windows 7 boot loader

[pilar]

Hello everyone,

 

Up until now I had a perfect triple boot system (leopard, snow, winXP) on a single drive.

 

For the past weeks Ive been trying to replace XP with windows 7 and so far have failed miserably.

 

Here's my latest non-working method:

 

One hd with 3 partitions.

1. Snow leopard

2. Leopard

3. Windows 7

 

I first copy 1&2 using carbon copy cloner to the first 2 partitions, and format the 3rd as Fat32

Install Chameleon rc4 in Snow.

Everything so far is normal...

Boot win7 DVD, format the 3rd partition as NTFS and proceed with the install .

After all is done, win7 loads when computer starts which of course is normal.

 

So, how do I make Chameleon default again without screwing win's bootloader?

 

What I tried to do, since only making partition 1 active resulted in cursor flashing and nothing more, was resetting the mbr

(fdisk -u) which resulted in chameleon working again but when I choose windows, it says it cnt load because a component is missing etc. I also tried fixing windows through the install DVD(bootrec /fixmbr etc) but it didnt help.

 

Thanks

[Peter Saldanha]

Well, Windows boot loader is far different from XP's boot loader and therefore it doesn't work, oh and btw, did you use Mac boot loader to boot the three OS or did you use XP's boot loader to boot the other two OS Xs?

 

One more thing use easyBCD(google it) to help you, it really does help you and it has mac support

[pilar]

My bad, I didnt notice this thread: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197463

which had the answer.

The reason I couldnt fix the windows bootloader was because the partition wasnt active(needs to be when you fix the bootloader, then using diskpart you can

re-activate the chameleon one, in my case the one that has snow leopard as well)

 

So yeah, no need for easyBCD or whatever, everything works like a charm...