SHOOT! CHAIN BOOTING ERROR!

[skythefly13]

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Ok, I think when I was editing the boot.ini file, I was trying to do this:

 

Next. Right-click on “My Computer” and select the “Advanced” tab. Under “Startup and Recover” click the “Settings” button. To edit the startup options file manually click the “Edit” button. Windows should open the boot.ini file in Notepad. Add the following line at the end of the file:

C:\chain0="Mac OS X"

Save the changes to the file, close Notepad, and click “OK” until returned to the Desktop. To be sure to the boot.ini file is correct, select the Start button, then “Run.” Enter “msconfig” and click “OK”. Now go to the Boot.ini tab and select “Check All Boot Paths.” If its ok, shutdown Windows and restart the PC.

 

 

Ok, so I think I did the whole "add the following line at the end of the file" deal wrong. I just put it under the last line of text.

 

Then, the last part, I clicked on "Check all boot paths" and it said that main file that it usually booted from was corrupter or something.

 

I selected the last line of text in the little browser menu and I am pretty sure I right clicked and chose set as boot file or something like that.

 

Then, when I rebooted, it came up and said "Chain Booting Error"

 

WHAT THE HECK DO I DO!

 

Please help!

 

Skyler

[aquabot]

Calm down... Are you able to boot into windows still?

[skythefly13]

Calm down... Are you able to boot into windows still?

 

No, I can't get back into it. I've been trying all night and nothing has gotten me past it.

 

Alright, Ive gotten to a wierd point in the install. I think I may have accidently deleted the partition XP was on (OOPS) so I'm not getting anywhere outside of the DOS deal on startup. I've been able to install Darwin and everything, and also login. Is it possible to go into the Mac system for intel after logging into Darwin (Without XP?)

 

Please Help

 

Skyler

[aquabot]

Skyler -

 

"... I've been able to install Darwin and everything, and also login. Is it possible to go into the Mac system for intel after logging into Darwin (Without XP?)..."

 

What? did you install OS X then format the Windows partition with a Darwin install CD?

If you want to do that then you MUST set the OS X partition as the active one (select it as the startup disk in system prefs) then reboot to make sure everything works, and THEN format the Windows partition.

 

Anyway, Hopefully your XP partition is still there, and if it is,

 

You now have a couple of options:

 

Use a linux live CD, and boot off it.

Open up the root of your windows partition, locate a file called BOOT.ini and delete the C:\chain0="Mac OS X" entry from it, so that it should only have one entry (if you originally only had XP on the hard disk) Reboot.

If boot.ini is not there then you have deleted your windows partition.

 

Insert your Windows XP disk, boot from it:

It will welcome you to the installer. Press Enter.

It should say that an existing installation has been found. Highlight your XP partition and press R to start your repair. If no XP installation is found then you have either deleted your Windows Partition or something is very wrong.

When XP is repaired you will have all of your programs intact as well as your documents. the repairer will only replace system files. Any windows updates that were applied will need to be applied again.

 

Email me if you run into any problems (dont PM me because I dont use this forum often) at (aquabot 13 8 89 @gmail dot com) (ignore the spaces and dot com bit, it's so I dont get spam....)