Startup Disk Oddities and Other Things
Hi there, I'm having some issues with Boot Camp related items that I'm unable to solve myself. Hopefully someone here can help or point me in the right direction.
Current configuration:
I have a Mac Pro with 4 internal and 1 external hard drives. Disk 1 has my OSX partition on it. Disk 2 has Windows XP installed through Boot Camp, taking up the entirety of the other partitions. The other three drives do not contain bootable operating systems. The 1.5TB external drive is used as a Time Machine drive and contains backups of the other drives (WinXP excluded).
I have a wide variety of software available to use and am familiar with most all terms related to this issue.
Symptoms:
1) Windows partition does not show up as a viable boot disk in the OSX Startup Disks control panel
2) When using the Boot Camp Assist, I am never given the option to return my second disk (the NTFS one) to an OSX Partition. That, and create a second partition option is ALWAYS grayed out, my only option being to erase the whole disk and create a single partition for Windows. This will show up no matter what format the partition is currently (FAT32, NTFS or HFS+).
3) When holding down the Option key on startup, I see three available boot volumes. OSX, Windows and Windows. Booting to either the first or the third option gives me OSX or WinXP, respectively, but selecting the second returns an "Operating System Not Found" error on a black screen.
4) When in Windows XP, going into the Boot Camp control panel, I see 3 startup volumes. OSX on Disk 1, Windows on Disk 1, Windows on Disk 2.
As best as I can determine, something on my OSX volume is being recognized as having a valid Windows partition. I'd like to resolve this issue so I can go back to the "normal" way of doing things before other issues arise because I've ignored this for so long.
Thanks for any help and suggestions you may have,
Jackson
After thought: I am unable to boot into the Parted Magic live CD to inspect the partitions on my first disk. It hangs on "Waiting 10 seconds for devices." This as a troubleshooting utility is unavailable.
Since my last post, I repaired disk permissions, and ran CacheOutX, What Size, and MacJanitor. I now have 3 MB available but it goes back to zero when I launch iTunes.
Sep 10 10:59:22 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:22 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:22 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:23 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:23 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:23 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:23 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Sep 10 10:59:23 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
2008-09-10 11:00:03.782 WhatSize[907] IDDLog will start logging to file /Users/admin/Library/Logs/WhatSize.log
2008-09-10 11:13:45.421 MacJanitor[953] Is Authorized==-60007
2008-09-10 11:13:45.644 MacJanitor[953] Find keychain returned -25300
2008-09-10 11:13:47.636 MacJanitor[953] Is Authorized==0
2008-09-10 11:13:47.637 MacJanitor[953] authenticateForExecutablePaths returned OK
2008-09-10 11:13:51.766 MacJanitor[953] Running task
Sep 10 11:13:51 admins-powerbook-g4-12 authexec: executing /Volumes/MacJanitor_1.3/MacJanitor.app/Contents/Resources/MacJanitorServer
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