#WAITING FOR PARTITIONS TO ACTIVATE USB SANDISK MAC PRO#
#WAITING FOR PARTITIONS TO ACTIVATE USB SANDISK MAC MAC#

#WAITING FOR PARTITIONS TO ACTIVATE USB SANDISK MAC MAC#

I could see the old original partition in my Mac side of the system, but couldn’t do anything to change it without possibly making matters worse since I was running out of space on both sides of the system, both on Mac & W7. Unfortunately, I tried a restore from an image backup done with Windows 7, only to find it wasn’t an updated image, but for a clean install.

#WAITING FOR PARTITIONS TO ACTIVATE USB SANDISK MAC PRO#

I have a Macbook Pro running dual boot for Leopard 10.5 and Windows 7 and accidentally compressed the C drive in Windows, and ran into the bootmgr issue on a restart. Similar situation here, and trying to correct and praying someone might have the answer. Is there any utility that can be run on the OS-X side which can show me the partition table and let me select one partition to be the 'active' partition? I've tried Apple's Disk Utility and also Coriolis's iPartition but neither of them seems to offer this feature.

It can back up partitions to a compressed image file and it can restore them without screwing up other things on the drive BUT when restoring a Windows partition, it 'forgets' to mark it as active - and consequently, the boot manager refuses to see it as being bootable. The least troublesome is a Windows utility called Active Disk Image.

Believe it or not, there isn't a single application available (for either OS-X or Windows) which can achieve this without some kind of major drawback (and believe me, I've tried loads of apps that all claimed they could do it!) so that both OS's will still be bootable). Since I installed Windows I've been looking for a utility that can backup the (entire) Windows partition and restore it successfully (i.e. So ever since then I've been able to dual boot into either OS-X or Windows 7.

Back in February I bought a Mac Mini and I installed Windows 7, via Boot Camp.

Waiting for partitions to activate usb sandisk mac