south4769 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 i have found many tutorials on how to do this... but none that explain what to do in my position. here's is what is happening: i installed osx with chameleon in February then in June (last month) i installed on another partition... i cannot access osx because windows will boot over it because it was the last installed OS. i need to access the osx. is there a boot loader i can use? (i don't want to uninstall any of the OSes) please help! thank-you (btw my system is a dell inspiron 3520) if you need any clarification or have any questions, please ask me in a reply to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Do you try this? Dualboot Windows and OS X using Chameleon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Use your installer to boot into OS X then reinstall Charmelon. When you need to use windows, boot from System Reserved in Charmelon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south4769 Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 both of you dont understand.... i already installed windows so the first one wont work, also, i installed osx in February so i dont have the installer any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcai777 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Its not that we don't understand, you have to be more specific. You will need a Mac to install Charmelon to the hard drive again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion71au Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 You can use the Windows bootloader to chainload chameleon on your OSX volume by installing EasyBCD in Windows (link to download http://www.softpedia...s/EasyBCD.shtml ). To create an OSX entry in the Windows boot menu, Open EasyBCD and click "Add New Entry" button on left Click on the "Mac" tab under "Operating Systems", change the name to whatever you like eg "OSX Mavericks" and then select "MBR" for mode and click "Add Entry" Click on the "Edit Boot Menu" button on the left and tick which OS you want to boot by default. The timeout option can be changed to say 3 seconds to allow reasonable time to choose which OS to boot (if different to default). Finally click "Save Settings" When you reboot the computer, selecting the OSX entry from the Windows bootloader should now chainload chameleon and you should now be able to boot OSX as per normal. PS: Another method is to use cVaD's BootDiskUtility in Windows to create a bootable Clover/Chameleon USB boot disk to boot into OSX. You can also create a Mavericks USB installer in Windows with this procedure - see (GUIDE) Create Boot USB Installer OS X Mavericks on Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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