saltdos Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 A month ago I installed Macintosh successfully on a separate hdd using Andy's CD bootloader. I'm unfamiliar with how the whole boot handling is done, but roughly after a week of using Hackintosh (dual-booting with my Windows hdd), something happened to my Windows 7 BCD file that caused it to be completely empty. This disabled me from booting into Windows completely. At the time, I did not have any form to recover my Windows (no recovery CD) until today. I fixed the BCD with the whole bootrec process and I'm back on Windows. I'm assuming the custom bootloader that was installed is the culprit for this. I would like to boot back into Mac regularly without the risk of losing Windows again. How would I remove the current bootloader and use a more stable one? (I used Andy's custom CD bootloader when installing Mac because other methods failed, so I am unsure if removing this may have any affect on Mac initializing with my hardware.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 How would I remove the current bootloader and use a more stable one? Just install another boot loader. It will replace your current one. If you have OS X on a separate drive, install the boot loader to that drive, don't mess with the Windows drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltdos Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 Just install another boot loader. It will replace your current one. If you have OS X on a separate drive, install the boot loader to that drive, don't mess with the Windows drive. Alright. I never messed with my Windows 7 hdd at all and the BCD file resulted in becoming zero bytes somehow. I recovered it with an old Vista installation disk (with the repair option) I found after relentless searching. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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