Zizou Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 So I went away for a week, set my windows partition to active (so my parents can use the computer).. Came back, marked my HFS partition active (through the windows disk manager thing) reboot, got the HFS partitioning error.. booted from Os X DVD, used fdisk to check the disks, and all of a sudden I see my ' HFS' disk as ' Windows_NTFS' :/ So I don't know wtf is going on Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43530-hfs-partitioning-error-but-different-from-the-others-really/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 How exactly did you set your HFS partition as active via windows again? This could have screwed your entire disk or just the MBR. Try copying the OSX MBR over the windows one and see if that works. Then boot from the OSX DVD again and use fdisk to mark your OSX partition as active again. Remeber to make a backup of your system before trying this. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43530-hfs-partitioning-error-but-different-from-the-others-really/#findComment-311166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zizou Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 I fixed it. Problem seemed to be that windows doesn't read/write/no support for HFS+, we all know that, and when you use the inbuild partitioning tool in windows (in the dutch windows it's called 'schijfbeheer' ) it changes the the partition from ID=AF to ID=07 I think. Because of that it got recognized as windows_ntfs I assume.. (Atleast, Fdisk, Disk Utility and Windows did, only Gparted 2.0 saw it was actually HFS+..) Anyway, just run fdisk from console from a linux live cd, or use Terminal from the os x dvd and use Fdisk to set it back to ID=AF. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43530-hfs-partitioning-error-but-different-from-the-others-really/#findComment-311249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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