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GINTER GINTER is offline
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Default [How To] Dual Booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7 - 09-10-2009, 03:06 AM

HOW TO DUAL BOOT SNOW LEOPARD AND WINDOWS 7

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

A USB/SD INSTALLATION MEDIA OF WIN7 (how to make one, scroll down)
A USB/SD INSTALLATION MEDIA OF OSX SL PATCHED WITH THE LATEST NBM (use <...


10v SL 10.6.1 + Win 7 ENT Dual Boot | A06 to A04 BIOS | 2 GB Crucial RAM | 64 GB OCZ Vertex SSD | BlueTooth enabled and working | Sleep working (lid close/open) | Restart NOT working
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Old 10-04-2009, 01:29 PM
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Here on Video:

Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10VirUpOq8c&feature=fvw
Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwNpJEy2KA&NR=1
Part3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8mJmu7Uxo&NR=1
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Old 10-05-2009, 01:26 PM
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This is a great guide. One major issue for me. Once the Win 7 installation finishes, when it reboots, I stare at the dreaded blinking cursor. I followed the steps exactly up until that point. Any ideas here?
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Old 10-10-2009, 03:51 PM
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worked perfectly for me. Nothing to add thx!
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Old 10-11-2009, 03:36 PM
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is there any way to prepare the USB device for the Mac OS 10.6 installation without having an apple computer???

Thanks for your help!
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Old 10-15-2009, 08:04 AM
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I followed all of the steps and everything works perfectly except for after I install Windows 7. Easy BCD is all set up fine and when I choose Mac at startup from teh two choices, it loads and brings me to the grey Apple logo screen where it gets stuck =( I have tried rebooting several times and still get stuck on the Apple logo without the spinning thing below it. Any suggestions?


FIXED! (at least for now lol)
I rebooted and when it was loading (before the apple logo screen) it said "press any key for advanced options" or something along those lines. Once I pressed the "any" key =P it showed the boot media (Mac and Win7). I then pressed Tab and got to the verbose boot screen. I then typed "-v -f" and hit enter and it booted up just fine! Now to fix the sound and we should be good.

P.S. I have the Dell Mini 10v and I'm running OS 10.5.6 (couldn't get snow leopard to work)
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Old 10-16-2009, 04:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samlieber View Post
This is a great guide. One major issue for me. Once the Win 7 installation finishes, when it reboots, I stare at the dreaded blinking cursor. I followed the steps exactly up until that point. Any ideas here?
SAME HERE!!! noooooooooooooo everything was going so well
any ideas?

maybe it is the cracked version of windows 7 that causes it ?
i will try a real version and come back...
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Old 12-01-2009, 10:56 PM
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I have some problems. I have followed every guild and no dice. Everytime i try to boot to the OSX partition i get:File: \NST\nst_mac.mbr Status: 0xc00000f Info: the selected entry could not be loaded becaus the application is missing or corrupt. I have had it working before. WHAT IS THE DEAL?

---------- Post added at 04:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:19 PM ----------

I just restored my computer from an image i created in windows 7 (back when it worked) and i go to boot OSX and i get a chain error.......still no clue
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