aishitexq Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi guys, i really need some help and expertise here. Here goes my problem I have partition a volume for Mac OSX Extended (Jounaled) for Kalyway. After OSX is installed, I only can Boot into Mac OSX but not into my VISTA anymore I tried using Vista DVD Bootable disc. But it found no Vista OS to repair. Tried using Command prompt and did these: bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old bootrec /rebuildbcd but it didnt work either. I tired using Gparted Live to try manage the flags. And to my surprise the partition which my Vista was on became unallocated. And i can't manage flags on an unallocated partition. Any idea, or anyone had a similar problem as me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aishitexq Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Can anyone help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMPCAMPHILL Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 yes mate, did same to me, do not worry, get a windows 98 boot disk, boot it up, run fdisk and set your active partition back to ntfs volume.. Glad to have helped, this happened to me... YESTERDAY lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aishitexq Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hey thanx mate for answering to my query. Hey can i ask you some specific questions? 1) is it a must to use windows 98 CD? what about XP? Because i dont have any Windows 98 cd 2) How do i run fdisk from Windows 98cd and change it the volume to NTFS? Thank you, your help is greatly appreciated Max Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xzandafer Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Check this site for boot disks: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aishitexq Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Whats the command to make the unallocated drive to NTFS? does this mean i am formatting? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMPCAMPHILL Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 im a little unsure with the xp boot disk, as you have todo it thorugh the recovery console and i couldnt be bothered to learn that.. lol But if you get a boot disk just type in fdisk then i think its 3+enter to set active partitions, then select the right one by entering 1 or 2 or whatever... you wont have to reformat this way and it will just prompt you to restart your machine.. on restart it will work... 2mins and ill find you a boot disk.. oh.. yeh use the link above that "xzandf" has posted, i belive its only like a 8meg download.. dont worry about fat and ntfs file systems or prompts... your only setting the active partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-694781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aishitexq Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share Posted April 4, 2008 Hey just saw your reply on this thread, ignore my questions about the commands of fdisk in my PM to you. Will let you know if I have any problem with fdisk again Hey anyway your system specs seems fine. But if problems occurred with media checking. Then maybe the burn process gone wrong somewhere. Let me know if you need a copy of my kalyway. I will see what i can for you. Max Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-695483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stegg Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 I tired using Gparted Live to try manage the flags. And to my surprise the partition which my Vista was on became unallocated. And i can't manage flags on an unallocated partition. Any idea, or anyone had a similar problem as me? you already have the solution! in the Gparted cd there's an utility called TestDisk, just run it via command line. it does lots of things, including fixing partition tables, scanning the hard drive; then it should show you the unallocated partition, prompting for rewriting its table Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-698500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
patzo Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 ok try this one 1. insert vista dvd 2. go to command prompt 3. type: diskpart list disk select disk [number of your disk] list partition select partition [number of your vista partition] active 4. restart Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-699501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
w_tanoto Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 are you sure i should use win98 bootdisk? i thought win98 fdisk can't control NTFS completely? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97174-vista-partition-become-unallocated-cant-boot-into-vista/#findComment-718743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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