sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Ok, so I installed Vista RTM today! and I was all excited, it worked fine and was crazy fast. i messed around with it for a while, downloaded sound and graphic drivers and then rebooted. It Broke! I ahve 3 hdds, two true SATA and one witha converter. the two true ones have XP on one, and about half data and half vista on the other. the IDE one is only OSx86. so i tried to fixmbr and fixboot on an XP cd, no luck. then i try the Vista fixer. it tells me i have problems, but fixes them to no avail. then i try my OSX hdd, and it boots fine. Darwin never shows up, but whatever, it boots. so how they hell can i fix it, at least i can burn things to dvd's if need be and then restart, but i woudl perfer not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 try setting the hard drive active with a boot cd like hirens or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 tried that, still wont do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 So you booted?? And everything fine just no Darwin, did you try booting back to Vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 ya, when i select that partition, it gives me the NTDLR missing, or whatever that code is, and then tells me to restart. when i boot to my xp drive. it just has a blinking cursor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Thats a bummer You can repair it, but it will be some work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 oh, humm. its apparently working now. i tried maybe making the other data partition active, and wala! thats kinda random. and darwin came back? where is the boot plist again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Very Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 god my computer is a mess. things just do what they want. oh, and i have to use the XP drive as the first drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Can you get to all your installs? Gotta go, RTM can boot mac with it being inactive then Vista will load all, just keep chain0 in XP. So maybe just reinstall Vista. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted November 16, 2006 Author Share Posted November 16, 2006 ok. im thinking i might just remove vista alltogether now. ill mess with it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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