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Just been playing with a dual boot setup of Snow Leopard and Windows 7 64bit on the same HD (FYI I have Snow Leopard running great on a single HD and Windows 7 on another).

 

I have been trying the method posted by CoPHasor in this thread but somehow cannot get chameleon to display the Windows 7 (NTFS) partition on boot.

 

Mac boots fine and if I set the Windows 7 partition as Active using DISKPART via the Windows 7 Boot DVD that boots fine (Directly into Windows of course) so I assume both are installed ok?

 

Is there something I am doing in the wrong order or need tweaking to allow the Windows 7 partition to show up as a choice in Chameleon?

 

I also have three NTFS drives for storage and they all show up ok in Chameleon but obviously I can't boot from them.

 

 

Method Used...

You MUST have OSX and Win7 as 2 of the first THREE partitions, or else it doesn't play well.

- I installed SL, then used Disk Utility to to make a 2nd partition (for data) then a 3rd for Windows. (FAT32 with "MBR" selected in options)


- Installed Windows 7 to the 3rd partition (Making it NTFS during install)

From here only Win will boot, until we fix it.;-)
Your choice, fix it from Windows or Mac. I'd fix it from Windows since it IS running after all!
The First problem is that Windows' partition is marked as "Active" so it will lead the boot.
This section taken from devilhood's Guide to dual-booting!

- Open a shell as administrator.
CODE
DISKPART> list disk
Will show you a list of selectable disks

DISKPART> select disk n
[where n = the disk number]
Select the disk OSX and the newly installed Win7 resides

DISKPART> list partition
This will show you the partitions on your selected disk

DISKPART> select partition n
[where n = the your OSX partition]
This will specify the partition

DISKPART> active
Will make your OS X partition the first-boot active partition

DISKPART> Exit

From here you just need the bootable thumbstick with installer you used to make the hackintosh.
- Boot from the thumbstick.
- Select your Hack to boot from.
- Once booted into SL, back up your /Extra folder and run Stella's installer and point it at your Hack partition.

From here on out Chameleon should take over as boot loader and default to OSX.
Press Esc during the bootloader will let you load Windows by choosing it.
That was it. Windows 7 still boots perfectly fine, and so does OS X! (Withstanding my 10.6.2 HDMI problem lol!)

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