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this is gonna sound crazy but....

Nov 5, 2005 12:11AM PST

i orriginaly had 2 hard drives. the first was partitioned into 1x30gb(C) and 1x10gb(E). then the other drive was a 60gb(F). i downloaded a cracked copy of Mac OSX for intel and installed it onto the F drive. it worked and evrything but i also downloaded PartitionMagic and BootMagic. now partitionmagic has hidden the E drive(i didn't tell it to do this, it did it itself) and everytime i tell it to unhide it says it does then tells me to reboot and i do and the drive stays hidden. i tried everything but it wont unhide the drive, plus after installing mac onto the F drive my computer cant see it in Windows because it is formatted for mac. i want to get rid of mac now because i need the space back, and the only way i seem to be able to format the drive back to NTFS is using partitionmagic, but it says theres something wrong with the drive(it said this before i installed mac too) even though the drive works fine(i've formatted it before using windows), and it wont let me do anything to it.
help what do i do!!!!!!

i'm running HP Pavillion 533a
Intel celeron 2.0ghz
32mb onboard graphics
768mb RAM
dualboot Windows XP sp/2 and Mac OSX86 10.4.1

thanks,
trent

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These forums are not pirate friendly.
Nov 5, 2005 12:19AM PST

Wipe the drive and start over. A zerofill or lowlevel program from the drives maker will let you wipe the drive completely out.

In the future, do not ask for help on pirated goods.

Cheers,

Bob

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(NT) (NT) ok thanks, i'll remember that.
Nov 5, 2005 12:23AM PST