SamBishop1 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Okay so, Using iAtkos_L1 I partitioned my hard drive into one OS X journaled and one MS-DOS (FAT) or whatever it was for windows. Successfully installed OS X on my machine rebooted into it a few times without a boot cd and all seems to be working fine... Installed Windows 7 on the second partition which went smoothly but now whenever I boot up straight from the hard drive it goes straight into windows and doesn't even give me the option to start in OS X.. I'm guessing I've done something wrong I'm just not sure what.. My laptop is a Dell XPS 15 (l502x). Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Boot into the windows dvd Press Shift + F10 to bring up command prompt run the following: diskpart list Identify your windows partition select disk N where N is the disk windows is on select partition N where N is your windows partition active quit Close CMD Click repair your computer (NOT INSTALL) Once the repair has finished DO NOT REBOOT Press Shift + F10 again to bring up CMD run the following: diskpart list Identify your OS X partition select disk N where N is the disk OS X is on select partition N where N is your OS X partition active quit reboot Use Chameleon to boot which ever OS you want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamBishop1 Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Ah so my problem is that it's not active? I'll give it a go when I get back to my house with the windows dvd... Thank you very much for the response James hopefully it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 You may have to do this from time to time to fix windows as it likes complaining that it's not the active partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamBishop1 Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Okay I did what you told me to and now when I reboot all I get is a ^2 and 8 happy faces and then nothing happens from there, can't type or do anything.. Edit: Using rBoot LE I can boot into OS X and Windows but without it I just get the smiley face :/ I'm using chimera btw (as per the guide) Edit2: Ignore the above I booted into OS X using rBoot and reinstalled chimera and repaired permissions and now I can start up into both Thanks James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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