fishyeah Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 WARNING! - Leopard (9A466) Disk Utility could mess up your entire hard drive! My PC has 3 HDDs, a 250GB SATA HDD contains all my important data and 3 OSes (Windows XP Pro, 2 Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.10 - one for work and one for fun), a 80GB SATA HDD contains an Ubuntu installation with some backup, and a 10GB IDE HDD for Leopard. I use GURB boot loader. There was 15GB free space on the 250 HDD (pre formated with FAT32 filesystem). I thought it would be good to format it as HFS+ to share among all Mac OSes. I made a big mistake by using Leopard's Disk Utility - it didn't do the job and reported an error. When I rebooted, I couldn't get into Windows or any Mac OSes (including Leopard). I could only boot into Ubuntu. I actually was able to use fdisk to fix Leopard installation (as it's installed on a separate disk), but the 250GB HDD was messed up badly (partition table corrupted and couldn't be recognised by fdisk). That's the one that contained the most important data - personal videos, pictures, documents, work-related stuff, virtual machines... I'm in a painfully slow process of trying to recover the HDD (using some tools from Hiren's boot CD)... Not sure I'll succeed (cross my fingers). Any suggestions? I'm using my laptop to write this post... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60091-leopard-messed-up-my-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemiola Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 * cough * You said PC - so you are refering to a Hackintosh ??? Been using 9A466 for a LONG time - not a single issue with Disk Utility. You shouldn't sound alarms ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60091-leopard-messed-up-my-hard-drive/#findComment-427431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDee Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Which part of BETA don't you understand? If you Tigers Disk Utility messed up your drive, I would understand, but come on, Leopard??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60091-leopard-messed-up-my-hard-drive/#findComment-427483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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