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Trouble Dual Booting OSX 10.8.5 / Win 7

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Mitchlawrence

Mitchlawrence

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I have both OS's on separate drives, OSX on SSD, Win7 on HDD. I used a recommended tool to convert Win7 drive to work in AHCI and it boots and runs just fine if I set it to 1st drive. If I set the OSX SSD as 1st drive I get the option to boot either drive from Chimera but I now get an error when trying to boot into windows: bootmgr is missing.

I wouldn't have been surprised by this at all except that Windows boots just fine in AHCI since I converted the drive. I'm hoping there's a quick fix, any advice would be much appreciated. I am running the latest version of the Bios I could find for my Asus P6T Dlx V2 (1202) and have everything else running smoothly.

Is the set-up more effective in Clover and is it going to blow my mind trying? I'm fairly new to Hackintosh but doing ok so far.

As an aside, I also have some archived programs that I run in XP64 and XP32. Does anyone know if it is possible to boot these in Chimera?

Thanks folks
 
Mitchlawrence said:
I have both OS's on separate drives, OSX on SSD, Win7 on HDD. I used a recommended tool to convert Win7 drive to work in AHCI and it boots and runs just fine if I set it to 1st drive. If I set the OSX SSD as 1st drive I get the option to boot either drive from Chimera but I now get an error when trying to boot into windows: bootmgr is missing.

I wouldn't have been surprised by this at all except that Windows boots just fine in AHCI since I converted the drive. I'm hoping there's a quick fix, any advice would be much appreciated. I am running the latest version of the Bios I could find for my Asus P6T Dlx V2 (1202) and have everything else running smoothly.

Is the set-up more effective in Clover and is it going to blow my mind trying? I'm fairly new to Hackintosh but doing ok so far.

As an aside, I also have some archived programs that I run in XP64 and XP32. Does anyone know if it is possible to boot these in Chimera?

Thanks folks
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There's nothing to covert... If you changed bios setting to AHCI after windows was installed, you need to edit the Windows registry to allow Win 7 to boot. Instructions here

Then set the first boot device in bios to be your OSX drive. If booting Chimera your boot options will be OSX - Windows 7 - System Reserved. Chose System Reserved to load Win 7

This should have been posted in Desktop Support, not Alternative Bootloaders.
 
Ok thanks, gonna check this now :)

Um, right. So I already have windows booting fine in AHCI. The problem is that it won't boot from Chimera, says the boot manager is missing. Is it worth playing around with which drive is plugged in where? Does it make any difference with SATA?

Should I move this to the other forum?

Thx
 
Mitchlawrence said:
Ok thanks, gonna check this now :)

Um, right. So I already have windows booting fine in AHCI. The problem is that it won't boot from Chimera, says the boot manager is missing. Is it worth playing around with which drive is plugged in where? Does it make any difference with SATA?

Should I move this to the other forum?

Thx
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How many Non-OS X icons do you have showing and how are they labeled?
 
All my hard disks are there and labeled but there are no partitions named System Reserved, I'm guessing that's what you were getting at?
 
Mitchlawrence said:
All my hard disks are there and labeled but there are no partitions named System Reserved, I'm guessing that's what you were getting at?
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What you have to do is figure out which icon is for which partition - the first is usually the EFI, the second is usually the recovery and the third is most likely your boot partition while the last is the Windows NTFS partition with your C:\ on it. Or the recovery may be the last partition and have a spanner symbol on it.
 
Ok feeling really stoopid now. I thought I'd tried everything but the partition I needed was my WinXP 64 Drive. Sorry for wasting your time. This forum is amazing though. For the most part I built my Hack just reading other peoples posts so if anyone has the same prob they should be right on it now.

Many thanks
 
Mitchlawrence said:
Ok feeling really stoopid now. I thought I'd tried everything but the partition I needed was my WinXP 64 Drive. Sorry for wasting your time. This forum is amazing though. For the most part I built my Hack just reading other peoples posts so if anyone has the same prob they should be right on it now.

Many thanks
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If you click on the folder in the Win7 command bar, right click on the C:\ in the Windows explorer window and select properties, you can change the name of the drive from WinXp to Win7 so your icon reflects reality.
 
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