your_mother_should_know Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I just recently install osx 10.4.5 on a 10 gig partition on my harddrive. The installation went fine but when i go to boot xp, (I could boot into osx fine.) I get the HFS+partition error, I read in some places were i fix it by installing something called wingrub???? But i cant boot into xp...when i power on the computer, it just says HFS+partition error and i cant do anything??...Can somebody help me? Sorry for being such a noob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noomny Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 HFS+ it's a mac file system. what is your computer specs? how it's possible to install XP + OSX? it's a bit strange as i know you can't install both os's(may be i'm mistaken). Is it possible to boot OSx? do you have any xp installation cds? i think you will need to format your drive:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schale01 Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 What dual booting method are you using? Darwin, chain0, 3rd party boot manager? If you are booting to your XP partition when you get the HFS+ Partition error than it sounds like you formatted your XP partition to HFS+. Which would mean a reinstall of XP. If you can still see your XP partition (files and all) in OSX try using your XP install CD and booting to the recovery console. type "fixboot X:" than type the command "fixmbr X:" (REPLACE X WITH THE DRIVE YOU HAVE XP INSTALLED ON)That might recover it. Out of curiousity how did you set up your partitions(order, size,etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emrwe Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 try acronis to hide xp partitions. that helped me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 The problem is with the MBR - The Master Boot Record. What happens most of the time (particularly when there is a conflict cause by windows resetting the MBR for it's own bootloader) is that a bootloader will do things it's way. This rebuilds the MBR to the bootloader's liking. If it isn't compatible with other bootloaders or operating systems (like OSX and the Darwin bootloader) then the HFS+ Partition error will happen. To fix this, we need to rebuild the MBR so that it works with the HFS+ Partition that the Darwin Bootloader and OSX is installed on. This rebuild can be done using a small boot disk in the form of a cd or floppy, but i'm not sure if this'll work for OSX (although i'm assuming it would). I'll post back after i've done a few tests. [update] Killed my laptop. It's all good though, i meant to! Anyways, the only thing that would fix this problem (that i know of) is Partition Table Doctor's bootable CD. But i think it's illegal to post the image here. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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