Frank Rod Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Hi everyone, To make a long story short, I got windows XP and OSX working well. When I started my computer, DOS was always letting me the choice to choose between XP or OSX. My problem is: I installed Windows 7 and my OSX partition doesn't work anymore. Is there anyway to make it active so I can choose between Windows 7 or OSX. I remembered that in XP to make a partition active, I need to go to DOS and do something with Disk part... list disk... Is it the samething in Windows 7.. and what I need to do because I don't really remember. Thank you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Alchemist Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Go to disk management in Control panel, you'll find a way to make the OS X partition active in there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1151232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Rod Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 I didn't find disk manager? Where it is? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1154466 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 try hiren's boot cd, you have there a lot of tools like paragon, fdisk etc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1154471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 If you have a Linux LiveCD (any) use cfdisk from a terminal (as root, obviously). Cfdisk calls an active partition: "boot". I recommend this distribution for partitioning and similar: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=partedmagic (In fact it is a small live desktop which can do much more than partitioning). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1156833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Rod Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 I don't have linux.. is there any problem with windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1157406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I don't have linux.. is there any problem with windows? It was just a suggestion. I thought you might want to try something new and different, which you can download for free, burn to CD for a few cents and which has many more features than expensive, proprietary utilities (you can always pirate them, of course, but why do that when you can have something better for free, legally?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/165443-windows-7-and-osx-partition/#findComment-1157594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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