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Setup & Installation / Re: Problem with Win 7 and ArcaOS 5.3 installation
« on: November 17, 2019, 03:24:55 pm »
Thomas:
I take it you are trying to set up dual boot on a large HDD or SSD, a task that I've found frustrating. Your opening post suggests you have started off well, you made your drive a Master Boot Record (MBR) drive. That's not just a good start, it is a necessary start. ArcaOS, eCS and OS/2 currently must be installed on a MBR drive so you will need to install Windows on a MBR drive if you want dual boot Windows 7 and ArcaOS. However, when I have installed Windows in the same order as you I get similar problems.
Here is my work-arrouund:
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_tame_Win_7_%28written_for_eCS_2.0%29
I take it you are trying to set up dual boot on a large HDD or SSD, a task that I've found frustrating. Your opening post suggests you have started off well, you made your drive a Master Boot Record (MBR) drive. That's not just a good start, it is a necessary start. ArcaOS, eCS and OS/2 currently must be installed on a MBR drive so you will need to install Windows on a MBR drive if you want dual boot Windows 7 and ArcaOS. However, when I have installed Windows in the same order as you I get similar problems.
Here is my work-arrouund:
- Use two HDDs or SDDs, your large dual-boot drive and a smaller drive, The size of the smaller drive should at least be as large as the size of the partition onto which you plan to install Windows on the dual-boot drive;
- Set-up both drives asMBR drives
- Install ArcaOS in a logical volume at the end of your large HDD, but leave free space in the front of your large HDD that will be large enough for your planned Windows 7 partition (plan to make the Windows 7 partition a primary partition);
- Install Windows 7 on the smaller MBR drive;
- Note the size off the two primary partitions Windows 7 sets up on your smaller MBR drive. You will only need the large partition if you make it directly bootable;
- Next, you "must install the windows boot support to the C: drive, so that it can boot, without using the hidden partition.
Open a Command line, by selecting Start-> All programs-> Accessories-> RMB click on the Command Prompt item-> Click on Run as administrator. The command line should open.
Type the command:
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
It should install successfully"; - Test this partition on the smaller HDD
- Creat a primary partition in the free space in the front of your larger HDD, a partition that is slightly larger that the Windows 7 partition on your smaller HDD;
- Use DFSee to clone Windows 7 partition from the smaller HDD to into the new new empty partition your large HDD. Be sure you clone the Windows7 partition not the whole drive.
- Use the ArcaOS installation/maintenance DVD to reinstall MBR on your larger HDD;
- Boot up AIR Boot, select and boot up your Windows 7 partition and you should be set -to-go.]
https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_tame_Win_7_%28written_for_eCS_2.0%29