Detosx Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) My hard drive was partitioned accordingly Vista beta/OSX/reserved for XP/Extended with partitions for Acronis OS selector and Linux SUSE. Everything was working nicely and then... I tried to boot up from and install from my Windows XP ugrade CD, intending to use unused space. I didn't even get past post install, which is to say the screen locked up when the XP install CD was scanning hardware. Fine, no problem, I guess you can't insall XP after OS X or samwitched between OS X and an extended partiton with Linux on? Then I rebooted and... My OS X partition showed up in Acronis OS as an unidentified, not bootable. Okay, fine, no problem, I decided to do some weeding and I would come back to that. I deleted the extended partition and intended to move the OS X partition along to the right (you need to switch off journaling first and use then QTparted on the Knoppix Linux live CD) so that I could install XP in a partition before it. I could then fix the mbrs, yada yada and fix Acronis and everything would be fine. No. The OS X partition wasn't visible to Acronis OS when I reinstalled it, again came up with an error that it wasn't a bootable partition. I tried the fdisk -e /dve/rdisk0 and then remembering it wasn't 'e' I did the same using the letter u. That didn't work. If I sound tired, that's because I am and you should never try things like this when you are tired but... how do I rescue my OS X partition? I fired up GParted partition manager. The HFS+ partition is still there, though oddly it is identified under both Acronis Disk Manager and Disk Utility (Jas install DVD) as being a Linux partition. I then fired up Knoppix live CD. I couldn't get the OS X partition to mount but where my hand typed 'OS X' identify label didn't appear anymore under Acronis OS selector, I could see it under Knoppix. I have no idea what I have done but, for the simple reason that I took 20gigs of data off my mother's Mac Mini to free up space and put it on the Hackintosh... I have to hope that someone can rescue me and, further, can tell me the ideal partition break down for a quad boot, assisted by Acronis OS Selector. Thank you so much to anyone who tries. Edited January 12, 2007 by Detosx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38482-what-fresh-hell-is-this-rammjet-would-know/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 Oh, dear. It's a bit like fishing, isn't it - you hope that at some point one will come along so you can eat and move forward. I subsequently, as a stopgap, installed a new copy of OSX onto the unused space between the existing OSX partition and the Extended partition. I firstly made that partition active with qtparted and hid the Vista partition - otherwise that active fat32 to journaled erased partition won't show up as a place to install to - the installer window will show no hard drives. The install then went perfectly - but the new OSX partition couldn't 'see'/mount the old one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38482-what-fresh-hell-is-this-rammjet-would-know/#findComment-274919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 (edited) In the end I gave up trying to retrieve the partition and instead tried some retrieval software. The first package couldn't see the partition but an extended scan of the whole hard drive showed the files were still there, which in that the partition hadn't been overwritten should be the case. The retrival process took forever... and didn't work; it retrieved the empty shells of all the files but with no data in them. Great. I tried another package and this time I had more success. This package could see the damaged partition. Without writing to the hard drive it virtual indexed all of the files it could identify, putting them into virtual folders. Nice. I then let it retrive those files to a new hard drive and it retrived most, or at any rate those it recognised the extensions of; all the documents I had written in Pages were lost, fortunately there were not many. Unlike the first package it didn't retain the file names; my files were now a series of numbers. Not big deal with the multimedia files or the pics but had I had lots of documents... that would have been very annoying. Still, better to retrive that data, which with the second package I was able to do, than to retrive the empty husks of files. I am posting this from work and will edit the post later with the names of the programs. Most people felt the files were lost but I hate giving up and suspect that most of the people on this board feel the same way or they would have bought iMacs by now, even with all of the deeply annoying hardware upgrade limitations. Edited January 17, 2007 by Detosx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38482-what-fresh-hell-is-this-rammjet-would-know/#findComment-277977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 Update. Nucleus. Ddata recocovery 4 was the progam that didn't wrok so well for me and Filesalvage was the program that more or less did. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38482-what-fresh-hell-is-this-rammjet-would-know/#findComment-278678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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