eliot Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I appreciate anyone reading this and trying to help me out on this problem. I have a new MacBook Pro, and need to put Vista on it for school. On BootCamp, I set up a 40 gb partition for Vista, and installed Vista on it. When I boot into Vista, I get the black screen of death for about 3 minutes, and then Vista boots successfully. I couldn't write the entire message, but the essense of it is the following: Boot GRLDR Resseting the Boot drive, success WARNING: unrecognizable partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft compatible FDISK tool. (error 4) (repeats throughout process) Will boot NTLDR from drive 0,80 partition 0 2 ---- I don't know what went wrong. I figured a re-installation might fix it but that isnt plausible because I no longer have access to a Vista disk. Anyone no what went wrong or how to fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121563-please-help-about-vista-on-a-macbook-pro/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I don't suppose that by chance you're using the VistaLoader hack to bypass activation, are you? I think you are. That hack doesn't seem to like the way Mac hard drives are partitioned, which is why it gives that error and takes a bit of time to boot. The exact same thing happens on my MBP with Vista and VL. I don't think there's really any way to "fix" this. It doesn't interfere with Vista's operation in any way, though. Deal with it, or get a legit product key for Vista. It's the price of piracy, hehe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121563-please-help-about-vista-on-a-macbook-pro/#findComment-859976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopBlues Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 yeah, it stalls on bootup because of the grub bootloader hack that bypasses activation. I think the problem is grub is looking for the first partition for Vista, and on the macbook, Vista is on the third partition, boot camp on the second. So a legit version fo Vista will take care of it. If you are a student, you should be able to get a student discount for Vista. Otherwise, just wait for it to boot. I have a legit vista on my macbook pro and it works just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121563-please-help-about-vista-on-a-macbook-pro/#findComment-860083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 yeah, i do i have pirated version. don't tell anyone :-0 is there a possibility a different "bootleg" might work better? if anyone has any information on a torrent for a better vista download, or has gotten a pirated version of vista to run successfully on a mac, please let me know. here's a little thought.... maybe if i got a vista that is not activated, and i activate it after, it might not do the same thing. idk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121563-please-help-about-vista-on-a-macbook-pro/#findComment-860416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumblpak Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Vista loader does in fact work but look for the 2.1.3 or 2.2.0 version. Though I do have a legal version of vista, I've had problems activating with my legal copy so I use vista loader to force it to work :s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121563-please-help-about-vista-on-a-macbook-pro/#findComment-861491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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