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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    _ThEcRoW
    Posts: 298 from 2008/10/27
    Hello guys, the other day i was working under osx and power off the system as always, but the next day i noticed it went all the way directly to morphos, so i checked with alt key pressed and saw a folder with ?? and the face of the finder. I have tried to access the partition with no luck. Anyone with a possible solution?. There is some data i have on the osx partition i can't lost!. Mos partition is fine, in fact im posting from there.
    Thanks in advance!!!
    Mac Mini G4 1,4ghz 1gb ram & MorphOS 3.11
  • »02.02.12 - 19:04
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
    From: Kingston upon ...
    You could try mounting the OSX partition under MorphOS using sys:tools/mounter to obtain your data, then copy it to some:where/else.

    Assuming that OSX is installed on an HFS+ partition, this will be mounted read-only, but at least this will allow you to get the data.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    osco
    Posts: 680 from 2009/10/21
    From: Boston, USA
    I do this a lot and copy the the data in Ram: and then elsewhere on morphos.
    Did you get your data?
    Mac Mini 1.5GHz, 1G, 250G Drive, Apple Cinema Display, MorphOS 3.1 registered, MacOS 10 PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 80G Drive,........Waiting
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  • »03.02.12 - 01:21
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    _ThEcRoW
    Posts: 298 from 2008/10/27
    Hello, thanks for the replies. I tried to mount it under mounter, and it mounts it, but no icon appear on workbench, and when trying to do a dir from the shell i get the message "Not a valid DOS disk", and can't do anything.
    Is the partition really trashed?
    :cry:
    Mac Mini G4 1,4ghz 1gb ram & MorphOS 3.11
  • »03.02.12 - 14:49
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    osx partition vanished?
    what a lucky thing... i deleted it manually. it didn't want to die...
    Mac Mini g4 1,5 mos 3.1 registered
    Powerbook g4 1,67 mos 3.1 unregistered
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  • »03.02.12 - 15:04
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    osco
    Posts: 680 from 2009/10/21
    From: Boston, USA
    Try elsewhere to find the icon not the workbench but
    in "My MorphOS" directory.
    :-D

    [ Edited by osco 03.02.2012 - 10:38 ]
    Mac Mini 1.5GHz, 1G, 250G Drive, Apple Cinema Display, MorphOS 3.1 registered, MacOS 10 PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 80G Drive,........Waiting
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  • »03.02.12 - 16:06
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
    From: Kingston upon ...
    You could try forcing the filesystem it mounts as. Select "Mac HFS+" rather than "Auto detect" from mounter. It might work. Won't do any harm at least.

    Alternatively this page may be of help to try and repair the partition.
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  • »03.02.12 - 21:09
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    _ThEcRoW
    Posts: 298 from 2008/10/27
    I tried your suggestions and no luck. Also checked the page, bootwb, but was out of luck again. Maybe it can be solved with a utility called Disk Warrior, the drawback is that isn't freware...
    Will try to get a copy and boot with it, then fingers crossed for the results...
    Mac Mini G4 1,4ghz 1gb ram & MorphOS 3.11
  • »04.02.12 - 15:03
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    _ThEcRoW
    Posts: 298 from 2008/10/27
    Well, tried DiskWarrior and it done a kind of recuperation, but data was all screwed, so finally the data is trashed. Will need to reinstall os again. Luckily Mos is alive and kicking...
    Seems that when a partition vanishes like that, there isn't software to recover it :-x .
    Thanks all for the tips and suggestions!
    Mac Mini G4 1,4ghz 1gb ram & MorphOS 3.11
  • »05.02.12 - 15:58
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    osco
    Posts: 680 from 2009/10/21
    From: Boston, USA
    What do you think it was? Hardware or software. I have also a dual boot mini. It has problems on the X side but the MorphOS has been stable! I have two PowerBooks and maybe one will be a dedicated Morph. What is your hard drive? how old? Looking at SSD
    Mac Mini 1.5GHz, 1G, 250G Drive, Apple Cinema Display, MorphOS 3.1 registered, MacOS 10 PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 80G Drive,........Waiting
    PowerBook (5,8) 1.67Hz, 2G, 40G MorphOS 3.1 unregisterd
  • »05.02.12 - 16:37
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