- Joined
- Sep 15, 2011
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- Motherboard
- ASUS Prime Z490-A
- CPU
- i7-10700K
- Graphics
- Radeon rx580
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Yep, this is what I did.OK, OS X drive and XP drive connected, Boot to OS X, download Chimera stand alone installer, run it and select the boot partition on the XP drive to install it on and install it, right?
Yep, I went into BIOS and made sure it was the first drive to boot. When I start up, it still defaults to Lion and doesn't see XP or Boot.Reboot and make sure the XP drive is first in boot order, right?
I do have this file in the root of my Lion install. Should this file also be copied to the Boot partition of the XP drive and/or deleted from Lion?If you show all files, do you see a file called boot in the root of your Lion install?
EDIT: never mind, since you restored from backup.
Getting XP to work right was really a pain and it has been so long since I messed with it I don't really remember what tricks I pulled to get it working. I would try installing per the old guide I wrote and try to see where you might have gone wrong (or where I did when I wrote it) but I no longer have XP - sold the DVD along with the old computer.
Why not do what I did? Have a HDD/SSD for each OS and get a hotswap bay like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2E114X4573 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2E114N4820 and only have the OS you are currently booting in the computer. Sure has made it easier to boot the OS I want when I want without having to worry about a bootloader other than the one provided with the OS.
Ideally that would be a good idea, but atm I can't justify any more money on my "hobby" if you know what I mean. I may try erasing the Boot partition, because at least then I could boot XP by just choosing it with F12 on start up. XP will probably be used like 10% of the time anyway, just a necessity for a program that's giving me a huge headache with fonts and file names in Win7.
I sincerely appreciate all your help, if you have any brilliant ideas, let me know. Thanks again!