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I have been using dual boot windows 7 ultimate / mavericks with chimera on separate drives without problem.

Now I want to upgrade my windows to 8.1, and I cannot boot from usb drive using legacy mode for some reason. It will get stuck on a blinking "_" screen forever.

However I can boot from UEFI USB drive without any problem. I get the windows 8.1 setup screen but I exit the installation because as far as I know if I install UEFI windows 8.1 I won't be able to get chimera boot menu to work.

If I run the setup within windows it says upgrade path not possible (My current windows 7 is 64bit non UEFI install). So I don't know how I can upgrade/install non UEFI windows 8.1.

Thanks in advance.
 
Rosen said:
I have been using dual boot windows 7 ultimate / mavericks with chimera on separate drives without problem.

Now I want to upgrade my windows to 8.1, and I cannot boot from usb drive using legacy mode for some reason. It will get stuck on a blinking "_" screen forever.

However I can boot from UEFI USB drive without any problem. I get the windows 8.1 setup screen but I exit the installation because as far as I know if I install UEFI windows 8.1 I won't be able to get chimera boot menu to work.

If I run the setup within windows it says upgrade path not possible (My current windows 7 is 64bit non UEFI install). So I don't know how I can upgrade/install non UEFI windows 8.1.

Thanks in advance.
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I have both 7Ult and 8.1. I think you will find you prefer 7, but would suggest you get another drive and install 8.1 with all other drives disconnected and test drive it before over-writing your Win7Ult.
 
I am already using W8.1 at work I actually prefer it over windows 7. That's why I want to upgrade my W7 to 8.1. The only problem is that it won't let me launch the legacy windows 8.1 installation.
 
Rosen said:
I am already using W8.1 at work I actually prefer it over windows 7. That's why I want to upgrade my W7 to 8.1. The only problem is that it won't let me launch the legacy windows 8.1 installation.
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That could happen if your USB is created for UEFI partition. I assume you still have the ISO, so create another one USB using Rufus http://rufus.akeo.ie and choose MBR or even the Microsoft official tool for Windows 7 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool this also work for 8.1 iso's.
 
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