Bansaku Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 I just installed Windows 8 on a new, separate SSD drive. I thought I was being smart by un-plugging every HDD except for the destination volume. Installation went fine, and surprisingly fast for Windows. I plugged my other drives back in and restarted back into OS X. Here is the problem; I can not boot into Windows 7 (also on a separate HDD) from the Chameleon OS select screen. No matter which Windows volume I select, it will always boot into Windows 8. I find this behaviour rather odd, as Windows 8 was installed essentially on a lone volume. From what I read after researching on Google, Windows 8 will present a choice of which Windows you would like to boot in. However, this only happens if at the time of installation the Windows 7 drive/partition was present. As well, I could care less if I am able to select the Windows 7/8 drive from the BIOS and boot with desired results; It defeats the purpose of using Chameleon... Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.H Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Use EasyBCD to manually add an entry for windows7 in windows8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansaku Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Awesome, that worked...kind of anyway. After selecting Windows 7 the system restarts again and then I can boot into Windows 7. Somewhat annoying but at least it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.H Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Awesome, that worked...kind of anyway. After selecting Windows 7 the system restarts again and then I can boot into Windows 7. Somewhat annoying but at least it works. Yep, that seems to be bug of chameleon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansaku Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Simply installing (updating) Windows 8 over Windows 7 would solve the problem. I only use Windows for games, and unfortunately I don't have the disc/installers for some of my installed games (sold, lent out and never returned, etc.). Therefore I can't play several titles on a fresh install. However I am not going to, yet; Many games are crashing/hanging up Windows 8, even after a fresh re-install. As usual, Micro$oft gives the software vendors the double bird and releases their next OS with several problems and bugs. Never have I had a System crash as many times as Windows 8 has. This includes running Lion on AMD based systems! Nice eh?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnfesq Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Did you try reinstalling Chameleon? Usually it looks for OS installations when you install it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bansaku Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 Did you try reinstalling Chameleon? Usually it looks for OS installations when you install it. Yup, it was the first thing I did. At first I tried Chameleon Wizard, then installer.pkg, then manual. However, I did fix Windows 8 booting by default in EasyBCD and having to restart after selecting Windows 7. I had a brainstorm and decided to make Windows 7 the default OS; I still have the Windows Bootloader screen (plain text VS the nice Windows 8 GUI...meh), regardless of which drive I select at the Chameleon OS select, however after selecting either W7 or W8, it jumps right into the startup without a restart. I just hide one of the Windows drives to make things easier. I can live with having to hit Enter 1 more time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer2333 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Installed W8 over my W7 separate HDD and directly detected by chameleon (any version). Boot times : W8 = 5seconds, ML = 35sec lol, sucks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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