Bootcamp OSX partition keeps corrupting

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Bootcamp OSX partition keeps corrupting

I have a client that I have set up a Bootcamp system for with Mountain Lion/Win7. This is a mid 2011 MB Pro 13", Core 2duo, 8GB RAM, 720 GB HD. I set it up for him and the first night switching from Windows to OSX with the "option" key method at restart. When selecting the OSX partition it started to boot then shut down. I worked on the phone several hours with him and couldn't figure it out.

I picked up the MB Pro and reinstalled Mountain Lion and got it working again. One week has passed and he just let me know that OSX will not boot again.

What could be the issue here? HD failure is my first thought? Any ideas would be most helpful. Thanks in advance!

Posted on Nov 16, 2012 5:42 PM

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Nov 16, 2012 7:54 PM in response to Pskeens

It could be a drive hardware failure, or it could be other factors. If the user is using the standard Windows 7 backup software, they could be corrupting their own MacOS partition by performing a test backup/restore. If you or they have loaded drivers to give them write access to their HFS+ partitions, they could be doing many different things to corrupt the partition. Using any windows based partitioning tools or drive maintenance tool might also be corrupting the drive. There are a very few windows based tools which actively support working with Mac HFS+ volumes, so using anything other than those could be the source of corruption.

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