lost my windows boot option?

[lizinthesky]

Hi

I just installed bootcamp yesterday, and in the process of changing things, I lost the ability to reboot into windows from the mac:

I think it may have happened when I changed either the windows computer name or the hard drive volume name.

I can still boot windows by holding alt/option when starting up.

Is there a way to get it back?

Cheers

Liz

 

[macffooky]

You could install rEFIt which will offer you a choice of OS every time you reboot.

 

[lizinthesky]

I could, but that mans I have to select something each time a want to boot. The start up disc option means I can just reboot automatically into the opposite OS. Windows bootcamp sytem tray still has the boot-into-OSX thing there.

Its really annoying its gone from mac!

 

[lizinthesky]

I have just discoverend the problem. I installed NTFS-3G so that OSX could read two spare drives in the machine formatted to NTFS. It also now uses NTFS-3G to see the windows boot drive, and that apparently means that the startup disk utility cannot recognise it as a bootable drive. Which is very odd.

There are some hints around the net on ways around this, but they involve complex things like applescript which I cartainly don't have time to fiddle with now

Oh well.