I have a new pc with 1 hdd and W7 installed (preloaded) and I'm planning to add another disk (SSD) where I have BM and eCS already installed. Since I doubt that it is just to plug in the SSD disk and add W7 to BM I would appreciate some advice.
(Of course I would get lots of errors trying to boot eCS in a new system, but thats something I think I'll be able to fix later. And, yes, I've googled and found docs related to installing eCS to the same disk where W7 already exists, but I haven't found anything describing "my scenario".)
Rgds Raiko
Hi Raiko,
The only thing that I can see that might be a problem is getting BM to boot first without messing up the win7 install. You might have to use the win7 boot manager to boot BM to boot eCS.
The other thing, make sure you have the win7 DVD or recovery DVD available before you start anything. I'm currently trying to recover a win7 install for a friend who didn't have the win7 media and didn't make the recovery media before the hard disk did 'strange' things.
ivan
Sounds promising but I hope someone has made it work without using the bootmanager of W7.
(Yes, I have made double set of recovery disk since I also have a bad experience with this :-))
Quote from: Raiko on 2011.12.10, 20:03:57
I have a new pc with 1 hdd and W7 installed (preloaded) and I'm planning to add another disk (SSD) where I have BM and eCS already installed. Since I doubt that it is just to plug in the SSD disk and add W7 to BM I would appreciate some advice.
It's exactly that easy for once ;D
I have the exact setup here, so it should be easy to do.
Win 7 has no problems booting after moving disk 1 to second position here.
1) Don't touch the disk with Win 7 on it.
2) Install your SSD disk in first position.
3) If the IBM boot manager does not work, just install Air-Boot as the boot manager.
4) Add the Win 7 boot partition to Air-Boot
And that's it !!!
Here is some link from me messing around:
Dual & Triple Boot
http://www.os2notes.com/os2dualboot.html
http://www.os2notes.com/os2tripleboot.html
*** Note: I used custom install to install Win 7, so I only have one partition on my disk for Win 7. When its pre-loaded Win 7 usually has two parition, so I'm not sure how that will work. However, it should work the same way - just point Air-Boot to the small boot-partition of Win 7.
Cheers,
Greggory