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I had a running dual boot setup of Windows 7 and OS X 10.8. My set up is as follows, hard drive wise:
30GB SSD = Windows 7
1TB drive = 1/2 NTFS, 1/2 OS-X boot drive.
1TB drive = NTFS
250GB = Windows 7 account user folder drive
500GB = Windows 7 program files drive
Booting would work like this: If I didn't touch my BIOS it would boot Windows 7. If I pressed F11 and selected my 1TB drive, it would boot to chameleon and then to OS X without any boot commands.
When Windows 8 came along I formatted the SSD and installed windows 8 on top of it, and did the same multi-drive setup, essentially replace the 7 in the diagram with an 8.
But there's one key difference: After installing windows 8, if I select the 1TB drive, a blue screen pops up and says "Your coputer needs to be repaired" a la Windows 8. Winload is missing or whatever.
So I do the next thing. I unplug my SSD and try booting from the HDD again. Same issue. WTF?
So either Windows 8 put some files on my Hard Drive or it flashed something on my motherboard.
I know my OS X install is under there somewhere, I just need a way to disable that "your computer needs to be repaired" screen.
30GB SSD = Windows 7
1TB drive = 1/2 NTFS, 1/2 OS-X boot drive.
1TB drive = NTFS
250GB = Windows 7 account user folder drive
500GB = Windows 7 program files drive
Booting would work like this: If I didn't touch my BIOS it would boot Windows 7. If I pressed F11 and selected my 1TB drive, it would boot to chameleon and then to OS X without any boot commands.
When Windows 8 came along I formatted the SSD and installed windows 8 on top of it, and did the same multi-drive setup, essentially replace the 7 in the diagram with an 8.
But there's one key difference: After installing windows 8, if I select the 1TB drive, a blue screen pops up and says "Your coputer needs to be repaired" a la Windows 8. Winload is missing or whatever.
So I do the next thing. I unplug my SSD and try booting from the HDD again. Same issue. WTF?
So either Windows 8 put some files on my Hard Drive or it flashed something on my motherboard.
I know my OS X install is under there somewhere, I just need a way to disable that "your computer needs to be repaired" screen.