Boot Camp Problem

[Jade Warrior]

All of a sudden my Windows XP partition is gone along with alot of valuable data. The drive no longer shows up on the OS-X desktop, nor in the disk utiility. I also no longer get the Windows icon choice at boot up.

The first time I noticed the problem I started the computer as normal, after a few seconds all that appeared on the screen was a flashing cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. After trying once more and getting the same result I pressed the option key and selected MAC OS. And it booted up fine. I disk a disk repair (there were some problems), and a restore from Time Machine, but still no Windows. Is there any way to recover from this?

Thanks!

 

[Wollverine]

Hello:

You can try booting from the install disc and then see if you still have the windows partition. If not your info might be lost.

Id try taking it to Mac Store if its under a yr old.

 

[Satcomer]

You got the worm[url] that is going around. Do a reinstall and format (of the Windows partition) and then update everything in XP including the virus definitons.

Then I really urge you to start using [url=http://www.opendns.com/]OpenDNS service. They even have a video to show you the benefits. This will block the worm/virus site spreading bad things. You should really use this service in the PC & the Mac to minimize your exposer to bad sites.