Windows 7 RC1 and Macintosh on the same drive

[Windows04]

Hi everyone,

I already have a Macintosh installation on my disk (with Chameleon 2.0 RC1) and i have a ntfs partition on the same disk. Is it save to install Windows 7 there or will it overwrite my bootloader? Can I install it there and then install Chameleon on my other macintosh drive and boot windows and macintosh like that?

[BladeRunner]

I just went through this.  Win7 will for sure overwrite the boot loader.

My system has one internal drive partitioned GPT with the following partitions: EFI, NTFS, HFS+.  I also have a boot loader on floppy and OSX installed on an external USB HD.

After the Win7 install, all that would boot was Win7.  I had to use the floppy boot loader to boot the external USB OSX system and reisntall Chameleon2 on my internal drive from the external OSX.  Once that was done, I could boot Win7 or OSX internal from Chameleon2.

[SP1950]

I have just installed win7 rc, but I still cannot get the bootloaders right.

I used a chameleon'd usb key to boot osx and reinstalled chameleon.
i got the chameleon bootloader back but win7 is not booting anymore!

It shows "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" with an error code of 0xc000000e.
I've done this twice with rc1 but still no luck.

I had no issues with the cpp win7 but now i just can't get it work.

MBR (160GB)
Partitions: Recovery
               WinXP
               OSX
               Win7
All are primary partitions.

Do I need to format the hd as gpt to get it work? But it did work with build 7000...

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Windows04]

Mmm... it could be that if the drive is partitioned as GPT, win7 will install the bootloader on the partition itself and not on the whole drive... if that's logical XD

In that case, it could work for me because my drive is a GPT...

[snocat]

I used a chameleon'd usb key to boot osx and reinstalled chameleon.

I have the same problem, may i ask where did you locate chaemeleon'd usb?

[SP1950]

I used a chameleon'd usb key to boot osx and reinstalled chameleon.

I have the same problem, may i ask where did you locate chaemeleon'd usb?

well, i just use the chameleon installer and point the destination to my usb drive.

[blast9999]

What I've done to avoid this is to have Windows and os x on separate hard drives. I just unplug the os x one when reinstalling windows. After plugging in the os x drive, everything is back to normal, with Chameleon working perfectly! Sux to have only one hard drive as in some laptops

[C.-BruShiS]

I have an GPT drive but i have this 0xc000000e error in Windows Boot Manager, too.
Isn't there any workaround?

[SP1950]

I have an GPT drive but i have this 0xc000000e error in Windows Boot Manager, too.
Isn't there any workaround?

It seems that I am not the only one who got this prob...
I'm using a single MBR hd and cannot get win7 rc to work with chameleon 2...
Please help!

[timeshifter]

I have an GPT drive but i have this 0xc000000e error in Windows Boot Manager, too.
Isn't there any workaround?

Same here.  I have GPT, Chameleon 2 RC1, etc.  Installing Windows 7 breaks the bootloader of course.  While keeping the Windows 7 partition active I can boot from the Windows 7 DVD and it will repair the boot files.  Now I can boot Windows 7 from the hard drive.  To boot Mac OS X again the only way I can do that is by using a Boot-132 CD.

[Arial]

I dont know with GPT, I always use MBR Partition Map Scheme.

I was install OSX & Win7 on my friend's PC (Asus P5KPL-SE),
here are my workaround..

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single HDD with 3 partitions (all Primary)
part-1: Win7 (NTFS)
part-2: Data (NTFS)
part-3: Leo (HFS+ Journalled)

[1] set active part-1 then install Win7

[2] set active part-3 then install Leo

[3] yes, it is. Win7 bootrecord will broken with this error:



[4] set active part-1 (Win7)

[5] boot with Win7 Install DVD, choose "Repair your computer" option.
startup problem will be auto-detected and prompt you to repair it.



[6] set active part-3 (Leo) again

[BladeRunner]

Thanks for the tip. 

My system is partitioned using GUID with Win7, OSX and Data partitions.  I had been experiencing a Win7 boot problem with a message that said "system32/hal.dll" was corrupted and to reinstall it. 

When I boot from the Win7 install DVD it could not repair the system.  I was about to reinstall from scratch.  Then I saw your post.  I used fdisk and set the Win7 partition active.  When I booted the system from the Win7 DVD it found the Windows partition and corrected the problem.  Now everything is working again.

Many thanks.

[Arial]

glad it save your day 

thanks for report, now I know it works for GPT too.
I think this trick also could applied to Vista.

[Blackosx]

@Arial.
I am just confirming your tip worked for me too.
Partitioned with GUID with 4 partitions Mac (HFS+), Windows (FAT) , Backup (HFS+), Data (HFS+).
Installed OSX first to Mac partition, Chameleon to EFI, then Windows 7 to Windows partition.
Then your trick to switch active partitions, repair etc..

Thanks

[rocksteady]

I thank you too Arial for tackling this vfaq (thanks to BladeRunner + Blackosx for confirming). I'll put it in the (forthcoming - 24h/day are not enough) Tips thread.

I don't want to see any other "Help Huge prob. Chameleon does not boot my 32 OS's. Vista Problem" sort of topic.

If anyone else can come up with a similar solution (ie for Linux-based OS), please either PM me or make a thread and i'll consolidate 'em.

Cheers