mitch_549 said:
I have Lion running perfeclty on a SSD with two other 1tb drives, one with media and one blank. Is it possible to install Windows on one tb drive without affecting Lion? If so, what bios setting do i change? can i simply use the same settings as the Lion bios? Thanks in advance
Since you plan to use separate drives for each OS X, is easy.
1. Connect only drive for OS X.
2. Boot to BIOS and set SATA ports to AHCI, power saving mode to S3, enable HPET and set it to 64 bit mode. Save and exit.
3. Install OS X, update it, get it working. Shut down.
Since you already installed OS X, you already did 1-3
4. Disconnect OS X drive. Connect Win7 drive.
5. Install Win7, update it (SP1 can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/de ... px?id=5842 - one of the last 2 files - you want the -x64 for 64-bit or -x86 for 32-bit) get it working 100%. Shutdown.
6. Reconnect the OS X drive and media drive. Boot to BIOS and make the OS X drive first in hard drive boot order in BIOS. Save&Exit and continue to boot to Chimera time out screen.
Hit a key to boot Win7, select System Reserved icon and hit enter. If you would rather the boot process stop and let you select which OS to boot, select Instant Menu in MultiBeast to insall.