Rambod Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 I installed Maxxuss 1.4.4 on a Dell 600m with out duel os setup. Everything worked except for the network card. I was trying different things I saw on the Fourm to fix the network card. I descided to do a reinstallation after I had deleted and changed some files. I screwed up and now the drive wont boot. The drive is 40GB but only 37.3 GB are now visible and installtion on this segment does not work. On system restart the screen is blank with a blinking curser on the upper left corner. I reisntall xp and the system and the drive booted up fine but when I did the Maxxuss installtion again the same thing happens. I would appreciate any help in this matter. I now have the drive attached via external USB to my MAC and tried disk utility to fix the problem but do know how to get the hidden 2.3 gb back. I beleive that this hidden segement has the boot partition in it. Thanks for any information Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10540-help-with-boot-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 Does the drive just have one partition on it? Is it already formatted as HFS+ or NTFS? I think, maybe you are seeing a formatted partition... 37.3GB is the usable formatted size of a 40GB drive. So disk utility is showing the drive size as 37.3! If you want to totally start over, I suggest booting the XP install cd, and go into recovery console. Use fdisk to delete all the partitions, so your disk is essentially completely 'empty'. Then boot from the OS X DVD which Apple sent in the mail , and use Disk Utility to create a single partition, and set it up as HFS+, and then continue with the install. Good Luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10540-help-with-boot-problem/#findComment-66078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambod Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 I formated the drive while it was attached to my other system as an Extended Drive (not journaled) and put it back in the Dell 600m and reinstalled the maxuss 10.4.4. Now if I keep the DVD in, the systems boots off the dvd and then finds the hard drive and everything works. But If I take the DVD out and restart I get an error that no bootable drive is found. I have obviously not installed or screwd up the boot sector on the Hard drive. Is there any way to get this back. I have seen some solutions on the forum but have not had a chance to try it. If you have any advise it is greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10540-help-with-boot-problem/#findComment-66741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I'm confused - you said extended drive?? OS X has problems recognizing extended partitions. Also, if this drive is only going to have OS X on it, with just one partition, why are you setting up extended partitions anyway? You want a single primary partition, set as active. ---I don't think reformatting will do what you want. If you simply delete all the partitions, so the drive has no partitions defined on it, when you boot to the install DVD, you should be able to create a partition and format it for OS X from within Disk Utility... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10540-help-with-boot-problem/#findComment-66784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambod Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Finally figured out the problem. For some reason the partition became inactive after the installation of OSX. I used Hiren's Boot CD 7.8 to make the partition active and everything is back. The system boots perfectly. Now I need to get the network card functioning. I would appriciate your help. Thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10540-help-with-boot-problem/#findComment-66970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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