How do I setup a Successful Dual Boot of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard?

[Artmuzz]

Hi,

 

I have created 3 partitions on disk utility and successfully installed Snow Leopard. Now my hope is to now install Windows 7 on the other partition so I can dual boot into either Snow Leopard or Windows 7.

 

How do I go about doing this without Windows 7 deleting Chameleon v2 boot and Chameleon v2 deleting Windows 7 boot when I reinstall Chameleon?

 

Please advise

 

 

Art

[Comodin]

Hi Artmuzz,

 

I have dual boot (Snow & Win 7) on one hackintosh. This is what I did.

 

First I created 3 partition with GUID on Snow Installer and Installed Snow.

On Snow I formated the future Win 7 partition with FAT.

I let snow without installing a bootloader.

Next proceeded to install Win 7 on the selected partition.

Once installed Windows I used "diskpart" to set the efi partition as active.

Then I used my Snow Installer to boot on Snow partition, and then finally installed Chameleon.

Chameleon then recognizes and boot both operating systems.

 

Good Luck. Greetings from Ecuador;

 

Comodin.

[starkwong]

I used the same method too, just used MBR instead of GUID partition.

However note that don't let Windows 7 to repartition, if the win7 bootloader is installed to the 100MB partition, then multiboot won't work.

[mic.mac.hack]

I dualboot Windows 7 and Snow Leopardone my 1TB hard drive using EasyBCD. I tried and tried to make it work with Chameleon but was forever unsuccessful. I installed (CCCed) Snow Leopard onto the first partition, installed Chameleon RC3, installed Windows 7 then installed EasyBCD from Windows 7 to play with the boot order. Works perfectly!

[Artmuzz]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

I tried EasyBCD but it didn't work...All I got was a ChainBoot Error when I selected Mac OSX on the boot up. I then tried Acronis Disk Director 10 but that refuses to work on GUID Partitions.

 

@ Comodin On diskpart what command do I write to make partition active?

 

I will try you guys instructions and see if that will work but Windows 7 refuses to install on GUID partitions when I set partition as GUID on Snow Leopard disk utility. Help!!

 

Cheers

 

Art

[Comodin]

Hi,

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

I tried EasyBCD but it didn't work...All I got was a ChainBoot Error when I selected Mac OSX on the boot up. I then tried Acronis Disk Director 10 but that refuses to work on GUID Partitions.

 

@ Comodin On diskpart what command do I write to make partition active?

 

I will try you guys instructions and see if that will work

 

Cheers

 

Art

 

Hi Art,

 

Well, it's so easy.

 

You run diskpart. When you got "DISKPART>" on the command line, you type "list disk".

It displays your hard drives. You choose the one you like to configure typing "select disk X".

X = your disk number. Usually number 0. One you got the message that disk X is selected, type "list partition".

It shows your hard drives' partitions. You select the EFI partition exactly like you selected your disk X.

Usually number 1 (it has 200 MB). You have to type "select partition X".

Once you got the message that partition X is selected, just type "Active", and diskpart will tell you partition X is now active.

 

Close diskpart and restart, it should work.

 

Good Luck;

 

Comodin.

[Artmuzz]

Hi Art,

 

Well, it's so easy.

 

You run diskpart. When you got "DISKPART>" on the command line, you type "list disk".

It displays your hard drives. You choose the one you like to configure typing "select disk X".

X = your disk number. Usually number 0. One you got the message that disk X is selected, type "list partition".

It shows your hard drives' partitions. You select the EFI partition exactly like you selected your disk X.

Usually number 1 (it has 200 MB). You have to type "select partition X".

Once you got the message that partition X is selected, just type "Active", and diskpart will tell you partition X is now active.

 

Close diskpart and restart, it should work.

 

Good Luck;

 

Comodin.

 

Thanks Comodin for your help. The only problem I have is that Windows 7 refuses to install on GUID partitions.

 

 

Art

[Comodin]

Thanks Comodin for your help. The only problem I have is that Windows 7 refuses to install on GUID partitions.

 

 

Art

 

I have done it. You just have to define as FAT your partition when you create it on disk utility (from the beginning). Then format FAT on disk utility on Snow working. Then format again on Win7 installer but this time NTFS. It will let you install then.

 

Regards;

 

Comodin.

[Artmuzz]

I managed to install Windows 7 and do open diskpart to make EFI active but it doesn't work. When I reboot I get a message telling me that "missing operating system" Then I did what you told me to do but when I boot into Mac OSX install CD there doesn't seem to be a OS selection to choose from. it just hangs on "Loading Darwin/x86". Then when I try another way by selecting rd=diskx when booting from Mac OSX CD it just hangs on the white window with the grey apple logo.

 

 

Art

[Comodin]

It doesn't work. When I reboot I get a message telling me that "missing operating system" Then I did what you told me to do but when I boot into Mac OSX install CD there doesn't seem to be a OS selection to choose from. it just hangs on "Loading Darwin/x86". Then when I try another way by selecting rd=diskx when booting from Mac OSX CD it just hangs on the white window with the grey apple logo.

 

 

Art

 

It says "missing operating system" because you haven't installed the boot loader yet. You have to boot from a USB with a custom bootloader and then install the boot loader on your Snow disk.

 

Regards;

 

Comodin.

[Artmuzz]

It says "missing operating system" because you haven't installed the boot loader yet. You have to boot from a USB with a custom bootloader and then install the boot loader on your Snow disk.

 

Regards;

 

Comodin.

 

 

So do I have to put Chameleon 2 rc3-Bin onto a USB drive to boot Snow Leopard?

 

 

Art

[Comodin]

So do I have to put Chameleon 2 rc3-Bin onto a USB drive to boot Snow Leopard?

 

 

Art

 

Yup. Because, as I told you in my first post, you don't have to install a boot loader in your snow partition. You use the USB drive to boot on your snow partition, and then proceed to install de bootloader, which should recognize your Win 7 installation.

 

Good luck,

 

Comodin.

[Artmuzz]

Yup. Because, as I told you in my first post, you don't have to install a boot loader in your snow partition. You use the USB drive to boot on your snow partition, and then proceed to install de bootloader, which should recognize your Win 7 installation.

 

Good luck,

 

Comodin.

 

Thank you Comodin for the help. I have managed to get it working Now I can dual boot Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard and Windows 7 64bit on my Dell Hackintosh

 

Cheers

 

Art

[Comodin]

Thank you Comodin for the help. I have managed to get it working Now I can dual boot Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard and Windows 7 64bit on my Dell Hackintosh

 

Cheers

 

Art

 

So glad to hear that, enjoy your hackintosh.

 

Regards;

 

Comodin.

[syruf]

.. i tried a bunch of things to dual boot with win 7 but kept getting "Missing operating system" on hard drive boot after windows was installed...

 

easybcd method above worked in a snap...

[TheDon]

Can this be done with 2 partitions? I just installed Snow Leapard on partition 1 and partition 2 is still fat32.

But I already have chameleon rc3 installed.

When I tried with 3 partitions, I couldnt get the extra extensions kext to load from the partition 1 with snow on partition 2. Or maybe I was doing somethign wrong that i figured out later.

[laker2834]

So how do we go about doing this?

[karim4471]

Hi mate thanks for ur explanations.pls can u help me to dualboot mac and seven what am i doing wrong i followed the steps u describe but i'm still booting my mac with pcefi disc thanks for help.

[Raffaell]

Hi Artmuzz,

 

I have dual boot (Snow & Win 7) on one hackintosh. This is what I did.

 

First I created 3 partition with GUID on Snow Installer and Installed Snow.

On Snow I formated the future Win 7 partition with FAT.

I let snow without installing a bootloader.

Next proceeded to install Win 7 on the selected partition.

Once installed Windows I used "diskpart" to set the efi partition as active.

Then I used my Snow Installer to boot on Snow partition, and then finally installed Chameleon.

Chameleon then recognizes and boot both operating systems.

 

Good Luck. Greetings from Ecuador;

 

Comodin.

 

Hi Comodin,

 

I would like to say thanks to your guide, its really work and really appreciate it...

I doing exactly like the setup you have because I want to use OSX as my primary OS.

And now I can dual boot Win7 and OSX with Chameleon which is my fav boot loader...

 

One different steps thing is..

 

After I install the chameleon, I have to make it active to the OSX partition, not the EFI (EFI activated on WIndows then Activated again OSX partition in OSX).

I dunno why, If I use on EFI, it will show blank prompt..

 

Then I just refresh all the kext in extra dirs, and update with kext utility...

 

Reboot and work like a charm....

 

I will never forget for your kind to share to this forum..

 

Regards,

Greets from Indonesia...

 

Come to my country, Ill serve u good chick...Hahaha

[karim4471]

Hi please can some one help to dualboot cos i've followed the tuto above but when i finish i don't see seven on the boot screen i have a P5Q-EM motherboard

[Comodin]

Hi Comodin,

 

I would like to say thanks to your guide, its really work and really appreciate it...

I doing exactly like the setup you have because I want to use OSX as my primary OS.

And now I can dual boot Win7 and OSX with Chameleon which is my fav boot loader...

 

One different steps thing is..

 

After I install the chameleon, I have to make it active to the OSX partition, not the EFI (EFI activated on WIndows then Activated again OSX partition in OSX).

I dunno why, If I use on EFI, it will show blank prompt..

 

Then I just refresh all the kext in extra dirs, and update with kext utility...

 

Reboot and work like a charm....

 

I will never forget for your kind to share to this forum..

 

Regards,

Greets from Indonesia...

 

Come to my country, Ill serve u good chick...Hahaha

 

Hi Raffaell,

 

Grateful people like you make this community awesome. Maybe some day I will visit your country, it's a great one. If you come to Ecuador, don't hesitate to call me.

 

Regards,

 

Comodin.