10.4.8 Wont Boot

[Shigun]

That's why when you partition you are supposed to give the partition the ID = AF which tells it that it is HFS+. See the AF on the left?

 

Ok, redid the partitioning, reinstalled, I have within fdisk an HFS+ partition that is of ID AF, and active. I restart VMWare, and it does....nothing. Just sits at a black screen with "_". Does not make me feel very well off with trying to boot from it. (This is installed on a physical drive, through VMWare)

[Xopek]

Bad way;

I made "setpid 2 AF" last nite. After disk activation and reboot I saw "-" too.

When I made c:\ as active drive and start XP i find that i don;t have my d: drive any more. I became a part of d+e drive (85 + 109Gb) , so now i have NTF+ drive 194Gb total 100% free space.

ALL MY DATA for last 7 years was there. Nice way to delete all trash from HDD :-)

[Rammjet]

Not sure why the "setpid" would affect the partition boundaries. Maybe the set active, but that too should not affect partition boundaries. Sure it wasn't your previous attempts using Fdisk with wrong commands that might have affected something?

 

Anyway, from the info I added to my post above, to set the pid from within "fdisk -e" the process would be:

Type: setpid 2 (for the 2nd partition - use whatever number your partition is)

(then Fdisk will display info about partition 2)

Then type: AF

Then type: write

Then type: Y

Then type: exit

But changing the type should not "combine" partitions although it says if you enter "0" instead of "AF" it will "disable" the partition, whatever that means.

[Xopek]

now everything works fine.

THANKS