Partitions lost after ghost installation

Hi Everybody !
My friend has problem with his iMac. He wanted to install windows 7 on a separate partition.
So, he created a second partition, and he use GHOST system to install windows 7 on the partition he created earlier.
When windows installation was done, he realized that the windows delete all his OS X partitions.
He doesn't have his os x partition and his recovery partition anymore.
Is there a way to get his partition back ??
Or if not, is there a way to retrieve his data from his deleted partition ?
I thought he could use an external disk to install os x, to gain access to his disk which have deleted partition and then retrieve his data with a software ?
Does anyone knows a solution for this problem ??
Thank You

He should have used Boot Camp Assistant to correctly partition his system for MS Windows. If he did then I'd suggest moving this thread to the Boot Camp forums. If he did not use Boot Camp Assistant then I'm afraid I cannot be of further assistance.

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Bootcamp partition lost after moving to larger HDD (Mavericks and Win7 X64)

Hi Folks!
I read those topics concerning lost and broken bootcamp partitions and I am Wondering if someone may help me.
What was my aim: Due to lacking space of my 320 GB HDD I moved to a 750 GB HDD.
I did this by installing Mavericks from a USB disk and rebuilt it with TM. After the installation I had a fully working Mavericks partition and the MacOS recovery partition.
Next step was to rebuild the Bootcamp partition. For that I installed a new copy of windows via bootcamp assistant. After booting up the first time I booted the mini partition wizard cd, deleted the bootcamp partition and rebuild the partition from the old HDD changing the size fitting to the available space. After rebooting I chose to boot from the Win7 DVD and chose the repair option to fix windows. Everything worked well, I could boot into Win7 and it showed me both partitions (Mavericks and bootcamp).
BUT
when i boot into MacOS it is not able to mount the mavericks partition.
After checking it with fdisk and disk I found out that the bootcamp partition was recognized as FAT32 by the disk utility program, which always told me that it was not able to repair the bootcamp partition.
So I followed Christopher Murphy's instructions to change the type for FAT 32 (0C) to ntfs (07) with the effect that I can't boot windows anymore due to "operating system not found" error.
So this is what the refit partition inspector tells me about my HDD:
*** Report for internal hard disk ***
Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1             40       409639 EFI System (FAT)
2         409640    731457695 Mac OS X HFS+
3      731457696    732727239 Mac OS X Boot
4      732727296   1465147391 Basic Data
Current MBR partition table:
# A    Start LBA      End LBA Type
1              1       409639 ee EFI Protective
2         409640    731457695 af Mac OS X HFS+
3      731457696    732727239 ab Mac OS X Boot
4 *    732727296   1465147391 07 NTFS/HPFS
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+
Partition at LBA 731457696:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Mac OS X Boot
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type ab Mac OS X Boot
Partition at LBA 732727296:
Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 07 NTFS/HPFS, active
This is the info got gives to me:
sudo gdisk -l /dev/disk0
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.
Disk /dev/disk0: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3AA6D384-5EC7-48C6-B593-4513AFF55241
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1805 sectors (902.5 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       731457695   348.6 GiB   AF00 Macintosh HD
   3       731457696       732727239   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       732727296      1465147391   349.2 GiB   0700 BOOTCAMP
philipp-3:~ Phil$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       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   731048056      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   731457696     1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   732727240          56
   732727296   732420096      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
This is what fdisk gives:
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 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 - 731048056] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 731457696 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 732727296 - 732420096] HPFS/QNX/AUX
And this is a photo of the disk util (in german)
And this is the error when I try to check it:
Next step is to try to cover the windows copy. I guess startup repair will work, unfortunatly I have no DVD at the moment right here.
But my problem is not the restoring of windows but to mount the bootcamp partition in Mavericks again.
Any help?
Thanks in advance
Phil

Ok, it works again. But actually I don't know why. After neither startup repair nor mini partition manager could repair the ntfs partition, i deleted it and rebuilt it from the old HDD (fortunately not deleted yet). The only thing I did in difference was to boot into Mavericks before starting startup repair after i copied the partition. For any reason Mavericks recognized it this time. I have no clue why but everything is working.
So far...

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I have home network system that contains:
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2 laptop
MAC computer
Both computers connected to D-Link Router and thus to the Internet.
When I attempted to replace D_Link router with WRT160N the following happen:
At first the laptop was able to connect to the Internet. Then I ran installation wizard from the CD that came with WRT160N. When the installation crashed I tried again and eventually the installation succeeded. After the installation the laptop was no longer able to connect to the Internet.
The MAC computer was still able to connect to the Internet.
I switched back to D_Link router. Both, the MAC and the laptop are now able to access the Internet.
Please help!
Thank you.

It might be the case that your Mac computer is connected to some other network.
Are you able to see your network name on your Windows computer ?
Try to readjust the wireless settings manually on the router and reconnect both the computer to your network
Note** Do all the settings from the wired computer(computer connected to the router via cable).
Open an Internet Explorer browser page on your wired computer(desktop).In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1 and press Enter...Leave Username blank & in Password use admin in lower case...
For Wireless Settings, please do the following : -
Click on the Wireless tab
- Here select manual configuration...Wireless Network mode should be mixed...
- Provide a unique name in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) box in order to differentiate your network from your neighbours network...
- Set the Radio Band to Standard-20MHz and change the Standard channel to 11-2.462GHz...Wireless SSID broadcast should be Enabled and then click on Save Settings...
Please make a note of Wireless Network Name (SSID) as this is the Network Identifier...
For Wireless Security : -
Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security...
Change the Wireless security mode to WPA, For Encryption, select TKIP...For Passphrase input your desired WPA Key. For example , MySecretKey , This will serve as your network key whenever you connect to your wireless network. Do NOT give this key to anyone and remember the key.
NOTE : Passphrase should be more that 8 characters...
Click on Advanced Wireless Settings
Change the Beacon Interval to 75 >>Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304, Change the RTS Threshold to 2304 >>Click on "Save Settings"...
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I installed Yosemite and now the Windows bootcamp partition is gone. This is a problem since I do most of my work there... For reference MacFUSE was installed on my computer prior to Yosemite installation (not sure if it matters) Anyway, after looking at various posts here, I ran the following commands and found the following (none of which solved my problems) below.
I am stuck at looking for R.NTFS in the hexdump - just not seeing it.
Where should I go from here? Is there any hope?
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
p
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0000559C-20E2-0000-CF43-0000BF440000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6 sectors (3.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI system partition
   2          409640       109093311   51.8 GiB    AF05 Macintosh HD
   3       109093312       110362855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       110362856       236978142   60.4 GiB    0700 Microsoft basic data
d
4
n
4
110362856 (for first sector)
236978142 (for last sector)
0700
p
w
y
Then I ran sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C and got the following:
00000000 b7 47 8d fe b6 15 fd 3d 9d 00 f9 1f ba 87 78 9a |.G.....=......x.|
00000010 f2 b3 f5 3b a7 fc 03 5b 69 c5 c4 63 6e f9 77 77 |...;...[i..cn.ww|
00000020 a7 4b 9e 31 82 8c b8 ad b5 4e 45 dc 08 54 44 6b |.K.1.....NE..TDk|
00000030 a0 22 6e 64 5f 6e 45 2a a2 95 41 45 fc 10 e8 06 |."nd_nE*..AE....|
00000040 67 ff 8f dd cd 67 bf db 3f 03 1d fb f6 4c 87 b3 |g....g..?....L..|
00000050 bf 44 3b fb 4b bb 67 18 c7 af 59 85 c3 96 75 27 |.D;.K.g...Y...u'|
00000060 12 e0 79 fe 0b 6e 4b 36 cc 0c cf 6f d8 cb fc 4f |..y..nK6...o...O|
00000070 e0 00 4b c2 17 b6 b0 a9 e2 c5 36 00 53 5c 18 98 |..K.......6.S\..|
00000080 7e 42 92 e1 92 bb d3 49 77 9e 3a 63 10 04 f8 07 |~B.....Iw.:c....|
00000090 6a e5 ec 5e 31 07 bc d3 97 25 fb 90 52 b7 7f ac |j..^1....%..R...|
000000a0 dd ea 92 4f 3b 94 54 0b 1c 05 d3 6d 4e bf d7 c6 |...O;.T....mN...|
000000b0 a2 b6 2d 22 aa 07 a3 f6 7f c7 eb 98 f9 8b b3 f8 |..-"............|
000000c0 48 a4 db fa 47 cd 9e ff 1f b7 ad 6c fd 97 6d 03 |H...G......l..m.|
000000d0 ed 5c cc fa c1 d2 69 84 04 a4 7c 36 bd 22 e9 66 |.\....i...|6.".f|
000000e0 3e 32 fb ba d5 f4 2b 96 d0 5b e1 2c e6 46 f3 c4 |>2....+..[.,.F..|
000000f0 d9 9c fd 3c 71 d1 9e 29 b0 5e ab 3c 2d 95 bb ca |...<q..).^.<-...|
00000100 e5 7a 12 9f 36 ce 6d 30 b6 7b f3 22 e1 1e e4 2b |.z..6.m0.{."...+|
00000110 8a 75 ca fc 42 a9 0b 99 9d 21 ad 29 e5 5f c7 98 |.u..B....!.)._..|
00000120 a3 f8 d6 3d fc 2d ff 33 9c 75 df 5c 0e 53 be b4 |...=.-.3.u.\.S..|
00000130 8e c5 a2 a4 16 3a e4 28 3e f1 36 e1 1a b3 62 0b |.....:.(>.6...b.|
00000140 b9 03 96 4c cd 56 2b 8a 51 a8 91 be c0 25 e7 2c |...L.V+.Q....%.,|
00000150 77 76 e9 19 87 50 54 47 a2 c3 04 e4 78 cc 6b 0a |wv...PTG....x.k.|
00000160 49 11 37 aa f4 5f 94 94 54 2c d9 93 ff 82 20 9a |I.7.._..T,.... .|
00000170 a0 93 8e 40 c3 d3 d4 02 b7 72 5b 9c 4b fe cd 2d |[email protected][.K..-|
00000180 5f 76 75 f1 2e e7 a4 b9 e7 19 c7 06 58 bb 2e 65 |_vu.........X..e|
00000190 5c c1 20 ff 6d 5d 69 fd 26 2b 29 dd ab 93 e5 94 |\. .m]i.&+).....|
000001a0 ae d5 83 fc 3d bb b3 f3 c5 8b d4 41 fe 94 9b 63 |....=......A...c|
000001b0 89 22 c5 f5 db 0b d6 6f 73 3e 60 4e df 25 9b e7 |.".....os>`N.%..|
000001c0 06 fe 84 af f5 d1 71 48 c5 b7 98 9a ad 4d 09 2c |......qH.....M.,|
000001d0 e0 28 fe 56 20 b2 a2 31 ef ea 10 ff d8 ae d5 ee |.(.V ..1........|
000001e0 bc 23 4e f9 57 30 2f f2 2e 50 ea 39 64 ce 57 f8 |.#N.W0/..P.9d.W.|
000001f0 b3 61 d4 b6 db d8 0b c5 b0 55 5c 71 b1 10 83 10 |.a.......U\q....|
00000200
I looked for word R.NTFS but did not find it. So I am stuck at this point.
Here is the output of some other commands.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         55.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         64.8 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *55.3 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
                                 Unencrypted
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 8448FE1B-8CF5-412F-92E6-F7BB59B77319
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    Free Space:   18952192 B (19.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 74ED9431-6B81-4B9D-95E2-2FD3743CC362
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family F9134531-DEF5-4D54-BAE5-EB2FCA974389
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          55274766336 B (55.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      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 108683672      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109093312    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
110362856 126615287      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 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 - 108683672] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 109093312 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

I installed Yosemite and now the Windows bootcamp partition is gone. This is a problem since I do most of my work there... For reference MacFUSE was installed on my computer prior to Yosemite installation (not sure if it matters) Anyway, after looking at various posts here, I ran the following commands and found the following (none of which solved my problems) below.
I am stuck at looking for R.NTFS in the hexdump - just not seeing it.
Where should I go from here? Is there any hope?
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
p
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0000559C-20E2-0000-CF43-0000BF440000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6 sectors (3.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI system partition
   2          409640       109093311   51.8 GiB    AF05 Macintosh HD
   3       109093312       110362855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       110362856       236978142   60.4 GiB    0700 Microsoft basic data
d
4
n
4
110362856 (for first sector)
236978142 (for last sector)
0700
p
w
y
Then I ran sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C and got the following:
00000000 b7 47 8d fe b6 15 fd 3d 9d 00 f9 1f ba 87 78 9a |.G.....=......x.|
00000010 f2 b3 f5 3b a7 fc 03 5b 69 c5 c4 63 6e f9 77 77 |...;...[i..cn.ww|
00000020 a7 4b 9e 31 82 8c b8 ad b5 4e 45 dc 08 54 44 6b |.K.1.....NE..TDk|
00000030 a0 22 6e 64 5f 6e 45 2a a2 95 41 45 fc 10 e8 06 |."nd_nE*..AE....|
00000040 67 ff 8f dd cd 67 bf db 3f 03 1d fb f6 4c 87 b3 |g....g..?....L..|
00000050 bf 44 3b fb 4b bb 67 18 c7 af 59 85 c3 96 75 27 |.D;.K.g...Y...u'|
00000060 12 e0 79 fe 0b 6e 4b 36 cc 0c cf 6f d8 cb fc 4f |..y..nK6...o...O|
00000070 e0 00 4b c2 17 b6 b0 a9 e2 c5 36 00 53 5c 18 98 |..K.......6.S\..|
00000080 7e 42 92 e1 92 bb d3 49 77 9e 3a 63 10 04 f8 07 |~B.....Iw.:c....|
00000090 6a e5 ec 5e 31 07 bc d3 97 25 fb 90 52 b7 7f ac |j..^1....%..R...|
000000a0 dd ea 92 4f 3b 94 54 0b 1c 05 d3 6d 4e bf d7 c6 |...O;.T....mN...|
000000b0 a2 b6 2d 22 aa 07 a3 f6 7f c7 eb 98 f9 8b b3 f8 |..-"............|
000000c0 48 a4 db fa 47 cd 9e ff 1f b7 ad 6c fd 97 6d 03 |H...G......l..m.|
000000d0 ed 5c cc fa c1 d2 69 84 04 a4 7c 36 bd 22 e9 66 |.\....i...|6.".f|
000000e0 3e 32 fb ba d5 f4 2b 96 d0 5b e1 2c e6 46 f3 c4 |>2....+..[.,.F..|
000000f0 d9 9c fd 3c 71 d1 9e 29 b0 5e ab 3c 2d 95 bb ca |...<q..).^.<-...|
00000100 e5 7a 12 9f 36 ce 6d 30 b6 7b f3 22 e1 1e e4 2b |.z..6.m0.{."...+|
00000110 8a 75 ca fc 42 a9 0b 99 9d 21 ad 29 e5 5f c7 98 |.u..B....!.)._..|
00000120 a3 f8 d6 3d fc 2d ff 33 9c 75 df 5c 0e 53 be b4 |...=.-.3.u.\.S..|
00000130 8e c5 a2 a4 16 3a e4 28 3e f1 36 e1 1a b3 62 0b |.....:.(>.6...b.|
00000140 b9 03 96 4c cd 56 2b 8a 51 a8 91 be c0 25 e7 2c |...L.V+.Q....%.,|
00000150 77 76 e9 19 87 50 54 47 a2 c3 04 e4 78 cc 6b 0a |wv...PTG....x.k.|
00000160 49 11 37 aa f4 5f 94 94 54 2c d9 93 ff 82 20 9a |I.7.._..T,.... .|
00000170 a0 93 8e 40 c3 d3 d4 02 b7 72 5b 9c 4b fe cd 2d |[email protected][.K..-|
00000180 5f 76 75 f1 2e e7 a4 b9 e7 19 c7 06 58 bb 2e 65 |_vu.........X..e|
00000190 5c c1 20 ff 6d 5d 69 fd 26 2b 29 dd ab 93 e5 94 |\. .m]i.&+).....|
000001a0 ae d5 83 fc 3d bb b3 f3 c5 8b d4 41 fe 94 9b 63 |....=......A...c|
000001b0 89 22 c5 f5 db 0b d6 6f 73 3e 60 4e df 25 9b e7 |.".....os>`N.%..|
000001c0 06 fe 84 af f5 d1 71 48 c5 b7 98 9a ad 4d 09 2c |......qH.....M.,|
000001d0 e0 28 fe 56 20 b2 a2 31 ef ea 10 ff d8 ae d5 ee |.(.V ..1........|
000001e0 bc 23 4e f9 57 30 2f f2 2e 50 ea 39 64 ce 57 f8 |.#N.W0/..P.9d.W.|
000001f0 b3 61 d4 b6 db d8 0b c5 b0 55 5c 71 b1 10 83 10 |.a.......U\q....|
00000200
I looked for word R.NTFS but did not find it. So I am stuck at this point.
Here is the output of some other commands.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         55.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         64.8 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *55.3 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
                                 Unencrypted
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 8448FE1B-8CF5-412F-92E6-F7BB59B77319
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    Free Space:   18952192 B (19.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 74ED9431-6B81-4B9D-95E2-2FD3743CC362
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family F9134531-DEF5-4D54-BAE5-EB2FCA974389
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          55274766336 B (55.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      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 108683672      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109093312    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
110362856 126615287      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 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 - 108683672] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 109093312 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Partition corrupted after Bootcamp Installation aborted

Hello, I started a Bootcamp installation on my OSX Lion Mac Pro. Once I realized that I could only use Windows 7, I had to hold off on the installation until I located my Windows 7 disk. I had set the Bootcamp partition size to 100 GB on a 500 GB Drive. Due to threatning weather, I shutdown the computer.
Now the OSX Lion does not boot! I have been reading much information on this topic to see about fixing the problem. I talked to Apple Support and so far it is still not working. I was able to boot using the recovery partition "Disk Utility -> First Aid -> Repair Disk". When I ran Repair Disk there were some errors reported and repaired, then OSX still not booting. I installed Lion on another drive using recovery and that works OK. I was hoping to install Lion on the original drive and still not disturb my data files like music, photos, etc. The volume with my data is greyed out and does not mount. I think the partition is corrupted.
Can someone please help me to repair this issue?
Thanks,
David

Apple Hardware test result:
No problems found.
GDISK output:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk 0:: 1467339812 sectors, 699.7 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 000000D5-2857-0000-3E39-0000720B0000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1467339778
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5089 sectors (2.5 MiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size      Code Name
1              40          409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
2          413696      977789151 466.0 GiB AF00 Macintosh HD
3      977789152      979058687 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD
4      979058688      1467338751 232.8 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP
Everything appears to be normal. I have no idea why this happens on this machine. My only other thought is that this machine was upgraded from 10.9. My last option is to wipe the machine, install 10.10 from scratch, then reinstall everything again. I dread this last option - it is usually the sign of a desperate individual (which I am).

IPhoto lost after leopard installation- new Mac user needs your help!!

First, let me state: BRAND NEW MAC USER- BEWARE!
Just got a new mac for Christmas (refurbished). It came with iPhoto. My first call was to technical support about issues installing Leopard. After we resolved those problems, iPhoto was gone (as well as several other less essential things like checkers, etc). Since I installed Leopard, do I now need to repurchase iLife or iPhoto? iPhoto was the real reason we bought the system- I'm dying to use it but it has vanished. I know so many people have posted questions about similar issues but they all seemed to have existing libraries that aren't working correctly. So forgive me if this is a repeat questions but I'd really appreciate the help. Take pity on a very new and very lost user... Thank you!

You need to re-install iPhoto from the system restore disks that came with your Mac. Choose to install the bundled applications only.
Regards
TD

'Recovery' partition disappeared after BootCamp installation

Since i've installed Windows on BootCamp, Lion's 'Recovery' partition containing a recovery system just disappeared.
Is there a way of getting it back? It isn't really important, but i was just wondering if it could be reinstalled.
Thank you!
penguin01210

Since i've installed Windows on BootCamp, Lion's 'Recovery' partition containing a recovery system just disappeared.
Is there a way of getting it back? It isn't really important, but i was just wondering if it could be reinstalled.
Thank you!
penguin01210

J4550 All In One Two Sided Printing Option Lost after re-installation!?!?!?

Was wondering what I am doing wrong.
My computer crashed over the weekend and I had to restore to factory defaults.
I re-installed the printer from the installation disk that came with my All in One J4550.
I opened up a powerpoint of some menus I had made and printed before.
When I went to print out these menus there was no option available for 2 sided manual printing in the printing options/preferences page.
Before the reinstallation I had been able to print up menus using the 2-sided printing. Now it's nowhere to be found. Was this option maybe made available through an update or something?? I have downloaded several to no avail. Thanks for your help!

Hi Jill542,
if you goto the HP Officjet J4550 Printing Preferences > Printing Shortcuts tab, do you see "Manually" available in the "Print On Both Sides" option?
if you goto the HP Officjet J4550 Printing Preferences > features tab, do you see the "Manual" avilable in the "two sided printing options"? if you couldnt' see the "two sided printing optios" at all it might be due to you have unchecked the "enabled advanced printing features" in the print driver. to enable this you can
1. right click on the HP Officejet J4500 printer icon
2. click on the advanced tab
3. check "enabled advanced printing features"
4. now if you go back to printing preference again you should see the "two sided printing options "available in the feature tab
Say "Thanks" by clicking the blue Kudos star in the post that helped you.
I am employed by HP .....(Although I am employed by HP, I am speaking for myself and not for HP)

Tx1312AU Windows Vista Recovery partition lost

tx1312AU Windows Vista Recovery partition lost after HD crash, how to get it back or should I try Win XP? (I hate Vista already...)

sijyb00 wrote:
See, the the thing is, I DID make the recovery cd... but it isn't working. From my understanding, the cd uses the information from the recovery partition to restore Windows? Correct me if I'm wrong. Every time I boot up the cd it detects no OS and when I click continue, it begins the installation and immediately says Installation cancelled, missing files, something like C:\win.int is missing.
So the recovery cd is not working. I called Toshiba and from what I could understand from the horrible english, was that they would charge me for another recovery cd... which I don't need, because I have one. Or send in my laptop for "repair." They said it was my hard drive. Which is complete bull**bleep**, when windows failed I ran a linux os on it perfectly fine, so it is not my hard drive.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? I have a product key for vista which I PAID for when I bought the laptop... I don't think it's fair to have to buy it over again for $100-200
No, the recovery disks don't rely on anything on the hard drive. From what you say, either you are not booting from the optical drive, or the disks indeed are faulty.
The last I knew, replacement disks were $25. See the sticky at the top of the General Discussion topic for details.
There have been a lot of reports of problems with recovery disks, so I'm a bit surprised that Toshiba won't ship you replacements at no charge. Might be worth another try, and an attempt to get to the next tech level.

Boot Camp partition corrupted after OS X Yosemite Recovery Update

As the written in the title, after installing the Recovery update i can no longer boot to Windows, the drive doesn't appear on either StartUp disk or on boot when holding the option key. Is there anyway to recover it? don't have a backup of it so my options are either fix it if possible or start from scratch.
Macbook Pro 15-inch mid 2012
Processor: 2,3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8GB 1600 Mhz DDR3
Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB
OS X 10.10.3

I followed the Steps in this thread(Bootcamp partition missing after yosemite installation). I dont see my Windows parition at startup-disk.
When i hold alt at the boot process, i can select and boot windows but then a weird error windows opens, it tries to repair the problem automatically, fails and wants to restart the computer...
What can i do?
And my output is:
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         299.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                200.0 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Ohne Titel             *299.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 5F59958C-E8AF-4C32-A646-D58D15CE379E
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 4D75F3DC-C99C-47A3-9B55-3262BE4D4180
    =========================================================
    Name:         Ohne Titel
    Status:       Online
    Size:         299417849856 B (299.4 GB)
    Free Space:   118784 B (118.8 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B71D0BA3-8C42-4783-8595-6321D8F9B17F
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     299417849856 B (299.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 7F506808-72AD-4CE5-A316-897C84DDC722
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 5F59958C-E8AF-4C32-A646-D58D15CE379E
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          299065409536 B (299.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Ohne Titel
            Volume Name:           Ohne Titel
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059
      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 584800488      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
585210128    1269760      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
586479888       1776
586481664 390621184      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
977102848       2179
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header
Frederiks-MacBook-Pro:~ frederik$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 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 - 584800488] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 585210128 -    1269760] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 586481664 - 390621184] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Thank you

How to add Oracle Partition Component after the RDBMS Installation

Hi,
I have been installed Oracle 11g R2 in Suse Linux 10 (64 bit), while in installation i deselect the Partition option. Now i need to bring the Oracle Partition option to my Oracle RDBMS.
Please help me how to bring the Partition Option once again into my Oracle Server.
Thanks in Advance,
Baalaji V

Same senario i have here, But i want to know how to install the Partition option after the RDBMS installation.
Since i have been installed the Oracle 11g R2 Ent Edition without Partition option, Now i need to install the same.
Thanks.

After the installation of Lion I don't see the partition with Windows 7. The solution?

After the installation of Lion I don't see the partition with Windows 7. The solution?

Let's be real clear here -- are you saying you are using Internet Explorer and when you try and download Mozilla Firefox it gets around 75% through and shuts down?
If so there is something wrong with your computer -- or at least IE. I rarely, if ever, recommend this, but it might be time to reformat your hard drive and reinstall your OS (if you are even thinking about doing this the first thing you must do is back up all your data files, preferably to writable media like DVDR or CDR).
If you have a friend with a computer perhaps you can get them to download both the latest iTunes as well as (more importantly) the latest firmware updater, and then install them on your machine (they can write them to their own CD).
The other thing that occurs to me is you might not be logged in as admin on that computer -- make sure you are doing this and are the only user.
Otherwise my brain is fuzzy right now -- perhaps someone else can jump in after you reply (I'm right in the middle of packing for a cross country move and only able to spend about five minutes a day on this board).

Upgraded my macbook pro to mountain lion. But during windows installation, it refuses coz of FAT file system. Also is it possible to partition after windows installation???

I just upgraded my macbook pro to mountain lion. Now I want to install windows, but during installation using bootcamp, it says windows can't install on FAT partition. I couldn't change it to NTFS. Also how can I partition my hard disk after windows installation. Coz before windows installation, if I partition hard disk, it won't allow me to install windows saying startup disk can't be partitioned.......help would be appreciated.
Thanks

bkchoo wrote:
Now, I wish to upgrade from Mountain Lion 10.8.5 to latest version of OS X Yosemite, but I am in doubt and worry if after upgraded to Yosemite, can I still using my Windows XP where I installed now in Mountain Lion 10.8.5 BootCamp?
Yosemite does not allow a new installation of XP, but an existing XP installation is self-contained and will continue to work. Does your XP installation use a FAT partition? You may be better off using NTFS and then upgrading to Yosemite.
Will the Yosemite upgrade process delete my Windows XP partition or crash my current BootCamp? Can I still have an option to load OS X or Windows XP (press 'alt/option' key during boot up) after upgraded to Yosemite?
If you have made any re-sizing attempts to WXP partition Yosemite will cause problems, otherwise the Yosemite upgrade leaves XP untouched.
Are there any specific reasons to upgrade to Yosemite?

How Do I Add Partitions After Bootcamp Installation?

I want to have Windows 7 on my late 2013 Macbook Pro 13 to run applications not available on OSX. I need a small separate partition to store files for one of the applications that runs under Windows. On my older PC Windows machine I have C:\ that contains 98% of the data and a separate partition that acts as a separate drive (M:\) to store library files. This is a local copy of a server that I carry on my MBP, and doing this as I've done keeps the configuration files (that point to the server M:\) on my MBP consistent with desktop machines that actually point to a network shared drive (M:\). I just sync my small partition with the server every so often to keep my MBP functioning when I'm disconnected from the server. Now the problem. I can install Windows via bootcamp and that creates a C:\ (Windows partition) and gets Windows up and running. I have already learned the hard way about adjusting the partitions after bootcamp installation (I've rebuilt my Mac about 3 times ). I have been able to create the correct number of partitions by running the bootcamp assistant, creating the bootcamp partition, rebooting and <option> booting back to OSX, before installing Windows to add this 10GB partition (as FAT32) for my "M drive". Now after creating the "M drive" partition, I booted back into the Windows install disk (which has issues with USB drivers not functioning which I got past) and now I find out Windows will not install because it can't format the bootcamp partition since it will be a 5th primary partition and Windows 7 only supports 4 primary partitions on a drive. Is there a better way (without virtual OSs)?

Not possible. Boot Camp only works for two partitions - the OS X one and the Windows one. That's it. If you attempt to put a third partition on the drive, then Boot Camp is no longer able to manage the drive and you will lose the required boot loader for Windows. Getting things back to normal will then require repartitioning the drive back to one volume and reinstalling OS X from scratch.

External Drive Partition, Lost Files

As the title suggests, I made a mistake that "erased" all my files on a backup external hard drive, after splitting a partition in two and installing Mac OS X Leopard on the new partition. I use quotes in "erased" because the data itself is still there, but the access to it isn't anymore. Before thinking about using recovery software and going through the harsh process of churning through hundreds of GB of data to recover files that could be corrupted in the end, I wanted to seek the opinions of more knowledgeable people to see if there are alternative solutions that could be more simple.
Here's my situation and all the steps that lead to my current state. I have a iMac with Core 2 Duo Intel processor, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB of RAM and an internal hard drive of 320 GB, with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8) installed. For backup and temporary transfer of files, I use an external USB hard drive, a Seagate FreeAgent with 500 GB (500 billion bytes = 465 GB actually).
I wanted to boot from my external hard drive to do some maintenance on my iMac's hard drive. So I used Disk Utility to split the current partition (the only one) on my external drive. The drive had 465 GB, give or take, with approximately 50GB free. The other partition to be created was 10GB. I know this is the kind of delicate operation that should be done with caution, but Disk Utility was saying explicitly that "this partition will not be erased", refering to the big partition that will become approximately 455 GB, the one that contains all my files. I say to myself, okay, that is safe.
Now, here comes the thing that I'm not 100% sure about. At this point, I don't know if the big partition was already erased. Both partitions (455GB and 10GB) always mounted on the desktop just fine. I was probably just "presuming" that everything went fine.
Then I proceeded to install Mac OS X Leopard from the installation DVD on the small 10GB partition, which went fine. It's only at this moment that I realised that my big partition was empty. Shortly after, I set the permissions of the big partition to read-only, assuming it would minimize further damage.
That's about it. At this point, my first thought was, what exactly just happened? In my mind, playing with one partition should not affect the other ones, but apparently, something did anyway, for a reason that is beyond my knowledge. Right now, I'm still wondering what operation did do the damage, the partition split or the installation of Mac OS X? Why would any of these operations erase the big partition?
And here's another important point to ponder. Before the partition split, my external hard drive was formatted as APM, Apple Partition Map. After the split, or after the Mac OS X installation (which one, I don't know), the partition scheme had changed to GUID. Maybe this is the key to solve the problem.
I know that my data is still intact, at least in most part, and I know that the file structure (B-Tree information, and stuff like that) seems to be intact (completely or partially) as well, because I visualized some sectors of my drive with a tool called iBored, and I recognized some folder and file names.
That's all the details I can provide. Right now, I feel like any low-level operation on my external drive is like defusing a bomb. One little mistake, and boom! So I prefer to do nothing until I can get some advice from others.
Thank you for your help!

I had the EXACT same issue last night.
Today, I downloaded Disk Drill and it is scanning and recovering my lost files from my external hard drive.
http://www.cleverfiles.com/partition-recovery.html
I thought I was going to have a heart attack when none of my files showed up on my Finder and I did not have a clue what I was going to do as my hard drive has practically my whole life on there!
As we speak, disk drill is in the process of scanning my hard drive and locating lost files.
Next step is to recover the files..
Estimated Time Remaining: 3h 20m
I will let you know if this was fully successful. It looks like it wil be though so I say you do what I'm doing and start recovering!

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