[Alcapowned]

**Update** Many thanks to all who made suggestions to improve this guide. I have made some small changes to the instructions in an attempt to incorporate them. Please note that I have NOT tested this with NBM 0.8.3 RC4 (or with RC3 for that matter) so my changes are based solely on other peoples...

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[JoshMcMadMac]

Originally Posted by Skuzzle

Ughhh..

After Step 9. My "Windows USB Key" fails to boot up.
I have to then reformat and reinstall Windows 7 on my key using "A Bootable USB". Then I'm able to go on to Step 10.

Finally Success.

I had the same issue, several times. After step 8, exit out of the Windows Installer, reboot, then go straight to the repair. What occurs is that in step 7 you are setting the active partition back to the Windows partition. However, this is not active until after rebooting. If you do not reboot, the repair utility "fixes" the boot disk!

Here are the key points I have found to make this work:

• You must install SL, but not allow it to restart and finish the installation until after Windows 7 is sorted out. I tried adding Windows 7 with SL already up and running. Chameleon would never find Windows 7, no matter what I tried.
• It was much easier for me to use the command prompt in Windows to change the active partition. It was also crucial for me to have the two partitions sized differently; that way there was absolutely no confusion for me! A lot of the guides use "sudo" instead of "cmd" and there were times when I could not be certain which partition number was actually correct.
• I could not get success in having a third partition for files. I partitioned three from the beginning through SL, but in order for it to be active/accessible through Windows required a change to dynamic disk. This FUBAR'd the SL install. I am still looking into the best way to access the Windows 7 partition from SL, but am okay with it.

Knowing the above, this method worked!

[lfzguud]

Sir, you are awesome for putting this guide on here.
Thanks to your guide (and bits and pieces from a dozen others) I am now up and running dual booting on a 10v, 2gb ram, 320gb (7200) hard drive, 6 cell battery MACHINE!!

There is nothing like being able to choose 10.6.2 or Win7 ultimate on the same machine. Thanks!!!

[unclemiltie]

I'm having a bit of trouble with this guide....

I've got to the point where I have Windows7 and MacOS Snow Leopard installed on two partitions. I have the Chameleon boot manager installed in teh active EFI partition and can boot MacOS just fine.

But I can't boot Windows.

I followed the guide to set the Windows partition active and then to "repair" but the repair seemed to do something to the USB stick. When I boot with Chameleon I still get the 0xc000000e boot error.

However, when I boot the USB stick with the Windows installer on it, it boots my windows parition and not the Windows installer. The Windows partition boots just fine then and all is well, but

(1) the USB stick is messed up (I rebuilt it once and did this again and got the same results)

(2) the Windows partition won't boot unless I boot the USB stick


I'm soooooo close here. Thoughts?

[unclemiltie]

ok, after reading further I found that I had to reboot before doing the "repair" so I rebuilt my USB stick for Win7, booted, changed the active partition, rebooted and then did the repair. Same results. It' "repaired" the USB stick and I still have the boot error when I try to boot Windows. Was able to repair this with NetbookInstaller from my Snow Leopard stick but can't figure out how to get dual-boot to work.

ideas?

[physio101]

hi i have downloaded a retail copy.. and its named: Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg 6.13 GB
so i doubt is how do i get this running on my 10v as i dont have a mac to make the initial changes with net boot maker and the prob is due the the place i live, nobody uses mac ;-)... plz hekp me out on this.... thanks

[DashBoard Jesus]

Originally Posted by JoshMcMadMac

I had the same issue, several times. After step 8, exit out of the Windows Installer, reboot, then go straight to the repair. What occurs is that in step 7 you are setting the active partition back to the Windows partition. However, this is not active until after rebooting. If you do not reboot, the repair utility "fixes" the boot disk!

This was CRUCIAL info. Thank you.

[Equusz]

Al -

Thanks for the great tutorial. I've got it so Win 7 and OS X will boot. However, like a couple previous posters, I don't get an option of which to boot into, it goes straight to the OS X partition. I rebooted with the OS X flash drive and pulled up NBI from the utilities menu, but it says "toggle Quiet Boot (currently disabled)". So it seems like Quiet Boot is not on. The only time I get a choice of partitions is when I boot from the flash drive...then I can select Windows NTFS to boot from. Should I re-run NBI with that checkbox checked, or with everything checked, or...?

Thanks!

Equusz