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Dual booting starting with a HDD already running Windows


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Hello all,

 

I have a 500 gb HDD that is currently dual booting XP and Win7, and fully functioning.

 

On a 120 gb HDD I have OS X running alone, flawlessly.

 

As a backup measure, I copied an image of the OS X onto my 500 gb HDD, to a partition formatted as OS Extended journaled.

 

Now I wanted to see if I could boot to OS X from the 500 gb HDD, so I installed EasyBCD on Win7, and added a generic OS X system. Saved it.

 

Now when I boot, I can see the option of booting to the OS X. It will even boot up, but it doesn't run all the drivers at start up, so that I'm missing keyboard, trackpad, and graphics.

 

When I try to reinstall the kexts and rebuild caches and repair permissions, the OS X is no longer bootable.

 

I wonder if this is because the 500 gb HDD isn't partitioned using the GUID scheme? Does OS X require it to run properly?

 

When I run the disk utility on OS X on the 120 gb HDD that's working, I notice that there's a hidden EFI partition with 200 mb stored on the HDD, disk0s1. This partition is missing on the 500 gb HDD, so I guess I'm perplexed as to why OS X would boot at all?

 

can anyone help me get my head around this? I've been hackintoshing for just 2 weeks, so please help me out.

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if you get back to the point, where you have 2 HDDs which are both working fine as you describe, you could try plugging the OSX HDD in the first SATA slot on your MB and the windows HDD in the second, and boot into OSX. from there install chameleon to the EFI partition (use the guides that come with it etc.) when thats done, you should be able to boot into the chameleon bootloader, where you will have the option to boot OSX or windows (this is the kind of set up i have anyway and it works)

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