emout Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Hi sorry for my bad english I am in big trouble... 2 weeks ago i installed leopard on my pc (kallyway). Everything was working wonderful. All my drivers etc my HDD configuration 1- 500 gb seagete -- leopard it has 3 partitions on it 2- 80 gb seagate --xp it has 3 parititons on it 3-500 gb usb HDD-- i am using it for backups What did i do: i wanted to backup my important files to my 500 gb usb HDD but leopard didn't allowed me to put my files on it becouse it was NTFS formated. 1- on start up i made 80 gb hdd master to boot xp 2- on xp i entered disc manager 3- i deleted 500 usb hdd ( unpartition it) 4- i set my 500 gb hdd to master to boot my leopard 5- on diognastics it says : still waiting for root device 6- i thought i can solve it by reinstalling leopard so i started with my cdrom 7- leopard cd didn't see my leopard parititons 8- i said what the **** 9- i didn't install leopard and i restarted my compudter 10- when i press f8 before starting my leopard, it sees all my partitions but it says still waiting for root device. Main problem: i have important files on my 500 gb hdd so i can't format it. I should find a way to recover my partitions or something else PLZZZZZZZZZZ HELP MEEEEEEEEEEE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137882-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Unplug your USB HDD, then make your leopard partition active. Try booting from DVD, go to terminal and try this: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (replace 0 with your disk no.) flag 1 (replace 1 with your leopard partition no.) write update quit If you still fail after trying the above steps, then you might need to install leopard again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137882-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-975804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emout Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 well i found a wonderful software that showed all my files after install mac on my pc HDD. I backed up everything... R-studio for mac http://www.data-recovery-macintosh.com/ Thanks for ur help but i was so desparate i did what i can Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/137882-still-waiting-for-root-device/#findComment-976303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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