drew22mader Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 About a year ago I installed OS X and dual booted it with XP. I upgraded to Vista and then lost my ability to boot into OS X. I upgraded now to Windows 7 and still haven't been able to boot into my OS X install. Is there a quick fix for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V1nc3nt Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I guess this way will work: Boot Win7 and go to Control Panel... Go to Management -> Computer Management Go to Volume Management Rightclick the Partition with OSX on it... Should be an Unnamed Partition with HSFJ. Right Click -> Set Partition as Active Now reboot. It should start Mac OS X. Install Chameleon Bootloader in Mac OS X. Reboot again, and you have a fine boot menu, where you can choose whether to boot Mac OS X or Win 7. I'm not quite sure, whether all thesee "Names" are right, cause I have an german Windows, and whether it works, because I have OS X and Win on seperate partitions, but it should and its all undoable with Win7 Installation- and some Linux Boot DVD... Hope, I was able to help you, V1nc3nt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew22mader Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 Vincent, thanks for trying to help me, appreciate it. However, I found that all I needed to do was install Easy BCD and add the Generic OS X back to the boot loader and it boots up perfect again. Almost a year since I have had OS X running, man I missed it. However now i'm only running 10.5.4 I need to update this to the latest install to install new programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V1nc3nt Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Vincent, thanks for trying to help me, appreciate it. However, I found that all I needed to do was install Easy BCD and add the Generic OS X back to the boot loader and it boots up perfect again. Thanx for your help man... I didnt know that I was able to add Mac OS X to BCD... However, I find Chameleon (because of Themes, full definition, etc.) much more nicer than BCE, so I will continue using it... Good luck with updating, V1nc3nt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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