OS X is no longer bootable

I had an iMac running Mac OS X and Windows 7 with boot camp. When I was in the Windows 7 parition I attempted to extend the partition in Windows Disk Management based on a tutorial I found here. In the process, I guess all of my partitions were converted to a Dynamic Disk or Unallocated Data. Neither of my partitions were bootable after this. I tried booting into Recovery mode using Command+R on boot and selected Disk Utility. Disk Utility showed me that my partitions were there but they were completely unaccessable and unable to repair them. I have no idea if my files still there. I managed to install Windows 8 on a small extra partition I had that didn't get completelt damaged. I booted into Windows 8 to see if I could access my damaged partitions but there are unaccessable and unrecognizable by windows.
Is there anything I can do to restore or rebuild these damaged partitions? I do not have a back-up image saved.
Thanks.

Csound1 wrote:
You did this?
MR user Kazyua reports that you can use the disk management utilities provided with the current operating systems if you want to do it manually. Windows 7 and OS X both have partition resizing functions built in. In OS X, open Disk Utility and manually shrink the mac HFS+ partition by dragging the lower right corner. Then in windows go to the start menu and type "disk management" into the search box then hit enter. You should get an overview of the drives you have and the individual partitions. Right-clicking on the partition gives an "Extend Volume" option. The Windows NTFS volume should then be extended into the free space you created with Disk Utility. This method has not worked for other users, so try at your own risk.
And you ignored the warning? daredevil approach you took there.
Erase your disk and reinstall, that Warning at the top of the page not to attempt without backup was serious, and DU was entirely the wrong tool.
Yes I have formatted my system countless times before so I figured I would be carefuly and could handle it. But as I said above, I buggered my system.
I'm sure there must be a way to recover the files before doing a reinstall.

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Last night, I was using Bootcamp fine through VMware Fusion, no issue at all. I shut the VM down correctly and closed VMware.
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Kind regards and thanks in advance,
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// sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
      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 876953152      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
877362792    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
878632328        632
878632960   97755136      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976388096     716931
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0     geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 977105059]
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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/dev/disk0
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   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            449.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows HD              50.1 GB    disk0s4

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Password:
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286801864    7847992
294649856 195584000      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
abdulrahmansmbp:~ abdulrahmanLASTNAMEREDACTED$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 294649855] <Unknown ID>
2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 294649856 - 195584000] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
*4: 07    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] HPFS/QNX/AUX
abdulrahmansmbp:~ abdulrahmanLASTNAMEREDACTED$
It wasnt like this before. Before 3 and 4 had some of the same values from above instead of all 0s. After trying to take advice from threads with similar problems and entering stuff into the command line it became like this. I think I might have messed thing up while looking for a quick fix.
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I'm not sure how to edit my replies so I'm just gonna make another reply. I assumed the following values:
GPT 3 Start
GPT 3 End
GPT 3 Size
NTFS Start
NTFS Offset
NTFS End
NTFS Size
293378384
293380320
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294649856
1936
490233855
195584000
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Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
I've always been able to access my bootcamp files from finder and I can try to boot from System Preferences -> startup disk, from rEFIt and also from my macbooks startup manager that I access by holding down option while booting.
I'm starting to think I've misrepresented my problem and that I've been looking at the wrong threads. Every time I try to boot windows I get a black screen with the Windows logo and some text saying something like "starting automatic recovery" or something like that. It then takes me to a blue screen displaying an error number and telling me to use recovery tools on the installation media. Maybe this is different from the problems I've been looking at in other threads.
I've tried using the same USB I used to install bootcamp with but it doesn't give me the option of repairing the installation.
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Windows Bootcamp no longer bootable

Hi,
I installed windows XP onto my MacBookPro about six months ago and everything was working fine. I haven't used it for a couple months. I decided I wanted to use Windows today and when I turned on my computer and held down the alt/option key, it didn't load anything (usually it displays "MACINTOSH HD" and "BOOTCAMP"), so I had to turn on my computer again and just use the apple. I repaired all disk permissions and verified the disk on the MACINTOSH HD volume and everything is okay. I can't do anything with the BOOTCAMP volume on disk utility.
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I was booting into Tiger OS from my little G3 Mac laptop via an external drive.. worked great. The little G3 laptop will still boot from this external without difficulty.
BUT
In the meantime, i've updated this iMac to Snow Leopard, and the external (500 gb with Tiger Os) drive appears unchanged but is no longer bootable.
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Disk Utility and the System Profiler on the iMac do see the drive and all its partitions. I can move files back and forth, but I need to be able to boot with the peripheral.
Swapping cables had no effect. Switching from Firewire to USB had no effect.
I'm stumped.

. I'll have to figure out how to clone the (external Tiger) OS onto yet another HD.
If you are considering cloning the present external Tiger volume that you are using for the G3 onto a new GUID-partitioned external drive, that new drive will still not boot the Intel iMac.
The current APM partition scheme is not the reason that the iMac won't boot from there - as mentioned, an Intel can boot from an APM drive that has an appropriate OS system *already on it*. It just won't install OS X onto a drive that is not GUID. The reason the iMac won't boot from the present APM drive is that the Tiger version there is intrinsically PPC only, and this will remain true no matter what disk it is transferred to.
With Leopard it is possible to construct a single-partition "universal boot" disk that will boot both an Intel and a PPC Mac, but this can't be done with Tiger. Unlike Leopard, there are completely separate Tiger OS versions for PPC and Intel Macs. For your Intel Mac to run Tiger, it needs the Intel version of Tiger that it originally shipped with - it can never run the PPC version of Tiger that is needed for the G3, regardless of what disk that version is currently on. that All Tiger (client) retail discs carried only the PPC version of Tiger.
If you hadn't already upgraded your Intel iMac to Snow Leopard then it might have been possible to construct a dual boot external drive with separate partitions for the Intel and PPC versions of Tiger. Such a disk would have to have an APM partition scheme in order to be able to boot the G3, and that means that the Intel Tiger partition would have to be cloned there - it couldn't be installed directly on such an APM drive. However since you have already upgraded your internal HD to Snow Leopard, there is no longer a source for the Intel Tiger clone unless you already have a pre-upgrade clone stored somewhere else.
If you are going to get a second external drive, you might as well keep the present drive for the G3 alone, and use the second drive just for the iMac. You would partition the new drive as GUID and install Tiger on it using the iMac and the original Tiger discs that came with it.

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I'm sorry to report that my aged G4 450 MHz AGP with 4 internal Hard disk drives no longer boots from any of the 2 volumes upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.8 as soon as it was started from another volume!
All was working fine as long as 10.4.7 was installed on the 2 232 GB disks connected to the SIIG ATA133 controller. I could boot from any OS on any of the 4 disks, 5 partitions:
internal ATA66 bus:
18 GB disk, 2 partitions: 'IBM_18GB' with OS 9.2.2 and TechTool Pro's 'eDrive' with 10.4.7
71 GB disk, 1 partition 'IBM_71GB' with OS 9.2.2
PCI SIIG ATA133 controller:
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What I did so far: 'I2232GB' was my main OS X startup volume, 'I1232GB' contains a clone of it, plus additional folders like software base and backups.
After upgrading 'I2232GB' to Mac OS X 10.4.8 through Software Update and repairing permissions all was OK as long as the Mac was just shut down or re-started: it always booted up in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I2232GB' without any problems.
The next day I booted from 'I1232GB' to do the same there.
Afterwards I could no longer boot in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I2232GB' nor in in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from 'I1232GB': it just gets to the grey screen with the Apple logo, but the round circle underneath indicating some progress never appears. I left it there for hours: it just hangs.
With the Option key held at startup I could boot from the other partitions with Mac OS 9.2.2 or the eDrive with 10.4.7. None of their Startup Control Panels was able to get me back to 10.2.8!
So I booted from the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 DVD to Optimize both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB', always Files only.
Then I booted from the DiskWorrior 3.0.3 CD to rebuild the directories of both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB'.
Still I can not boot from either 'I1232GB' or 'I2232GB' in Mac OS X 10.2.8!
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)
Machine Model: PowerMac3,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.8)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 450 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.2.8f1
Serial Number: XA00715VHSF
Sales Order Number: M7628LL/A
ATA Bus:
IBM-DPTA-372050:
Capacity: 19.12 GB
Model: IBM-DPTA-372050
Volumes:
IBM_18GB:
Capacity: 13.12 GB
Available: 6.96 GB
eDrive:
Capacity: 6 GB
Available: 3.03 GB
IBM-DTLA-307075:
Capacity: 71.59 GB
Model: IBM-DTLA-307075
Volumes:
IBM_71GB:
Capacity: 71.59 GB
Available: 39.65 GB
ATA Bus:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D:
Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
Firmware Revision: 1.21
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI:
Model: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
ACARD,6880M:
Name: ACARD,6880M
Type: scsi
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-C
Vendor ID: 0x1191
Device ID: 0x0009
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1191
Subsystem ID: 0x0009
Revision ID: 0x0003
SCSI Parallel Domain 65536:
Initiator Identifier: 7
ATA HDT722525DLAT80:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Manufacturer: ATA
Model: HDT722525DLAT80
Revision:
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
OS9 Drivers: Yes
SCSI Target Identifier: 0
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
I1232GB:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Available: 14.1 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/I1232GB
ATA HDT722525DLAT80:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Manufacturer: ATA
Model: HDT722525DLAT80
Revision:
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
OS9 Drivers: Yes
SCSI Target Identifier: 2
SCSI Logical Unit Identifier: 0
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
I2232GB:
Capacity: 232.89 GB
Available: 180.11 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk3s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/I2232GB
The RAM consists of 4 identical modules and is about 1 year old:
DIMM0/J21 to DIMM3/J24:
Size: 512 MB
Type: SDRAM
Speed: PC133-333
Status: OK
Many thanks for your help!
Josef
Apple G4 AGP Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4 internal hard disks, dual layer DVD-RW, 2GB RAM

What I did so far: 'I2232GB' was my main OS X
startup volume, 'I1232GB' contains a clone of it,
plus additional folders like software base and
backups.
After upgrading 'I2232GB' to Mac OS X 10.4.8
through Software Update and repairing permissions all
was OK as long as the Mac was just shut down or
re-started: it always booted up in Mac OS X 10.4.8
from 'I2232GB' without any problems.
The next day I booted from 'I1232GB' to do the same
there.
Afterwards I could no longer boot in Mac OS X 10.4.8
from 'I2232GB' nor in in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from
'I1232GB': it just gets to the grey screen with the
Apple logo, but the round circle underneath
indicating some progress never appears. I left it
there for hours: it just hangs.
With the Option key held at startup I could boot from
the other partitions with Mac OS 9.2.2 or the eDrive
with 10.4.7. None of their Startup Control Panels was
able to get me back to 10.4.8!
So I booted from the TechTool Pro 4.5.1 DVD to
Optimize both volumes, 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB',
always Files only.
Then I booted from the DiskWorrior 3.0.3 CD to
rebuild the directories of both volumes, 'I1232GB'
& 'I2232GB'.
Still I can not boot from either 'I1232GB' or
'I2232GB' in Mac OS X 10.4.8!
Downloaded the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Compo Update (for PPC)
and installed it onto both 'I1232GB' & 'I2232GB'
while booted from the eDrive which I keep on Mac OS X
10.4.7 - no luck either, still I can not boot from
either 'I1232GB' or 'I2232GB' in Mac OS X
10.4.8!
Then I backed up the users folder from 'I2232GB'
onto 'I1232GB', booted from Mac OS 9.2.2 and used
Intech's Hard Disk Speedtools 3.6 to format
'I2232GB', afterwards initialized it with Alsoft's
Plus Maximizer Extension for a Block Size of 512
Bytes.
Installed Mac OS X 10.4 from DVD, as well as iLive
'06 and upgraded everything to the latest releases
with Software Update. All was working fine with all
the required reboots until another startup volume was
chosen: afterwards again I can no longer boot back
into Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the fresch installed
'I2232GB'!
I found several typos in above post, wherever it was 10.2.8 it should have read 10.4.8 - I'm very sorry for confusing you, this would not have made sense, but I found no way to edit the existing text therefore I modified the quote of it here.
I do not need Mac OS X 10.2.8 back, but it would be nice to boot back in Mac OS X 10.4.8 from another volume as the current one - which was working fine before with Mac OS X 10.4.7.
Many thanks,
Josef

10.8: Copying calendars over from an unbootable image

My server's hard disk became corrupt and was no longer bootable, nor repairable to the point where it's bootable. I have a complete disk image of the unbootable volume. I also have a bootable image of that same server but it's a few months old and I would prefer to have the more up-to-date information.
I have a fresh installation of server up and running pointing to the same open directory server, i.e. the same users.
Assume that no data in the hosted calendars got corrupted. Can I copy a folder from the unbootable volume to the same place in the new server and have my calendar data back again ? If so, which folder ?
I will, of course, do this when not booted using that volume, so I won't be replacing files while the calendar system is running.

Most of the 10.8 Server content is stored in /Library/Server. Copying that to the new system should go a long way towards getting you back up and running.

10.8: Copying wikis over from an unbootable image

My server's hard disk became corrupt and was no longer bootable, nor repairable to the point where it's bootable. I have a complete disk image of the unbootable volume. I also have a bootable image of that same server but it's a few months old and I would prefer to have the more up-to-date information.
I have a fresh installation of server up and running pointing to the same open directory server, i.e. the same users.
Assume that no data in the hosted wikis got corrupted. Can I copy a folder from the unbootable volume to the same place in the new server and have my wiki data back again ? If so, which folder ?
I will, of course, do this when not booted using that volume, so I won't be replacing files while the wiki system is running.

Most of the 10.8 Server content is stored in /Library/Server. Copying that to the new system should go a long way towards getting you back up and running.

Problem with Windows 7 on Mac Pro 3,1

I am trying to install Windows 7 to a seperate HDD an on Mac Pro 3,1 and have run into a problem getting it to work.
To start with I had a 500GB HDD which was partitioned using Bootcamp assistant and had OSX 10.6,8 and Windows 7 installed on it and worked fine. I decided to purchase 2x 120GB SSDs (1 for OSX and 1 for WIndows) and also purchased a Sata III PCI-e card to go with them. I started by putting in the card and connecting the two drives, booting into OSX from my exsisting HDD and cloning it to the 1st SSD using CCC. Everything went perfect. OSX booted off the new SSD and speeds were amazing (Getting around 448MB/s Read and 395MB/sec Write).
Since everything was working I then removed the HDD and once again booted up to make sure it worked. Once booted I then proceded to run Bootcamp assistant and chose to use the entire 2nd SSD. It formated the SSD to fat32 and named it BOOTCAMP as usual then rebooted to the Windows CD. WIndows would see the SSD but would fail to install giving me some error code so I went to the forums to look it up and everyone was saying that you must disconnect any other HDDs while installing Windows so i disconnected the OSX SSD and once again ran the WIndows setup. I went through the entire setup procedure just fine and began runing the Windows updates and installing the bootcamp drivers. Everything was fine, Windows was booting fast and everything was working so I shutdown and reconnected the OSX drive and booted up holding the Option key and selected to boot to OSX. Once booted I then shutdown and booted holding Option once again but this time chose Windows but to my surprise, Windows would no longer boot. I disconnected the OSX SSD and same result, WIndows was no longer bootable. I then tried to do a startup repair, windows recovery and even went through the entire windows setup again. Every time I reconnet the OSX drive and boot to OSX it kills the Windows boot. I then tried again but this time removing the Sata II card and pluging the SSDs into the normal HDD bays. Same result. After reinstalling Windows agin it once more killed the Windows boot when I booted to OSX.
After all that I decided to try just using one SSD and letting Bootcamp assistant partition it and install WIndows that way. Same result. After booting OSX after finishing Windows it kills the Windows boot.
Am I doing something wrong? My old HDD that has windows on it still works fine and its from the same Windows CD. I even purchased Lion after all that, upgraded my OSX drive and retried everything and still not owrking.
Can anyone please help? I am very fustrated and can't understand whats wrong.

Well I finally got it running smooth again, turns out that one of the windows updates changed the way the licensing works and for some odd reason it no longer works on Mac, go firgure lol. I ended up giving my windows 7 license to a friend who just built a PC so it worked fine for him but I am out $139 .
To get it working again I had to take my Mac Pro to work and let the IT guys install the Enterprise Edition and activate it againist the companies activation server. Works great now but it means I will have to take it to work every 6 months now for activation
I wish Microsft would stop making things so hard for us Mac guys.

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