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The problem is the Partition Scheme was accidentally set to GUID. This is because Macs use this partition scheme natively. Your Intel / AMD machine's bios uses a Master Boot Record Partition Scheme.

 

To fix your disk, follow these steps:

 

WARNING: THIS TUTORIAL INVOLVES A FORM OF HOT-SWAPPING. THIS CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR PC AND/OR HDD IF DONE INCORRECTLY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DESTROY YOUR MACHINE BECAUSE OF INEXPERIENCE.

 

1. Remove all hard drives from your PC(A safty precaution).

2. Insert the OSX install disk into your pc. When the menu loads asking if you want to use advanced options press an arrow key to stall in that menu.

3. Connect Bricked Hard Drive in this order. (S)ATA cable then power.

 

IMPORTANT!!!

 

WHEN YOU CONNECT THE CABLES, PUSH THEM IN FIRMLY THE FIRST TIME. IF YOU ATTACH ONE HALF WAY THEN ADJUST YOU RISK SENDING A SURGE INTO THE DRIVE DESTROYING IT. AND DON'T TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF THE HDD. JUST A REMINDER.

 

4. Your PC should say "BOOT:". Press enter without entering anything.

5. When you are in OSX(the installation part after the language selection) go to Utilities > Disk Utility.

6. Select your hard drive(not the partition), then click on Partition. Make one partition and select Free Space. Then write it to disk.(Partiton Button at bottom right).

7. Now set up your disk how you want. I would reccommend making a partition in Windows then changing it to whatever you want in OSX. You can partition the disk in OSX but it's much more complicated(It wants to use the GUID Partition System).

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@thegodfaza

 

This is exactly the way i used to "recover" my harddrive with one difference: i tryed this way some weeks ago with a IDE drive.

The bios never passed the IDE test, so i waited with the powerplug until the bios passed and then i pluged the power to the hd.

 

I booted with "Hirens Boot CD" and formated the HD with acronis disk director and everything worked fine.

 

BUT NO ONE SHOULD FORGET: TRY IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! IT SERIOUSLY COULD DAMAGE YOUR HARDWARE (PC,HD)

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I posted this topic because someone on this forum had the same problem and couldn't find the solution. In the case of a GUID Partition Scheme an AMD/Intel system will hang at boot so you can't recover it using conventional methods. You can only recover if you haven't rebooted before you noticed the problem. I know this because it happened to me. I didn't know what to do so I found a solution myself.

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