Re-activate win7 partition

Hello,
as using a lot my 2 OS, I decided to create a sharing partition on my disk for ma data, using G-parted. So I got :
/OSX (OS)
/NTFS SHARING (DATA ONLY)
/WIN7 (OS)
after creating this partition, when I boot on the windows partition, he tells me "missing operating system"
Isn't there any other solution than reinstalling the whole thing ? just reactivate or redirect the partition in the GUID ?

In fact I've already tried with Ext3 and exFAT, but it didn't work. Even only erasing without creating a new partition doesn't work.
I already have the driver for read/write on NTFS
The hatter wrote:
You moved Windows to higher number.
Okay , but I just want to remove the partition to a lower one, so He can see the OS, without having to reinstall the whole thing, is it possible ?

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Where does my win7 partition go?

Hello all,
I've used my MBP since 2011, I use auch both win7 and mac OS.
I've my snowleopard upgrated to OS X 10.9.1 later. The both systems work good.
Last week i tried to upgrade my win7 OS, because this one is not actived since it has been installed.
The system needs to restart, then i restart the machine. That's the time i got the problem.
Whenn the OS restarts, i press the option key to switch to Win7, but I got just EFI boot. After choosing the item, the screen stay for 30 minute with a symbel, it's indicates that the OS works failed, then the machine is power off.
I'm using the driversutilities under Mac OS to check the information of my drivers, find out that the size of the driver is right(320GB), but the partition(60GB) for win7 is totally gone. which means the partiton is invisable right now for Mac OS..
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Any inputs will be appreciated!
Jian

Jian,
in the Finder, press Command-Shift-U to bring up the Utilities folder; run Terminal there. In the Terminal window, give it the following commands, one per line, ending each line by pressing the Return key:
diskutil list
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Last login: Mon Jan 12 18:37:17 on console
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            502.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         497.3 GB   disk0s4
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   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *2.0 GB     disk1
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED                2.0 GB     disk1s1
/dev/disk2
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   0:                            GSP1RMCPRXFRER_EN_DVD *3.3 GB     disk2
diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
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 1953525167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   980461752      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   980871392     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   982140928   971382784      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 980461752] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980871392 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 982140928 - 971382784] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Ok after an entire day it finally finished scanning:
No disk found.
TestDisk will try to restart itself using the sudo command to get
root (superuser) privileges.
sudo may ask your user password, it doesn't ask for the root password.
Usually there is no echo or '*' displayed when you type your password.
Password:
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, December 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.or
TestDisk 7.0-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, December 2014
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors (RO)
The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 8244231 TB / 7498084 TiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
> MS Data                589197655 2408374607 1819176953
   MS Data                608449240 2427626192 1819176953
   Mac HFS                980871388 1961333139 980461752
   MS Data               1026846776 2846023728 1819176953
   Mac HFS               1278484238 1994314511 715830274
   Mac HFS               1364515067 4661906751 3297391685
   Mac HFS               1364900009 4762958318 3398058310
   Mac HFS               1365656154 2733684382 1368028229
   MS Data               1533864209 16102014586812747 16102013052948538 [tem: %s
   Mac HFS               1653462088 2056279113 402817026
[ Continue ]
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Removing Win7 Partition - Regain Space

I had Windows 7 running in Parallels but removed them both. This left me with a lot of unused space in that partition.
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drive space?

never used parallels but with every other virtualization program I've used such as virtualbox, wmware, ms virtual pc
the whole point was that they never did anything in terms of parition of the fysical disk the whole os install of linux or windows or... was 1 file (for each virtual machine) located on my osx parition If i deleted the file the os was gon
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OSX Partion UnBootable, Win7 Partition unbootable. Ubuntu is my last fort

I had Snow Leopard installed on my MacBook Pro 15. I wanted to try out Windows 7 and so I installed it via BootCamp. Easy as pie. Then my OSX Partition would not boot. I got an Apple logo and then a progress bar on the bottom. After the progress bar finished I got a blue screen with a spinner which flickered every now and then. It would hang like this forever. I tried repairing the partition with the OSX DVD but with no avail. I then tried setting the partition as active in Windows 7. Now the OSX partition isn't even an option in the EFI bootup process and Windows 7 said "Missing Operating System." I wiped windows 7 and put Ubuntu 10.10 on it so I have something stable for now.
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A little information or knowledge can be dangerous in some hands.
Start over.
To understand partitions and EFI as well as GPT -
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx
Secrets of GPT http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2006/tn2166.html

OSX has performed slower since a Win7 partition was created...

Hi,
Late last July (I think) I partitioned the 1TB HDD of the iMac below, and installed Windows 7 onto the 100GB partition. Since early October of last year, I noticed that performance in OSX had dropped; it took longer to boot up, and especially to launch any applications very soon after login. Ever since mid January the performance under OSX had appeared to be even worse. It reportedly takes very much longer to launch many applications, like Safari or Word; again especially recently after login. I had installed a certain application in the Win 7 partition on the 13th of Jan: Tencent QQ. This was so I could correspond with friends in China.
It appears that ever since then, many tasks have taken longer to execute and completely. A strange thing is that in comparison to the slowing down of OSX, 7 had not had any performance hit at all, even with only twenty percent left on the allocated partition.
Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, LIb.
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Apple First Aid has not put Alsoft or MicroMat out of business, and they have their own more robust disk maintenance.
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There are always a few threads in Boot Camp forum of people that have a slower OS X response after installing Windows. Your iMac 4-core 8GB RAM should be fast, and no slower now after partitioning. Unless there is some structural problem. Though it does sound like the boot and system cache (which should be deleted and recreated from 10.6.6, and are rebuilt fresh using SuperDuper restore (it doesn't copy temp files and caches for one).
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No sound from external speakers in win7 partition

hi all,
apologies if this is a common problem - but i couldn't find any info specific to it on the web.
i installed windows 7 in 64bit w/ bootcamp on my macbook pro and so far everything has been going great .. other than that i can't get any sound out of my external speakers.
i have the latest cirrus audio drivers and i also have the realtek drivers that were recommended. the built in speakers work fine but, as we know, they're not great.
when i plug my external speakers in, for some reason, the control panel thinks that they are headphones. as far as i know there are no additional drivers required for the speakers. they are speedlink gravity nx 2.1 speakers if that's relevant.
thanks in advance,
nick

Hi,
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Get some headphones and plug them in, if there is no sound through them you can assume the port is outputting nothing.
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My Bootcamp Partition has disappear from OSX and its impossible to activate

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i`m using Bootcamp with Win XP, and now the partition has disappear from the desktop of OSX. When i use the HD-Diagnostic tool i can see the partition as unactivated. Trying to activate is not possible. But the partition seems to be working, because i can still start Win XP when i reboot and hold the "alt" Key. Then i can choose between OSX and WinXP and it goes fine. Is there a way to activate this partition in OSX? Because i want to delete WinXP from my Apple.

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To remove the WinXP partition you have to run Bootcamp Assistant (Application/Utilities) again, it should give you the option to (not sure of exact words)Remove Windows and Return to one partition.
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Are there any problems with running PPro CS4 under WIN7...?

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I've looked through the forums and don't see much, so I have high hopes. But in case I've missed something, what should I watch out for?
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Having learned that with ADOBE there is always some nightmare scenario, I am stopping in my tracks until I get more information.
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As expected, I got the "Excuse the interruption" message telling me that there were already two copies with the same serial number running - I have one on my laptop and the other is, of course, in the Win XP partition on the same computer & hard drive as this new install.
I chose the "30 days to fix the issue" option.
This was so I could migrate my preferences, keyboard & other presets to the Win7 install and confirm their proper operation before activation.
PITA #1 - In XP, presets, prefs, etc., are located in "c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\4.0\."
In Win7, they are located in "c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Premiere Pro\4.0\. This is a hidden folder, so you must go to Folder Options\View and check "Show Hidden Folders." I think this is now in Control Panel\Settings ( I got there through a Help link so I'm not sure, but it is not in the folder headers "Tools" anymore).
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Windows partition utility does not agree with fdisk

The background for this is here. Tl;dr: I created 3 primary partitions (SYSTEM, C:, shared data) and two logical (/boot and /) for a dual boot system, and ran into issues with chainloading from win7 with EasyBCD. To troubleshoot, I simplified the setup to 3 primary partitions, and am now trying to go back... but can't!
Method:
- Delete all volumes/partitions after C:
- Create primary partition of ~100G, NTFS formatted (shared data)
- Create logical partition of 256M, unformatted (/boot)
- Create logical partition with remaining space, unformatted (encrypted /)
I used the built-in win7 partition utility for this, and it looks like it worked: screenshot
My first alert was the fact that Minitool Partition Wizard didn't agree with win7: screenshot
In fact, trying to create logical partitions with Minitool reports that the operation was successful, but as soon as it completes they turn back into unallocated space. I actually tried this first and then went with the win7 utility as I thought something was wrong with Minitool. I'm starting to think it's the other way around and that Minitool sees the correct state and win7 is wrong. That diagnosis comes from the output of fdisk via booting an Arch installation image:
Invalid flag 0x7d9b of EBR (for partition 5) will be corrected by w(rite).
Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1e6513b3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2101247 2099200 1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 2101248 172433407 170332160 81.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 172433408 387473407 215040000 102.6G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 387473408 500115455 112642048 53.7G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2961659748 5859253686 2897593939 1.4T 65 Novell Netware 386
No idea whatsoever on the type ID assigned to /dev/sda5, nor why it shows as 1.4T. I've tried various things with no success:
- check/fix errors via win7 drive properties (no errors found)
- delete all non-win7 partitions, grow the partition to the full disk, and then shrink back again
- shrink win7 to ~80G, create a single primary partition, boot Arch install media, format with ext4, `dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt` until full, then delete file
- change order (2 logicals, then primary)
- format the logicals with NTFS upon creation instead of leaving them unformatted
- assigning drive letters upon creating the partitions vs. no drive letter
I'm hesitant to just do everything from fdisk, as I have McAfee Endpoint Encryption and I'm not sure if writing the partition table from outside of windows can possibly ruin anything related to how the startup decryption works. If someone can assure that dd'ing some number of bytes on /dev/sda would allow me to reverse the process (restore said bytes to the beginning of the drive) in the event of any failures, I'd be willing to give that a shot. I know I've dd'd the encrypted MBR in the past and successfully restored it (after trying to install grub instead of the windows bootloader) just fine and been able to boot again. Not sure if messing with the partition table is any different.
Thanks for any suggestions!

Hi Pradhiba and A.H.P,
I got this problem yesterday and I tried all steps mentionned in this message of yours. Just for your information I checked the following points also (maybe it helps you to analyse better the problem):
System Analysis:
1. SE16 T000
2. SE16 RSBASIDOC in both systems
3. SU01 PROFILES
    BWREMOTE       > To be checked
    ALEREMOTE   and profile S_BI-WX_RFC   see note 150315 > To be checked
4. WE20 Partner Profile LS settings in both are OK
    BW outbound RSRQST
            inbound RSINFO RSSEND
    R/3 outbound RSINFO RSSEND
                             inbound RSRQST
    also check 'RSSEND' in R/3
BIDOCTYP = ZSUB161 > To be checked
5. SM59 .. appears to be ok
6. check inconsistency in tables RSISOSMAP and RSOSFIELDMAP
   SE16 BW for table RSISOSMAP
7. SE16 BW for table RSOSFIELDMAP
     no 'T' entries
8. in BW > source system
The remote users for calling and sending data must have the type
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9. Run the report RS_TRANSTRU_ACTIVATE_ALL (activate all BW structures)
10. check entries on the table bdls
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Sounds like Spotlight doesn't use Paragon which actually doesn't surprise me at all.
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How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

Hello,
i have a notebook with an Win7 and an Arch Installation.
My partition layout is: [Win7] -[ Win7Pagefile] - [Arch64 / (everything)] -[Swap] - [Datapartion with all the restGB]
Now that ive switched completely to Arch i didn need win7 anymore.
How can i remove the Win7 partitions so that arch is in front in the faster areas of hdd?
Even better: can i now split the arch partiotion into separate /boot, /home, etc.?
Hope you understand my problem.
Thank you!

nixpunk wrote:
I strongly suggest reading up on some things first to help you better understand what you need to do. This info should help start you off on the right direction.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GParted
I know GParted .... it had f****d my entire drive earlier. I only trust my paid Acronis Disk Director, but it dosnt handle my ext4 correctly, so it is no option for moving my Arch partition.
Grub2 is on my System the Bootloader, so i know there must be sometething been edited in the grub.cfg after partitioning for proper boot.
When i delete the Win7 Partitons under Windows and move the Arch in front, are the SD*-Numbers in Arch changing??
So, when i delete tbothz win7 partitions Grub2 shouls still be working as ive installed into MBR. I think then i only have to change the sda1... for a succesful boot?
Dumb thing ia: Win7 are primary partitions (both), then all others come in a big logical one.
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I can't boot to Windows after resizing my Mac partition.

So, I recently decided to resize my bootcamp Win7 partition. This is something I have done successfully before, by:
1) Booting into Macintosh
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3) Booting into Windows
4) Using Mini-Tool Partition Wizard (third-party) to allocate the free space to the Bootcamp partition.
There were a couple issues caused by this the first time around, mainly the fact that Macintosh didn’t recognize the fact that the free space had been taken, and had trouble reading from the Windows partition. However, I could live with that. I have since rebooted to both Mac and Windows several times without problem.
Recently, I decided I needed a bit more space, and so started to follow the above steps, shrinking the Mac partition an additional 15GB. Only when I went to reboot to reallocate the space, the Windows partition didn’t show up as a bootable option. Confused, I booted back to Mac, and the Bootcamp partition was still there, but renamed “disk0s4”, and unmounted. Reparing the disk failed (“Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 15921e”). The disk wouldn’t mount (not even sure if it was supposed to be mounted earlier, but that’s what it looks like). It also appears grayed-out in the list of drives to the left. It looks like I can create a dmg from the windows drive, although I haven’t done that yet (I will soon).
Any solutions for this? Although I will erase the drive if absolutely necessary, it would be preferred if that wasn’t the first option to try. I had no problems like this the first time I resized the disk.
(My mac partition is running Mavericks, if that is of any relevance)

These steps correct the Partition ID, and the boot ability of the MBR partition that has Windows on it.You can type '?' for help in the following steps where you set the fdisk prompt.
To fix the MBR, in OSX Terminal
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
setpid 4
07
flag 4
p
w
y
q
Please ignore the i386 message that you see in the following. Here is the set of commands in the utility. The utility starts at partition id 1. If you see any other messages, please post back.
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> ?
help Command help list
manual Show entire man page for fdisk
reinit Re-initialize loaded MBR (to defaults)
auto Auto-partition the disk with a partition style
setpid Set the identifier of a given table entry
disk Edit current drive stats
edit Edit given table entry
erase Erase current MBR
flag Flag given table entry as bootable
update Update machine code in loaded MBR
select Select extended partition table entry MBR
print Print loaded MBR partition table
write Write loaded MBR to disk
exit Exit edit of current MBR, without saving changes
quit Quit edit of current MBR, saving current changes
abort Abort program without saving current changes
fdisk: 1>

How to add a partition for Windows XP

Hi, I recently received my T410 with Windows 7 pre-installed. I would like it to be a dual-boot system for Windows 7 and XP.
I had hoped to be able to create a new primary partition after shrinking the Win7 partition. However, it looks like my system already came with three primary partitions. They are
Volume, Layout, Type, File System, Status
Lenovo_Recovery (Q, Simple, Basic, NTFS, Healthy (Primary Partition)
SYSTEM_DRV, Simple, Basic, NTFS, Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
Windows7_OS (C, Simple, Basic, NTFS, Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
1. Does SYSTEM_DRV need to be a primary partition?
2. Since it looks like SYSTEM_DRV is just the system drivers, is it possible for me to either (a) change that partition to a logical drive partition or (b) move those files to a folder in the Windows7_OS partition? Then I am assuming that will free up a primary partition for XP and I can carry on with installing XP on that partition.
3. If yes to question 2, what steps do I need to take to do either (a) or (b)?
The steps I am currently following for making it a dual-boot system are here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html, and http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/67236-problems-dual-boot-win-7-win-xp.html. They don't address they case where the computer already has three primary partitions, unfortunately; and I figure this is more of a Lenovo question rather than a question for that forum.
Thanks for your help.

not to put you off on what you're about to do, but depending on what version of 7 you have, pro and ultimate have an option to install a full copy of xp pro sp3 in a virtual machine within windows 7. it will integrate windows 7 files into it so you can access them. and it it actually is a full version of xp. you allocate system memory for it to run and you can either have it set to shut down which will free up the resources or hibernate which won't. although it loads much faster from hibernate.
before you do anything, i would burn restore discs in case something gets screwed. make sure you have restore points set.
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