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Hi everyone,
In haste, I have made one of the biggest mess-ups possible. I’ve been running OS 10.6 and Windows 7 on my NC10 for the greater part of 8 months. Today I’ve decided to revert from windows 7 back to Windows XP. So I just went ahead and booted from the XP CD, went through the first part of the installation, and then I got the whole hal.dll error story. Then reality struck and I realised that I’ve undone the hours of setting up the boot order by simply formatting the windows partition without regard for OS X.
Please will someone tell me that I can salvage the situation? If it means that I have to live without windows, that’s fine, since the majority of the last 8 months I’ve spent using OS X, and most if not all of my data is on OS X’s partition. Is there ANY way to undo what I’ve done, or to reset the boot order to boot OS X, without having to format my entire HDD??
ANY input will be greatly appreciated.
reinstall windows 7 to the partition where it was install , do not do anything to os x partition , install EasyBCD, It works in xp also. from the application, select the tab ad/remove entry, then select mac osx , you will be good to go,
there is another option install windows 7/xp , install acronis disk director , there is an option in start menu in acronis folder namely , install os selector, once that installed, the boot up will start with acronis , there will a wizard option in the top tab dropdowns, select wizard, select os on a partition or mbr etc , select the partition on which os x is installed try both the option if one doesn’t work, if still not, after 2-3 reboots it will recognise a os is installed on some partition and will list itself in the startup as unknown operating system, click on that and it eneter into mac and rename that unknown as mac.hope it helpsThank you so much for your reply! But how do I get past the hal.dll error? After my NC10 boots up the error pops up and I can’t go any further.
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