access to windows partition

[Random_Person]

ok, so i have a near perfect install on my desktop here, and am pretty happy with the results.

 

i split the partition in two, half for windows, and half for os x. i have the HDD image on my desktop titled "Untitled"

 

can anyone help me access this half of my hard drive?

 

 

i used iAtkos v7 with chameleon v2 bootloader.

 

thanks in advance.

[srs5694]

If you're saying you've successfully installed OS X, and you see a drive icon called "Untitled" on your desktop that's not your OS X partition, then double-clicking it should open a window on your Windows files. If it doesn't, then something is messed up with that partition or with your Mac drivers. I suggest first rebooting to Windows and running a disk check there; it's possible that shrinking the partition corrupted it, and a disk check will fix the problem. If that doesn't help, then you might try NTFS-3G, which is a read/write NTFS driver for Mac OS X (and other OSes). It's conceivable it will work where Apple's default read-only NTFS driver fails.

 

If you're having some other sort of problem, then you need to post details, since your post isn't very clear about what precisely is wrong.

[Random_Person]

sorry for not being as clear at first, i had succesfully installed Mac OS X and which is the main os that i boot into, on my desktop, the HDD icon "Untitled" i would presume is my windows partition (Windows NTFS as read in disk utility) and whn i double click it brings up windows files.

 

so i guess to clear things up, i cant access the windows partition via mac os x or on boot up.

 

 

i did re-install the Chameleon v2 bootloader and was able to get to the main Cv2 boot screen. it gives me three options, one of them being my Untitled (here, named Windows NTFS) partition of my HDD. clicking on it i thought it would load into windows from there, but instead it brings up BOOT.MGR is missing press.....to restart.

 

so i was thinking that using my windows install disk would i be able to use start up repair and would the be able to fix the problem? and would it do any other problems with my mac partition?

 

and as for NTFS-3G i have downloaded the program and i guess i was successfully able to mount the NTFS partition, but im not exactly sure what to do after that, the instructions that came with it arent very helpful.

 

 

so thanks for your response, any other help would be appreciated.

[srs5694]

sorry for not being as clear at first, i had succesfully installed Mac OS X and which is the main os that i boot into, on my desktop, the HDD icon "Untitled" i would presume is my windows partition (Windows NTFS as read in disk utility) and whn i double click it brings up windows files.

 

so i guess to clear things up, i cant access the windows partition via mac os x or on boot up.

 

I'm afraid I'm still confused. In your first paragraph you write "whn i double click it brings up windows files," but in your next paragraph you say "i cant access the windows partition via mac os x." Those statements are contradictory. Which is it? From Mac OS X, when you double-click the "Untitled" icon, can you or can you not see and read the files from your Windows partition? (Note that the default Mac OS X NTFS driver is read-only, so you'll only be able to read those files, not write to them. This is normal, and it's what NTFS-3G corrects.) If there's something more subtle going on (like if you can see filenames but can't read the files in appropriate applications), then you need to be more specific.

 

i did re-install the Chameleon v2 bootloader and was able to get to the main Cv2 boot screen. it gives me three options, one of them being my Untitled (here, named Windows NTFS) partition of my HDD. clicking on it i thought it would load into windows from there, but instead it brings up BOOT.MGR is missing press.....to restart.

 

so i was thinking that using my windows install disk would i be able to use start up repair and would the be able to fix the problem? and would it do any other problems with my mac partition?

 

Windows is very fussy about its boot partition. Your ability to boot Windows was probably destroyed when you resized that partition (especially if you moved it when you did this), or perhaps when OS X installed Chameleon 2. AFAIK, your only hope for recovering your ability to boot Windows is to use the Windows install DVD to fix it. (Maybe some third-party utility would do the job, but I don't know much about such tools.) There is a risk that doing this will in turn damage your ability to boot OS X, but if that happens, you should be able to recover OS X bootability by re-installing Chameleon.

 

In some cases, the Windows install DVD can't repair a badly damaged Windows installation. A Windows guru might be able to restore bootability, but personally, I just re-install Windows when this happens. (I don't store important data on my Windows boot partitions.)

 

and as for NTFS-3G i have downloaded the program and i guess i was successfully able to mount the NTFS partition, but im not exactly sure what to do after that, the instructions that came with it arent very helpful.

 

If you can mount the partition, you should be able to read and write its files. That's the point; NTFS-3G adds NTFS write access.

 

I have a suspicion you think that the ability to access Windows files from Mac OS X and the ability to boot Windows are related. They aren't. They're entirely different things, and if you've got a problem with booting, looking for within-MacOS file-access solutions won't help at all (or vice-versa).