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Ok heres my problem. i tried to install mac osx 86 yesterday. i changed the format of my 3rd hard drive (80gb) just for mac. i have 2 more hard drives in - one with Windows 7 and the other with xp. now the thing is, i didnt install the mac in the same night. i formatted my hard drive (mac one) to mac standard, and set it as active. this was late at night, so i turned off my pc and woke up early the next morning to install mac. but it didnt install right, because its a sata hard drive.
so the issue is i cannot boot into any os because i set that harddrive as active - how do i reactivate windows 7. not to bovard about xp - when i get into windows 7 then i can sought out xp, but for now i need to boot into windows 7.
I want to avoid a reinstall. I do have the windows 7 disk and xp disk at hand. my optical drives dont like windows 7 disk at the moment - wont boot from them, so if we can, can we use the xp disk to fix the mbr of vista, or activate it.
so the issue is i cannot boot into any os because i set that harddrive as active - how do i reactivate windows 7. not to bovard about xp - when i get into windows 7 then i can sought out xp, but for now i need to boot into windows 7.
I want to avoid a reinstall. I do have the windows 7 disk and xp disk at hand. my optical drives dont like windows 7 disk at the moment - wont boot from them, so if we can, can we use the xp disk to fix the mbr of vista, or activate it.