rashan Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I couldn't install SP1 for Win7 until i made the W7 partition active, instead of SnoLeo. So after installing SP1 i go to Disk Management in W7 and make SnoLeo active partition again. This makes chameleon fail (textmode only) and say that partition 0 isn't bootable. From here neither W7 nor SnoLeo works. So i reinstalled W7 with MacDrive but the SnoLeo HFS+ partition isn't showing in explorer. It shows in Disk Management as an active system main partition but it says that it's NTFS?!?!?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashan Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 I have tried with Disk Util in OSX install but it can't repair the partition. The repair option is greyed out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1713450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Well, to boot OS X, you need to set active the partition where Chameleon is installed - not the OS X partition (it is not Mac you use). If you use EFI partition for Chameleon (probably you do so, as there is a 200Mb partition before OS X partition), set EFI partition as active (boot) then use Gparted Live CD and it should boot again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1713661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashan Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 Thank you 3.14r2. But since windows says partition is unformatted empty space i'm not able to set it as active. Also don't you think Windows showing OSX partition as NTFS is a bit weird? Normally it said HFS+ just like it should, until i made OSX d0s1 active doh I think Windoze's Disk Management kind of 'renamed' HFS+ to NTFS in the partitions ?header?, or something like that. It could also be that Windows decided to place it's bootmgr there.. now that d0s1 is 'ntfs'.. HFS Explorer Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1713852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Don't use Windows to edit (set flags) partitions. Windows is only self aware. It is designed (as I see it) to be used as the only OS on a PC. It CAN'T handle other OSs on the same drive properly. Windows disk manager used against other partitions then NTFS, on the drive other then MBR, will most likely damage partition table (as you have it now). As long as you (probably) use a hybrid MBR/GPT disk (which is very unstable), NEVER use Windows for disk management. Use Gparted Live CD or this tool. OS X Disk Utility might not be very safe to use too. As for SP1 itself, it known for having an issues with other boot loaders on the same disk. Both with Linux and OS X boot loaders for that matter. I have (on my desktop) separate drives for each OS, and still couldn't install SP1 properly. BTW, in my desktop PC, Windows doesn't display information on OS X partitions correctly. I don't expect it to, since I'm aware how it handles other OSs. So, once again don't expect it to handle a hybrid MBR/GPT disk properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1713965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashan Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 What do i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1714534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 RTFM! I assume NOT the 3d option for sure. Most likely 2nd option. I've never used that tool, so don't know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262216-hfs-partition-disappeared/#findComment-1715075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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