playsccr Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 i have a dell xps 420, 1 hard drive xp installed, 1 SEPARATE HD with OSX completely installed, however, i have not been able to boot into OSX...the computer just turns on and boots into XP and Acronis OS boot selector will not recognize the OSX it give me a "detected unsupported hard disk drives" it goes on: will not be able to access these hard disk drives and this is the drive with OSX ...anyone know how i can access my separate osx OS?? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86638-how-to-boot-to-osx-from-xp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosol Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Hi, Try to use EasyBCD on neosmart website. This tool helped me a lot in booting mac and vista on one hdd. pozdr, K Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86638-how-to-boot-to-osx-from-xp/#findComment-615221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsccr Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 cant get it to work with XP???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86638-how-to-boot-to-osx-from-xp/#findComment-615626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterscape Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 copy the chain0 file to the C:\ drive... edit C:\boot.ini and add a line called C:\CHAIN0="Mac OS X" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86638-how-to-boot-to-osx-from-xp/#findComment-615641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsccr Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 thanks for the reply what does that do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86638-how-to-boot-to-osx-from-xp/#findComment-615682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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