Bootcamp Woes...Should be easy for you pros
Posted: 23 Oct 2012, 14:11
Hi all,
I'm new to the forum but I know i'm in the right place. I will walk you through what I did to get in this mess as clearly as possible.
1) I have a 500GB Intel Macbook Pro. I had bootcamp running with one large Mac Partition and One 80GB Windows 7 Partition.
2) I tried to resize my Mac Partition to add some space to my windows. This was a mistake. The blank space I created using the mac disk utility pushed my bootcamp partition to a different location and I could not longer boot the windows side.
3) Applecare told me I was screwed and I lost all the data and I should reformat everything and start over. Well they lied and I was able to use gdisk in osx to move my windows partition. Don't ask me exactly how I did this, I followed an example on an apple forum and WINDOWS CAME BACK! So applecare are liers.... now in lies the problem
4) Windows partition now boots fine but I lost my Mac side. I've tried a partition recovery tool and it finds the files but I need a recovery image so I can fully recover the Mac and all its programs and all its files. So I can only look at things in windows 7. The windows 7 disk utility claims that the large chunk of the HD that was MAC is empty. But I know this is not the case. It must just be looking in the wrong place.
5) I have a full backup of my windows disc image now so I can restore it if I screw it up now. But I've got to get the mac os side running even if its just to make a recovery backup so I can keep all my applications and files.
6) TestDisk led me here! I think this is the only tool in windows 7 that can really tell me whats going on.
I've read through several examples and I'm far from an expert here so I need someones help. I'm not even sure what this is telling me but it looks like wayyy more partitions or sections than I expected. I'm confuzed that they all are labeled with a P. I'm confuzed why there are three NO-Name sections. I believe the section after the EFI is my 230GB mac side with my files. However I can't view the files within any of the mac HFS.
Please help I will love you forever. I just need the mac side to boot one more time so I can make a recovery backup image then I'm wiping my whole hard drive and starting over.
Thanks in advance.
Robbie
I'm new to the forum but I know i'm in the right place. I will walk you through what I did to get in this mess as clearly as possible.
1) I have a 500GB Intel Macbook Pro. I had bootcamp running with one large Mac Partition and One 80GB Windows 7 Partition.
2) I tried to resize my Mac Partition to add some space to my windows. This was a mistake. The blank space I created using the mac disk utility pushed my bootcamp partition to a different location and I could not longer boot the windows side.
3) Applecare told me I was screwed and I lost all the data and I should reformat everything and start over. Well they lied and I was able to use gdisk in osx to move my windows partition. Don't ask me exactly how I did this, I followed an example on an apple forum and WINDOWS CAME BACK! So applecare are liers.... now in lies the problem
4) Windows partition now boots fine but I lost my Mac side. I've tried a partition recovery tool and it finds the files but I need a recovery image so I can fully recover the Mac and all its programs and all its files. So I can only look at things in windows 7. The windows 7 disk utility claims that the large chunk of the HD that was MAC is empty. But I know this is not the case. It must just be looking in the wrong place.
5) I have a full backup of my windows disc image now so I can restore it if I screw it up now. But I've got to get the mac os side running even if its just to make a recovery backup so I can keep all my applications and files.
6) TestDisk led me here! I think this is the only tool in windows 7 that can really tell me whats going on.
I've read through several examples and I'm far from an expert here so I need someones help. I'm not even sure what this is telling me but it looks like wayyy more partitions or sections than I expected. I'm confuzed that they all are labeled with a P. I'm confuzed why there are three NO-Name sections. I believe the section after the EFI is my 230GB mac side with my files. However I can't view the files within any of the mac HFS.
Please help I will love you forever. I just need the mac side to boot one more time so I can make a recovery backup image then I'm wiping my whole hard drive and starting over.
Thanks in advance.
Robbie