Can't select OS X startup disc from XP

[product26]

I cannot select my OS X installation as a startup disc from the "boot camp" control panel in XP. The only way I can select a startup disc is from the OS X startup disc system preference and from the boot menu (holding option while at startup)

Is there a way to add it back as a selection?

 

[ktbills]

This is a common problem for new MacBooks running Leopard when the boot camp partition is formatted as FAT32. If that is your situation, there are a number of threads on this forum that discuss it. I would give you a link but I don't know how to attach one to a post.

You can "solve" it by reformatting your boot camp partition to NTFS, but then OS X can not write to the boot camp partition any more, but it can still read it. That is what I did on my MacBook.

Others here seem to figuring that Apple will get around to fixing the problem eventually.

 

[Neil321]

here are the posts:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/383218/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/411755/