skotwarr Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 I installed it to an external hard drive using the dd if=tiger method but windows does not see any partition. I booted Ubuntu using a live cd and it sees it just fine. I was able to go through the files and get the chain0 file to copy to c:\ and then pasted c:\chain0="Mac OS x86" to the boot.ini. But in disk management, it sees no partition. Does anyone know what to do? PLEASE HELP, I feel like I am so close. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotwarr Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried severel times to installusing the wiki guide and others out there, downloaded partition magic and to format the drive properly and even that, after reboot doesn't see it either. Please help, thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/#findComment-327575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbeke Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 what do you mean it doesn't see it... It is normal that it does not assigns a drive letter to it since windows can't read HFS+ partitions... But you should at least see something like unknown partition or so in disk management. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/#findComment-327581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotwarr Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 when I boot back up, disk manager says the whole external hard drive has become unallocted. in partition magic it just shows the drive highlighted in yellow and says "BAD." Partition magic doesn't let me re format it but disk manager will. I have tried giving the partition a letter drive and also not giving it any letter. when I do a fresh install reboot and use the windows boot loader to select mac os x it gives me a chain loader error. I copied chain0 to my root (C:\). Ubuntu is able to see os x so I was able to go through the files and copy it on to a thumb drive. any other info I can provide that might help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/#findComment-327603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skotwarr Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 I am using a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159 with a P4 laptop and the trying to install to a Wester Digital 60GB hard drive with a 28GB partition for Mac os x. I hope this might help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/#findComment-327625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidding Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 what was the dd command that you use to write the image to the partition? please include what "dd --list" prints out so that i know you chose the right destination. just a guess but it seems that instead of overwrite a partition, you overwrite the whole harddisk from sector 1+. it is very unlikely that the image also has the right partition table for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45720-ubuntu-sees-os-x-partition-but-windows-doesnt/#findComment-327842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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