Installed linux, damaged the disc.

[jantunes]

It looks like I can't keep myself away from trouble.
I tried installing linux in the same disc as Mac OS. The installation went fine, and I rebooted to find that the linux partition wasn't listed on chameleon. I read that I had to install grub, so I marked the linux partition active using Gparted. After reboting, I could only get to a screen that showed

Loading Operating System ...
_

with a command prompt waiting for something. So, I booted gparted again, made the Mac os partition the active one and I get the same screen. Tried the iBoot cd and the partition isn't listed.
So, I booted win7 that's in another disc and it tells me that the mac drive needs to be formated to be used. I used to be able to explore it using MacDrive.

If it is impossible to solve the problem, at least someone please tell me how could I access the files on disc. That's what's important here.

 

[tonymacx86]

It looks like I can't keep myself away from trouble.
I tried installing linux in the same disc as Mac OS. The installation went fine, and I rebooted to find that the linux partition wasn't listed on chameleon. I read that I had to install grub, so I marked the linux partition active using Gparted. After reboting, I could only get to a screen that showed

Loading Operating System ...
_

with a command prompt waiting for something. So, I booted gparted again, made the Mac os partition the active one and I get the same screen. Tried the iBoot cd and the partition isn't listed.
So, I booted win7 that's in another disc and it tells me that the mac drive needs to be formated to be used. I used to be able to explore it using MacDrive.

If it is impossible to solve the problem, at least someone please tell me how could I access the files on disc. That's what's important here.

Use gparted and mark the OS X disc active.

 

[jantunes]

I'm pretty sure that's done already, but I'll check it again.

 

[jantunes]

As I stated, it's already done. Also, even if it wasn't marked as active, it should be readable from windows, which it isn't.

 

[RayMacx64]

Linux does not like Guid partioning. I would not install both on the same drive. I have 2 drives, One with windows 7 and Snow leopard and the other with Ubuntu and and 2 different Files and documents partitions.
Which files do you need? If just the Mac files, I would use gparted and reformat the linux partition to hfs+ and install Snow leopard on it again. You should be able to see your other partition then, and recover any files that you need.

 

[jantunes]

That's probably what I'm going to do Ray. Thanks for the suggestion.