When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Leave it to Linux to correctly diagnose the true nature of the problem. On
a lark, I tried to run MOL, and it said the partition in question was
"unwrapped HFS+" which after a few minutes struck me like a lightning
bolt. It seems that while the Reset button in Drive Genius nuked the
driver partitions, restoring them did not affect the fact that the
Repartition button nuked the HFS wrapper around the HFS+ filesystem.
Utilities can fix a damaged wrapper, but I don't seem to have one that
will insert one onto a "pure" HFS+ filesystem. Can you recommend one? I
tried Google with not much luck, but I did find this:
http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=3518_0_1_0
Note that it says:
> Repartition is designed to work with OS X partitions. Using it on OS 9
> volume may remove the ability to start up OS 9 from that partition. It
> does not affect the data on OS 9 volumes.

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:48:35 -0400, Mark Guertin wrote:

> Ok, whatever.  I suggest doing some reading in the tech info library,
> which may or may not solve your problem :)
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 21-Jul-05, at 5:11 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>> I say again: The Update Drivers menu item is grayed out unless it detects
>> that Apple-installed driver partitions are already there. If are there,
>> but there is no patch partition, the menu item is enabled, but no patch
>> partition is created. There is no "magic" and no rearranging. Available
>> space is never used.
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:37:48 -0400, Mark Guertin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think it's in the menus somewhere in the disk setup application,
>>> called something like "update disk driver" (which doesn't do anything
>>> to the visible partitions at all, should just update the driver and
>>> patch partitions as needed).  In this case if it needs to add a patch
>>> partition I think it uses it's own "magic" to rearrange things
>>> slightly and add the partition from available space.
>>>
>>> Mark