I've been trying for the past few days to make a Hackintosh.. so i partitioned my drive, installed OSX (apparently) and sorted it so that my pc would boot into windows normally. I then thought it might be an idea to try acronis' os selector software, since i was having problems booting into Leopard. Anyway, long story short, i figured it wasn't going to be that useful - disabled it - and then used Gparted to set my XP partition to boot again.
Then came the problems. As soon as the windows bar loaded, i BSOD'd and restarted. This continued, and plugging in the XP disc and going into the recovery console didn't do much.
- Bootcfg couldn't find anything
- FixMBR failed to work
- Fixboot failed to work
Eventually after a couple of hours, running chkdsk /p /r got me to a state where i could view the directory tree. And even then my admin password wasn't working (this may be a separate problem however). Finally after a lot of fiddling, i cleared it all up and i'm now back in XP.
Not happy though. What kind of software, by a relatively respectable company, effectively bricks your install by messing with your MBR?


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