Okay, I'll keep this brief and simple.
I have Windows 7 and Mountain Lion, and in my hard drive, I had this empty unpartitioned space from the time when I wanted a partition to keep data in. That empty unpartitioned space was wasting space so I decided to extend my OS X's space. Now when I tried expanding it to the maximum available, it wouldn't work. It said that it was partitioned but is was still that empty space in the disk utility. So I tried making it a smaller partition. It worked! So now, my OS X is a lot bigger now. Unfortunately, this screwed up my bootcamp partition somehow and now when I boot up my Mac, refit shows that boot camp is now a Legacy OS and when I load that up, it says Missing Operating System. When I try to load it up via Apples normal loader (the one where you hold down ALT at boot), I can see the Windows Partition and when I load that up, it's the same "Missing Operating System".
My bootcamp partition is Windows 7 Ultimate.
These images may help:
http://tinypic.com/r/2qkjyap/5
Any ideas what the problem could be? Any possible fixes? As much as possible, I'd like to keep reformating the bootcamp partition and reinstalling Windows 7, thus losing my data there the last resort. Thanks!
I have Windows 7 and Mountain Lion, and in my hard drive, I had this empty unpartitioned space from the time when I wanted a partition to keep data in. That empty unpartitioned space was wasting space so I decided to extend my OS X's space. Now when I tried expanding it to the maximum available, it wouldn't work. It said that it was partitioned but is was still that empty space in the disk utility. So I tried making it a smaller partition. It worked! So now, my OS X is a lot bigger now. Unfortunately, this screwed up my bootcamp partition somehow and now when I boot up my Mac, refit shows that boot camp is now a Legacy OS and when I load that up, it says Missing Operating System. When I try to load it up via Apples normal loader (the one where you hold down ALT at boot), I can see the Windows Partition and when I load that up, it's the same "Missing Operating System".
My bootcamp partition is Windows 7 Ultimate.
These images may help:
http://tinypic.com/r/2qkjyap/5
Any ideas what the problem could be? Any possible fixes? As much as possible, I'd like to keep reformating the bootcamp partition and reinstalling Windows 7, thus losing my data there the last resort. Thanks!
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