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Hi,

 

I used to use acronis disk suite OS selector to get into both leopard or xp everytime. But this time on a new PC, i forgot to install the OS selector, before installing leopard 10.5.2.  So now i am stuck in leopard, which it boots into every time. How can i boot back into my XP partition?

 

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You should be able to boot manually into your Windows XP hard drive via your bios and/or bios boot selection popup menu. I'm not too good with boot loaders, but you should be able to install one even now but if not like I said try to select your Windows hard drive as boot and that should work.

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i am afraid the bios boot setup didnt work, cause this is only ONE HARD DISK (with 2 partitions) :)

 

maybe something is wrong with the darwin boot loader? cause i set 2 pcs with this 2day, and one has the option by darwin to select the XP partition. But this pc, when loading leopard automatically, it asks to press any key if i want to select, n the following list of partition to chose in the next screen doesnt have my XP partition.

(only the third partition i set to use both by mac/windows n this leopard partition is shown, xp partition missing)

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am not at all familiar with chameleon, nevertheless am reading into it. In the mean time if you have anything to add regarding chameleon, say like what i need to do, i'd really appreciate it.

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Hey, just solved it! Using a Vista CD, i loaded vista setup, then clicked the repair button near install option and got to command prompt. Next using diskpart, i got to my XP partition and selected it as Active and restarted. Bingo, now everythings working fine.

 

Thanks for your help guys :(

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