WilBUR Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 It seems while I was giving OSX its 6.5GB on my secondary hard drive, windows made it disappear. Although I can still see it in device manager and PartitionMagic Pro. Windows Explorer does not display it what so ever. Any ideas? So i can get the MAC ball rolling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Mac OS X uses the HFS+ file system, which Windows cannot read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilBUR Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Yes but I formated it in NTFS, and its no where to be found in explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 What system did you use to format it originally? Was it through the Mac OS X installer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilBUR Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 I used PartitionMagic Pro, I clicked resize. Made the partition big by 1GB so attempted to rejoin them together and windows made it go poof. I can still use defrag, checkdisk, and see it in PartitionMagic Pro -- but I can not get to it. Thanks for the fast replay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 You say it's a seperate hard disk? If there are no other partitions on it that you desperately need, I would recommend reformatting the entire hard drive through Windows. If you do need the data, then you will need to fix the MBR. You can do this from the Windows install cd and going to the recovery console. Microsoft Windows XP - Fixmbr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilBUR Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Windows found it. I had to format then rename it to like Drive Z instead of D. But could you explain the hard drive process because I think I am a little slow. When I resize it using PartitionMagic Pro. Current: 38146.5 Min: 141.2 Max 38146.5 What should the new size be (6.5GB) in terms of MB for the input? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 6.5GB in MB is 6656. Basically multiply the GB number by 1024 to get MB. I would recommend something bigger if you can spare it, assuming it's for OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilBUR Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Well this hd is for music and if itunes can work on OSX86 then I will give it the whole drive or just 10GB. But what I mean is that ParticianMagic Pro is resize my current hd of 40GB (37.2GB USABLE) minus the 6.5-10GB right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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