MacOSX can't even see partition formatted from Bootcamp Windows

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#62265 2-Jun-2010 19:45

So further to my last thread about which format i should set up my drives in i am now experiencing an odd occurrence.

I set up three partition in OSX. The Mac drive, Windows drive and a storage partition which was formatted as 'free space' (i.e. no filesystem on it)

I then booted into windows and formatted the storage partition in NTFS as a test to see what i could do and it worked so i copied some files onto it and then went back into OSX but it is now not seen as visible to OSX at all.

Is there something i'm missing? I couldn't format the partition in osx to ntfs but should i have formatted it to something first and then formatted it to ntfs in windows later?

Any help?

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#337512 2-Jun-2010 19:51

Umm...what do you mean by "not seen as visible to OSX at all"? Disk Utility does not show that partition?

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#337520 2-Jun-2010 20:12

Yeah, disk utility doesn't even recognise the partition as being there. The space is left as being completely empty and able to be taken over my OSX if i wanted to extend its partition.

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#337544 2-Jun-2010 21:08

Yeah I had the same issue, would be intersted in a fix.

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#337568 2-Jun-2010 21:24

Bootcamp only allows OS X to recognise two partitions, Mac OSX and Windows. Are you sure you used Bootcamp or did you use rEFIt instead?