Win XP won't boot in Macbook

agyoga · agyoga #1 (**permalink**)

07-30-2011, 05:28 PM

Hi,

My macbook only shows a blank screen with a blinking cursor everytime I boot up windows XP. I thought this was a hardware problem but I can boot/browse etc just fine on my Mac OS, and I can still see the bootcamp drive on my finder/explorer. I can't go into 'safe mode' when I boot up the XP as well. I was wondering if there's a way to fix this windows issue from within the mac os?

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

07-30-2011, 05:50 PM

Boot the machine with your original XP CD and do a repair on your Boot Camp Windows partition. Make sure that you choose the correct partition to repair though. If you don't know how to repair Windows, do a search in the Microsoft KB. There are plenty of tutorials available.

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,974 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	07-30-2011, 05:50 PM Boot the machine with your original XP CD and do a repair on your Boot Camp Windows partition. Make sure that you choose the correct partition to repair though. If you don't know how to repair Windows, do a search in the Microsoft KB. There are plenty of tutorials available. Community Guidelines
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Member Since: Jul 30, 2011 Posts: 1	07-30-2011, 05:28 PM Hi, My macbook only shows a blank screen with a blinking cursor everytime I boot up windows XP. I thought this was a hardware problem but I can boot/browse etc just fine on my Mac OS, and I can still see the bootcamp drive on my finder/explorer. I can't go into 'safe mode' when I boot up the XP as well. I was wondering if there's a way to fix this windows issue from within the mac os?
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