bonyboy Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Wow, I f'd up big time! I've had my hackintosh running the BOOT132 method since March. I finally got around to adding another hdd so I can use Time Machine (oh the irony to come...) I had: 1 HDD running OS X 1 HDD running Vista I just added another hdd to run Win7. Since Vista uses NTFS and I know OS X uses another format that I can't remember at the moment, I figured I'd need to format the Vista hdd so that I can see it in OS X to format it to the OS X standard. For some reason I popped in a WinXP setup disk and ran the setup with intentions of just formatting the disk. For some reason I also figured that WinXP setup wouldn't pickup the OS X hdd since it is in another format. Since both drives are the same exact size (OS X and Vista) I (without checking) erased the partition of both disks. As soon as I figured out how bad a thing I had done I shut the machine down without formatting either disk. I tried to boot into OS X with no success. So I ask you.... is there any way to salvage this or do I need to start from scratch? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190383-am-i-gonna-have-to-start-all-over/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmu2 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 can u boot into windows? sorry man just read your post again. u can't boot win. to be honest i think new install on both counts if data lost is not life threatening! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190383-am-i-gonna-have-to-start-all-over/#findComment-1288963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonyboy Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 can u boot into windows? sorry man just read your post again. u can't boot win. to be honest i think new install on both counts if data lost is not life threatening! Yeah, can't boot to Vista anymore. Data isn't life threatening, but my 120GB music collection that I created is important enough to me to take the time to see if restoring is an option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190383-am-i-gonna-have-to-start-all-over/#findComment-1288972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmu2 Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 i understand my friend. i'll post u tomorrow, have a friend in data retrieval. if someone helps in meantime well thats great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190383-am-i-gonna-have-to-start-all-over/#findComment-1288992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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