[doublecross]

I'm using a 3 days old iMac G5 - 3.06 gHz - 4 GB - 500 GB (300 GB OSX - 200 GB Windows)

Ok, so I installed boot camp, xp and then the apple drivers in windows. I then decided to go back to OSX so told the windows boot camp assistant to restart into OSX - no plroblems yet...

After a while I wanted to switch back to windows but could not find the boot camp assistant in the top bar so I downloaded refit as reccomended to me by a friend. I restarted my iMac and it loaded up windows fine again. Probelm is whatever I do now I can't get back to OSX.

If I restart and hold down the option key it comes up with two partitions, refit and windows and either one i choose starts up windows.

Windows sucks and is plaging my new beast of a mac please help before I resort to throwing it out the window :s

Charlie

[ghporter]

You have managed to mess up your partition table and boot table by using Refit. I don't know if your OS X partition still exists, either.

Here's the first thing you should do: boot from your OS X disc. While it's running, insert the disc (it doesn't matter if Windows recognizes the disc or not), and then shut down or select restart. When it starts to boot (the gray screen shows and you get the chime), hold down the 'C' key until it lets you select the disc to boot from. Now let the installer disc boot and initialize. When it's done, click on the "Tools" menu, then select "Disk Utility." When it is running, select THE HARD DRIVE,not just a partition and then click on the "Repair Disk" button. That should help you out.

If that doesn't restore your boot setup, you may need to just reinstall OS X. If you really need to use Windows, there are emulator/virtual machine apps around (Parallels, Fusion) or you can do the Boot Camp thing again-except get help in changing your boot setup.

By the way, when running OS X with a Boot Camp-created partition for Windows, you can choose to boot into Windows by a) restarting and holding the Option key, or b) changing the default boot partition through the Startup Disk section of your System preferences.

[doublecross]

Cheers dude!! My friend sorted it out for me a few hours ago but thanks you were right all the same. I basically messed up installing refit.. rebooted off osx disc, deleted refit and both osx and windows partitions were saved

Thanks for your help!!

[cgc]

I didn't think a G5 could run BootCamp Glad it all got sorted out...