[How To] Fixing the HFS+ Partition error

[jpranojo]

This will fix the "HFS+ Partition Error" after installing OSX. [i have two methods now]

Let's say you are installing on Disk 0 and your Vista Partition is 1 and OSX is 2.

Method 1 [using the Vista disk]:

1.Go install Vista and download EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/downloads/software/ ... 01.7.2.exe

2.Install OSX and reboot. You will get the HFS+ Partition Error.

3.Pop in you Vista installation CD and select your language in the graphical installer.

4.On the next screen, click "Repair computer".

5.If you don't see your Vista installation, don't worry. Just click "Next/Continue" [i forgot what it is]

6.Click "Command Prompt"

7.On the prompt, type in "diskpart"

8.Type "list disk" then type in "select disk 0"

9.Then type in "list partition" then "select partition 1" [Vista]

10.Type in "active"

11.Put "exit" and close Command Prompt.

12.Click on "Restart"

13.Vista should be booting. If it says "winload.exe is corrupted blah blah blah" restart and boot into your Vista disk again.

14.Click "Repair Computer" then you will see your Vista partition. Click "Next/Continue".

15.This time select "Startup Repair".

16. If it says its done, boot into Vista and run EasyBCD.

17.Select "Add/Remove Entries" on the sidebar then on the bottom of the windows select the "Mac" tab and on the drop down select "Generic x86 PC" and enter a name for it then it will say it was added successfully.

18.Restart and you will see two entries in the Vista bootloader. Select the name that you entered in EasyBCD.

19. On Darwin's countdown press a key and select your Mac partition. It should be booting.

20. If you want to get rid of the countdown, go to "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/" and open "com.apple.Boot.plist" with any text editor and where it says "Timeout" replace the number with "0".

 

Method 2 [using the Mac OS X86 Disk]:

1.Pop in your OSX disk and restart. On the countdown press F8 and go into single user mode. [type in -s]

2.Tupe in "fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0" then "flag 1"

3. Type in "update" then if you see something about the boot record put in "n"

4.Put in "quit" and "reboot". Your computer will restart and you will boot into Vista.

5.Download EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/downloads/software/ ... 01.7.2.exe and run it.

6.Follow steps 17-19 from Method 1.

7.If you want to get rid of the countdown follow step 20.

 

Good Luck!!!