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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207514-windows-7-installed-but-cant-access-os-x/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207514-windows-7-installed-but-cant-access-os-x/#findComment-1386605 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207514-windows-7-installed-but-cant-access-os-x/#findComment-1386780 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/207514-windows-7-installed-but-cant-access-os-x/#findComment-1386790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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