grimdeath9740 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 After much searching I was not able to find any recent threads to help my situation....here's what I did: I had a windows 7 installation already on my PC, resized the partition to have room for Mac OSX and installed it. Everything is working beautifully but I did have one hiccup...my bootloader. Chameleon v2 will load Mac but not my windows partition. Instead I get a windows bootloader error (see screenshot further down). I was able to fix this issue for my daily use by just repairing my windows mbr and installing easybcd, now when i boot I get a windows bootloader with windows/mac osx options. windows boots windows, mac loads chameleon v2 which then boots mac fine as always but the windows option gives the same error mentioned above (screenshot further down). I have thus installed and tried vmware, it shows my existing install as a bootcamp system and when started it shows the windows booloader but when I choose it that gives me that same bootloader error. I found this guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57632 Unfortunately on this step: here you will have a list of your partitions. Please proceed ONLY if you see the HFS+ partition flagged with the * symbol. my fdisk does not show the HFS+ flagged with *, no further details are given as to what to do to correct this. Not sure if that is important to this situation. Anyways Here's the screenshot I keep getting: My guess is whatever is effecting Chameleon is keeping vmware from booting properly, if I could fix that perhaps it would get past this part. Any suggestions? All help is appreciated...I may never need to go into windows if I get this working *edit* the error shown when I try and boot windows from Chameleon is slightly different but the same error code. it points to a winload.exe file?..here's a screenshot of what I get with that: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176932-vmware-with-existing-non-bootcamp-partition-almost-working-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimdeath9740 Posted July 31, 2009 Author Share Posted July 31, 2009 its been a couple days so I thought I would give this a bump. I work as a web designer and was really hopping to get IE working in unity mode for testing pages. seems silly to setup a virtual machine when I have a perfectly capable partition just sitting there! thanks again for any help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176932-vmware-with-existing-non-bootcamp-partition-almost-working-need-help/#findComment-1213620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Progressive Pirate Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 I was getting the same error. I discovered it was due to Windows 7 200MB recovery partition. See my post here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=180580 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176932-vmware-with-existing-non-bootcamp-partition-almost-working-need-help/#findComment-1229674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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