xtremesniper Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Im having some troubles with my installation. Odd thing is I used to have a fully functional duel-boot before the patched DVD installer came out (using dd). I had updated Quicktime but that completely corrupted my old OS X install, so I decided to run the patched DVD installer and see what I can do. I successfully installed it by erasing the partition and installing over it. Bootup worked fine. But alas, once I removed the DVD from the drive and rebooted, I get the error "HFS+ Partition Error". Any idea as to what could have gone wrong? I cannot boot into XP at all, none of the boot loaders load, and the only way to get back into OSX is to insert the DVD again and let it run, which somehow allows the computer to boot into OSX. I have a feeling the partition table is looking for the DVD when booting, and so if its not in there it fails... But regardless, I want to get back to my Windows XP side.. How can I do this? Any help would be appreciated. Im rather afraid of reinstalling OSX because I dont see how it would help if it didnt create the partition table correctly the first time. Oh and putting in a Windows XP bootable disk allows me to boot to the disk, but it loads very very very very very slowly. It takes about 5-10 minutes to get to the first screen (after loading all the components) and all operations take forever. This made me worry that something is wrong with either my CD drive or my HDD. What makes it worse is that I cannot even try working with Boot.ini in Windows because OSX cannot write to NTFS drives. My old bootloader info is still there, therefore chain0 is STILL there and should technically run... Please help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5696-hfs-partition-error-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts