shortduderay Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Help! After i attempted to install OSx86, it wouldn't work. So I decided to delete the Mac formatted partition. Then, I see the Windows boot-up screen, but it takes like 20 minutes to boot-up, and when I try to fix this problem with Linux, the liveCD's won't boot up. I think it might be a problem with my MBR, but i don't know. Help! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zegarek Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 in my case i just boot to windows (was using native macosx bootloader, winxp shows without any ingerentrion during installation) run storage manager or something in administrative tools, then set active partition to partition with winxp. try usuing any other partition manager to set active partition to one with winxp. to fix mbr, boot from windows xp installation disk and choose not installation but recovery console (i don't exacly remeber title). if you've got the command prompt type: fixmbr answer yes if it asks that boot sector is strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortduderay Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 well, i can boot in windows, but somehow it takes a really long time , the start menu takes even longer to appear, and i tried to boot from an XP installation disk, however, it freezes midway. I'm confused... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortduderay Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 please... i need help... this is really really bad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortduderay Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 weird, it seemed to fix itself after one night... maybe it needed some sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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