Cacicia Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 My HD has 3 NTFS partitions: 1 WinXP 2 Downoloads 3 Backup I've installed MacOS X from the generic DVD installation disk into the second partition (formatted in HFS+ using Utility Disk while booting from the installation DVD). Any chance to restore my WinXP boot? Maybe formatting the Mac OS X parttion? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3646-how-to-boot-back-in-winxp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 My HD has 3 NTFS partitions:1 WinXP 2 Downoloads 3 Backup I've installed MacOS X from the generic DVD installation disk into the second partition (formatted in HFS+ using Utility Disk while booting from the installation DVD). Any chance to restore my WinXP boot? Maybe formatting the Mac OS X parttion? You can use your Win XP CD to recover the boot loader, use repair option. There is also an utility called BootPart that recovers/modifies the boot loader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3646-how-to-boot-back-in-winxp/#findComment-23087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 But wouldn't he loose the ability to boot OS X? I'd just use a Linux bootloader. MEPIS linux has a nice gui just for setting up a bootloader and even drive parttitioning without installing! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3646-how-to-boot-back-in-winxp/#findComment-23230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 But wouldn't he loose the ability to boot OS X?I'd just use a Linux bootloader. MEPIS linux has a nice gui just for setting up a bootloader and even drive parttitioning without installing! Not necessarily, windows boot loader can boot Darwin partitions even on a different Disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3646-how-to-boot-back-in-winxp/#findComment-23312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I thought in oder to do that (use a partition incompatable with dos) that you had to take an image if the first 512bytes of the partition, save it as a file, and point the bootloader to that. At least that's how it goes with linux, as far as I know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3646-how-to-boot-back-in-winxp/#findComment-23315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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