Dear All:
I have an one-year old Mac Book Pro (MAC OS X 10.6.8, 8G RAM) which I installed Window 7 with the original MAC OS. I can press the “option” key when I start the computer to switch between different OS systems. The default is the Window 7. I have worked on it and saved some important data and software onto this Window system. It has no problem for a while until recently something wrong happened. The window began to close the applications and then shutdown the system automatically. I tried to restart the computer, yet it showed
“No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key”.
I tried several times, but the situations were the same.
So I press the “option” key again when I restart it. I used to see two HD icons (Macintosh & BootCamp), but this time I can only see the Macintosh HD. It seems to me that MAC has lost the window partition table. However, I can access BootCamp through the MAC OS (meaning I can see the BootCamp HD icon on the right upper corner of the desktop, and the files are still in this BootCamp HD which I can copy them to my NTFS USB flash drive). I have tried the following to try to recover my widow 7 back.
1>I used a software called “A Bootable USB” and load the window 7 OS to my flash drive, and the software has make the USB flash drive bootable. I then inserted the usb flash drive to my Mac, and then restart the system. But the “No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key” appeared again. I can not boot the window installed in my MAC from my NTFS flash drive.
2>I try to fix the lost window partition by “TestDisk”, but since the window system can not start, this approach failed.
3>I try to run “TestDisk for MAC” on MAC system, but it can not detect any hard drive information. So it fails again.
4>I use the “Disk Utility” in MAC to check the HD, there are Macintosh HD, BOOTCAMP and one strange partition named “DISKOS2” (209.70MB). I don’t recall where does this partition come from. Besides, all the functions provided by Disk Utility can not work when I select BOOTCAMP and DISKOS2.
5>I also try to use “Boot Camp Assistant”, thinking of my window 7 might fix the errors. But after the second step, it pops up “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition”. And I can not go further.
Please help me to fix the window partition issue so that I can restart my window 7 (and retrieve the data).
Thank to any kind of suggestions.
I have an one-year old Mac Book Pro (MAC OS X 10.6.8, 8G RAM) which I installed Window 7 with the original MAC OS. I can press the “option” key when I start the computer to switch between different OS systems. The default is the Window 7. I have worked on it and saved some important data and software onto this Window system. It has no problem for a while until recently something wrong happened. The window began to close the applications and then shutdown the system automatically. I tried to restart the computer, yet it showed
“No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key”.
I tried several times, but the situations were the same.
So I press the “option” key again when I restart it. I used to see two HD icons (Macintosh & BootCamp), but this time I can only see the Macintosh HD. It seems to me that MAC has lost the window partition table. However, I can access BootCamp through the MAC OS (meaning I can see the BootCamp HD icon on the right upper corner of the desktop, and the files are still in this BootCamp HD which I can copy them to my NTFS USB flash drive). I have tried the following to try to recover my widow 7 back.
1>I used a software called “A Bootable USB” and load the window 7 OS to my flash drive, and the software has make the USB flash drive bootable. I then inserted the usb flash drive to my Mac, and then restart the system. But the “No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key” appeared again. I can not boot the window installed in my MAC from my NTFS flash drive.
2>I try to fix the lost window partition by “TestDisk”, but since the window system can not start, this approach failed.
3>I try to run “TestDisk for MAC” on MAC system, but it can not detect any hard drive information. So it fails again.
4>I use the “Disk Utility” in MAC to check the HD, there are Macintosh HD, BOOTCAMP and one strange partition named “DISKOS2” (209.70MB). I don’t recall where does this partition come from. Besides, all the functions provided by Disk Utility can not work when I select BOOTCAMP and DISKOS2.
5>I also try to use “Boot Camp Assistant”, thinking of my window 7 might fix the errors. But after the second step, it pops up “The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition”. And I can not go further.
Please help me to fix the window partition issue so that I can restart my window 7 (and retrieve the data).
Thank to any kind of suggestions.