artix123 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hi all almost everything worked fine for my Leopard, but it detected my Vista partition as a MS-DOS (FAT16) partition and is unable to mount it! But in Vista it's NTFS.. Help! >.< Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
remzor Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 same problem here, some help would be nice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-604977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAngry Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Use MacFuse with NTFS-3G which also gives you the ability to write to NTFS disks. You should be able to find plenty about it on Google. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-605459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artix123 Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Hmm it doesn't work for me. I have 3 partitions, Vista XP Leopard. Leopard detected my XP as NTFS but detected Vista as FAT16. After I used NTFS 3G, I can edit files in XP, but I still can't mount Vista and it's still FAT16. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-606760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtomek Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I don't think vista can use fat-16. Plus, fat-16 is limited to 2GB partitions so there's no way you could fit a vista install on a fat-16 partition. Vista uses a new NTFS partition table so you may have to wait for support for it on a mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-608416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artix123 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 So that means that Vista's NTFS is not the normal NTFS? Oh man this is damn bad, all my files are on my Vista. =.= I'll find some time to reinstall all my 3 operating systems again. EDIT: I tried Paragon NTFS and it doesn't work too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-610482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonavar Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Nope, it's not Vista. Vista uses NTFS like XP does. I'll bet your NTFS volume comes *after* your HFS+ volume, right? I'm in the same boat; I installed OS X on a pre-partitioned drive, using the second partition for OS X (first is an old Linux Swap partition formatted with HFS+ and fully viewable), with all of my data on a third NTFS partition. (XP is installed on a different drive, which I *can* mount with NTFS-3G.) I can't for the life of me get OS X to recognize my data partition; it's like you said, OS X thinks it's a FAT16 volume. Proof in my rEFIt dump: *** Report for internal hard disk *** Current GPT partition table: No GPT partition table present! Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 63 3903794 af Mac OS X HFS+ 2 * 3903795 61432559 af Mac OS X HFS+ 3 61432560 781417664 06 FAT16 (CHS) MBR contents: Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable Partition at LBA 63: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in MBR as partition 1, type af Mac OS X HFS+ Partition at LBA 3903795: Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+, active Partition at LBA 61432560: Boot Code: Windows NTLDR File System: NTFS Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 06 FAT16 (CHS) Any help getting this detected without ruining my partition table would be welcome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-639508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
artix123 Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 Actually, no. My Vista partition is my 1st partition. My order of partitions are like this: 9GB EISA / 140+ GB Vista / 30GB Leopard / 44GB XP I can mount my XP drive, but not the Vista one. Anyway, I've kinda given up on Leopard until someone comes out with a definite solution for my 5920G, since my ethernet and WiFi not working = no Mac for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-640060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonavar Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Actually, no. My Vista partition is my 1st partition. My order of partitions are like this: 9GB EISA / 140+ GB Vista / 30GB Leopard / 44GB XP I can mount my XP drive, but not the Vista one. Anyway, I've kinda given up on Leopard until someone comes out with a definite solution for my 5920G, since my ethernet and WiFi not working = no Mac for me. Well, then I'm not sure if my solution matters to you... but for the benefit of anyone else reading this forum: If OS X is detecting your NTFS partition as FAT-16, chances are you have an error in your MBR that identifies the file system in the partition as FAT-16 instead of NTFS. I used a utility called MBRWizard to fix it -- I needed the v2.0 beta though. If you know for certain that your partition is NTFS formatted, you can fix this using MBRWizard at the command line in windows: Run->cmd switch to the directory where you downloaded mbrwiz cd "<directory>" find out which disk and partition you need to change: mbrwiz /list change the mbr entry so that the partition type is correctly listed as ntfs (type 7 Hex): mbrwiz /disk=<your disk number> /part=<your partition number /type=7h Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/85212-vista-fat16/#findComment-641446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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