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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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