Booting OSX Mavericks, Yosemite and Windows 7?

Booting OSX Mavericks, Yosemite and Windows 7?

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Conor D

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2,124 posts

174 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Previously I had Mavericks installed on a 1TB Harddrive with a (150GB) Bootcamp partition for Windows 7. I got a Beta copy of OSX Yosemite and created another partition (200GB) from the Mavericks space on the Hard drive. I checked the partition locations and now Mavericks is 2, Yosemite is 4 and the Bootcamp is 6.

When I hold the options screen at boot I now only get the Mavericks & Yosemite partition along with two recovery drives. I can no longer boot into Windows although the data is still accessible through finder. If I attempt to boot into the Bootcamp drive from Mavericks it will boot and then give an error saying "No bootable devices" on a black screen.

From a little reading it appears that this is something to do with the partition location and the MBR (Master Boot Record?). Is there a somewhat straight forward method to sort this out?

I have little experience with apples command line.

I guess that worst case I can clone the Bootcamp drive using winclone and recover/reinstall it once I make the permanent switch to Yosemite. I would just like to access some of my Windows programs.

supersport

4,040 posts

226 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Can't help with the problem, but that new OS looks nice some great features so looking forward to it, assuming it actually works.

Conor D

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Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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supersport said:
Can't help with the problem, but that new OS looks nice some great features so looking forward to it, assuming it actually works.
Yea, the Beta looks real nice. Going back to Mavericks it makes it feel dated, and it makes Windows feel like a dinosaur. Some music applications I use will not boot currently in Yosemite so I had to switch back.

dxg

8,120 posts

259 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Could Chameleon work? Used by hackintosh people to select boot partitions.

I know nothing about its intricacies, though.

Conor D

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dxg said:
Could Chameleon work? Used by hackintosh people to select boot partitions.

I know nothing about its intricacies, though.
I'll have a look thanks. There are some people experiencing the same issue when booting OSX/Windows/Linux but it's largely wrapping my head around the changes I need to make.