Gunni
join:2005-12-06
Bethesda, MD
| reply to HEDP
Re: [OS X] Believe Windows on my MacBook has hosed it!
Boy, you really know your stuff.
When I get my MacBook back, I will follow your advice and partition the new HD myself, using DU, before installing OSX & Windows XP. If I understand you correctly, when I set up those partitions, I will be able to specify that I want to set one up in HFS Extended Format and the other in FAT format.
A question then: is that all that Boot Camp really does? Basically just creates these two partitions, enabling you to chose which file format you want for each? I wonder why Apple didn't foresee the corruption issue and provide instructions as you have vice going the Boot Camp route.
Many thanks for taking the time to explain this. I'll turn to as soon as I get the MacBook back and post what happens here.
Bob |
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HEDP
join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
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May 10th, @05:59AM
| Bootcamp does the process differently, it tampers with your HFS partition in real time to allow to create a new partition. This is a delicate process, it's not that it cannot be done without issues, it's just that the expansion utility does not always work properly. Bootcamp is still rather new and still needs some work to be done to further stabilize it. Once the expansion utility works as intended it would more than likely be included in Disk Utility as a advanced option to increase or decrease partitions on the fly.
If you have further issues with your Macbook simply post in this forum, they will be more than be happy to assist. Just stay away from the koolaid and you will be alright. |
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Gunni
join:2005-12-06
Bethesda, MD
| I was back to an Apple Store yet again. When I got the MacBook back with the new HD, it already had Leopard installed. I thought I'd use it awhile just with Leopard and only later consider wiping the hard drive clean, partitioning it, then installing OSX & Windows again.
When I connected the firewire cable to move my data over, it wouldn't work. Tried several firewire cable: all failed.
Back to the Apple Store. Diagnosis; Firewire kaput. Since the port is connected to a circuit board, whole circuit board has to be replaced. Due to get it back later this week. |
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Eeep...once you start down the slippery serial-failure slope you're almost always better off to pressure them to replace the whole thing. I hope it's not true in your case but there is a whiff of lemon in the air.
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Toolmaster of La Grange. |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Netcong, NJ
| reply to Gunni
Interesting failure. In the store they rely heavily on external FW drives for diagnosis and likely for putting the OS back on the thing. Odd that they didn't notice it (or maybe the depot did if it actually went out for service and didn't want to deal with the paperwork). |
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HEDP
join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
| reply to RadioDoc
*taps your Macbook with his chopsticks*
No good you understand? This is just my honest opinion but if another repair must be made after this, demand a new system entirely. It's enough BS that you need to go back and forth it's not like Apple compensates you for your time. My time is valuable to me and I hate for someone to tell me to be patient when it should of been working from the beginning or replaced altogether.
*goes back to eating his rice* |
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