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Title: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: pan1k on July 28, 2008, 02:22:19 AM

Hey guys, just installed Fusion 3.2, and now my SFS partitions won't mount, what is the first thing that I should check? All of my FFS partitions seem to load fine!

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: rkauer on July 28, 2008, 02:33:55 AM

 Check if SFS file system is in the L: drawer, then if it is in the driver's RDB.

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: pan1k on July 28, 2008, 05:34:29 AM

SFS is in L:

How do I make sure that it's in the RDB? I'm starting to worry now........ :getmad:

I opened HDToolBox and it's listed in there. This is really strange to me. I had created a partition earlier on, and had restarted a few times. The two partitions I had formatted with SFS are showing up NDOS. Do you think my data is still there? *sigh*

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: Thomas on July 28, 2008, 06:55:52 AM

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just installed Fusion 3.2

Did you create a new dedicated Mac partition for Fusion ? And is the HDD bigger than 4GB ? And is the Mac partition above the 4GB line of the HDD ? And are the SFS parttions below the 4GB line ?

Then sorry boy, you've trashed your HDD. AFAIK Fusion is not able to access hard drives bigger than 4GB. Just like ShapeShifter, PC-Task and many other programs working with dedicated partitions.

Instead it writes into the area below 4GB, trashing the date which was there before.

You might have a chance if the SFS file system is the only data which was trashed. Run HDToolbox, go to Add/Update, select the SFS entry, click on Update and choose your copy of SFS from the L: drawer. Save changes and reboot.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: zipper on July 28, 2008, 08:45:27 AM

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Thomas wrote:

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just installed Fusion 3.2

Did you create a new dedicated Mac partition for Fusion ? And is the HDD bigger than 4GB ? And is the Mac partition above the 4GB line of the HDD ? And are the SFS parttions below the 4GB line ?
Then sorry boy, you've trashed your HDD. AFAIK Fusion is not able to access hard drives bigger than 4GB.
Instead it writes into the area below 4GB, trashing the date which was there before.

Not necessarily, the latest Fusion was principally with over 4 GB support but it was not so tested and to be used with own risk.

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: pan1k on July 28, 2008, 03:55:07 PM

Yes. I used the last version of Fusion. Guess it's time to start over again. BOOOO!! I think this time I will find a small IDE HD and use that for fusion.

Title: Re: SFS Partitions Won't Load
Post by: zipper on July 28, 2008, 04:21:25 PM

That's what I did, gave own HD to PC-Task and Mac to be on the secure side; luckily my huge tower houses easily 4-5 HDs.