Hey everyone,
I have two partitions on my Macbook Pro 15", a Window's Bootcamp partition (which I'm on now) and a Mac HD (Lion) partition.
I was just in the Mac HD partition trying to switch to bootcamp through my sytstem preferences window, but the system preferences window that came up was really strange and only showed 3 external devices and nothing else.
I restarted, and Mac OSX Utilities came up, so I kept trying to get back into Mac OSX, but it wouldn't let me.
I followed the instructions on the "find help for your mac" option on utilities, and it told me to repair the disk. I tried that, and it said the disk could not be repaired. Now when I click "start up disk" the only one that shows up is the bootcamp disk, my Mac OSX option is completely gone.
What happened? When I installed bootcamp about 2 months ago, I backed up my Mac HD on an external disk. However, I'm at college, so I'd have to go home to get the external HD if it is needed. If I brought my Mac to the local Mac store, is there anything at all they can do to fix this without needing my external HD?
Unfortunately, I haven't done a back up since I installed bootcamp, so does that mean I lost everything from then until now?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any help!
I have two partitions on my Macbook Pro 15", a Window's Bootcamp partition (which I'm on now) and a Mac HD (Lion) partition.
I was just in the Mac HD partition trying to switch to bootcamp through my sytstem preferences window, but the system preferences window that came up was really strange and only showed 3 external devices and nothing else.
I restarted, and Mac OSX Utilities came up, so I kept trying to get back into Mac OSX, but it wouldn't let me.
I followed the instructions on the "find help for your mac" option on utilities, and it told me to repair the disk. I tried that, and it said the disk could not be repaired. Now when I click "start up disk" the only one that shows up is the bootcamp disk, my Mac OSX option is completely gone.
What happened? When I installed bootcamp about 2 months ago, I backed up my Mac HD on an external disk. However, I'm at college, so I'd have to go home to get the external HD if it is needed. If I brought my Mac to the local Mac store, is there anything at all they can do to fix this without needing my external HD?
Unfortunately, I haven't done a back up since I installed bootcamp, so does that mean I lost everything from then until now?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for any help!