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Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive.
I was using my external firewire drive formatted according to these instructions with 10.2, and I just upgraded to 10.4 (Tiger). To my surprise, the HFS+ partition seems to have vanished! When I type "hdid /dev/disk1s1" the response is "hdid: attach failed - not recognized".
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive.
If you have access to a Mac with 10.2 or 10.3, you can use it to recover the data you need from the drive, then use the instructions I posted (the really long post) to recreate the partitions with diskutil and fdisk. The new method works with 10.3 and 10.4. If you need to recreate the partitions on 10.2, you should use the instructions provided by decelerate to upgrade the version of fdisk in 10.2.
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive.
I had the same problem. You can still read the partition by mounting it with
I suggest that you backup the data and reformat the drive using the instructions posted above.
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