Hello.
I am in deep trouble. I am using the MAc Mini 2012 and my 1 tb apple hdd has become of gpt type from a conversion from my windows partition, and I am no longer able to boot mac or windows. It just shows efi boot and the cd drive. I am using for now ubuntu from a usb 8gb as my mac allows at least that. My format hdd is like this:
/dev/sda:
/dev/sda2 is an extended partition (fu**) containing a few logicals:
/dev/sda5: Macintosh HD,
/dev/sda6: unknown, is really OSX recovery)
/dev/sda7: my win2kr2 bootcamp partition,
/dev/sda8: No label,is just the ubuntu stuff folder, is no harm.
and unnalocated, 2.49 mb.
I would like to convert sda5,sda6,sda7 to primary partitions, first deleting the extended and keeping the logicals. Is this possible? or am i fried toast? sda8 can either go or stay, preferably stay to see its mysterious contents. So from my knoledge, my operations would fix the problem and allow me to boot into osx and windows? I would also delete the extra mbr table I have in the hard drive as a result of my failed attempts to fix it and create a valid guid partition table. However, right before it happeneed, my 1tb was MBR and successfully booted both OSX and win, for the consecuence of macintosh hd no showing in the startup disk menu, but i could still boot from it, np, So either gimme instructions (please) to do that work and make a valid guid table, or give me help to do the necessary steps i listed and create an mbr, from which i would boot osx or windows and fix the mbr and make a valid guid myself.
I would be smiling for hours if anybody could put my MAc back to working state.
If the guid thing is not possible, i will live with the mbr as the MAc hd no showing in startup disk is absolutely no big deal.
Thank you,
iPhone2G&3GFAN
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oh and /dev/sda5 is hfs+,
/dev/sda6 is i dont know, certain that its osx recovery as its 6xx mb, (in size)
/dev/sda7 my ntfs win partition,
/dev/sda8 is fat32. linux almost obviously)
I am in deep trouble. I am using the MAc Mini 2012 and my 1 tb apple hdd has become of gpt type from a conversion from my windows partition, and I am no longer able to boot mac or windows. It just shows efi boot and the cd drive. I am using for now ubuntu from a usb 8gb as my mac allows at least that. My format hdd is like this:
/dev/sda:
/dev/sda2 is an extended partition (fu**) containing a few logicals:
/dev/sda5: Macintosh HD,
/dev/sda6: unknown, is really OSX recovery)
/dev/sda7: my win2kr2 bootcamp partition,
/dev/sda8: No label,is just the ubuntu stuff folder, is no harm.
and unnalocated, 2.49 mb.
I would like to convert sda5,sda6,sda7 to primary partitions, first deleting the extended and keeping the logicals. Is this possible? or am i fried toast? sda8 can either go or stay, preferably stay to see its mysterious contents. So from my knoledge, my operations would fix the problem and allow me to boot into osx and windows? I would also delete the extra mbr table I have in the hard drive as a result of my failed attempts to fix it and create a valid guid partition table. However, right before it happeneed, my 1tb was MBR and successfully booted both OSX and win, for the consecuence of macintosh hd no showing in the startup disk menu, but i could still boot from it, np, So either gimme instructions (please) to do that work and make a valid guid table, or give me help to do the necessary steps i listed and create an mbr, from which i would boot osx or windows and fix the mbr and make a valid guid myself.
I would be smiling for hours if anybody could put my MAc back to working state.
If the guid thing is not possible, i will live with the mbr as the MAc hd no showing in startup disk is absolutely no big deal.
Thank you,
iPhone2G&3GFAN
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oh and /dev/sda5 is hfs+,
/dev/sda6 is i dont know, certain that its osx recovery as its 6xx mb, (in size)
/dev/sda7 my ntfs win partition,
/dev/sda8 is fat32. linux almost obviously)
