InsaneJester17 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Hello all, I've installed mac os on a second partition of my hard drive. Everything works fine with Leopard, but vista willnot boot. It is selectable in the darwin boot loader, "\Windows\System32\winload" corrupted" message. I've tried to use the vista disc to repair start up, but the vista disc does not find the vista installation. can anyone help? please? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsaneJester17 Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Please? somebody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlos tejada Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I had this too, and in my case the problem was the letter assingment in vista..., i have XP in one partition, vista on the second, and osx in the third.. , when i try to boot vista... it try-s to boot on the XP partition, so i "boot" the xp partition and it loads vista...then i edit the registry to change the letter assingment, and it's done, xp and vista boot correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsaneJester17 Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 I don't believe I have the same issue, as I only have 2 partitions and the Leopard one boots fine. Thanks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smx2 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 ok, if you have vista installation dvd , boot from it go to system repair. If the next window shows your Vista installation. just wait for it a min or two and it will ask you if you want to repair and restart click that and you are good to go. Restart to vista and go to cmd to reactivate your mac partition type: diskpart List disk (this is to find out which disk you want to choose) select disk # (replace "#" with the disk number ur mac is in) l ist Partition (this to find out which partition ur mac is in usually it's followed but +HFS) Select Partition # (again replace # with the partition number ur mac is in ) Active (this is to activate the partition) exit now restart to get the Darwin boot menu and now the Vista option should work flawlessly If however the window that appears after you click repair is blank Click Next Choose cmd and type the following commands diskpart List disk (this is to find out which disk you want to choose) select disk # (replace "#" with the disk number ur Vista is in) list Partition (this to find out which partition Vista is in) Select Partition # (again replace # with the parition number Vista is in ) Acitve (to Activate the partition) exit (to exit diskpart) exit (to exit cmd) Now click on start up repair and it let it do it's job after it finishes you have to choices you can restart and boot into vista or you can close that window and go back to the command prompt to reactivate the Mac partition (you will be able to boot into vista fromt he Darwin boot menu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsaneJester17 Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 That did it, thank you so much! Woo hoo for dual booting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xosx86 Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 @smx2 good detail:) Nice to know that some people still take the time to help out the new guy/girl ! We were all new once http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/16/f...-fuds-for-dayz/ http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/16/f...raded-your-ram/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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