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I'm having quite a bit of difficulty with booting to the installer USB with Windows 7 in a dual-boot setup with my hackintosh 10.11.2.
My hardware/software setup is:
The problem I run into now is that I can't figure out how to boot to the Win 7 USB stick. I have tried two things:
The bootable flash drive was made using Boot Camp and an official Windows 7 ISO file. Interesting thing that I've noticed is that I see a file called bootmgr.efi on the Window 7 flash drive, yet I've heard numerous times that Windows 7 and prior OSes are all Legacy. Windows 8 and after are all EFI. So this is one area where I, admittedly, am a little confused. (To be perfectly honest, I don't fully understand EFI/Legacy in the first place.)
I already did a quick scan to look for other threads on this. Nothing jumped out at me specifically covering Windows 7 not booting from a flash drive. If I missed something, please feel free to point me in the right direction.
Help! I've never had this much trouble booting to a stupid flash drive.
My hardware/software setup is:
- Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (Legacy and UEFI modes both enabled)
- i5-4690
- 120GB SATA SSD with Mac already installed
- 250GB SATA HDD that will house Win 7
- Clover installed with 10.11.2 about 2 days ago
- Windows 10 *was* installed on the HDD, but the problem now rests with overwriting with Win 7. I have since reformatted the HDD to GPM OS X Extended.
The problem I run into now is that I can't figure out how to boot to the Win 7 USB stick. I have tried two things:
1.) Running from the Clover boot screen. I see the option to boot to mgrboot or cdboot. Both of which are sourced from my Win 7 USB stick (WININSTALL). There are also options to boot to Legacy HD2 and Legacy HD3, but those are there regardless of whether or not the drive is plugged in (I'm going to disregard these. I've already tried using them and I don't think it's going to be a fruitful lead).
- When I select mgrboot, I get to a black screen that just hangs on black. My USB drive goes into what I assume is a sleep state based on the way it slowly pulses.
- When I select cdboot, I get the, "Please insert CD or other bootable drive..." (paraphrased) instruction.
- <EDIT 1/3/16 1:40PM CST> I have one additional option. I can "Boot WINDOWS from WININSTALL." I fully suspect this is what I need to be running. Unfortunately, when I run it I only see the Windows logo pop up for about half a second and then it locks on a black screen. <END EDIT>
2.) Running from logic board's boot options. I don't get the mgrboot nor cdboot options. I only get the drive's name, "SanDisk <insert model number>." Selecting that gives me a black screen just like selecting mgrboot from above. <EDIT 1/3/16 1:50PM CST> Sorry, one more edit and I'm done. There is an additional option labeled same above, except it is prefixed with "UEFI: " so it looks like, "UEFI: SanDisk <model number>." When I boot to that option, I get kicked right back to the Clover boot screen. <END EDIT>
The bootable flash drive was made using Boot Camp and an official Windows 7 ISO file. Interesting thing that I've noticed is that I see a file called bootmgr.efi on the Window 7 flash drive, yet I've heard numerous times that Windows 7 and prior OSes are all Legacy. Windows 8 and after are all EFI. So this is one area where I, admittedly, am a little confused. (To be perfectly honest, I don't fully understand EFI/Legacy in the first place.)
I already did a quick scan to look for other threads on this. Nothing jumped out at me specifically covering Windows 7 not booting from a flash drive. If I missed something, please feel free to point me in the right direction.
Help! I've never had this much trouble booting to a stupid flash drive.