Bootcamp drive not showing up in Lion

[Oshin]

After installing Lion, I noticed my bootcamp disk icon wasn't on my desktop, nor does it show up under devices in the finder sidebar. I can still boot into Windows when I restart, but without having any way to access the drive from the OS X side, it's pretty much impossible to transfer files back and forth between the Mac side and the Windows side. Bootcamp shows up in Disk Utility but is greyed out which I assume means it is unmounted, but when I try to mount it it gives an error. I've tried verifying/repairing the disk, but it still won't mount.

Anyone else have this problem/know a solution?

 

[utlkalot15]

After installing Lion, I noticed my bootcamp disk icon wasn't on my desktop, nor does it show up under devices in the finder sidebar. I can still boot into Windows when I restart, but without having any way to access the drive from the OS X side, it's pretty much impossible to transfer files back and forth between the Mac side and the Windows side. Bootcamp shows up in Disk Utility but is greyed out which I assume means it is unmounted, but when I try to mount it it gives an error. I've tried verifying/repairing the disk, but it still won't mount.

Anyone else have this problem/know a solution?

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[mateus]

This is worrying. I've seen numerous reports of similar problems on other Mac forums. Have you tried posting a message on the Apple's Support Communities forum?

I'm holding off the Lion upgrade until there's definite guidance on how Bootcamp partitions are effected. Like many users, I require Bootcamp for work and really don't want the hassle of reinstalling Windows, re-registering all my applications and restoring my files from backup.

Hopefully someone will reply to this thread with a simple solution.

 

[Oshin]

So after having more time to play around with Boot Camp, I've figured out at least a temporary solution.

I can't seem to find any way to access the partition from the OS X side, but I downloaded the HFS Explorer app on the windows side which allows you to extract files from the Mac partition to the Windows partition. Hopefully a simpler solution will present itself. Otherwise, both my partitions work like they did before the upgrade to Lion and I didn't lose anything on the Windows side.

 

[bikerc]

What is the error that you get?

Did you try to run to mount the partition from the command line?

I have SL and Win 7 in bootcamp but I didn't upgrade yet.

Thanks

 

[mustafaattarwal]

Bootcamp drive not showing up in Lion

When do you think this solution would arrive, since without it I cannot change to OS Lion.

 

[srwatts]

I needed to reinstall NTFS-3G

I had the same issue.

I was using NTFS-3G with SL.

So I removed NTFS-3G and MacFuse. (These are in your System Preferences)

I then downloaded NTFS-3G again and reinstalled.

After install I needed to Restart.

Hey presto - I can now access my BootCamp partition again!!

PS: I've always had PC's until 6 months ago. I'm loving my Mac. I had to do a system restore a month ago and couldn't believe how well it went with TimeMachine. The upgrade to Lion was equally impressive! Thanks Apple.