anantha11 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 i tried changing the active partition from my main windows in the c drive to the mac osx drive but the fdisk in free dos dosent read it so i am stuck . please help, any help will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 easiest way i found was download and burn the livecd of gparted. boot from that and it'll let you change the active partition. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 You can use your OSX install DVD: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene204 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 i tried changing the active partition from my main windows in the c drive to the mac osx drive but the fdisk in free dos dosent read it so i am stuck . please help, any help will be greatly appreciated. I found this solution, works great for me... start into windows, open DOS-Box Start with (type at the prompt) diskpart (Enter) " Text in Quotes "xxx..." is only an explaination, not type this! select - select the item e.g. disk or partition active - set the selected partition as active. End of explaination." select disk 0 (Enter) "in order you have ONLY ONE HDD" select partition 0 or 1 (Enter) "where you have OSx86 installed" active (Enter) " set the choosen partition to active" Thats it. Very easy. Hope that can help you... Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anantha11 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 i'll try your way rene. i found this thing on the sites wiki simple dualboot when i type in p to list the drives in disk0 there is no mac partition but in the diskutil list it is there its weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anantha11 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 sorry rene can you pls rephrase where is the prompt for dos box cos when i typr in diskpart it wsays illegal command please give me a better guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Try clicking Start -> Run then type: diskpart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anantha11 Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 yea i tried that but still no luck the only thing that actually reads the drive[apart from the osx install disc] is gparted but i get an error on the partition it says that: 'Incorrect magic value journal header' and one more thing i am installing it on a partition in an extended partition, could this be the problem if so how do i just make it 3 logical partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anantha11 Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 anyone pls help :pirate2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac10 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 What are you using as your Boot Loader? Could try using WinGrub and then setting the OS X entry as active. Gparted should work, i've used it many times to set OSX partition as active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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