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Multi-booting Windows 7
A few months ago I bought my first Apple Mac and pretty soon used Boot Camp to install Windows 7. So now, I can now dual-boot between OS-X and Windows. Along the way there've been a few hiccups so I decided to clone my Windows partition so that I'll have a fallback option if ever the main Windows 7 partition refuses to boot. The Mac's (GPT) partition table now looks like this:-
In order to make partition 4 bootable I assumed that I'd just need to add a boot.ini file to partition 3 (which is currently the Windows boot partition). I created a boot.ini (file in C:\) with these entries:-Code:PARTITION 1) EFI primary partition (200MB) PARTITION 2) HFS primary partition (88.88GB) - Mac OS-X 10.6 UNALLOCATED) Free space (128MB) - Needed for Windows on a GPT drive PARTITION 3) NTFS primary partition (88.85GB) - Windows 7 (C: Drive) UNALLOCATED) Free space (256MB) PARTITION 4) NTFS primary partition (88.85GB) - Cloned Windows 7 partition
I also tried a slight variation on that, which looks like this:-Code:[boot loader] timeout =4 default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 7" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 7 (fallback)"
However, neither of them is giving me the usual boot menu at start up. Is there something else I need to be doing?Code:[boot loader] timeout =4 default = multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows 7" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows 7 (fallback)"