6t6Mustang Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Hello All, new user here and new to Macs generally. Using an S10-2. Blew out everything on the drive and installed XPSP3 into a 25GB partition. Got it going the way I liked. Downloaded ideneb v1.4 (10.5.6) by creating a 2nd (this time OSX journaled) partition and installing into it. When I did this, it installed the older version of Chameleon. I can select either Mac or the windows partition, labeled "hd(0,1) Windows NTFS" and "hd(0,2) Mac". If I select Mac, no problems, it boots OSX (and it's pretty slick too, but that's not the point here.) But if I select Windows it just gives me a blinking cursor under waht looks like a colon ":" or a pipe "|" but with a break in the middle and hangs. I re-installed Windows into the original partition, and I ran fixmbr and fixboot (though with no options, so using defaults) and it still loads to chameleon and can't boot when Windows is selected. Mac continues to function fine. I was thinking I've somehow removed the "activeness" of the Windows partition but that's just a SWAG on my part. Any idea where I went worng and how to fix it? I'd like to keep both installs if at all possible--a lot of work has gone onto the Mac side. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/173327-dual-boot-osx-and-xp-cant-boot-into-windows-anymore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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