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Windows 8.1 Dual Boot Problem


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Hello All,

 

Just few weeks ago, I had swapped both my Motherboard and CPU on my desktop from an AMD F 6300 and ASRock 970 Motherboard to an Intel i5 4590 and Gigabyte GA-z97-d3h for the sake of having full compatibility of OS X.

 

My issue here is that, I had originally installed Windows 8.1 (in legacy) on an old 1 TB Hard Drive. I just bought a 500GB SSD with the idea of installing Windows OS and all applications on the SSD, and convert the old 1 TB Hard Drive as a storage drive. My OS X Partition is installed on a separate SSD.

 

So here is my problem, when I boot into Windows 8.1, it shows me the regular Windows loading logo, bu than the screen goes black, no idea why. I was hoping someone here can help me out on this as I really need to access my old Windows partition.

 

Furthermore, another question I have is whether I should reinstall Windows entirely, or use the Data Migration Tool Samsung provides for the Windows partition. Would love any help on this topic.

 

Thanks!

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You have to reinstall Windows over hdd because you have changed Hw so your installation is no more valid.

 

Other option is to inject new HW drivers ( in particular cpu and motherboard layer).

In the past i use this hint to recover a windows7 installation in which i have changed MB and i wouldn't reinstall all the OS.

Search on the web .

 

See Ya

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You have to reinstall Windows over hdd because you have changed Hw so your installation is no more valid.

 

Other option is to inject new HW drivers ( in particular cpu and motherboard layer).

In the past i use this hint to recover a windows7 installation in which i have changed MB and i wouldn't reinstall all the OS.

Search on the web .

 

See Ya

 

How is my installation not valid? I am able to boot into Windows just fine when I set the Hard Drive that is installed on as the primary boot device under BIOS.

 

Disabling the Internal GPU allows me to boot to Windows 8.1 and OS X from Clover, not sure how though... I am assuming reinstalling Windows would be my best bet if I want to keep the Internal GPU on, correct?

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If you can boot in Windows 8.1 disabling internal graphics card, you can try to install the correct drivers from web for Intel HD 4600, re-enable GPU and see if it works.

 

BTW Last chance is to reinstall windows

 

I had installed the Intel HD 4600 Drivers, but that didn't do any luck :(

 

I have went ahead and installed a fresh copy of Windows 8 onto my SSD, so I will have to reinstall all the applicaitons and so on, but have to make sure I can boot up with Windows.

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So just an update here:

 

I went ahead and had installed Windows 8 (I cannot install Windows 8.1 as my license key only works for Windows 8, so I will have to update to Windows 8.1, and to Windows 10, all in that order...).

 

Anywho, I completed the installation, and started setting up my Windows install. What I completely forgot was that this would delete my Clover bootloader, so I had reinstalled Clover bootloader, but now I am running into an issue where Windows will no longer boot as it says windows.efi is missing/broken.

 

Was there a proper "How-To" install for installing Windows alongside OS X via Clover?

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