Hi Florian,
Firstly, and forgive me for going slightly off topic, but how were you able
to boot a Vinux live CD on your Mac and have sound? When I tried that on
mine, the system booted perfectly, but no sound would work.
Second, regarding your Windows partition, my suggestion is that, if there
isn't anything on the FAT partition yet, reinstall Windows on that
partition, then copy your data over from your previous Windows install and
reformat partition 5 as FAT to use for data. This should solve your problem.
Regards,
Gavin
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From: "f10r14n" <florianbeij...@gmail.com>
To: "MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 4:08 AM
Subject: pretty advanced bootcamp question
Hi,
Perhaps any of you guys have done something similar to this and may
have some insights.
Here's the situation:
- I started off with a mac OSX partition, windows partition, the
always existing EFI partition and the recovery partition, detailing 4.
- I shrunk the HFS (mac OSX) partition to make more space available to
Windows, only to find out that disk utility, and pretty much no other
program I've tried, can enlarge NTFS partitions reliably and
accessibly. So I ended up creating a new partition using the free
available space with the FAT filesystem so it would be writeable and
modifiable by boh mac and windows.
- Then, as some may already guess, Windows stopped booting.
- I later found out this is because of the MBR and GPT tables going
out of sync. There is a linux/unix utility called GPTSync, which comes
with the rEFIt bootloader, to fix this problem.
- I ended up having to use a vinux live CD because mac OS wouldn't let
me modify the RDISK0 while I was on it, and the MBR and GPT now appear
to be in sync. HOWEVER
- Since MBR is limited to 4 partitions and I essentially created my
data partition between the shrunken HFS+ and the NTFS partition, it
became partition 4 instead of partition 5. What has happened now, I
think, is that the actual windows NTLDR partition, which is now
partition 5, was not put in the MBR table. Rather, the empty dat a
partition, partition 4, has been used. Of course, booting from this
won't make a lot of fireworks flash so I am sort of stuck.
- I can do two things:
- I can delete the data partition, leaving me with 70 gigs of
unallocated space, resync the tables. This will most likely give me my
Windows back, but I will be back where I started.
- I have to alter the partition order, so 5 becomes 4 and vice verza.
I have no idea how.
Any help apreciated.
Florian
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