[resolved] Lost my Chameleon partition access?

[Richdave]

Up until yesterday I had a working OSX install on my PC.

 

Last night I was using Paragon s/w to clone my VISTA drive onto another drive - this did not work for some reason so I used ATI 11 with success.

 

Rebooting today into OSX, I get the Chameleon boot screen and if I select the OSX, the boot fails with the usual circle/slash motif we who hack are used to seeing. Booting in verbose, I get the waiting for root device error... WTF

 

I pulled the drive and used a USB adapter to connect it to one of my iMacs and I cant see the Chameleon partition or my Backup partition?

 

Given that I can boot to the Chameleon GUI the partition MUST be there... and hopefully the Backup too..

 

 

The Disk partition Map Scheme is now showing as MBR and the only visible partition named disk1s1 and it is greyed out - no access to it from OSX. This has not mounted and partition type as 0xEE

 

Obviously I have fritzed the boot record but how I don't know.

 

Any ideas on fixing this little mess appreciated

 

EDIT - I reconnected the HDD to my Win box and ran Paragon Partition Manager 10 and it shows the EFI partition as GPT volume/FAT32, the Cham, SL, and Backup partitions as GPT/Apple HFS and thus "normal"

 

EDIT - I fixed my disk with a great little tool - TestDisk from CGSecurity.org. It successfully found and restored my partitions and I can now boot OK. The trick was to select EFI as the the partition type NOT Mac s for some reason the write function for Mac partitions is not implemented.