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OK guys.

I installed OS X in an ACER TravelMate 2492WLMi.

at the beginning the hd was divided into 3 partitions:

4 GB - System recovery partition

XP - FAT32. XP installed by recovery cds.

An empty FAT32 partition (I guess it has been and still is an extended partition).

 

I decide to install OS X in the last one (obviously) and everything has gone right until i had to set the XP partition boot flag with Gparterd live cd. It doesn't work! When I restart the laptop, it prints a funny string:"Missing operative System." Holy cow!

 

So I decided to set the flag using the command-line tool in Darwin (kalyWay DVD) and typing:

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

flag 1

ecc ecc... sets the Recovery Partition to boot. If i choose the right partition (XP) fdisk says:"Permission denied". It seems the Xp partition is "protected".

 

I just wanna boot from xp right now... and i don't know what else to do!

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  • 2 months later...

Try the gparted live cd, or use checkdsk on the partitions. Copy over the ntldr and re-expand hal.dll files from the xp cd. You cnanot copy hal.dll from another pc, as it coulod be differnet than yours, so just re-expand it at recovery console type:

 

expand "CDdriveletter":\i386\hal.dl_ "windowsXpPartitionLetter":\windows\system32\

 

If it says protected then your bootloader may be corrupted, pointing to an invalid file, or your boot.ini isnt set correctly.

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