fingerr Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Hi all, I've just installed 10.4.8 from latest JaS dvd, after reboot when the installation is finished I can see the disk is EMPTY (means my partition table is lost). I didn't erased the partition before installation (installed over 10.4.7), maybe this was the cause? Anyone had such a situation? This is the first time my partition table is lost after installation of Mac OS X. p.s. Can you suggest some good software to recover partition table (would be fine if this one can recover ext3,reiserfs,hfs+ partition entries, cause NTFS i already recovered)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaselineAce Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Try using fdisk from the Terminal application on the install disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Can you suggest some good software to recover partition table (would be fine if this one can recover ext3,reiserfs,hfs+ partition entries, cause NTFS i already recovered)? I like "RunTime's NTFS GetBack", I have never had a problem and it has recovered formated drives You have a tall order and will need other programs to cover all the file systems you've listed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aztekgod Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Yeah I lost it too and now I cant reboot OSX86, now I get Chain Booting Error.... I have 2 hardrives one partion for Windows XP and the other one for OSX86.... and the other one for back up, now everything is lost, I had to reinstall XP and OSX86 wont boot and if I reinstall it it will delete XP too, any sugestions.... Please help me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gu3d3s Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 hi all, i have a same problem, but is easy for restore. boot from DVD enter -s fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (zero) print flag# (#=your partition number) write quit reboot this resolve for my sistem. []'s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffton Beach Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I had the same problem, it had me quite worried for a bit. No partitions detected at all. Linux livecd + testdisk solved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@ppl3ju1ce Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Same problem here. Got to reinstall Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffton Beach Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Same problem here. Got to reinstall Windows why? Use testdisk as several here have suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@ppl3ju1ce Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Yeah i could do that, but my Windows was a little bit old so this was perfect ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flunx Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 yerrps i have the same problem too, sucessfully restore using active partition recovery... my friend try using test disk and it works too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcian Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Have had the same problem just yesterday. Even Testdisk 6.5 wasn't able to restore the complete structure. I had 3 Primary partitions (25gb FAT32-XP, 25GB NTFS-Vista, 25 GB HFS-OSX, 75 GB Extended with 3 Partitions in it). I could restore FAT and HFS partitions but not the NTFS Partition as Testdisk said "Structure: Bad". The structure of my extended Partition wasn't recognized correct. Testdisk showed three HFS partitions. After restauration of FAT and HFS the Bootloader was still missing. Reinstalling Windows wasn't possible for me. I had to wipe the HD using Samsung HUTIL. Afterwards i installed Windows XP. FYI: The Board is a 915p-based one with ICH6 Southbridge, if that might be the problem. I will revert to 10.4.7 for now. Thanks go to JaS either way. Some {censored} can always happen. I'm happy i'm just able to install OSx so easy (like 10.4.7 dvd)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingerr Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks.It is very usefull to recover lost partition. It works with : - FAT12 - FAT16 - FAT32 - NTFS (Windows NT) - EXT2FS (Linux) - Linux Swap - IBM Multiboot - BeFS (BeOS) - UFS (BSD) - RaiserFS TestDisk runs under: - Mac OS X - Dos, Win9x - Linux - FreeBSD TestDisk is under GNU Public License. http://www.cgsecurity.org/ Big thanks Probono!!! This soft is f***in awesome!!! It recovered all my partitions in few secs. Thanks again buddy! p.s. I own you few beers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 this problem also happened to me...question for everyone its happened to...do you guys hang on the restart after the installation also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontoid Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I had the hang, the thing was spinning over 20min then id decide to reset, after that my disk was empty ... mobo gigabyte, chipset is intel i915 and proc, disk is pata on SATA adapter, before were no problems with instalation on this config. Right now im trying to resolve problem, one of two HFS+ partitions was very important, is there any way to recover data from there if partition recovery will fail ? anyone ? tia ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingerr Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 I had the hang, the thing was spinning over 20min then id decide to reset, after that my disk was empty ... mobo gigabyte, chipset is intel i915 and proc, disk is pata on SATA adapter, before were no problems with instalation on this config. Right now im trying to resolve problem, one of two HFS+ partitions was very important, is there any way to recover data from there if partition recovery will fail ? anyone ? tia ... With the HFS partition it could be hard to recover data, but IMHO TestDisk should properly recover your partition table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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