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Please help me! My Windows doesn't even show up as a startup disc option!

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ebayhelp

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Ok so yea please look at the picture down attached.


Windows is NTFS format and I've installed Paragon NTFS. Is the ntfs 3g better or this one?
 

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i'm sure most of you already know the answer to this and are tooo lazy to reply

please help me!
 
ebayhelp said:
i'm sure most of you already know the answer to this and are tooo lazy to reply

please help me!
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Yep, we thought it might be fun if we all got together in the back room and decided to just have a laugh instead of responding this time! 🙂

Seriously, this would have probably gotten a better response in the "Windows on a Mac" forum. You might PM Doctor Q or another Mod to get it moved for better results.

I'm not really sure of your question, and the image is still too small to read even when I click on it. I'm assuming you used BootCamp, installed Windows, followed directions? My ignorance shows when I say... I don't know what Pargon is... so I can't help.

Good luck!

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1. Be polite. Telling people in a forum that they're lazy is not incentive to make them help you.

2. Don't bump threads here, using "bump" OR the aforementioned rudeness as a bump.

3. Do you have an aftermarket HD? I noticed that it's a 250GB. If, when you originally formatted it (aftermarket or not) and you did not use the Apple GUID partition table (ie, you formatted your Macintosh and/or XP partitions manually), then Leopard will not recognize the alternate partition as a bootable partition. If you restart and hold the option key, XP should still appear as a bootable option to the EFI.
 
jackiecanev2 said:
1. Be polite. Telling people in a forum that they're lazy is not incentive to make them help you.

2. Don't bump threads here, using "bump" OR the aforementioned rudeness as a bump.

3. Do you have an aftermarket HD? I noticed that it's a 250GB. If, when you originally formatted it (aftermarket or not) and you did not use the Apple GUID partition table (ie, you formatted your Macintosh and/or XP partitions manually), then Leopard will not recognize the alternate partition as a bootable partition. If you restart and hold the option key, XP should still appear as a bootable option to the EFI.
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1. I'm sorry 🙁

2. I didn't know it was rudeness only thinking about myself 😛

3. No I have the OG stuff from apple inc from china facotry lol. I did kinda mess with the hd parition when i installed vista and it fked up my entire mac so i lost all my data! but i just reformatted to apple guid partition thingy.

so how do i fix this/
 
Were you able to boot into windows ever?

I suspect your windows install was bad or you had damaged it accidentially with the NTFS writing to the volume.

Either way, reinstall windows might help.
 
Consultant said:
Were you able to boot into windows ever?

I suspect your windows install was bad or you had damaged it accidentially with the NTFS writing to the volume.

Either way, reinstall windows might help.
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yea windows is fine for me

i just came back from bootcamp to pos there

merl1n said:
I just saw your other thread about Vista/Windows. Now that you have your disk with the correct Partition Mapping, you may want to try the Vista installation again. I would suggest that you use FAT32 instead of NTFS though. The Mac can read/write to FAT32 but has the limitation of a 4GB transfer max. The Mac can only read NTFS. It can't write to it.

I think your problem before was the Partition mapping screw up. The EFI firmware must see GUID partition mapping on the drive to recognize bootable partitions, or it won't boot from the partition like Windows.
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uh, yea

my hd itself is apple guid partiiton

is ntfs 3g or paragon ntfs or macfuse bette?r
 
Okay from the time you reinstalled Leopard, did you reinstall Windows?

If no, then that's the issue.

I have the Paragon NTFS and it works without a problem. Of course MacFuse works too, but I got too lazy with it.
 
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