Windows overriding Mac OS [rEFIt]

[noagname]

I have a 2006 macbook which I put rEFIT on to. So I could install OS's like ubuntu and windows, but when I was installing windows on the separate partition. For some dumb reason I told it NTFS instead of fat and now my computer boots straight into Windows. Skipping over the rEFIT, now I need help. I have put the mac os install disk in and my comp boots off of that. But I'm too nervous to go on. Does anyone have any advice?

Moved to the Apple forum since this is primarily a hardware configuration issue
-ViRGE

 

[SKORPI0]

Looks like you're not seeing this menu screen when you boot the machine.

rEFIt

Getting into the rEFIt menu

If you have installed rEFIt on your Mac OS X volume, it will be loaded automatically when the Mac starts up.
With rEFIt installed on a separate volume (internal or external) or on a CD, hold down the “Option” key while the Mac starts up. That activates the built-in boot menu, where you’ll see an icon labeled “rEFIt”. Choose it with the arrow keys and hit Return, and the rEFIt menu will be loaded.
You can configure your Mac to automatically start the rEFIt menu even when it is installed on a separate volume. Just use “enable-always.sh” instead of “enable.sh”.

If it does not work, looks like you'll have to reinstall Windows on a FAT partition. Good luck.

 

[noagname]

Yeah I don't get that image, I'm going to try to format that windows partition to fat and pray that it works. Thanks for the great idea!

 

[noagname]

Didn't work, any other suggestions?

 

[noagname]

ok Now I put the hard drive in an external enclosure. But it only lets me see whats inside my windows partition. It thinks that everything else is just free space(which it is NOT!!!). I do see the boot.ini would changing or editing that help me?