hey luke - good idea about chkdsk! Might be able to get a set of eyes on this later today, so safe mode is definetly worth a shot. How do you force a mac to boot into safe mode though? My guess would be to hold option at boot, choose windows, then hit f8 as soon as microsoft start ruining the show? got no assistance here to check it works that way, so if you could confirm or set me straight, that'd be great.
cheers scott On 10/21/08, Luke Yelavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:49:10PM EST, Scott Chesworth wrote: >> Whenever I try and boot Windows on my macbook pro, it gets to just a >> few seconds before the startup sound is about to play, and then >> without any warning restarts. > <Snip> >> Any tips and tricks to try would be mightily handy. > > If you can get sighted assistance, I would attempt to load windows in safe > mode, and run the command "chkdsk /f /r C:" from the command-prompt to force > windows to check the partition on next boot. > > I know you said Disk Utility tried repairing things, but my experience has > taught me to generally use the parent OS for a particular partition type, as > it generally knows the most about the filesystem and partition it resides > on. > > If that doesn't work, you may need to boot your XP media and use recovery > mode. > > Luke > >
