muitommy Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 it's not the first time. the Mac OS X screw up my 250G drive with no sign at all while i was doing my normal work, the music suddenly stopped playing and i found my drive which is 250G in fat32 screwed up. and i found the name of the drive was back to the past rather than the original one. all the files in the drive had gone and only left a unknown file type file with no name and sometimes 0 byte. i had tried to repair disk by disk utility, and i found there were indefinite losing cluster and seem cannot be repaired, which linked up to a lost.dir but that drive cannot be fixed. after all , i back to xp, still no luck. anyone knows if there are some compatibility issue of fat32 partition in Mac OS X, is it too big or some other problems which lead this? and my ntfs drive had never messed up and i think it's because my mac os x couldn't write any file on it... please someone look into this . thanks for yr time!!! i really can't stand this since over 160G was lost... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 You should make a backup of your partition table in case something like this happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Hi Miutommy: I have been running OSx86 for several months on Home PC and (recently) Work PC's. I have never had any issues like this (maybe I am lucky --or-- maybe because the largest drive I have is only 80GB). I even did a clean re-install of OSx86 10.4.6 on my Home Machine on the Mac OS Extended Partition and it left my Windows XP Fat32 alone and intact. --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emig647 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Why don't you try to make the drive NTFS and use ntfs-3g on os x to read and write to os x? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandnaka Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I did have a problem one!!! I have my system dule boot XP and OS X, and I made 200gig partition in to fat32, so I thought I could share the drive between XP and OSX, So when everything Done, I boot up to my XP and starting to downloads Jas 10.4.8 the newest releast, and after maybe about 1% done my torrent popup and said I don't have enought this space, and that was a fresh 200gig partition nothing on it! So I said hell with OS X, I redo my partition and reformat with NTFS, and redownloads and everything fine then!!! Now I have Mac OS X on it own drive and on it own System, I don't know OS X might screw up your Drive!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 maybe you have nforce sata but you're not using right kexts, and all gets screwed up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 thank you for u all advices here. i would better try to reformat the drive to nfts and remount it by ntfs-3g and i did make a backup =] but it's still give me a lot of troublesome to recover all the data i had lost. and my drive is pata 250g, so far the problems are still unknown just feeling that Mac not really did quite well on the fat32 file structure -maybe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-344944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciper Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 If you havnt made any changes to the drive your data is not lost. All you should need is to restore the partition table and the contents of your drive will be readable again. I should know because the POS OSX Disk Utility has erased my fat32 and OSX partition many times. 5 minutes later I am back up and running once the partition table is restored. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-345058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 i would like to know if i can back up the partition table, and rewrite it in case it's lost because i found that my drive seem only the parttioin table is ruined, but can't recover a correct partition table. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48048-eh-mac-os-x-screw-up-my-fat32-drive-again/#findComment-345248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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