Please help! OS X is gone!

[DeltaMac]

repost your question, with a quick overview of what you want to do. Post with a good title like "Can I remove NTFS that overwrote OS X partition?". That should get someone's interest. It's outside of my experience, but someone else might know. Make a new thread, your files appear to not be gone, but you need some help to get everything working now....

[Perishingflames]

Originally Posted by kabbage

Ok so I installed 10.5 yesterday then upgraded to 10.5.1 via software update and then started my journey towards windows. I am on an iMac 17" 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1 GB RAM. So next I created a partition (14GB) for Windows using Boot Camp. I then printed out the instructions and proceeded to install windows. I absolutely selected the C:/ drive as instructed and when the windows install concluded my computer restarted and went right back to the beginning of the install for Windows. I started to go back through the steps but realized it was just starting over when i got to the step where I was supposed to pick the drive again, so I stopped. i then tried rebooting while holding Option but now there was no Mac partition at all! I had also installed 10.5 on an external firewire drive and have since booted from it and tried Disk Utility (i have attached photos of what it shows). i was an idiot and did not make a backup. my question is, does anyone know a way i can recover my photos, music and files?

Exact same thing happened to me. Fortunately, I had a bootable backup. That guide is completely mis-leading. Someone needs to tell Apple that their guide is crap.