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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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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