Windows - Snow Leopard can't see Boot Camp drive - Mac-Forums.com

Xephrey · 09-02-2009, 02:20 AM

With the exception of a grayed out 'disk03' or whatever, Snow Leopard cannot mount my NTFS Boot Camp partition of Windows 7 x64. But to make the situation even more queer, the 'disk03' is labeled under OS X's disk utility as being a FAT partition. But it clearly says it is an NTFS format when booted into Windows 7 (Can you even INSTALL Windows 7 using FAT format?). Does anyone know what's going on or have any tips for me?

Thanks guys!

Doppler808 · 09-02-2009, 02:53 AM

Couldn't you just install windows XP/Vista and use the NTFS format prior to install and then use the Windows 7 install CD?

chscag · 09-02-2009, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xephrey

With the exception of a grayed out 'disk03' or whatever, Snow Leopard cannot mount my NTFS Boot Camp partition of Windows 7 x64. But to make the situation even more queer, the 'disk03' is labeled under OS X's disk utility as being a FAT partition. But it clearly says it is an NTFS format when booted into Windows 7 (Can you even INSTALL Windows 7 using FAT format?). Does anyone know what's going on or have any tips for me?

Neither Vista nor Win 7 can be installed to any other format except NTFS.

Did you install Win 7 after installing Snow Leopard or was it a carry over from your Leopard install? If so, have you updated Boot Camp to version 3.0 and installed the newer drivers from your Snow Leopard DVD?

Regards.

Xephrey · 09-03-2009, 02:15 AM

Yes I installed it after having installing SL from scratch (then restoring my old leopard settings / apps from a time machine backup). And I used the 3.0 bootcamp drivers. Maybe I should reinstall them..?

bartrobbe · 09-10-2009, 05:29 AM

Hi there,
I had the same problem yesterday. And no one could help me. So I searched for a Tutorial and found one. But I made everything like the tutorial said except that I deleted the Bootcamp Partition instead of just format it.

So everyone who can't see the Bootcamp drive in Snow Leopard do NOT delete the partition, just format it and everything will be fine!

regards

bartrobbe

chscag · 09-10-2009, 05:59 PM

Except that formatting the Boot Camp partition destroys all the data anyway. Might as well start over by using the Boot Camp 3.0 assistant to remove the old partition and create a new one. Then reinstall Win 7.

To the OP:

Try reinstalling the BC 3.0 drivers to see what happens. If that doesn't work, the only way to correct the problem is by starting over. See paragraph above.

Regards.

vershlugan · 09-13-2009, 06:02 PM

Starting over and reloading Windows 7 did not fix this problem in my case! Disk utility sees the NTFS BOOTCAMP partition, but does not want to mount it. I tried to force mount it, but no success. How can I access the data on this partition without booting into Windows?

dalucci · 11-03-2009, 12:06 AM

do you have any 3rd party NTFS plug-ins? macfuse ntfs-3g? texera? Both conflict with Snow Leopard (if that is what you are running) and cause the ntfs volumes not to mount.