I cannot see my mac disk under windows 7

Hi everyone!

I recently upgraded from snow leopard to lion on my macbook pro mid 2010 15". Everything went smooth and I'm very happy with it.

I also use bootcamp running windows7 to play games mainly. After I upgraded to lion (ie not a clean install) and turned on FileVault, I had the BSD errors whenever I switched to bootcamp. I google'd it, found out I needed to change 2 files names and upgrade to bootcamp4.0 via an external disk. I did all that, and I now run bootcamp 4.0.

However my problem is that I cannot see the mac disk from the windows partition anymore. At first I could actually see it (windows would define it as "H:" instead of "MacHDD" as I named it) but everytime I tried to open it, it would just try to load for 2 minutes, and then give me a message that the H: drive needs to be formatted.

I installed macdrive, it didn't change anything.

I launched bootcamp 4.0 "windows support" from my external drive, and repaired bootcamp, then rebooted. Now I just can't even see the mac disk anymore.

On top of that, whenever I start windows, my session takes about 4-5 minutes to fully load (I believe its just because its looking for the mac disk, but can't find it).

If I go to "Manage disk" under windows, the mac partition appears as an Healthy primary partition with no volume name.

I can see my bootcamp partition from lion though and can move files around on it.

I tried to google this, and search on the forum, and I haven't found anything, please bare with me if this question has already been answered.

All my drivers are updated by the way.

Anyone got an idea about this?

And also, would I actually benefit from a clean install ? I heard people gain a few seconds on the boot time and reactivity under lion...


Thanks!

Gary

FileVault is your problem. Your Mac partition is encrypted - the only time the partition is accessible is when you've authenticated on OS X.

Alright then I guess I'll have to turn FileVault of.

Thanks for your quick answer!

What is file fault? I just want to know because I am planning on bootcaming my mac

FileVault is Mac's built in disk encryption software. FV used to only encrypt a user's home directory, leaving applications and other files unencrypted. With the introduction of Lion, FV now encrypts everything. Without the password, your entire drive is just scrambled data. Strong caution here - encryption should not be used if you don't have a good backup solution. I guess that could be said with or without encryption, but with encryption, a relatively minor data error can cause the entire volume to be rendered unreadable.