Stuck on Windows7

[Motawa]

Hey.

 

I did an succesfully retail install from mac os x (10.6.0)

 

Then i made a partition with ntfs on mac and installed windows 7 on in.

 

 

 

But now my computer boots up on windows 7. How can i change it?

 

 

Tried easy bcd, but jus causes an chain boot blabla eror.

[ariadri]

Hey.

 

I did an succesfully retail install from mac os x (10.6.0)

 

Then i made a partition with ntfs on mac and installed windows 7 on in.

 

 

 

But now my computer boots up on windows 7. How can i change it?

 

 

Tried easy bcd, but jus causes an chain boot blabla eror.

 

simplest way is to

get a copy of linux distro (ubuntu is simplest in my opininon)

goto gpart in ubuntu

select the partition where osx is intalled

right click select (manage flags)

select (boot)

then reboot

good luck

[Motawa]

Dont think its gonna work. because i guess easybcd is kinda like the same.

 

 

 

Isnt there a way to burn chameleon rc3 on a dvd and just boot then?

[akadis]

Maybe that could help you

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1306772

 

greets

 

 

 

Dont think its gonna work. because i guess easybcd is kinda like the same.

 

 

 

Isnt there a way to burn chameleon rc3 on a dvd and just boot then?

[srs5694]

My suggestion is to re-install an OSx86 boot loader (Chameleon, PC-EFI, Boot Think, etc.). There are several ways to do this, mostly involving booting an OS X install disc and using the Terminal application to run the boot loader's install program or procedure. I believe there's a Boot Think installer that runs in Windows, though, which might be handy for your situation.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Hey.

 

I did an succesfully retail install from mac os x (10.6.0)

 

Then i made a partition with ntfs on mac and installed windows 7 on in.

 

 

 

But now my computer boots up on windows 7. How can i change it?

 

 

Tried easy bcd, but jus causes an chain boot blabla eror.

 

I successfully used tboot. copy that file onto the boot partition. make a boot.ini and add the following line to it:

c:\tboot="Leopard"

your boot.ini should look like this:

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=c:\tboot
[operating systems]
c:\tboot="Leopard"

you also need ntldr from xp in the root of the boot partition.

 

tboot will pick up the OSX partition and show it in the 7 bootloader. Necessary files attached. No reason to reinstall. A third party bootloader should also do the trick (acronis, chameleon). Very safe, you can't break anything with it.

 

good luck.

tboot_files.rar

[juanerson]

I successfully used tboot. copy that file onto the boot partition. make a boot.ini and add the following line to it:

c:\tboot="Leopard"

your boot.ini should look like this:

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=c:\tboot
[operating systems]
c:\tboot="Leopard"

you also need ntldr from xp in the root of the boot partition.

 

tboot will pick up the OSX partition and show it in the 7 bootloader. Necessary files attached. No reason to reinstall. A third party bootloader should also do the trick (acronis, chameleon). Very safe, you can't break anything with it.

 

good luck.

 

Thanks TheGreatDeceiver, this worked perfect for me... Thank you very much!

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Thanks TheGreatDeceiver, this worked perfect for me... Thank you very much!

 

great! I am glad it is working for you. I was already wondering about the silence in this thread

[coachabower]

Very simple, from windows you can use the command prompt to open diskpart.

 

Just go to run->cmd

in the window type diskpart

 

when disk part opens type: select disk 0

hit enter

type: list partition

hit enter

from this list determine which partition is the mac os partition

type: select partition X X=whichever partition is your mac one

hit enter

type: active

hit enter

type: exit

 

when you reboot you'll be sent to the mac partition, as long as you have a mac bootloader installed you can use it to get back into windows when you want to.

[CurlyCarlos]

TheGreatDeceiver, do you add the tboot file in Leopard or Windows? I'd like to try this and I'm a bit confused.

[TheGreatDeceiver]

TheGreatDeceiver, do you add the tboot file in Leopard or Windows? I'd like to try this and I'm a bit confused.

all the files go to the windows boot partition.

good luck

[Paresh P]

Hi,

 

Could someone also throw some light on how a Vista user should work with this problem?

I also tried EasyBCD, and now the OSX option gives chain boot error...

 

Also, when I go and make the OSX partition the default boot drive, the system fails to pick anything (in terms of boot sequences etc on the disk)... I have to go back to booting from C: i.e. Vista...

 

How can I get back to osx, what needs fixing here?

I am thinking that it has certainly something to do with EasyBCD, and it could BCD could not possibly have written/changed anything on the HFS+ partition... Ergo, we might be able to think of a way to fix it... Any ideas?...

 

Appreciate any and all help... Cheers!

[slimgym]

Sounds like you need to repeat the part that installs the Chameleon boot loader (i.e. the boot1h and dd if= parts).

 

I bought a second Wind and intended to mess with it whilst keeping my old U100 booting XP.

 

In the end I partitioned into three 20G partitions, installed Win7 into the first partition (NTFS), installed OSX into the third partition (HFS+) and used gparted live to copy the entire XP partition from my old U100 to the new one in the 2nd partition (NTFS). The final 100GB partition is a FAT32 share to go between all partitions.

 

On completing the OSX SL install I now have Chameleon boot loader offering me up Win7, XP and OSX, all work perfectly. Win7 boots with it's system on C: and XP shows up as D:, when I boot into XP, that has it's local drive as C: and the Win7 partition as D:. I had to load the XP registry hive under Win7 and change a key to swap around the C: and D: drives but I'm very happy the way things turned out (details on this here).

 

To save my bacon I use the bootable gparted to copy entire partitions to an external USB HDD so any failure on a single partition is childs play to recover from.

[trech]

all the files go to the windows boot partition.

good luck

 

On Windows 7, there is a small 100mb or 200mb hidden drive that is created upon install. That small partition is the boot partition. So one would have to go into the windows disk management tool and give it a drive letter to make it visible. Once I put the files into that partition, everything boots like a champ.

[Paresh P]

On Windows 7, there is a small 100mb or 200mb hidden drive that is created upon install. That small partition is the boot partition. So one would have to go into the windows disk management tool and give it a drive letter to make it visible. Once I put the files into that partition, everything boots like a champ.

can someone throw some light on how I could achieve this, i.e. make this hidden boot partition visible...?

[croquet]

I successfully used tboot. copy that file onto the boot partition. make a boot.ini and add the following line to it:

c:\tboot="Leopard"

your boot.ini should look like this:

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
 [boot loader]
 timeout=5
 default=c:\tboot
 [operating systems]
 c:\tboot="Leopard"

you also need ntldr from xp in the root of the boot partition.

 

tboot will pick up the OSX partition and show it in the 7 bootloader. Necessary files attached. No reason to reinstall. A third party bootloader should also do the trick (acronis, chameleon). Very safe, you can't break anything with it.

 

good luck.

 

Sorry for reopening this thread. I just wanted to thank so so much to Mr TheGreatDeceive for pointing out this fantastic solution.

Thanks a trillion man! I decided to give hackintosh a try but wrongly installed Snow Leopard prior to Windows 7.

With your solution I managed to get OSX back along with Windows 7 side by side.

 

Thank you, thank you and thank you.

 

@Paresh P

Maybe what worked for me might work for you too.

1. Log into your Windows 7
   
2. Download the tboot.rar shared by super TheGreatDeceive
   
3. Extract the three files onto your Windows hard drive (for example C:\)
   
4. Note that if your Windows 7 hard drive letter is different from C: you will have to modify the boot.ini file provided in the .rar with your letter.
   

Hope it helps!

[TheGreatDeceiver]

Sorry for reopening this thread. I just wanted to thank so so much to Mr TheGreatDeceive for pointing out this fantastic solution.

Thanks a trillion man! I decided to give hackintosh a try but wrongly installed Snow Leopard prior to Windows 7.

With your solution I managed to get OSX back along with Windows 7 side by side.

 

wow, didn't know this is still necessary. I thought Chameleon will take care of all this. Isn't there a windows installation for Chameleon? e.g. here. there are likely newer versions, didn't look hard enough.

good to see it works

cheers