simphax Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Okey, this is a really wierd problem :S I will try to explain what i remember that made this issue. Everything was working just fine on my Dell Inspiron 1520 with iATKOS 10.5.4 installation. But in a try to get parallels working with my existing Windows Vista partition I screwed things up. I used fdisk to activate the windows partititon, but when I did that, I got a kernel panic! When I restarted the computer it started up Windows and everything was normal there. Because I didn't have access to the iATKOS cd I reactivated the os x partition by using Windows "diskutil", and as I can remember I did the usual procedure (select disk 0, select partition 1, active). Then I restarted the computer again but was welcomed with a "HFS+ partition error". "Ah, I remember how to solve this", i thought. I was met by the exact same message in the initial install of Mac OS X, and I solved it with some fdisk settings and repairing with the Vista CD. I did the procedure I did in the initial install when I came home (I was in school when this happened). But it didn't solve anything .. I still had the HFS+ error on the screen. And here comes the wierd stuff: If I try to use the Disk Utility on the iATKOS cd he claims that the Mac partition is formatted as "Windows_NT"! If I start windows, I can access all the files with MacDrive. And without MacDrive i see it as a windows drive In Linux Ubuntu I can see and access the files too. I can start the Mac OS X installation by typing rd=disk0s1 in the boot promt of the cd, but without graphics driver (NVinjectGo). How do I fix this???? A reinstallation/formatting is not an option because I have a lot of files and settings I want to save. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
simphax Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 You don't need do post a solution. Write whatever your thoughts are, so we can figure this out together. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-872592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simphax Posted August 31, 2008 Author Share Posted August 31, 2008 Isn't there any clever person here?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-875306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocium Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Sounds like you might have a corrupt MBR. I do not know much but using gparted to format your disks again might help. You would probably loose all data Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-875383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simphax Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 Yeah. But as I said in the first post I don't want to reformat the partitions. Is there any repair boot cds or software for windows vista that can repair hfs+ volumes mbr? .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-876929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simphax Posted September 3, 2008 Author Share Posted September 3, 2008 Hi, I've decided to reinstall leopard, but how can I install iATKOSv4 with an existing vista ntfs partition already on the drive. It fails when installing the darwin bootloader. He sais that disk0 is busy... My Harddrive looks like this: 80GB disk0 MBR ~40GB disk0s1 HFS+ Journaled Mac partition ~40GB disk0s2 NTFS Windows Vista partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-878149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simphax Posted September 4, 2008 Author Share Posted September 4, 2008 It's sad it isn't more active helpful people in this forum.. I have done a complete reinstallation now. Thanks anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123234-wierd-problem-with-dual-boot/#findComment-879296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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