mogley Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 I have tried macdrive and transmac, but neither can find my OSx86 partition. I used acronis disk director suite and I can see the partition but it says it has no file system type and is of the type ShagOS swap????. Can any body direct me to a topic or give directions on how to get macdrive to see this partition? Edit: Also the partition has no drive letter to it, and if i try to assign one it does not take as far as I can see Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 why do you want to see mac drive in windows? Here are some solutions that may or may not help depending on what you are trying to do: 1) boot from the Darwon 8.01 installation cd and mount the mac drive. Or use VMWare and install Darwin or OS X so you can see your mac drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogley Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 Sorry if I was not more specific, I want to see my Mac partition in windows. I can see my windows partition in my fully functioning Mac Osx86 10.4.3 f11111a/g partition. I want to be able to pull files/edit files on the Mac partition without having to boot into make for the latter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 OS X and Windows support FAT32 read/write out if the box. So if you make a FAT32 partition that would probably solve your problem. I don't know if there's an exact solution for what you originally asked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogley Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 Any idea why Acronis says that the partition in a ShagOS swap partition with no file type? I am sure if i can change that Mac Drive might work for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Acronis doesn't understand Mac OS X journaled volumes. It just reads the partition ID, AF, and the closest match it has is ShagOS swap. If you run the Mac OS under VMware, you can adjust the system preferences/sharing control panel to network share the drive with Windows clients. You'd get roundabout access via windows that way. Usually, once shared, the mac volume (shared part) has a Windows network ID like \\192.168.1.2\shortname - where the IP is the actual IP for the mac, and shortname is the name of the user whose home directory got shared. The sharing panel actually will display this information once it's sharing the Windows way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogley Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 So from what you are saying I can run my OSx86 partition from within VMWare and enable sharing to do a sorta work around? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Yes, if you can run OS X under VMware, depending on the network setup, I believe you have to set the virtual machine for separate IP addressing and NOT use NAT, then when running OS X on the VMware emulation, you can access the system preferences and adjust sharing. Your computer will basically be talking to itself - the OS X IP address talking with the Windows IP address, it's really slow and clumsy, but XP by itself doesn't have good solutions for reading OS X volumes, and neither do many Linux distros. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Your computer will basically be talking to itself - the OS X IP address talking with the Windows IP address, it's really slow and clumsy, but XP by itself doesn't have good solutions for reading OS X volumes, and neither do many Linux distros. I guess "mount -w -t hfsplus device mountpoint" is a bit of work compared to just clicking on an icon, but Ive used it many times from knoppix or installed linuxes to access mac volumes, particularly to rectify non-bootable systems when Ive experimented a step too far... The original poster has an unusual situation in that macdrive etc. wont recognise the partition, which leads me to suspect partition table problems. I ran a triple-boot system with a supposedly invalid partition table for months, and windows (macdrive, transmac, vmware) wouldnt recognise the hfs+ partition on that either. None of the solutions, if this is indeed the problem, are entirely risk-free, but Id be looking at rebuilding the partition table in linux fdisk. (your choice of tools may vary.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogley Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 Very interesting susgestion, I have noticed alot of people saying that Mac Drive, Transmac work right as soon as they install. How Would I go about fixing my partition tables if that it the case, I have access to a few different linux LiveCD distros (PCLinuxOS, Knoppix 4.02, Mandrake Live). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Assuming your haddrive is primary master pATA, you need to run fdisk /dev/hda & if youre lucky, p will show your partition table. The quickest and simplest thing that has a chance of working, is to type w to write the partiton table back to the disk. If that doesnt help, then removing & re-adding each partition might, but be warned, fdisk can render your harddisk unreadable if youre not careful. (chosing q at any point before w will leave the table unchanged) I seem to recall you need to do this from a root terminal if youre using knoppix. good luck, be careful, I hope this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogley Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 Thanx alot Hagar I will give that a try as soon I get home using Knoppix. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8914-view-mac-partition-in-windows/#findComment-55535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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