justin218 Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 At first I had this machine running dual boot OS X 10.5.6 / XP, each on a seperate hard drive. I would just change the boot order of hard drives to select an OS. However, to boot XP I had to disable AHCI in my motherboards BIOS. I could boot up this XP install just fine with VMware fusion with it seeing it as a boot camp partition. I just installed Windows 7 on a seperate partition on the same hard drive as XP and now I can boot Windows 7 without switching the AHCI mode in my BIOS. I can still boot the XP(without AHCI) as well. I choose between XP/Win7 at boot with whatever Win7 installed. Now VMware fusion can still run the original XP install if I select it, but if I select Windows 7 it will crash with a 0x0000007b BSOD. I think it is because VMware Fusion isn't set to AHCI? But I don't know how I could change that. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Clifs: 1. OS X and XP on different hard drives 2. Could boot XP with VMware Fusion no problem 3. Installed Windows 7 onto second partition on XP hard drive 4. Windows 7 crashes with a 0x0000007b BSOD in VMware Fusion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221109-vmware-fusion-3-and-a-dual-boot-xp-windows-7-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin218 Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 I booted into windows 7 with AHCI off in the motherboards BIOS, windows 7 installed some drivers, and worked fine. It still won't boot in VMware though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/221109-vmware-fusion-3-and-a-dual-boot-xp-windows-7-hard-drive/#findComment-1494812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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