neonfox Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 OK here's the deal: I've had Mac OS X installed natively for a while, the Marklar 10.4.3 thing. I have three partitions: one Windows, one storage, and one for OS X. I used chain0 as a selector, and everything worked fine. However, it would first boot to Darwin which let me choose the volume to boot (windows, mac, or the storage). If i chose windows, it then went to the chain0 (which was located on that volume). I recently decided to install 8f1111, so I went into disk management and deleted the partition that had OS X on it (bad idea). Now, when I rebooted, it didn't detect my windows partition at all, got a DISK BOOT error (as if no OS was installed). I tried a lot of things to get to boot from my old Windows, like fixing the MBR. No luck. I installed windows onto the space where mac os x used to be - then i rebooted, and got my old chain0 menu but my old windows isn't showing up (i'm guessing the drive letter changed, so chain0 screwed up). I can access all my old files on the other partition, which is great since I have a paper due soon and it was on there. I want to know how to get to boot off of my old Windows installation (used to be G:, now called C;, and i can't change drive letter in disk management since it is a 'system' drive). It's not an emergency but something I'd like to resolve. I'm planning on buying a new HD soon anyways. If you have nay ideas what I can do to boot from my old installation let me know!! Thanks! neonfox Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5305-windows-is-unbootable/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
master123467 Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 heres what u do since u made the mac os x partition active and forgot to make the windows partition active before u deleted the mac os x partition download ultimate boot cd and burn it to a cd and go to hard drive tools then randish partition manager and go to the windows partiton and press B ok or what ever it says for flag on/of which means active and not active ok tht fixs it ok Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5305-windows-is-unbootable/#findComment-33633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonfox Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 heres what u dosince u made the mac os x partition active and forgot to make the windows partition active before u deleted the mac os x partition download ultimate boot cd and burn it to a cd and go to hard drive tools then randish partition manager and go to the windows partiton and press B ok or what ever it says for flag on/of which means active and not active ok tht fixs it ok thanks for the tip, i downloaded ultimatebootcd and ran ranish tool on it, made sure that my 70gb windows partition boot flag set to on. however i run into the same problem once more - i've tried various tools within the ultimatebootcd to try and set up boot managers to boot from my old XP partition - no dice. i'm really confused as to what's going on here... i can see the disk perfectly within my new XP installation (it sees old windows as "c:", new installation as "d:" and my games partition as "e:". here are some more details on how my disk is partitioned: Windows is the first one on the disk, primary partition. i have my new installation as an extended partition, and my games follows that one as a primary. so i have two primaries, apparently. however on reboot it goes back to my old boot manager left over from the old OS X installation days. i am so baffled on this and want to get it resolved, because i don't want to have to reinstall some old programs right now. any ideas? many thanks again neonfox i just had an idea of what might be wrong one of the options in my menu is set to Windows XP Pro, partition 1 (which should be my old windows disk). when first dealin with the problem i ran the windows set up cd and tried "repairing" windows in which case it started trying to reinstall windows, which is ludicrous. i didn't complete that install cuz i can't find my media center SP2 key around... i'm banking on the possibility it trashed my old windows for a new one, on the same disk. so pretty much i need to reinstall windows in any case. poo! thanks anyways Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5305-windows-is-unbootable/#findComment-33666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Press F8 after booting and before Darwin loader (go fast !) and choose partition with scroll up and down then it says starting Foreign OS for Xp, push on it and it goes !! That's what happened to me... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5305-windows-is-unbootable/#findComment-33691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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