Jump to content
1 post in this topic

Recommended Posts

I have HP Pavilion notebook. GPT. Mac 10.5.6.

 

 

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
#	  Start LBA	  End LBA  Type
1			 40	   409639  Unknown
2		 409640	437371215  Mac OS X HFS+
3	  437371216	488392064  EFI System (FAT)

Current MBR partition table:
# A	Start LBA	  End LBA  Type
1			  1	488397167  ee  EFI Protective

MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type Unknown

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 437371216:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type EFI System (FAT)

 

 

Why would i made GTP on Hack? I thought PCEFI won't run on MBR... My bad... I know. But it's more then half a year now, system is very stable. I don't want to remove it, noway. But i need XP here (for games only).

 

As u can see i have 3 partition. GTP is messed up by gparted, which means that first and third partitions are not recognized, not mountable and not editable by diskutility. So i can't remove 'em, erase.

 

What i need:

A) Install on third one winXP and make it bootable (gparted freely do this job)

B) Convert GTP to MBR back.

C) Repair this damn GPT, remove this messed up partitions and resize second one on full drive.

 

Is any of this possible? WinXP installator does not see GPT - only full, nonformated drive. rEFIt is not working (i install it but nothing changes - chameleon starts, not refit). I'm not afraid of messing boot - i have boot 132 disk.

Link to comment
https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/158982-mac-and-xp-on-hackintosh/
Share on other sites

×
×
  • Create New...