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Bootpicker Troubleshooting

  • 06-04-2009 7:45pm
    #1
    carlrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭


    Ok to start, i'm running OSX leopard on my 2.2GHz intel based MacBook. I also have windows XP installed in a separate partition using boot camp. Unfortunately i am unable to boot in windows without first booting OSX then restarting in windows (which is frustrating and time consuming) so i thought i had found a fix in Bootpicker... but it wont load for me :(

    Is anyone else having this issue, or can anybody offer a solution? What basically happens is the OS selection screen flashes up before the desktop loads, but before i can select either operating system it disappears and leopard completes startup.

    Also, before someone suggests it - for some reason the standard 'holding the option key after powering up' doesn't work for my laptop as i am only given the option to boot off the Mac partition.

    Any tips much appreciated :D


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  • #2
    Elessar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭Elessar


    My only advice is to do a total reinstall of windows and a re-partition of the drive with bootcamp assistant.


  • #3
    carlrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭carlrac


    Elessar wrote: »
    My only advice is to do a total reinstall of windows and a re-partition of the drive with bootcamp assistant.

    Already tried that thanks! Just hoping someone had encountered the same problem and could offer a quick fix...


  • #4
    Sad Professor
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    carlrac wrote: »
    Also, before someone suggests it - for some reason the standard 'holding the option key after powering up' doesn't work for my laptop as i am only given the option to boot off the Mac partition.
    Did you try this before you installed Bootpicker? Maybe it interferes with it.


  • #5
    carlrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭carlrac


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Did you try this before you installed Bootpicker? Maybe it interferes with it.

    Ye the reason i resorted to Bootpicker was because this didn't work with either version of windows i installed. It appears to be unsolvable though :( Could the fact that i formatted the windows partition as FAT32 over NTFS affect the boot options????


  • #6
    Sad Professor
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    No, FAT32 is preferable as you can read/write from OSX.

    It's weird that it's not being recognised at startup but is later. Maybe try zapping the PRAM.


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  • #7
    carlrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭carlrac


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    No, FAT32 is preferable as you can read/write from OSX.

    It's weird that it's not being recognised at startup but is later. Maybe try zapping the PRAM.

    Yup that's why i chose that format :) Unfortunately that's yet another suggestion i already tried though (but for an entirely separate issue..)

    Thanks for all the responses so far everyone!


  • #8
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    When you reinstalled Windows, did you remove the whole partition using Bootcamp first?


  • #9
    carlrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭carlrac


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    When you reinstalled Windows, did you remove the whole partition using Bootcamp first?

    Ye it repartitioned the whole drive back to one. The Windows icon always takes a few seconds to load on the desktop after everything else. Dunno if that's significant, but i thought it's worth mentioning


  • #10
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Does everything check out okay in Disk Utility?

    Have you installed anything else related to Bootcamp?

    There might be a problem on the Windows side. Maybe try repairing it using the Windows install disk or from within Windows.


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