mitch41 Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Uhoh... So after what I thought was a great install of Mac OS X 10.4.7 (JaS edition)... I went to boot into Windows XP... and every time I try, it gives me a black screen with a white blinking cursor! I am using Acronis OS Selector... could that be the problem? I don't know what else to do! Please help me, I feel so bad, this is like the first time I have ever messed up! Mitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Try this: In Acronis. right-click on the Windows icon and select Properties Select Partition. Click on your Windows partition and check the Active box. Apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredperes Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I´ve got the same problem; I needed to put the OSX boot disc and change the active partition to have Windows again. I don´t understand one thing: I can have only 1 partition actived! is that right? If it is, how can a make dual boot? I´ve installed OSX in a P4 wich has just one hard drive: C: = windows D: = important files E: = DVD Writer F: = Daemon Tools G: = OSX I´ve tried chain0, but when I choose Mac OSX, I came back to the same screen. Sorry for my bad english and stupid questions! I´m just another newbee from Brazil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch41 Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 hmmm... well it looks as though XP is hooked up to the right partition and everything in Acronis Boot Selector... and the box is faded out and I couldn't even click on the checkbox anyways, anyone else have wonderful insight? I am so sad without my other PC:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zYphrist Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I recently installed 10.4.6 on my home computer, AMD Athlon64 3500+, and it worked fine as a dual-boot. I followed instructions to the T, and it worked great. However, this weekend, I tried the same on a much-more hardware-compatible Compaq Presario SR1430NX from work. I ended up reinstalling both WindowsXP and Mac OS x86 about 5 times each, in both orders, to no avail. I kept having the same issues you describe above; my Mac install would work fine, but my XP install would be corrupted. Using a combination of Partition Magic 8.0, my pre-existing Hackintosh, and scouring these forums, I came up with the following conclusion: When either Mac or XP would re-write the Master Boot Record to set either one as the Active Partition, it would corrupt the partition table. Partition records would overlap, and Partition Magic (on my other comp) would simply refer to the drive's partition as "BAD". However, Windows' Drive Management would see and comprehend the two partitions, and the Windows partition WAS accessible through Explorer, and files could be copied/backed-up. No combination of Recovery Console's "FIXBOOT", "FIXMBR", or FDISK's "/MBR" command, or Partition Magic's magic could repair it. The system in question booted from an SATA 160 GB drive. When I tried to install another drive today, to maybe install an operating system on each drive, I realized that the Mobo only had one IDE channel, reserved for the DVD/CD drives. I don't have an extra SATA drive sitting around. So I gave up, and just installed Mac on the whole drive, no dual-boot. I'm currently using it to type this up (XBench total score = over 89) It seems as though this/some systems just can't do the dual-boot. Maybe its the hard-drive, I don't know. But if someone wants me to post the system and install specs, I'll be happy to entertain them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dixonba Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 My experience... I had a small 20g drive in my notebook that I wanted to upgrade to the 30g I had laying around. I installed 10.4.7 on the 30g and left a partition for the windows installation. I took my 20g and hooked it up to my desktop and booted its windows installation and used the windows utility to backup the 20g drive to a file. I then hooked my 30g with mac osx and formatted the partition for windows and restored my 20g image to the partition on the 30g. I had to update the boot.ini to show 2 partitions and everything works. I just use the darwin bootloader and press f8 to choose between windows and mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zYphrist Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yeah, that's the interesting thing for me too... Darwin never detected the Windows installation, and so I never had the boot menu as an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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