JoKoLoKo Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Hi there, I have just purchased a Macbook, and I decided to play around with Bootcamp and install Vista Ultimate RTM on the machine. Everything seems to work just fine, but I do see some strange errors during booting Vista, and even though Vista still boots I would like to know if these errors are indicative of something wrong, or if I can just ignore them? The errors I see in the boot sequence (command prompt) before Vista boots up, is: "Error: Unrecognized partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft-compatible FDISK tool(err=4)" Anyone have any clues on what this might be, and if I need to fix it, and if so how? Thanks all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKoLoKo Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Surely I am not the only one to ever have seen these errors? Noone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-347536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Could just be that Vista is trying to read the HFS+ partition and can't. If it's not causing any problems I wouldn't worry about it. Obviously you don't want to format your whole drive like the error is suggesting. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-347553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKoLoKo Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 OK, that makes sense. Do you think that if I install MacDrive on Vista, to be able to see the OSX drive, this would cure the boot errors as well? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-347955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandetta Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 I faced that errors too... really annoying.. before this when i try beta vista, no prob, but when i use my vista-home premium, that things appear!! Any solution, plz! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-348130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 OK, that makes sense.Do you think that if I install MacDrive on Vista, to be able to see the OSX drive, this would cure the boot errors as well? I don't think Macdrive starts up until after Vista is done booting, so it wouldn't help Vista see the OSX drive soon enough. I'm not exactly sure how Macdrive works though. I tried googling the problem, but I couldn't find it posted anywhere else. You would think Apple would have it covered on their website somewhere. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-348186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandetta Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Last night I found one more thing, even though I set in Mac OS startup disk to boot to Macintosh HD, but when restart it still boot to Vista.. I wonder why.. Looks like everything screws up after I install Vista.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-348531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jas0nnn Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 i fixed this problem using easybcd found here http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-350935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKoLoKo Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 YES!! I downloaded that software, and at first I couldnt for the life of me figure out what to do to rectify the issue, but I found it. Simply re-create the MBR, and it all works like a charm! I dont know too much about this, but maybe there is a way to re-create the MBR without this tool, maybe a built in function in Vista? Either way, thanks a lot for this advice, I am now a (little happier) Macbook with Vista owner Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-354063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCI Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I fixed the problem using the repair option that was available on the the Vista installation disk. Here is the tutorial I used: How to Fix Unrecognized Partition Table for Drive 80 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-911493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludacrisvp Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 To me that looks like the errors that are seen when booting from the hacked vista boot loader that is used to bypass activation by emulation of an OEM BIOS. Install a retail copy and those don't happen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-911614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
minniedut Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 i fixed this problem using easybcd found here http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 How can i run it? i can't use this tool.. Thx anyway.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-1104941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muchapo79 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 yeah you fixed the problem, now you have your vista asking for activation again... doh! If you install ver. 3 of vista loader (really anything newer than your 2.1.2 will do) these error msg will be gone (this goes for the msg not for the errors) wich makes vista to take soooo looooooong to boot. This is because vista loader keeps looking for the correct drive/partition to boot from. We bootcamp users have to wait till 3rd option, or else modify the GRUB (linux loader wich does the trick) preferences so it will seek for partition no. 3 at first. The main problem is I know nothing about linux, grub... Any help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48228-bootcamp-vista-errors-on-boot/#findComment-1121026 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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