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So, luckily this prevented me from changing any Vista bootloader values in XP which would most probably have messed up everything! It was more of a coinicidence that I found this out when I wanted to boot XP from the BootCamp, but actually got directly into the Vista bootloader.

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I would really appreciate that.įinally the board is up again! Well, unfortunately everything doesn't work as it should since I found out that the Bootloader is actually situated on the Windows XP partition. I hope there are some (EasyBCD/bootloader) experts out there who can help me. Since I cannot start the XP installation natively because of the ntldr error message, I tried this method, but I wouldn't even choose a 'Correct Boot Drive' to prevent messing things up, so I exited it right away. The last screenshot shows what EasyBCD shows me when starting it from Windows XP, run in VMWare Fusion (with its BootCamp option). Hopefully somebody could tell me more about that "HFS+ Partition Error". Maybe I can get rid of them by selecting this option in EasyBCD.

That sounds interesting since I get these nasty error messages during Vista startup (I'll try to make some screenshots of them). The 'Diagnostics Center' though remains quite mysterious to me, as I couldn't find out about the 'Repair OS X "HFS+ Partition Error"'. I would like to know if anybody tested this before I mess up everything.Īs for the 'Advanced Options' I think it is best to back it up BEFORE applying any changes to it:

#Windows xp on macbook pro for mac os#

The image shows that I chose to add an entry for Mac OS X, though I wonder what would happen, if I choose to do so (note that I am using a MacBook Pro with Vista installed on a seperate externaldrive hooked up with eSATA). If we move on to the 'Manage Existing Entries' section you can yet see again both entries (Earlier Windows Version+Microsoft Windows Vista) and at the bottom I could add another entry. The next image shows the 'Configure Boot' settings of EasyBCD, where I can choose a drive under the 'Entry-Based Settings' as well as I can change the name from the bootloader entry, as you can see: Under the first point "Windows Boot Manager" there is an entry "device partition=D:" while below under "Windows Legacy OS Loader" another entry says "device unknown". Then let's go over to the detailed view of the settings: I also think it is because of that that choosing to boot "Earlier Version of Windows" from the bootloader results in a ntldr error. My guess is, because it is a BootCamp partition it says "Deleted Partition\" while in reality, under Vista the partition shows up as drive D:\. I also did a research on this before posting, unfortunately I didn't find what I am looking for.

#Windows xp on macbook pro how to#

What I want to know now is how to get rid of the Vista bootloader so I can still boot into both Operating Systems and my second question, if I can install and use EasyBCD on Windows XP or do I have to do what I desire under Vista?

#Windows xp on macbook pro mac os x#

When I boot Mac OS X and I start VMWare, I still can boot this XP installation (since VMWare Fusion also supports BootCamp partitions), but still I have to be very quick to choose to boot XP instead of Vista, because this causes another error message (because Vista is not present/visible from within the virtual machine). If I choose to boot XP "previously installed Windows" (I don't remember exactly what the Vista bootloader says), I get an ntldr error message and cannot boot into XP. When I boot Vista I get error messages because of the other HFS+ partitions (which Vista, of course, cannot recognize as such), although the boot process continues and boots into Vista as it should. After completion of the Vista installation, I always get error messages when booting. I had to use rEFIt and manually choose to boot Vista to let the installation finish. Then, after the first reboot during the installation process, the problems already began. I installed it, starting the installation from within XP. I have an external SATA drive attached to the MBP on which I finally (after days of failures) I succeeded to install Vista. I registered to these forums because I have some trouble with the Vista bootloader.įirst, I have to explain what I did.