Lion, Bootcamp partition & recovery partition.

For those using Bootcamp this will be interesting. As I understand it if you have Bootcamp you can't mess about with more partitions.

Well it was interesting. I strongly recommend creating a boot disk from the Lion download prior to installation. I burned it to DVD. Archaic I know but it was a big download and we have multiple macs... and it saved my tail. The initial install I did was from the download but I ended up having to do a hard restart and boot from the DVD. Re installed Lion from the DVD and it booted up fine from there. I did go back and booted from the DVD again performed permission and disk repair. There were a lot of permissions to fix.
I also strongly recommend doing disk and permission repair with your snow leopard disk prior to even downloading Lion from the app store. This might help keep things simple. Who knows. Good luck!

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    I have Lion installed (clean install) and am unhappy with the performance to say the least.  In my experience SL was more stable with my video apps.
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    My question is:
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    Same difference as I believe a reinstall erases first then installs. To be sure though Start from the SL dvd and go to utilities and erase the Mac partition then install. As BootCamp is a separate partition it should be untoched.
    You will undoubtedly have the Lion restore partition left but it is invisible to Disk utility. Here is the procedure I followed to get rid of this partition since I have the Lion USB install thumb drive and do not need it.
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    4) Now highlite the top identity of the hard drive and select the partition tab.
    5) Highlite the Recovery partition and press the minus sign.
    6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply.

  • Lion + bootcamp partitioning fails

    I tried using bootcamp assistant on my mbp with Lion (fresh install) but it seems to hang on "status: partitioning" and the computer seems to hang. I had to forcequit using the power button. And now it seems like the space is lost on the harddrive, 100 gb gone poof.
    I tried booting with recovery hd and verify disk and repair disk. No changes.
    Did I do wrong by forcequitting during bootcamp partitioning? How long should I have let it actually run? (The whole computer were hanged/locked/frozen).
    What should I do now?

    I would uninstall what ever was installed and start over.
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/15306678#15306678
    If You Have Problems Creating a PartitionIf you have problems creating a Windows partition, check the following:
      Your Mac’s disk must be a single partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).If the disk already has more than one partition, you must repartition it.
      Your Mac’s disk must be an internal disk. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant toinstall Windows on an external disk.
      If you have a Mac Pro with more than one internal disk and you want to installBoot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in thelower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.
      If a dialog appears saying “The disk cannot be partitioned because verificationfailed,” try repairing the disk using Disk Utility and opening Boot Camp Assistantagain. If that doesn’t work, back up all the information on your computer, andreinstall Mac OS X. For more information, click the Finder icon in the Dock, chooseHelp > Help Center, and search for “reinstall Mac OS X.”

  • 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.
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    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
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    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.

  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.

  • Reinstalling Mountain Lion with a Bootcamp partition present

    My OSX10.8 partition has failed, not even allowing the Recovery function to reinstall Mountain Lion, or to restore from my Time Machine. So I assume I will need to reformat the drive using Disk Utility, then reinstall the OSX. BUT - I have an old Bootcamp partition running Windows XP. I need the partition for running some older software. Question: Can I erase the OSX partition, reinstall Mountain Lion and leave the Bootcamp untouched? Will the new OSX10.8 install see the previous Bootcamp drive?

    Assuming your drive hasn't failed:
    Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
    Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
    Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    Erase the hard drive:
      1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
      2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
          left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
      3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
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          the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
      4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
    Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
    Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
                because it is three times faster than wireless.

  • 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 out

    I 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
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  • Lion clean install broke existing windows xp bootcamp partition

    Hi all,
    I have been trawling to get educated on this but haven't found an answer yet (except purchasing windows 7-not interested, but thanks in advance for telling me that I should abandon XP because it's over 10 years old). And also dont tell me to just virtualise, i will, but i also want to use bootcamp for better performance. Lots of people theorizing what might work, but here's your chance to see what's not working in reality (and help get it to work please!).
    I had snow leopard with a working bootcamp partition running xp (also using parallels), on a late 2006 Mac book pro. Things were getting very slow so I really wanted a clean install of lion (and it has made a world of difference!)
    I didn't want to lose my xp partition so here's what I did:
    1-used disk utility to create disk images to backup both partitions to an external drive (using spare space on my time machine drive)
    2-used my lion USB stick to perform a clean install of lion on another external drive
    3-erase and restore new lion installation to my internal Mac partition (previously snow leopard)
    4-use migration assistant to bring back my data and settings (not applications-doing that manually)
    5-download & install relevant software updates
    (note that the bootcamp partition is untouched in all of this)
    I noted that at first there was no lion recovery partition on my internal drive, but it has since appeared (presumably when I used software update to install an update to lion).
    I didn't test the boot camp immediately but when I try to load it now the partition shows up and I can select it but  windows presents me with the boot options screen (safe mode etc). It fails under all options (starts to load then flicks a blue screen before rebooting). From the safe mode log screen it appears to me that the issue could be the partition numbering (the new lion recovery partition has changed the partition number for the windows partition and it's freaked windows out).
    Question is, what's the best way to fix it? I'm reluctant to try bootcamp assistant 4.0 because I know it doesn't support xp.
    In hindsight maybe I should have done a clean install of snow leopard onto the external drive, erased and restored to the internal, updated snow leopard to 10.6.8 (or whatever was necessary for lion install), checked that the boot camp partition still worked (if not fix it with boot camp assistant), then upgraded to lion (seeing as upgrading to lion when there's a working xp partition on bootcamp is supposed to work).
    I could still do all that but I wonder if there is a better / cleaner / easier solution.
    Thanks in advance (& sorry for the long description!)

    For future reference cloning can be the easy answer to preserving a BootCamp partition. I used the following procedure to upgrade 2 MBPs to Lion from SL.
    Use Yasu and Diskwarrior to prepare existing Mac OSX 10.6.8 HDD.
    Clone 10.6.8 Mac partition to an ext HDD with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
    Restart from the cloned ext HDD and select it as the startup volume via System Preferences / Startup Disk.
    Install 10.7 Lion on the cloned ext HDD
    Install Lion 10.7.2 update on the ext HDD
    Restart the ext HDD now with OSX 10.7 and test and adjust the preferences if needed.
    When satisfied, clone the OSX 10.7 ext HDD back to the existing Mac HDD.
    The Boot Camp partition will not be altered as to drive id which appeared to cause problems for a few people.
    The recovery partition will be on the ext HDD and can be used for trouble shooting. A more convenient way to have the recovery/reinstallation environment is to have or create a Lion install USB thumb drive.

  • B-tree error, cannot mount Lion partition, but can mount bootcamp partition. Unable to reformat because it won't mount. How do I reformat?

    Hi everyone:
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    Sounds like the drive may be faulty or have suffered a problem. Bummer mate, but it happens.
    Disk Utility won't let you do a complete erase? Probably not what you want to do anyway as you'd lose your bootcamp partition.
    I would recommend you replace the drive and re-install OS X. Once they get faulty like this you're into a greatly increased risk window. You'll need to have a bootable DVD / USB stick of Lion or a RecoveryHD USB created by the Lion Recovery Assistant.
    If the MBP is under warranty or you have Applecare you could get the drive replaced under warranty.
    To retrieve your files and Apps etc you can restore from a backup, or if you don't have one then you could get a sata enclosure for the old drive and attach it as an external drive then attempt to copy the content from it once you've re-installed. Time Machine backups will make this much easier for you though.
    For bootcamp, you're going to need a 3rd party program such as Winclone (www.twocanoes.com) to allow you to take an image of the bootcamp partition and restore it to the new bootcamp partition on the new drive.
    I can heartily recommend the Seagate Momentus XT 750GB hybrid drive (ST750LX003) if you're going for a replacement. You won't believe the difference in performance it provides.
    Good luck!

  • I have updated my mac to Lion, but i cannot start my bootcamp partition anymore

    I have updated my mac to Lion, but i cannot start my bootcamp partition anymore after the update.
    How can I use this partition now??
    I need to have my documents etc from that partition!!
    HELP!!!
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    Lion Boot Camp Windows Migration Assistant Recovery
    And you can read from OS X and do some backups.
    If you modified your partitions, that is one reason it isn't working.
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    That works for OS X. There are other programs and methods for Windows.
    Someone posted the commands to run from Windows DVD to fix / edit BCD.
    That was just a couple days ago, should be easy to find.
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  • Can I install Windows 8.1 as Bootcamp partition from OSX Mountain Lion using a USB stick?

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    Your laptop has a DVD drive, right? If so you need to burn your ISO to a disc, will not work off USB

  • I have a mac book pro with Boot Camp that also runs windows.  I upgraded to Lion and somehow it crashes the mac side peridoically.  I am told I need to "clean" it and reinstall lion using the recovery drive.  will that delete the windows partition too??

    I have a mac book pro with Boot Camp that also runs windows.  I upgraded to Lion and now the mac side crashes/freezes periodically, especially iphoto.  I am told by the genius' that I probably need to "clean" it and reinstall lion using the "recovery drive" which resets everything back to default and reinstalls the lion operating system.  My question is will this also delete the "windows" partition drive and all that data too.  If so that will be a huge pain in the ___ to back up and reinstall boot camp and windows. I want to shoot the lion.

    There is no system like Acronis for the Mac platform. You can try using the buiilt in Disk Utility to create an Image of the complete Mac drive but I have found that this does not work very well as on tryiing to restore it gives errors sometimes.
    You can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable Clone of your system partition. But that is only for the System partition and not the complete drive.
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  • How do I ensure bootcamp partition works after upgrading snow leopard to mountain lion

    I am very apprehensive about upgrading to Mountain Lion due to performance concerns and the debacle with the new Auto Save feature which seems like a very poor and confusing solution to a problem that didn't really exist. I am only considering the upgrade, so that I can get the latest version of Xcode - 4.3; for some reason, 4.2 for SL is no longer available and my current 4.0 version is no longer supported, so I feel forced to upgrade to ML. Also, I have a bootcamp partition that I need to be able to use without issues after having upgraded to ML. So the essence of my question is this: what steps do I need to take prior to upgrading to ML to ensure that my Bootcamp partition is left intact and bootable. I have already created a compressed backup disk image and stored on a separate external hard disk for precautionary reasons. Is there anything else I should know beore going ahead with the upgrade?
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    Auto Save is actually a very useful feature. If you are typing a paper in Pages and you haven't saved in a long time, and then your battery dies suddenly, your paper is saved. Before Auto Save, you would have lost all your progress.
    Your BootCamp partition will not even be touched during the install of Mountain Lion. As long as you make sure to select your Mac OS partition during setup, nothing will happen to your Windows side and everything will still work fine.

  • Will Lion install require me to redo my bootcamp partition?

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    Will it be possible to install LION keeping the Bootcamp partition as is?

    Yeap, Correct! Thanks to the 30meg download speed, downloaded and installed in 65 minutes. Sweet!

  • Has anyone made a successful image of their Bootcamp partition with Lion?

    An earlier thread has discussed making a Bootcamp partition image but it appears that no one has actually done it with Win 7 and Lion. https://discussions.apple.com/message/16064648#16064648 This thread mentions the use of Clonezilla and Paragon software as possibilities but has anyone done it? I know my Paragon "Rescue Disk" software no longer works with Lion and Bootcamp (free and has been in beta for years). Winclone is an "end of life" software option but will it work? Maybe this thread (if it become one) might help create a list of workable options. My experience shows Paragon's "Rescue Disk" is not working and Clonezilla needs a working example and a "how to".

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