metaljay Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 ok, first of i must appolgise, im ok with computers, but never really used mac before so bare with me i have a sony vaio laptop (quite new as it has blueray drive etc) it didnt come with any disks, just a recovery parttion i followed guides to create a partion in vista as uncollated, but it would not work, so i decided to formate my recover parttion as i woudl never use it (this was the first partition on my drive) and vista on 2nd so i booted into iatkos 1.0i, and i formatted to mac os extended (journaled) did darwin bootloader (it could not find disk0, so i did disk 1 then it worked, then i installed and (so i think) appiled all the patches for my laptop hardware. i booted into -v -s mode and flagged part 1 as active, i can now boot into leopard, but when i try vista i get hfs+ partition error please help when i boot into leopard and access terminal , some told me to try sudo -s but i didnt set a password, and when i try type 1 in i get sorry try again. i cannt boot to vista, and i didnt back everything up any advise?? i used iatkos 1.0i and have vista home premium (which is on my 2nd partition) thanks for any who replys btw i did search before, and all tutorials included i can access sudo or vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 If you googled "hfs+ partition error insanelymac" it will come up with 197 post in IM to solve the problem!! use the third one! You dont have to "sudo" if you have done -s you are already in superuser mode! remember to follow the screen and do the "/sbin/fsck......." and "/sbin/mount......." thingy before you work on your HD SticMAN ok, first of i must appolgise, im ok with computers, but never really used mac before so bare with me i have a sony vaio laptop (quite new as it has blueray drive etc) it didnt come with any disks, just a recovery parttion i followed guides to create a partion in vista as uncollated, but it would not work, so i decided to formate my recover parttion as i woudl never use it (this was the first partition on my drive) and vista on 2nd so i booted into iatkos 1.0i, and i formatted to mac os extended (journaled) did darwin bootloader (it could not find disk0, so i did disk 1 then it worked, then i installed and (so i think) appiled all the patches for my laptop hardware. i booted into -v -s mode and flagged part 1 as active, i can now boot into leopard, but when i try vista i get hfs+ partition error please help when i boot into leopard and access terminal , some told me to try sudo -s but i didnt set a password, and when i try type 1 in i get sorry try again. i cannt boot to vista, and i didnt back everything up any advise?? i used iatkos 1.0i and have vista home premium (which is on my 2nd partition) thanks for any who replys btw i did search before, and all tutorials included i can access sudo or vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaljay Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 what you just made no sence to me lol ive booted with -s before and i can type in code, i did google, ive spent 2 whole nights trying to do this, a friend recommended this site edit : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33216 i cannot do this command as it says access denied, can i have personalised help rather than a generic answer please?? (im not trying to be rude, im just rli worried about all my data being lost) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaljay Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 please i still get hfs+ partition errror help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Try this...might work Boot Vista DVD At prompt...repair install If you do not see your Vista partition listed use diskpart to make active Vista then let it repair startup. It should allow you to boot Vista BACKUP! what you have then you can edit Vista bootloader to boot OSX I hope this helps......I hope it works Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaljay Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 i only have recovery disk which i downloaded can you giv me steps please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Dude, the only thing I can think of is get your hands on an install disk. I dont think you can do it with a recovery disk....I hope I am wrong, but I don't think I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaljay Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 damn ok will any vista disk work? e.g a copy from a friend? edit ~ i just typed fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 (i saw on internet this may work) so my bootloader was set to default, i cudnt boot at all now i in booted in2 iatkos DVD and reformated partion 1 did darwin boot loader and its istalling now please sum1 help me get back in2 vista so i can at least back up everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 As long as it is a regular Vista install disk You can try resetting the flag boot osx dvd -s fdisk -e rdisk0 flag ? (Vista partition) u (update) w (write) reboot and give it a try Good luck Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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