tristanmarsh
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At home I had one Intel iMac from 2007 running Tiger , I was fiddling around trying to see what it would take to dual windows. I couldnt find any straight XP installation disks, but I did find an EeePC XP support disk or something. When I viewed its files under OS X it appeared as if it didnt actually install windows, but just copied a prebuilt image onto the drive.
Booting up from the disk began a loading procedure, something Asus had created specifically for the EeePC. After approximately five minutes of RAMDISK loading, a GUI Dialogue box popped. The two options were to install windows or reboot. I clicked install windows. A second window came up asking if I was sure. I semi freaked out and clicked no, realising there was no other option but reboot, I paused and then clicked install windows and confirm. Absolutely positive that there would be more options like partitioning or the installation location similar to the usual XP installation, I was sure no real changes would have been made at this stage.
As soon as I did say I was sure, the DVD drive kicked into action really loud action and I could see there was no more dialogue. Super completely freaking out, I held down the power button and it restarted 5 seconds later.
I go to reboot into OS X, no grey screen, no apple, no spinning wheel. A black DOS like screen flashing Error loading operating system. This wasnt loading OS X but the less than 10 seconds of windows installed. The (EFI I think thats it) doesnt even recognise there was 320 GB of OS X there previously.
Now the HDD appears like this when I view it with disk utility from the OSX installation disks.
Partition 1: 298.06 GB, MS-DOD (FAT)
Partition 2: 31.38 MB, MS-DOS (FAT)
Whenever I have changed the format of drives or partitions it doesnt take me 10 seconds to do so, so my guess is that the XP installation disk was just beginning the process of changing it. And I am super duper hoping that although it has been relabelled as FAT, the data is still sitting there intact.
There is about 20GB of documents I need, (did I mention it is my sisters computer) wedding pictures, travelling pictures, family pictures, university essays. All the stuff she is going to absolutely kill me for losing.
(She is away in the NT for a week or so, so I have a little time to attempt and recover it)
My idea is to boot from a Linux Live DVD and try to get the data somehow that way? Or maybe there is some deleted data recovery software to run in Linux. Or on its own boot DVD/CD??
Anyway, I DONT KNOW  I need help and advice on what to do, or what I can do It will probably take me a while to reply, because I had to go to MacDonalds to upload this. This little EeePC wont connect to the cable internet properly.
Booting up from the disk began a loading procedure, something Asus had created specifically for the EeePC. After approximately five minutes of RAMDISK loading, a GUI Dialogue box popped. The two options were to install windows or reboot. I clicked install windows. A second window came up asking if I was sure. I semi freaked out and clicked no, realising there was no other option but reboot, I paused and then clicked install windows and confirm. Absolutely positive that there would be more options like partitioning or the installation location similar to the usual XP installation, I was sure no real changes would have been made at this stage.
As soon as I did say I was sure, the DVD drive kicked into action really loud action and I could see there was no more dialogue. Super completely freaking out, I held down the power button and it restarted 5 seconds later.
I go to reboot into OS X, no grey screen, no apple, no spinning wheel. A black DOS like screen flashing Error loading operating system. This wasnt loading OS X but the less than 10 seconds of windows installed. The (EFI I think thats it) doesnt even recognise there was 320 GB of OS X there previously.
Now the HDD appears like this when I view it with disk utility from the OSX installation disks.
Partition 1: 298.06 GB, MS-DOD (FAT)
Partition 2: 31.38 MB, MS-DOS (FAT)
Whenever I have changed the format of drives or partitions it doesnt take me 10 seconds to do so, so my guess is that the XP installation disk was just beginning the process of changing it. And I am super duper hoping that although it has been relabelled as FAT, the data is still sitting there intact.
There is about 20GB of documents I need, (did I mention it is my sisters computer) wedding pictures, travelling pictures, family pictures, university essays. All the stuff she is going to absolutely kill me for losing.
(She is away in the NT for a week or so, so I have a little time to attempt and recover it)
My idea is to boot from a Linux Live DVD and try to get the data somehow that way? Or maybe there is some deleted data recovery software to run in Linux. Or on its own boot DVD/CD??
Anyway, I DONT KNOW  I need help and advice on what to do, or what I can do It will probably take me a while to reply, because I had to go to MacDonalds to upload this. This little EeePC wont connect to the cable internet properly.
