ultraago Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117952-xpos-x-missing-operative-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Richard_2 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117952-xpos-x-missing-operative-system/#findComment-935911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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