Redrum2489(Chris) Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I'm dieing here! So I did this all wrong, I think. 1.Used Disk Utility on the OSX disk to format partition. 2.Installed Successfully 3.b0 error (damn!) 4.Read http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=b0+error 5.Everything went perfect....reboot. b0 error(f***) 6.tried win98 fdisk ...wtf no idea whats going on 7.Want to go home to windows but how? 8.Tried Vista startup repair("nothing needs to be repaired") WTF! So how do I boot back into windows instead of getting this b0 error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadedknight Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Use a Gparted Live CD (Google), boot into the Live CD, find your winodws partition, right-click -> Manage Flags. Set the flag to boot. Restart. Take out the CD. Voila. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrum2489(Chris) Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 If this works your a god! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadedknight Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 It SHOULD as long as you did not touch your Windows partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrum2489(Chris) Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 I didn't touch it as far as I know. I'm burning the iso nowI had to force the video driver and its scaning the devices nowhow the F*** is my OS partition so screwed up? it says i need to run chkdisk. can i run that using the vista cd?How the F*** is my partition so screwed up! it says i need to run chkdisk... is that on the vista cd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=-Devin-= Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 actually, before you get the "loading darwin/osx86" text, i pressed F8 many many times and it said foreign OS, (windows) and it boot. Try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrum2489(Chris) Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Drive C: had alot of problems according to that cd i burned... o {censored}. il let you all know what happens after chkdsk tries to fix itwell chkdsk finished now the cd alows me to do what you said but the flag is allready set to boot. kinda strange the OS is on dev/hda3. the apple stuff is on hda2Well I'm still getting the b0 error. Any ideas? I'm going to try the vista repair againYou know what really sucks... I thought this was going to be such a risk free thing since I wasnt messing with the c drive I didnt back up anything. Wow im just stupid. CHKDSK doesnt say anything is wrong with drive C anymore so why can i not boot? Is there anyway to look at the bootloader and fix somthing there?OK.... WHAT CAN I INSTALL ON MY PARTITION TO GET SOME FILES BACK FROM DRIVE C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadedknight Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Did you not set the flag as boot and reboot your PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dream Academy Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 put in your vista dvd and boot from it when the shell pops up, run repair if needed, else continue to CMD When you get your prompt, type "diskpart" without quotes next type "select <volume> or <partition>" where your windows install is Once selected type "active" and exit out followed by a reboot if it's not automatic. If nothing got too horribly screwed up, it should boot like it always does ... unless you changed your drive IDE settings, sometimes that screws things up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadedknight Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 put in your vista dvd and boot from it when the shell pops up, run repair if needed, else continue to CMD When you get your prompt, type "diskpart" without quotes next type "select <volume> or <partition>" where your windows install is Once selected type "active" and exit out followed by a reboot if it's not automatic. If nothing got too horribly screwed up, it should boot like it always does ... unless you changed your drive IDE settings, sometimes that screws things up too. For reference this is the same method as the Live CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AivarAnnamaa Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Maybe you need to repair MBR. I also had problems with Vista as i wanted to make a dual-boot: * after installing Leopard it didn't boot up (HFS+ partition error) * then i got some advice to overwrite MBR with Leopard installer ("fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0") * now Leopard boots but Vista gives boot error * overwrote MBR again, now with Vista installer ("BootRec /FixMbr") and set partition active (like DreamAcademy described) * still didn't help but when next time in Vista installer, it recognized my Vista partition and offered to repair it. OK. * now Vista boots, Leopard not (HFS+ partition error) Finally i installed Leopard to another disk. When i press f12 at startup then Bios lets me choose from what disk i want to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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