I give up...
Ruddell
I had my system partitioned so I could install Windows XP and use my precious
scanner. But what happened I can't explain yet the XP OS has vanished. So I
can reinstall it or find a Mac scanner and I can just keep the drive just for
the one system.
Any recommendations for a scanner. Slides & negatives are an important issue
for which is why I married the one I've got to begin with...
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Cheers!
Dennis
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J.J. O'Shea
(in article <0001HW.C7297902...@news.sasktel.net>):
>
>
> I had my system partitioned so I could install Windows XP and use my precious
> scanner. But what happened I can't explain yet the XP OS has vanished.
Define 'vanished'. What happens when you reboot with the alt/option key held
down?
What does Disk Utility show?
How did you partition the system in the first place? If you did _not_ use
Boot Camp Assistant, what did you use?
Which version of XP did you use? (Hint: using anything less than SP2 is a
Very Bad Idea, assuming you can get it to work at all...)
If you used Boot Camp Assistant to partition the system, be advised that BCA
formats the Windows partition using FAT32... which XP can use to boot, and
which it will install on without a problem, but which _will not boot on a
system which uses EFI instead of BIOS to boot_. Macs use EFI. You _must_
format the Windows partition NTFS in order for it to boot on a Mac.
> So I
> can reinstall it or find a Mac scanner and I can just keep the drive just for
> the one system.
If you didn't format the Windows partition NTFS when you did the initial
install, then you will have to insert the Windows boot CD and boot from it
and reinstall, and this time format the Windows partition (and only the
Windows partition, be careful lest you format the wrong partition) NTFS.
>
> Any recommendations for a scanner. Slides & negatives are an important issue
> for which is why I married the one I've got to begin with...
>
Back when I played with slides and negatives I had a drum scanner, but that
was a long time ago. It's been a while since I've had to care.
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Ruddell
(in article <he17h...@news1.newsguy.com>):
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:12:18 -0500, Ruddell wrote
> (in article <0001HW.C7297902...@news.sasktel.net>):
>
>>
>>
>> I had my system partitioned so I could install Windows XP and use my
>> precious
>
>> scanner. But what happened I can't explain yet the XP OS has vanished.
>
> Define 'vanished'. What happens when you reboot with the alt/option key held
> down?
>
> What does Disk Utility show?
The partition has disappeared and Disk Utility shows only the Mac OS. I did
use Boot Camp to install it and it was working fine on the weekend and this
was after I'd installed Snow Leopard. Finder only shows the Mac OS as well
so I'm buffaloed on this one. I can start it over again yet I'd like to know
what happend and how to bring it back as Time Machine only backs up the Mac
OS.
J.J. O'Shea
(in article <0001HW.C729B154...@news.sasktel.net>):
Does the Finder or Disk Utility show the _entire_ physical drive as being
formatted for Mac, or is there some missing space? How did you set up SL? If
you did an erase install, then the odds are excellent that you reformatted
the entire physical volume so that now there's just one logical volume and
your Windows partition is history. I hope you have a backup...
Richard Maine
> Does the Finder or Disk Utility show the _entire_ physical drive as being
> formatted for Mac, or is there some missing space? How did you set up SL? If
> you did an erase install, then the odds are excellent that you reformatted
> the entire physical volume so that now there's just one logical volume and
> your Windows partition is history.
I think you overlooked the part where Ruddell said
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0500, Ruddell wrote
> (in article <0001HW.C729B154...@news.sasktel.net>):
> > ...it was working fine on the weekend and this
> > was after I'd installed Snow Leopard.
which pretty much seems to rule out the Snow Leopard installation as the
direct source of the dissapearance.
I'd agree that I'd be curious as to whether the entire disk is now
dedicated to the OSX partition or the space formerly for the Windows
partition is now unused. I doubt I could reconstruct how the Windows
partition dissappeared in any case; there are too many ways it could
have happened and not enough data. But knowing whether the space is
missing would help narrow things down.
If the space is all back in the OSX partition, then I'd think that would
almost have to be a BootCamp uninstall. I recall that there is such a
thing, but I've never done one (and I don't really plan to experiment
with wiping out my own Windows partition just to get a feel for how the
process goes).
If the space is still missing, then that would sound like the partition
entry just got deleted, which could probably happen any of several ways.
(Again, I'm not planning on experimenting). Could even be something on
the Windows side wiping the file system. I have no data to support
suggesting that it could have been a Windows malware infection, but I
wouldn't rule it out either.
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J.J. O'Shea
(in article <1j9dok3.13r4rwmrgxxmoN%nos...@see.signature>):
> J.J. O'Shea <try.n...@but.see.sig> wrote:
>
>> Does the Finder or Disk Utility show the _entire_ physical drive as being
>> formatted for Mac, or is there some missing space? How did you set up SL? If
>> you did an erase install, then the odds are excellent that you reformatted
>> the entire physical volume so that now there's just one logical volume and
>> your Windows partition is history.
>
> I think you overlooked the part where Ruddell said
>
>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0500, Ruddell wrote
>> (in article <0001HW.C729B154...@news.sasktel.net>):
>
>>> ...it was working fine on the weekend and this
>>> was after I'd installed Snow Leopard.
>
> which pretty much seems to rule out the Snow Leopard installation as the
> direct source of the dissapearance.
You're right, I did. Okay, so it wasn't a SL erase install.
>
> I'd agree that I'd be curious as to whether the entire disk is now
> dedicated to the OSX partition or the space formerly for the Windows
> partition is now unused. I doubt I could reconstruct how the Windows
> partition dissappeared in any case; there are too many ways it could
> have happened and not enough data. But knowing whether the space is
> missing would help narrow things down.
Yep.
>
> If the space is all back in the OSX partition, then I'd think that would
> almost have to be a BootCamp uninstall. I recall that there is such a
> thing, but I've never done one (and I don't really plan to experiment
> with wiping out my own Windows partition just to get a feel for how the
> process goes).
You can do it quite easily using Boot Camp Assistant. The thing is, it would
be quite difficult to do it by accident. Disk Utility could also do the job
easily.
>
> If the space is still missing, then that would sound like the partition
> entry just got deleted, which could probably happen any of several ways.
> (Again, I'm not planning on experimenting). Could even be something on
> the Windows side wiping the file system. I have no data to support
> suggesting that it could have been a Windows malware infection, but I
> wouldn't rule it out either.
And in any case the first step in recovering the Windows partition would be
getting out the backup.