Only installer will boot now?

[Bob002]

WTF? I installed it, ran it 2x last night. Now i can't get it to come up at all. I *tried* to install Acronis Disk Director Suite to use the OS selector, but it didn't want to boot into OSx86, only Windows. So, I removed that. Now, nothing wants to work. I can't get into anything other than the install disk... So, what gives?

[Gigere]

Try to use this commands "fixmbr" and "fixboot" in windows repair conslore if you have xp or w2k3 install disc

Or if you have win98 install disk try use "fdisk" and make active partition with windows.

or try use this

http://www.9down.com/story.php?sid=6150

and again - make active partition with windows

you will need this www.9down.com - as a password

[Bob002]

tried both of those, no dice. I honestly think acronis effed up my system. Now I can't even get into windows...

[scharli]

I have the same problem (osx won't boot from harddrive, Acronis bootloader doesn't work for osx); but in the darwin-boot-prompt (F8 before installDVD boots) I can type "mach_kernel rd=disk0s4", (my osx is on the 4th partition of the harddrive) then osx boots from harddrive. Anybody a better suggestion?

[Bob002]

I tried this multiple times. I think acronis f***ed my mbr... either way, i couldn't get OSx86 to come up at all with this. it's on the master drive, on the 2nd partition. I tried red=disk0s2, and it wouldn't work at all...

[Gigere]

I tried this multiple times. I think acronis f***ed my mbr... either way, i couldn't get OSx86 to come up at all with this. it's on the master drive, on the 2nd partition. I tried red=disk0s2, and it wouldn't work at all...

Get a Win98 bootdisk from here. www.bootdisk.com Use

it to get to a command prompt and type: fdisk /mbr with space betwen k and /

then run

FDISK

and check on the partitions

it sees, set the one with XP as the Active

Partition.

 

You can also use an XP install CD. Boot the XP CD and, instead of Setup, take the immediate

R for Repair. Assume any password requested is blank, and

TAB over.

Give

FixMBR

then use

Diskpart

and its

commands

list partition

to see which one, say n, is the XP one

Select

partition n

active

exit

[Bob002]

none of these commands seem to work (with the exception of the diskpart one). it's with xp, so i was using those.

[Bob002]

here is what I tried (again)

 

booted with xp cd.

 

got into recovery console with R.

 

diskpart works to list the partitions. I already knew which partition was my windows drive.

 

i tried reinstalling over my current windows installation. it will not let me copy files to any drive. I used the "Erase" file on the OSx86 DVD to erase it. I also tried using format in the recovery console to do this. Neither seemed to help. It says something to the effect of it's not a windows drive.

 

If I hit f12 to select the boot device menu, nothing works, except booting from CD. booting from any of my drives does not seem to work at all. I tried booting from "Hard-Disk Drive C:" (which is my primary drive) and it is just sitting here blinking at me.

[Gigere]

O {censored}...

I think you are in little trouble right now

I don't know how to fix this

I mean i will try do something but im not sure about the results - but the point is - If i were you I'd put this drive into another computer with working windows as a second drive.

start windows - use MacDrive from www.mediafour.com/products/ to save my imoportand data or maybe windows can see your fat/ntfs partition

Then i will try to use Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management to make some changes

If windows can see this drive under disk managment i think it could be work.

Or maybe partition magic can do this.

or another solution soft like partition table doctor