Bricked my windows partition?

[iCF-74 ToughMac]

Not sure this is in the correct forum - but considering Vista was breathing before I began my numerous OSx86 installs...

 

For a week or so now my Vista volume has been out of reach. I cannot seem to fix it. Disk utilities doesn't offer any help, as all the repair options are not highlighted. I tried the G-parted disk, but cannot repair that way either - I get an error, and the details indicate the Vista volume is corrupt. It suggests I perform chkdsk /f and reboot a few times, but using the terminal in the gparted software I cannot perform that task because the Vista volume is read only.

 

Is there another way to repair this?

 

 

Currently I'm running a dual boot Vista/XxX Leopard 10.5.5

 

I have a third partition for time machine backups, but unfortunately I never backed up the Vista volume therefore repair seems my only option.

 

 

Ideas?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Joe

[Comando156]

This happened to me after i installed osx86 Yesterday on another partition. Leopard was booting but vista could not. I used the vista repair disk to try to recover the boot.ini , and make a duel boot menu, but it gave me an error saying disk is unreadable. So i rebooted OSX, and unmounted the Vista Drive, Then when back to vista repair disk and got vista to boot. Then from inside vista i rebuilt the boot.ini, to have a clean menu to choose from during boot. Mainly, the problem for me was that vista was reading as damaged because it was unmounted properly. Make sure it is mounted correctly.

[iCF-74 ToughMac]

Thanks Comando,

 

That pointed me in the right direction. Eventually after simply unmounting the Vista partition in OSx didn't get me anywhere I used G-parted to change the boot flag to the Vista partition. Once that was in place the Vista recovery CD worked it's magic during a couple repairs.

 

Vista boots again.

 

Phew ..

 

 

Joe