Booting back into windows

[bballguy998]

Ok, so I have a patched OS X version burned to DVD, partitioned my disk drive. I can reboot, boot from DVD, and install OS X, but when I reboot my computer, how do I go back to the windows partition so I can set up a dual boot? I dont have a floppy drive.

 

Is their any chance that installing OS X will mess up my windows partition?

 

My computer:

gateway pentium 4 503GR desktop

1 GB RAM

160 HDD

3.0Ghz processor

Intel graphics card

[xVidia]

Well,

 

The way I did it is I booted back into Windows XP through GRUB (the "Linux Loader") and it automatically set my NTFS partition active, so now I can get into Windows again. The problem with native Mac OSX installation is that it sets the Mac OS Extended partition active and bootable, so it will try to boot Mac, but of course, we aren't using Mac PCs, which in turn, doesn't let you boot it. That's what chain0 and boot.ini mods are for. What you need to do is set the NTFS partition active, I think there's a way of doing this with a Partition Magic disc, with the Windows XP disc (wait for everything to load, and when it asks you to install windows "Enter" or repair it "R") press R and you can fixboot or something. By the way, Ubuntu cds are free and work on virtually any system, just download the iso on another computer, boot off of it, click install, repartition your hdd and install it. (When you repartition you need 2 partitions: Ext3 where the OS is installed, so give it at least 5 or more gb, and a swap partition, which you don't need more than 512mb)