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Hi all
Been a while since I posted on here, but run into another problem that I can't remember how to fix so hoping some of you people can help motivate my grey cells again!
Anyway, for various reasons I decided to change my multiboot system where I had OSX and Win7 (Video) on one SSD and another Win7 (Audio) and Win8 on a second SSD.
Basically decided I didn't need Win8 on this system so decided to pull that off so I could have both Win7's on the second SSD and therefore allow me to expand my OSX partition on the first.
Had a bit of a problem with my backup systems and a windows problem I couldn't resolve so ended up doing a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro for my Audio (I'll refer to it as win7Audio from now) at the beginning of SSD2 and then restored win7Video to the same disk afterwards.
All this I ended up doing with SSD1 (OSX) unplugged.
Anyway had to run a win7 repair to get win7Video to work but all good - I thought!
I plug ssd1 back in and boot into osx - great!
Chimera now has entries for win7Audio and Win7Video, but....... and this is the problem..... they won't boot now.
In fact regardless of which entry I choose in Chimera, I seem to get the old windows boot menu including the now non existant Windows8.
Having had a lot of help previously from racerrehabman and his excellent "Guide to Installing Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OS X Lion, and Ubuntu Multi-Boot" I had a look there and (after unplugging SSD1) booted back into win7Video and ran "bcdedit /store c:\Boot\BCD" and basically got the old settings including Windows 8.
However, when I then booted back into win7Audio (remember, a fresh install) the same command comes back with "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified"
Now, checking in Computer Management I see (since the fresh install of win7Audio) that I also have a "System Reserved" partition at the beginning of SSD2.
I'm guessing I need to maybe copy the boot info from the "System Reserved" partition to both win7audio and win7video and (maybe???) then delete the "System Reserved" partition??????
would this work with Chimera?
If so can someone please remind me/enlighten me how to do this?
1)the "System Reserved" partition has no drive letter - do I need to assign one?
2)how do I then copy the boot settings and ....
3) ...to where? -as win7audio doesn't seem to have a boot store/manager/whatever on it's partition...and....
4) do I just copy the same settings to the win7video boot store/manager/whatever???
I'll just add that the reason I have a win7audio and a win7video is that I have protools (that I just paid yet another upgrade for!) on there and it doesn't play nicely being on the same drive as some of my video editing software.
Also I need to get this sorted asap as I've had this system that usually sits tidily under a desk in the middle of the front room for days now (as a result for the need to unplug/replug drives) and it's not impressing the girlfriend!
Cheers for all feedback/help!
Been a while since I posted on here, but run into another problem that I can't remember how to fix so hoping some of you people can help motivate my grey cells again!
Anyway, for various reasons I decided to change my multiboot system where I had OSX and Win7 (Video) on one SSD and another Win7 (Audio) and Win8 on a second SSD.
Basically decided I didn't need Win8 on this system so decided to pull that off so I could have both Win7's on the second SSD and therefore allow me to expand my OSX partition on the first.
Had a bit of a problem with my backup systems and a windows problem I couldn't resolve so ended up doing a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro for my Audio (I'll refer to it as win7Audio from now) at the beginning of SSD2 and then restored win7Video to the same disk afterwards.
All this I ended up doing with SSD1 (OSX) unplugged.
Anyway had to run a win7 repair to get win7Video to work but all good - I thought!
I plug ssd1 back in and boot into osx - great!
Chimera now has entries for win7Audio and Win7Video, but....... and this is the problem..... they won't boot now.
In fact regardless of which entry I choose in Chimera, I seem to get the old windows boot menu including the now non existant Windows8.
Having had a lot of help previously from racerrehabman and his excellent "Guide to Installing Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OS X Lion, and Ubuntu Multi-Boot" I had a look there and (after unplugging SSD1) booted back into win7Video and ran "bcdedit /store c:\Boot\BCD" and basically got the old settings including Windows 8.
However, when I then booted back into win7Audio (remember, a fresh install) the same command comes back with "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. The system cannot find the file specified"
Now, checking in Computer Management I see (since the fresh install of win7Audio) that I also have a "System Reserved" partition at the beginning of SSD2.
I'm guessing I need to maybe copy the boot info from the "System Reserved" partition to both win7audio and win7video and (maybe???) then delete the "System Reserved" partition??????
would this work with Chimera?
If so can someone please remind me/enlighten me how to do this?
1)the "System Reserved" partition has no drive letter - do I need to assign one?
2)how do I then copy the boot settings and ....
3) ...to where? -as win7audio doesn't seem to have a boot store/manager/whatever on it's partition...and....
4) do I just copy the same settings to the win7video boot store/manager/whatever???
I'll just add that the reason I have a win7audio and a win7video is that I have protools (that I just paid yet another upgrade for!) on there and it doesn't play nicely being on the same drive as some of my video editing software.
Also I need to get this sorted asap as I've had this system that usually sits tidily under a desk in the middle of the front room for days now (as a result for the need to unplug/replug drives) and it's not impressing the girlfriend!
Cheers for all feedback/help!