OS X :: After Windows Installation Partition Became Disk1s2?
Jan 12, 2009
I installed Windows on my 2nd Mac Pro HDD and noticed today that my OS X partition (formerly disk0s2) became disk1s2:
Code:
MacPro:~ Alex$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *149.1 Gi disk0
1: Windows_NTFS Windows 149.0 Gi disk0s1
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *139.7 Gi disk1
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 139.4 Gi disk1s2
Basically the 1st HDD is disk1 now and the 2nd HDD disk0. Why did that happen? Nothing to worry about but I'd like to have it the other way around as it was before Any way to change that?
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Jul 22, 2009
I have just installed a windows vista partition on my 17 inch macbook pro and when I insert the mac osx installation dvd in order to install the mac drivers the on the windows partition the d drive shows that something has been inserted but the cd has no name and whenever I try to click on it says nothing is on the cd. However when I insert the dvd in the mac osx partition it reads the dvd fine. Why is this? There is a scratch on the dvd but what difference would it make if the mac partition is reading it fine?
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I am trying to follow the following guide to do a triple boot, but I am stuck in Windows 7 installation
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I have done the following:
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2. Installed rEFIt
I am not sure what the poster means by making sure it works by pressing the option button. I am assuming it means that I will be able to see the options I can choose when I press option? (I do see options to pick either "Hard Drive" or whatever disc in the DVD)
3. Partitioned 30 GB (or was it 40 GB? x.x I forgot sorry) space in Boot Camp Assistant for Windows installation. Chose the option to install Windows later.
4. Inserted OS X Snow Leopard installation disc and boot from there.
5. Opened up the Disk Utility and partitioned a hard drive (called Hard Drive_2) via the Partition section as instructed by the guide. Formatted in MAc OS Extended (Journaled)
So now, in that area I see "Hard Drive", "Hard Drive_2" and "BOOT CAMP" (so I am assuming that is what the poster meant by "3 partitions".
6. Restarted the computer with Windows installation disc.
Problems occur right here:
Problem 1: I do not see anything called "C something" as the poster said. But I do see something called "Boot Camp"
Problem 2: All the partitions that are available says that "Windows 7 can't be installed". So my question is am I supposed to "delete" a specific partition to install it?
I have pictures of the screen which I will upload later if this isn't clear enough.
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WHAT DOES THE "s" STAND FOR?!
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Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Info:
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