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fdisk saved my OS X partition

November 14th, 2006 skr3dii Leave a comment Go to comments

After installing Vista on my second primary partition, dunno how, but…
My third primary OS X partition was not bootable anymore!!!

Maybe it was related to Vista installer, maybe to MacDrive I used to read HFS+.

The problem was the type of my OS X partition has changed from AF to 07 !!!
The type has become NTFS! duh!

My grub was giving me HFS+ parition error… Impossible to boot back in OS X…
I booted a linux livecd and ran fdisk:

su - fdisk /dev/hda p (list partitions) t (assign type) (choose the partition to change the type) af (set type to af) w (write changes to disk and reboot)

Yaye! I booted back in OS X86 !!

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raheel

July 29th, 2009 at 16:47 | #1

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Hi,
I have a similar issue, I was using Mac OSx86 peacoefully, untill i decided to install windows 7 in another partition formatted NTFS.

Then i discovered my Mac OS darwin boot loader dissapeard and Windows Loader showed up.
I want to boot back t0 mac os. And want it to be the way it was likee before..

Doing what u did, can it bring in my case? it looks like my problem was like yours.
Im afraid i might not have even win7 or mac if i screw up, so just making sure.

please reply me