justin1986 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Since updating to 10.5.3 I finally found my OS X install to be so stable, that I decided it was finally time for that glorious moment - formatting my windows partition. I hadn't booted into it for over a month now, and I definitely could use the storage space. So I went ahead with Disk Utility and made myself a nice HFS+ partition. Only thing is - The Windows partition was of course the first one on the disk. I got an "Error loading operating system". I then booted using my Leo4all install disk, and all worked. I then looked around the forum, and tried to update the MBR using "fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0". Since then it only gives me the blinking cursor on boot. (still boots using dvd though) Getting around to my questions: - Have I f*ed up my MBR by doing the fdisk thing? - Is it even possible to boot if the only OS there is is on the second partition? If yes: how? If no: what is the best way to "copy" my second partition to the first one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin1986 Posted June 22, 2008 Author Share Posted June 22, 2008 If anyone ever runs into the same thing: solved it using this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75974 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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