Chris, thank you for your reply and support, especially considering the
fact that this mailing list is not intended for this purposes, I really
appreciate this.
Well, I am 99% sure that GUID Partition Table was specified in Disk Utility
during installation because I had used this guide for MacOS installation [
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.ru/2010/04/iboot-multibeast-install-mac-os-x-on.html]
which states that GPT should be specified in the Disk Utility (Step 2,
paragraph 9).
MacOS disk's capacity is only 640GB. For Windows boot I use a separate
physical HDD.
Looks like I was mistaken in the previous letter when mentioned APT, sorry
for that.
Hope aforementioned provided information will help.
Thanks in advance,
Ilya
2013/3/21 Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
>
> On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Ilya M <rage...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Testdisk sees both hdd partitions on that disk but cant write the
> partition table ("function write_part_mac not implemented").
>
> and
>
> >
> > Unfortunatley, I dont have a working MacOS to try a workaround using
> pdisk package because if I am not mistaken pdisk is avialable only on
> MacOS.
>
> write_part_mac is probably APM, and pdisk is definitely APM. This hasn't
> been used for OS X boot disks since PowerPC/OpenFirmware. While the Apple
> EFI firmware can read and boot from APM, MBR, and GPT schemes, in practice
> it's only GPT. For a Hakintosh it depends on whether you're using UEFI or
> BIOS firmware and the size of the drive. If UEFI or a disk larger than
> 2.2TB, use GPT. If BIOS, use MBR. I say that because you seem to be also
> using or trying to use Windows on the same computer/drive? Windows on BIOS
> hardware will only boot from an MBR disk. Windows on UEFI hardware will
> only boot from a GPT disk. OS X will boot from either.
>
> >
> > I'd like to remind that the disk which partition table I want to recover
> had a MacOS installed (apple partition table).
>
> Again this type of partition scheme hasn't been used in a long time,
> unless this is somehow specific to Hackintoshes.
>
>
> Chris Murphy
