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Updated to Yosemite and Bootcamp XP stopped working

Hello. Thank you ahead for any help anyone can provide.

I've read several threads on this but am not sure they apply to my problem. I have a spring 2011 iMac 27". Run Windows XP via bootcamp. I do have 3 partitions show up when I access the boot selector on startup. Mac HD, Bootcamp, Recovery. When I select Bootcamp, Windows starts to load, gets 2 bars, then crashes to blue screen and the computer immediately restarts.

I ran testdisk and the partition start/end points seem to be correct. (no gaps or over lap). At this point I'm not really sure what to do. :/

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 25, 2015 10:18 PM

38 replies

Loner T

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Feb 9, 2016 2:40 PM in response to fantastic-mr-kevin

Bootrec.exe is used on the Windows side. these are qualifiers for the Bootrec.exe command.

Please see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392 .

Feb 9, 2016 10:57 PM in response to Loner T

Thank you for the quick reply!

I read into that a little. On the windows side, all I see is the screen pictured below. I can't get any further without it crashing. How do you use Bootrec.exe or Bootcfg from that screen?

Loner T

Level 9

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Feb 10, 2016 5:31 AM in response to fantastic-mr-kevin

fantastic-mr-kevin wrote:

I can't get any further without it crashing. How do you use Bootrec.exe or Bootcfg from that screen?

Select 'Safe Mode with Command Prompt'.

Feb 10, 2016 10:54 AM in response to Loner T

When I select that, it generates a list of stuff. And then crashes. Is there something I have to do while the list is on my screen?

Loner T

Level 9

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Feb 10, 2016 1:01 PM in response to fantastic-mr-kevin

Can you use just Safe Mode?

Feb 10, 2016 7:53 PM in response to Loner T

They all just cause the computer to restart as normal. I tried booting from the CD also. I can't figure out a work around. I have a backup from Time Machine from when I had Snow Leopard and it worked with that. But I needed to upgrade the OS to keep my apps functioning and that's when Windows stopped working. If I boot from a backup, I can access windows (probably... I've never done it) and work with system recovery there. But I don't know if it will do any good.

Loner T

Level 9

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Feb 11, 2016 6:19 AM in response to fantastic-mr-kevin

Please start a new thread and post the output of the following Terminal commands.

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv r- show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Feb 11, 2016 5:20 PM in response to Loner T

RE: Bootcamp XP stopped working

Updated to Yosemite and Bootcamp XP stopped working