solon_kitten | Making an entire partition disappear

Follow-up: The connector between the drive and the logic board was loose! That would explain the odd behavior.

So... I just finished setting up a new Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro. Windows 7 Ultimate, fully updated, and I boot into Mac OS X to start setting up in Parallels Desktop. I have it set to display drives on the desktop like older Mac OS X, and only see two: my main OS SSD, and the VM/data partition on the second SSD. No sign of the Boot Camp partition.

I open up Disk Utility, don't see it. I reboot, hold option to get the OS picker, and don't see it. Boot into my Windows 7 DVD, and it doesn't see the partition either. WHELP!

Booting back into Snow Leopard, it still isn't seeing it, and Disk Utility is now showing the second drive as having unused free space where that partition was. Did a block scan with another tool, and the SSD showed fine.

This is my luck with bare metal OSes. It's why I like having everything in VMs. At least with VMs, I can just paste in a backup if things go wrong.

To quote one of my partners every time my luck shows up: "How does this keep happening to you!?" I ask that same question, laugh, and move on to the next thing.