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mcfields
Jun 13, 2009, 10:43 PM
On my old macbook, I installed vista and everything worked fine. I just did that on my new macbook pro. It runs fine and all, but the Bootcamp HD isn't showing up on my desktop under my Macintosh HD. I went do disk utility and it verifiys the disk, but repair just does this:

http://img.imgcake.com/picture_1x38.png

I try to mount the image, but it fails and wants me to try repairing, which as you see in the picture doesn't work. Any ideas?


Bill Gates
Jun 14, 2009, 12:04 AM
Run "chkdsk" under Windows, otherwise known as a disk check. You need to take care of the filesystem corruption under Windows before Mac OS X will permit you to mount the disk.
Schtumple
Jun 14, 2009, 12:06 AM
I find it amusing that out of all the users on MR, "Bill Gates" helps out with a windows related issue :p
mac88
Jun 14, 2009, 12:08 AM
I find it amusing that out of all the users on MR, "Bill Gates" helps out with a windows related issue :p

I was thinking the same thing. The best guy to answer the question.
ilkevinli
Jun 14, 2009, 06:55 AM
Did you go into the FINDER properties and make sure "Network Drive" is checked ?
mcfields
Jun 14, 2009, 11:09 AM
Run "chkdsk" under Windows, otherwise known as a disk check. You need to take care of the filesystem corruption under Windows before Mac OS X will permit you to mount the disk.

Well I did this last night and it still isn't there. I'm getting the same error when I go to mount/repair the Bootcamp HD. Yes the network drive is checked under finder :/
mcfields
Jun 14, 2009, 12:17 PM
Well I checked the ntfs-3g plugin to see if that had to do with anything. I disabled it and as soon as I did the bootcamp hard drive popped right up -_-. Reinstalled it so that I could drag and drop files. I rarely have problems with Macs, but when I do, they always have the simplest, silliest solutions. Thanks for the help.
greythorne
Jan 23, 2011, 01:51 AM
Well I checked the ntfs-3g plugin to see if that had to do with anything. I disabled it and as soon as I did the bootcamp hard drive popped right up -_-. Reinstalled it so that I could drag and drop files. I rarely have problems with Macs, but when I do, they always have the simplest, silliest solutions. Thanks for the help.

First of all apologies to resurrect an old thread.

Reason for this is that I am having a similar issues as the OP and tried the suggestions here but to no avail!

Refer to the attached.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1686/repairbootcamp.th.png (http://img403.imageshack.us/i/repairbootcamp.png/)
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6816/verifybootcamp.th.png (http://img171.imageshack.us/i/verifybootcamp.png/)

I am not being able to access the bootcamp partition with W7 Ultimate while in Mac OS X 10.6.6. The macbook pro is the mid-2010 13inch 2.4ghz with gfx 320M

The HD I am using is WD Scorpio Black 320gb without the motion sensor and Advanced Format.

Any idea what could be wrong here?

Thank you.
balamw
Jan 23, 2011, 09:36 AM
Do you also have ntfs-3g installed? Or some other NTFS read/write driver like Paragon?

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greythorne
Jan 23, 2011, 08:08 PM
Do you also have ntfs-3g installed? Or some other NTFS read/write driver like Paragon?

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Yes i have ntfs-3g installed.
balamw
Jan 23, 2011, 08:44 PM
Yes i have ntfs-3g installed.

So what exactly happens if you disable/uninstall it?

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greythorne
Jan 24, 2011, 08:19 AM
So what exactly happens if you disable/uninstall it?

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Nothing happens when i disable it but i did uninstall it at one point but then do not remember seeing the bootcamp partition appearing on my desktop.
balamw
Jan 24, 2011, 09:37 AM
Nothing happens when i disable it but i did uninstall it at one point but then do not remember seeing the bootcamp partition appearing on my desktop.

Uninstall it, and reboot, and let's see where you are then.

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greythorne
Jan 29, 2011, 09:49 AM
Uninstall it, and reboot, and let's see where you are then.

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I uninstall, then reboot but I am still unable to access the bootcamp partition in Mac OS X 10.6.6.
balamw
Jan 29, 2011, 10:10 AM
I uninstall, then reboot but I am still unable to access the bootcamp partition in Mac OS X 10.6.6.

OK. What does your disk look like in Disk Utility? Highlight the drive on the left column and switch to the Partition tab and post a screenshot.

It seems like you have the NTFS appears as FAT problem, but I just want to make sure. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=979951

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greythorne
Jan 30, 2011, 05:07 AM
OK. What does your disk look like in Disk Utility? Highlight the drive on the left column and switch to the Partition tab and post a screenshot.

It seems like you have the NTFS appears as FAT problem, but I just want to make sure. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=979951

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Ok here is the screenshot. The selected drive is the bootcamp partition.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5458/diskutility.th.png (http://img201.imageshack.us/i/diskutility.png/)

Its in MS-DOS. I have no idea where and how that came to be!!

Any idea how to change to NTFS without reinstalling?
chemantics
Feb 3, 2011, 12:20 PM
Ok here is the screenshot. The selected drive is the bootcamp partition.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5458/diskutility.th.png (http://img201.imageshack.us/i/diskutility.png/)

Its in MS-DOS. I have no idea where and how that came to be!!

Any idea how to change to NTFS without reinstalling?

I am having the same problem. And my screenshots looks exactly like yours. I am using a late 2010 11" MacBook Air, and have to have a windows partition for some scientific software. This problem is driving me nuts, because I know that the partition is NTFS since it shows up that way in Windows and Windows 7 can't install on anything but NTFS anyways. I have tried NTFS-3G on and off, with no luck. I did use rEEIt to install Windows 7 from USB, but can't see how that could cause the problem.