After Installing Lion how do i get the windows partition back?

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After Installing Lion how do i get the windows partition back?

The Windows Partition is not showing up after installing Lion.

I only get the option of booting Mac or Recovery

How do I get it back.

Max OSX Lion-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 10:43 PM

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Answer 1

wtrule

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Jul 22, 2011 7:27 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

After upgrading to Lion my Windows volume failed to mount when running OS X. When I rebooted and held down "option" Bootcamp let me select Windows but it failed to start. Turns out I had an old version of Paragon NTFS. After upgrading that, everything works fine: the Windows volume shows up on my Lion desktop, the system boots into both OS X and Windows 7 without problems.

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Answer 2

Jul 22, 2011 4:13 PM in response to wtrule

Windows is not in the list did you not read.

I do not have that program.

I have had to put my hard drive in for recovery. Many of my files are corrupt or missing.

The new recovery partition Apple installed, overwrote the first 600MB of the Windows partition, rendering the partition corrupt.

I Should send Apple the recovery Bill.

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nurhadi

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Jul 22, 2011 5:28 PM in response to DavidFromMoon

Hi!

I had the similar problem, where my windows option went missing after installing Lion. I gave up trying to resolve it and did a clean installation on windows again by re-configuring my Windows partition & install Windows 7 on it. It seems to work well for now...

Apple should have warned us that the Windows partition will be unreadable when u install Lion. Hence, allowing users to back their files up on Windows environment before installing Lion.

Thank god I did not have any important files save in Windows.

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trisheep

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Jul 23, 2011 1:33 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

I have the same problem! 😟 Is there any way to "remount" the Windows partition without reinstalling Windows?

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Answer 5

Jul 23, 2011 11:50 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

I have the same problem too! This is serious... 😠

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Jul 23, 2011 8:35 PM in response to paulogoncalvs

Since it overwrites the first 600Mb of the windows partition, we are going to expect files to be unrecoverable, as my recovered files had corruption and missing files. All my emails are gorn, and my source code has damage all over the place. Good thing most of them where on my SVN server.

It would have been nice to get a warning.

I backed up Mac OSX before the upgrade, since it should not have messed with the windows partition, I did not back it up.

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mcjimbo

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Jul 24, 2011 6:07 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

Lion also killed my Boot Camp Windows partition. Not a happy customer Apple. How about an obnoxious Microsoft style warning during the upgrade process.

24 hours later I'm backup and running.

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feri

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Jul 24, 2011 6:13 AM in response to mcjimbo

I have Win 7 and with lots of fear and lots of backups I've upgraded to Lion. Thankfully everything works fine with no problem. I heard that you should have enough space to be able to update without any damage to your Win partition, but as you said, it should give you some warning.

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katmail

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Jul 24, 2011 7:19 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

DavidFromMoon, wtrule, nurhadi, trisheep, and paulogonclavs

Are you using a 32-bit or 64-bit Win-7? This could be the cause, lion in 64-bit.

kat

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trisheep

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Jul 24, 2011 1:39 PM in response to katmail

I have Win 7 32 bit

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mcjimbo

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Jul 24, 2011 2:03 PM in response to katmail

I had Win 7 64 .bit :(

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Answer 12

Jul 24, 2011 5:28 PM in response to mcjimbo

Was running Win 7 x64 on my Mac.

Why would you use 32bit, for one you would not see all your RAM.

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katmail

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Jul 24, 2011 7:37 PM in response to DavidFromMoon

I was just wondering if the issue was with trying to go from a 32-bit win 7 bootcamp partition (lepoard could be 32-bit or 64-bit). Lion is 64bit.

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Answer 14

Jul 24, 2011 7:49 PM in response to katmail

Snow leopard was 64bit whats what I had

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Answer 15

Jul 25, 2011 1:09 AM in response to DavidFromMoon

Can I ask: are people losing partitions when hosting Windows on Boot Camp partition or also on virtual machines created by Fusion or Parallel? I have Win 7 under Fusion and I really don't want to go through all that again - Win7, Office, and some windows specific apps.Maybe this is something that can be fixed in subsequent release of Lion

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