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Ok, i have partitioned my Hard drive and am running
Mac OS X and Windows XP. My problem came after I
installed OS X, I can't boot back into XP. I can find all
my files, programs etc. in that drive from the Mac
side. but when i try to boot from that drive it says i
need to insert the disk. I don't have disk. One guy
said it could be that the MBR was erased when i
installed OS X but all the help sites say you need the
disk. How can you do this without the disk, or is MBR
even the problem. remember that i don't have access
to Windows so I'm running all Mac stuff. thanks for
the help
The Boot Sector and/or MBR was overwritten when you installed
OSX. You need so form of Multi-Boot Software. Depending on
what was done a Repair Install of Windows may fix it. Since I
don't know what OSX did, I don't know the best solution.
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Part of the instructions to installing OS X said i needed use a
software called "gparted" but i thought it was just a partitioner.
Do you think if I installed Gparted it would fix my problem?
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{Part of the instructions} What site ?
{software called "gparted"} I do think you are basically correct, likely need to skip down past installing the OS's instructions.
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Tried what ? "it didn't work" not enough information to go on.
To help we need to know in some detail what you tried and just what does/does not happen.
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Ok, i tried the gparted thing. you put in a disk with the program
loaded on, and restart your computer, it loads up and there is a
screen with all your drives and stuff. i was supposed to switch
my Windows drive to "boot" but when i restarted my computer
again it did the same thing as before except i couldn't get back
into Mac until i went back into 'Gparted" and unchecked "boot".
hopfully that's enough info.
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OK . Forget gparted, read one or both of the sites I posted, skip down to installing boot manager. You can use Apples or the third party one. I have never used OS X but reading the sites it should not be to hard to do.
If you need help with one of the site information, be sure to post site and step giving problem or this will take 2-3 weeks.
On your first post : "when i try to boot from that drive it says i need to insert the disk." That does not give enough information to give useful help , I must guess and could be very wrong.
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