My Mac has Mac os x lion 10.7.2 on with windows 8 developer preview next to it. I accidentally somehow convert all the partitions to logical partitions which made windows and lion unbootable. I have reinstalled windows, so that's bootable now,
And windows classes the lion partitions as unformatted disks and keep asking me to format them.
I have a retail copy of snow leopard install disk, a live cd of Ubuntu 11.10, and a 2TB FireWire hdd.
I cannot get to the recovery partition either as same thing has happened with that.
Tried installing snow leopard to FireWire hdd, but I get an error.
Ubuntu live cd will recognize the lion partition but I cannot access the most important data on the partition such as work, my video editing I done etc.
Some of the folders Ubuntu classes as unknown FILES, instead of FOLDERS, and 90% of others are coming up with I don't have the permissions to view.
The file system that lion is on is hfs+ journaled, so I am stuck what to do there.
With snow leopard install DVD, I cannot edit the partitions or anything whatsoever apart from wiping the whole drive and starting from scratch, which ain't gonna happen until my important data is safe and snug on my FireWire hdd and netbook.
I have an iPod touch 4 64gb with almost 15gb of space left so that is gonna be a big problem getting back into sync with iTunes after reinstall.
My iPod has around 15gb of very important photos, 4gb music, 5gb of movies/personal important videos, a lot of PDFs in iBooks, around 20gb of apps that use daily, and a lot of the apps have data.
The Music is all from CDs, but that I have copied to my netbook, but videos and all apps and data etc needs to be somehow not lost.
I have Sims 3 on Mac with lots of saved data, which I would love not to lose as spent so hard getting stuff perfect, including an almost exact replica of my home.
I have lost lots of personal irreplaceable data before which has really left huge holes in memories and am determined to lose much more.
Which would be less complicated? Somehow transferring my data via Linux or windows?
And if impossible, how can I remove the journaling from within Ubuntu or windows?
And please, please, please, PLEASE say I am not doomed, as I am so close to backing up my data, but I have permissions and journaling barring my way.
Thanks for any help,
Jase