I've messed up a partition....
I've messed up a partition....
- Subject: I've messed up a partition....
- From: "Colin Kavanagh" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:09:30 -0000
- Thread-topic: I've messed up a partition....
Hello,
I came in to work this morning and acted without thinking. Here's what
happened:
This guy has a mac book pro, partitioned with bootcamp:
Mac OS 10.5.2=100GB,
Windows XP service pack 2=100GB
He asked me to repartition it, if possible without formating. So, after
briefly asking a colleague, i went into disc utility, fiddled round with
the partitioning scheme / slider, it indicated that it was possible,
said 'no volumes would be erased'. Didn't work when trying to make the
Mac partition bigger, so tried to make the Windows partition smaller.
It came up with a negative value, we took a chance that it was just
going to reduce the size........Anyway, now the windows partition has
disappeared. Rebooted, no luck, doesn't appear at all in disc utility,
it's missing.
In Terminal:
cd /volumes
ls -al
just reveals Macintosh HD.
I downloaded refit.sourceforge.net which reported this:
Report for internal hard disk ***
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 243417127 Mac OS X HFS+
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 488397167 ee EFI Protective
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
So it is still there.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to bring this Windows partition
back?
Many thanks for reading
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