use Windows; 2. OS X is a variant of Unix. There's very little need for Linux on the Mac. However, as far as I know the Mac's boot loader may very well be a modified GRUB - one that works with the EFI. After all Unix and Linux aren't that different - beyond the spelling. -
HT201316 Mt Lion & Bootcamp Partition
Mt Lion failed to install indicating "no-recovery" which appears due to having a Bootcamp Partition on my iMac. If I remove the Bootcamp Partition, will Mt Lion install? If so, can I then re-install the Bootcamp Partition?
Here is what was required with Lion. I cannot guarantee it will help with Mountain Lion since you may have the error stating it could not install because it failed to find a Recovery HD partition.
What to do if the installer warns that no Recovery HD can be created
Some disk partition configurations may result in the OS X Lion installer reporting that it could not create a Recovery HD. In these situations, even if you are permitted to continue the install, you should quit the install and create an external, bootable OS X Lion hard drive with a Recovery HD, first. You will be able to return to the upgrade to OS X Lion on your computer's boot drive after creating the external Recovery HD.
Important notes
Your storage device must have at least 13 GB available (after formatting) to install Lion and an Internet Restore partition.
These steps will erase and reformat the storage device. OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery will instruct you on setting up the storage device to use the GUID partition scheme and the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which are required to install Lion and an Internet Restore partition on your external storage device. You should back up any important files that are on the device to a different drive.
This procedure will install a version of the OS X Lion that is compatible with the Mac it was created with. Using this Lion system with a different kind of Mac may produce unpredictable results.
Your computer's serial number will be sent to Apple to help authenticate your request to download and install OS X Lion.
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Hi, I am wondering if there is an automatic (or near automatic) method of deskewing an image on both the X and Y axis. My image is sheared off on some angles, since it is a scanned image. I like the Ruler Tool method of rotation (i.e. drawing a