m_s Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 hi! I tried to install snow leopard and lion on my machine, but it doesn't work properly. At the moment I have 3 main different OS on my laptop: Win XP, Win XP and Lion. I need to remove Lion OS and return back to my old configuration: that is a basically made by 2 XP OS managed by the windows boot manager. At the moment when i start the machine chameleon give me the possibility to choose between Lion and XP os. When i select XP, chameleon grant me the access to the windows boot manager. I need to start the machine and directly access to the windows boor manager and completely remove chameleon. really thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 none? i deleted osx partition and i can't boot my windows xp anymore.. any ideas? help please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Try this http://www.microsoft...r.mspx?mfr=true 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 ok.. I'm here: If an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature is detected, you will be prompted whether you want to continue. If you are not having problems accessing your drives, you should not continue. Writing a new master boot record to your system partition could damage your partition tables and cause your partitions to become inaccessible. an invalid partition table was detected, i decided to create a new mbr and now my partitions are accessible no more. what can i do for creating a new mbr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Well what can I say, always read ahead before following instructions.. Use this to get your partitions back http://www.cgsecurit...g/wiki/TestDisk If you can move the drive to another PC that runs Windows, you could also try this: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+with+EasyBCD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 hi! i can't understand how to use testdisk with a non booting machine.. help please.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Three ways that I can think of, best way first: Run the DOS version from a bootable flash drive (use HP Storage format tool + the appropriate DOS/Win9x system files to make it bootable, easily found with google) If you already have a random Linux live CD or DVD you can use apt-get or yum or whatever to get testdisk and run it from there. Follow iInstructions on the site. Use one of the free rescue CDs listed on the site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 ok, i used gparted and now i can run one of my partition.. but the most important seems not to boot anymore.. how can i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Run testdisk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 mmm.. how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 See post #7 You don't have access to a Windows PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 You don't have access to a Windows PC? nope.. i can access to DOS from XP's rescue consolle.. now i try.. thanks man.. thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_s Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 solved. basically in installed again xp on the existing one. now i got back my xp without any data loss.. perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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