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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
