I had to switch my hard drive order in bios around until it was set to boot off of the drive that had OSX installed to (this took a couple of restarts until I got the right one). Restarted and it went straight into Windows, no Chameleon option. Installed Win7, plugged my other 3 hard drives back in. This way you ensure that it will write the master boot record to the correct drive for Win7. Once I verified that I could go into OSX without the iBoot in my drive, I unplugged all of my hard drives except the one I wanted to install Win7 to, that way it would only show that one drive as partition 0 or disk 0.
I ran set up of SL, formatted the hard drive that I wanted to install to, installed, rebooted, updated to version 10.6.2 (I was having problems after installing multibeast 1.1.0 with 10.6.0 where it would get to the apple logo and just restart, I could only boot with iBoot), then before restarting, installed multibeast again, making sure to install chameleon RC4 which acts as a boot loader (you can dual boot with it). I tested a few ways to dual boot and the best way for me was the following:
I did a fresh install of Win7 and SL last night and am dualbooting without iBoot or Easy BCD. EasyBCD also offers a feature to back up and restore the BCD (boot configuration data) configuration files for recovery and testing purposes.ĮasyBCD can be used to change the boot drive, rename or change the order of any entries in the bootloader, and modify existing entries to point to a different drive.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide From the "Manage Boot loader" section of EasyBCD, it is possible to switch between the Windows Vista and Windows XP boot loaders in the MBR (BOOTMGR and NTLDR, respectively) from within Windows by simply clicking a button. It's small, free, powerful, and flexible, and advanced users will get a jewel in this handy system boot tool.ĮasyBCD has a number of boot loader-related features that can be used to repair and configure the boot loader. Then I got my hands on a cool utility which is more than enough alone to solve your almost all the issue regarding boot sectors. I've got many solutions on Internet regarding the similar problem but many works in one case but fail in other.
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it by default boot from XP however my all the Windows 7 file are unaffected in the hard drive.Īfter little bit of surfing I landed to the conclusion that when you Install XP on already installed Win 7 Hard Drive it smashes the Boot menu and make a default boot option of XP as only OS installed. But when due to some reason I formatted my XP and re-install it, every time when I reboot without switching to boot menu. Things are working fine when you first Install Windows XP and then go for Win 7 in other partition, in this way you always get a menu to select between XP and Win 7 at the boot screen.Įverything seems fine with me because I followed the same way while installing my dual windows. In such cases people mostly install both the operating system on their Hard Drive and choose one according to the need at the time of boot. Since most of the peoples use Windows 7 but few peoples still want Windows XP may be because few softwares work only on XP, reversing tools debug the address efficiently for XP, and on a personal note I use XP because my PCSX2 emulator works more faster on XP as compare to Win7.
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