Here is what I did, I started the windows installation again, by booting from the Windows CD. And when you’re about to install windows again, where you have to select a partition, you just remove the currect partition i think its the option “d” i am not sure… But yeah, remove the partition… and then… cancel the installation…

Start from Mac OS cd, and just format and install again, and it will not be read only… The only reason it is “read only” is becouse of NTFS, which can be removed by this easy sollution… and you dont have to do all this extra crap

Here\’s a tip – After reading this page and figuring that the key to this operation was TestDisk\’s capabilities, and not having a 2nd Mac with Leopard, I opted to try out a Knoppix [http://knoppix.net] Live CD, and it worked like a charm. Simply burn the current ISO of Knoppix, stick it in the Mac and turn the system on. Be patient… it\’ll take almost 2 minutes before you see action, then the Knoppix CD should boot. One on the desktop, open a terminal, type testdisk, then follow the prompts above exactly from there.

THanks for saving my shiny new MacBook! I\’m astonished that Apple hasn\’t modified BootCamp to deal with this problem in some way, even if to just place prompts into the XP setup dialogs. Whe reads manuals!?

Isnt it a shame that mac doesnt warm users for this problem?

Thanks for your instructions. Unfortunately when I follow these instructions and log into TestDisk I don\’t see the hard drive of the non-working computer. This may be caused by the fact that when I use the sudo ./testdisk command it asks me for a password and when I enter the administrator password on the working computer it doesn\’t accept it. When running TestDisk it says \"Some disks won\’t appear unless you are root user\". Do you have any ideas?

Thanks

Thanks

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Thanks for this post. I have a different issue but the symptoms are the same. I did load SP2 on bootcamp partition and I subsequently upgraded it to SP3. I then installed HalfLife 2 on the bootcamp partition. Everything was going great until the game crashed. I could not do anything with the computer – keyboard/mouse wont respond. I had to do a manual restart after this. I then started facing the same problem that you have mentioned. I was planning to try your approach to solve the problem. I just have a question – Can I have the second computer running Windows XP and run TestDisk from this one?

Was enough to revive my MacBook.