I bought a new iMac, and loved the OS. but just today it has been going a bit funny. i have windows xp installed as a partition and to boot i normally just go to system preferences --> startup disk. but i recently installed these two applications from this page http://tzechuen.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/tech-tip-readwrite-both-ntfs-and-hfs-volumes-on-both-windows-and-mac/ which let you access and read/write the windows partition from inside OS X. but after doing this it has messed up, and OS X just about starts up (not all the time), the 'untitled' drive which is windows doesnt show up in the startup disk section, and holding command key just locks up the startup process of the computer.
luckily i have time machine backups. but if i restore, does that mean that i would lose my windows partition. and if i do need to lose it (not that bigger deal), how can i setup a triple boot. i know you can because my university just bought over 200 iMacs for the Computer Science and other computer courses for four rooms, and they all have Mac OS X, fedora and XP running on them.
any help is highly appreciated as i need to make sure i have a reliable platform and computer.
thanks
luckily i have time machine backups. but if i restore, does that mean that i would lose my windows partition. and if i do need to lose it (not that bigger deal), how can i setup a triple boot. i know you can because my university just bought over 200 iMacs for the Computer Science and other computer courses for four rooms, and they all have Mac OS X, fedora and XP running on them.
any help is highly appreciated as i need to make sure i have a reliable platform and computer.
thanks