Boot Camp drive showing up as Fat, can't mount

[balamw]

Originally Posted by palyons

Rather than deleting the BOOTCAMP partition, created by BootCamp Assistant I chose to format instead

Originally Posted by palyons

I actually just used Disk Utility to create the Media partition before I started the installation.

See why I was looking for clarifcation?

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[palyons]

Originally Posted by balamw

See why I was looking for clarifcation?

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Right, I get where you're coming from, but all I really meant was that instead of deleting the FAT32(BOOTCAMP) partition I formatted, and also mentioned the BootCamp Utility to avoid confusion, since I'm sure there's a good number of people that wouldn't know how to do the same thing with Disk Utility.

[balamw]

Originally Posted by palyons

Right, I get where you're coming from, but all I really meant was that instead of deleting the FAT32(BOOTCAMP) partition I formatted, and also mentioned the BootCamp Utility to avoid confusion, since I'm sure there's a good number of people that wouldn't know how to do the same thing with Disk Utility.

No worries. Thanks for sharing you experience with this surprisingly common issue.

It's just that anyone who doesn't already know what they are doing will not end up where you did by following your original directions. This tends to add confusion rather than avoid it.

In these cases IMHO it is better to omit details rather than make them up, you can always add detail.

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[levlumino]

hi all,
i just want to share my problem and how to solve, although this thread was almost 6 months ago.
i have the same exact problem, but i experienced this error after i run Virtual Box and put the dynamic hard drive in my windows partition.
and then i remove the dynamic hard drive in my windows partition and decided to logon using vista.
during booting, i switch using windows partition, and it went restarted on and on.

so i try to find how and try to execute the command that appears in the dialog window.

i just execute the command :
mount -t ntfs -o force /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes

because when i use mount -t ntfs -o force /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/Untitled,
it show some error.

so here is the result :
Tandhy-MacBook:/ root# mount -t ntfs -o force /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes
kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/ntfs.kext loaded successfully
Tandhy-MacBook:/ root# 63:92: execution error: SystemUIServer got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)

i can see the volumes mounted in Finder and i can access the file beneath it.
now i want to try log using vista inside it.

[balamw]

Originally Posted by levlumino

i just execute the command :

mount -t ntfs -o force /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes

This doesn't seem like a good choice. If the system wants to create another mount point for another volume in /Volumes it won't be able to.

If you are mounting it manually, the mount point needs to exist, so you could keep it out of /Volumes altogether and use something like

mkdir ~/MountPoint
mount -t ntfs -o force /dev/disk0s3 ~/MountPoint

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[erieze.lagera]

Originally Posted by TOGGI3

I've solved my problem. Specifically my problem was this:

I had two partitions as opposed to the one partition GPT was configured to say that I had. I had a 100 MB partition windows 7 created on install plus the 50.5 GB partition. So heres what I did, I used the data from gptsync, as in where the sectors should start and end for each partition, and I used a utility called gdisk, very similar to fdisk, I removed the table for the bootcamp partition, and I created two new ones with the same beginning and end sectors, partition type 0700 for both.

problem solved!!

If anyone needs help resolving this issue and they look to be having the same issue, feel free to contact me via PM, maybe we could even make a video out of it to help others.

I had the same problem like on TOGGI3's, but I can't understand the instruction on his resolution. I'm a newbie on MacOS, can anyone instruct me easily? I'm dying to know how!

[ElectricCoffee]

Originally Posted by erieze.lagera

I had the same problem like on TOGGI3's, but I can't understand the instruction on his resolution. I'm a newbie on MacOS, can anyone instruct me easily? I'm dying to know how!

So, yeah... I have this problem too

I have installed gdisk and I have run the following through the terminal:

gdisk -l /dev/disk0

this is what I got:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/disk0: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 147ECF18-4AE8-4BAA-9DA3-F1943134885D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 264621 sectors (129.2 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640       975018983   464.7 GiB   AF00  Macintosh HD
   3       975282176      1953523711   466.5 GiB   0700  BOOTCAMP

any help on what to do from here?