iAtkos v7 dual boot separate hard disks

[Menaced]

First of all I'm new to intalling osx on a pc! so please be patient :censored2:

 

This weekend I tried installing iAtkos v7 on my windows 7 machine and wanted to do this on a new hard drive. Most tutorials I find for dualbooting describes having win7 and osx on the same partitioned drive. I've tried using easyBCD which was described in a few tutorials but win7 does not recognize my osx drive since it's formatted for osx. I've also used the diskpart and windows repair (win7) and fdisk(osx) way to get dualboot going, which failed.

 

The installation of osx is successfull at which point setup asks me to restart to complete installation. but when I reboot, win7 boots.. every single time. I have the chameleon v2 bootloader installed but I've never seen it work. Is it possible to have a dual boot with 2 separate drives or do they have to be on a partitioned drive? I was thinking to partition the new drive for a new "dummy" win7 installation and the rest of the drive for osx so my win7 would recognize the drive but it seems a bit overkill.

 

My system is the following:

i7 920

Asus P6T SE (mobo)

6GB Kingston DDR3

Gainward GTS250

 

Since the installation succeeded I don't think it has anything to do with my hardware.

 

Anyone know what to do or what I am doing wrong?

If I'm not clear or there are any questions please shoot!

 

Thanks in advance!

[J.B]

how did you use easyBCD? it will never "recognise" your HDD inside windows so that you can read/write, you just need to use it to add an entry to the windows bootloader, easyBCD takes care of the rest.

 

to add the entry, you simply click add new entry on the left, the select OSX, and point it to the correct HDD (even if windows explorer can't see it) i THINK you also want to select EFI when making the entry

 

when you then reboot you should see a second entry at the bootloader screen instead of booting straight into windows

 

(this all assumes that you have the windows HDD in the first SATA port on your MB (i have to some degree tested all this with similar specs, see sig) if you have the OSX drive plugged in on the first port, consider using chameleon (which is easier to customise as well))

[Menaced]

Thanks for the reply!

I've tried using easyBCD the way you described (except for the EFI, I used MBR because I tried making 1 partition over the entire drive for OSX with MBR but this didn't work either) but the problem is pointing easyBCD to my HDD, since my drive does not have a drive letter when I look in computer management - disk management I see the drive but there is no name nor a drive letter pointed to this drive. And since easyBCD only lists the drive letters I can't point it towards that drive.

 

I'm at work right now so I can't post screens but maybe later tonight I'll post screen of easyBCD and disk management.

 

edit: I'm using easyBCD 2.0.2

edit 2: my win drive is SATA 1 and my OSX drive is SATA 4

[MacNutty]

Try using a single hard disk. There is problem with two hard disks.

[Menaced]

Try using a single hard disk. There is problem with two hard disks.

 

Will my theory work then, if I partition my osx drive to have a "dummy" win7 which I won't use and osx so I can point with easyBCD in my active win7 to this drive? or am I looking at it too simple?

[J.B]

i would go for the alternative scenerio i mentioned above

 

if you where to plug the OSX only drive you have made into SATA0 (the first SATA port), and install chameleon to its EFI partition, you could use that as your bootloader for all OSes (it autodetects all drives): no easyBCD needed

[Menaced]

Ok, I'll try this tomorrow and let you know how things went!