yozh Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 So I had a perfect install on my Dell E1505 with Kalyway 10.5.1 everything that I needed was working except the dual boot was going to windows partition then had to select OSX (used Chain0) and then had to press down and down to select the OSX drive. So I decided to mark Leopard partition as active so it would go to OSX by default since I was mostly using it anyway. Well first boot ok, then I had to go to windows for something and I get the blinking cursor, so I use Herins CD and repair partition table (stupid I know I should of just used diskpart to mark windows as active again) anyway it recreated partition table, but for my OSX partition it marked as free space: I had 50GB windows 40GB OSX 20GB FAT16 Now All I have is 50GB windows. I used R-Studio and I see all my file from OSX and the recognized partition (recovering files as I type) But I was wondering if I can just bring back that partition some how. Please help if you know how to do this. Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyeah Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Have you tried TestDisk tool - it's included in Hiren's Boot CD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-579261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 Have you tried TestDisk tool - it's included in Hiren's Boot CD? I will try tonight. Any one else with any suggestions ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-579622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Man Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 was it an MBR partitionif so then you could try rebuilding your partition table manually using PTEDIT.exe which is part of partition magic utility (win32 app)theres also a dos version which u can launch after booting into win98 dos from a bootable usb driveif everything else fails pm me with your email address (msn would be nice) and i will send you instructions including the file and then we can try and get it to work again.oh and i think the easiest dual boot method i've seen so far is the 'tboot' method which i posted in the dell guide thread. its just one line of text editing and one file placed in your windows partitionoh and on a side note, in the future i'd recommend using the bootable ptedit version to change the active partitionsall u need is a usb flash drive and i'll give u the rest of the files. just boot from the usb drive, start ptedit, change two numbers and your done. no danger about deleting or ruining partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-580158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 was it an MBR partitionif so then you could try rebuilding your partition table manually using PTEDIT.exe which is part of partition magic utility (win32 app)theres also a dos version which u can launch after booting into win98 dos from a bootable usb driveif everything else fails pm me with your email address (msn would be nice) and i will send you instructions including the file and then we can try and get it to work again.oh and i think the easiest dual boot method i've seen so far is the 'tboot' method which i posted in the dell guide thread. its just one line of text editing and one file placed in your windows partitionoh and on a side note, in the future i'd recommend using the bootable ptedit version to change the active partitionsall u need is a usb flash drive and i'll give u the rest of the files. just boot from the usb drive, start ptedit, change two numbers and your done. no danger about deleting or ruining partitions. Thanks for the reply last night I tried like 10 diffrent part recovery tools and none of them found the partition. I have to try the full surface scan and I havent really tried Partition Magic. (I did use MBR) I jsut used windows to mark partition active and thats not what killed the partition table beacuse after that I was able to boot in to OSX fine the first time after that it just wouldnt do it and me instead of trying to just mark windows partition active again I rebuilt the partition table (DOH!!!) I will PM with my hotmail address and maybe tonight I can get the OSX back if not then tommorow reinstall it is. I was able to recover my /Users dir so it wouldnt be a big loss just have to get everything back to the way it was. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-580418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 TESTDISK WORKED GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-581239 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 Hey Ice Man does the Tboot works the same way as Chain0 ? It seems that you still have to tell the Leo bootloader which drive to boot of cuz it chooses the Active Partition, in my case Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-581335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Man Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 well i'm not sure how chain0 works but here's how i setup my mac for dual boot installed linux first, then installed xp, then installed leopard from the kalway disc at bootup the mac bootloader would start and it would automatically give me the option to either boot to mac osx or to windows xp, both worked fine next i booted into winxp, went to command prompt and typed fixmbr the reason i did this was because i couldn't get linux to boot with the mac osx, now since i had typed fixmbr windows replaced the bootloader, i opened partiton magics partiton table editior and i made winxp's partition active, next i added the tboot entry and grub4dos's entry in the boot.ini and everything works now when i select the tboot entry at reboot, the loader automatically finds my mac partition and the mac bootloader and starts that so now i'm at the mac efi screen where i can select either between xp or mac i'll prolly post some pics to make this clear Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-581571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 16, 2008 Author Share Posted January 16, 2008 but does it default to Windows ? on the MAC Bootloader ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-582216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Man Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 yeah it defaults to windows on the mac bootloader i haven't looked into that because it doesn't bother me as i at times have to start mac os x a couple of times because of the 2 cores causing a reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-582717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 yeah it defaults to windows on the mac bootloaderi haven't looked into that because it doesn't bother me as i at times have to start mac os x a couple of times because of the 2 cores causing a reboot Yeah Chain0 does the same. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81558-lost-leopard-partition/#findComment-583758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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