nebo Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 After installing OSX and getting everything going nicely.. I made the mistake of messing with the OSX Startup Disk utility.. Having to manually choose the proper startup from the darwin menu, I thought the tool set the default selection. Well what it did do was destroy all my partitions.. Thank god I have a partition recovery tool.. so my data is now safe once more.. but I do have to completly rebuild my whole machine.. this is going to take a few days.. Thought I would warn you guys.. -=Nebo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1030-if-you-are-multibooting-dont-mess-with/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest User Name Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 After installing OSX and getting everything going nicely.. I made the mistake of messing with the OSX Startup Disk utility.. Having to manually choose the proper startup from the darwin menu, I thought the tool set the default selection. Well what it did do was destroy all my partitions.. Thank god I have a partition recovery tool.. so my data is now safe once more.. but I do have to completly rebuild my whole machine.. this is going to take a few days.. Thought I would warn you guys.. -=Nebo. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL good heads-up noone told me to update quicktime and that {censored} killed my os Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1030-if-you-are-multibooting-dont-mess-with/#findComment-6223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodat Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Oh yeah, and don't try booting into Windows from it. I had my Windows HDD plugged in as a secondary drive (to pull some patches off). I noticed "oh, c:\Windows is in the Disk Startup Utility. Lets press the 'restart into Windows' and see if it works". Well, didn't work, hosed not only that c: partition but also my data backup partition on that secondary HDD as well. Say nebo, have any suggestions for a partition recovery tool that I could use to try and get my data back? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1030-if-you-are-multibooting-dont-mess-with/#findComment-6236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 Oh yeah, and don't try booting into Windows from it. I had my Windows HDD plugged in as a secondary drive (to pull some patches off). I noticed "oh, c:\Windows is in the Disk Startup Utility. Lets press the 'restart into Windows' and see if it works". Well, didn't work, hosed not only that c: partition but also my data backup partition on that secondary HDD as well. Say nebo, have any suggestions for a partition recovery tool that I could use to try and get my data back? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I used active data recovery software's partition tool.. www.partition-recovery.com its on the SuperPE DVD thats been floating around the net (a must for geeks, saved my ass 100 times over).. it found the partitions but my sys is hosed so it just let me easily copy my data to a backup drive.. I am going to rebuild tomorrow.. Hey Mods, if you see this how about we start creating some stickies.. or a sticky faq at least. Don't update Quicktime, dont use Darwin to boot windows and don't mess with OSX's startup disk tool seems like information that everyone should know.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1030-if-you-are-multibooting-dont-mess-with/#findComment-6325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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