Windows7 bootloader screen

[Crabhunter]

Hi everyone,

My setup has 2 hard drives, one with osx, win7 and ubuntu and the other with Win8 and OpenSuse.

I have recently had cause to recover my windows7 partition after updating osx to 10.7.3 and then having to re-run kakewalk.

After win7 had repaired itself I get a windows bootloader when I select win7 offering win7 recovered and win8 recovered.

I then have to select win7 to boot it.

I have looked in the bootup section of msconfig but there are no entries there, also the startup page in system there are no entries. I have also installed easy bcd but again it is not showing any entries.

I could "break" the system again and disconnect the win8 drive and then repair it again so that hopefully I don't get the two options again but I would like to know if there is a better way to overcome this as it will happen every time I have to re-run kakewalk.

Mike

[LatinMcG]

best u can do is keep osx on its own drive with GPT GUID style.

then keep win7,8 and linux on other 2nd drive(not same drive partitioned).

(max 4 primary partitions.. so if u need more than 4 u need to make 4th a logical not primary and add rest of partitions in logical)

 

to boot osx i use linux menu from win7 menu (that i add linux grub2 in easybcd) with a custom entry in grub for os x

 

menuentry "Mac OS X on HD1" {

insmod hfsplus

set root=(hd1)

chainloader +1

}

 

so i made my win7 the main menu with linux&osx entry taking me to linux grub menu to chose osx or linux.

 

this way if u unplug win drive osx stil has chalmeleon to boot or viseversa

[Crabhunter]

Well I have tried "breaking" my system so that I can try repairing it again but this time without the win8/Suse drive connected but it refuses to "break".

I have rerun the 10.7.3 update and then updated Kakewalk (which is how it broke last time) but it all runs perfectly.

I need to know how to get rid of that windows bootloader screen or how I can "break" my windows partition so that I can repair it.

Mike