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Create, use, and share multiple Boot Camp partitions
Authored by: jackwjia on Aug 09, '10 03:01:43PM

Thanks for the post! It did help me but the procedure is different on a Macpro with 2 physical hard drives when the "Possible Free Solution" is used.

The 1st hard drive has MAC os and the 2nd hard drive has a big Win 7 partition. My purpose was to shrink the Win 7 partition and create a new partition for data on the 2nd hard drive. After the Parted/rEFIt procedures, it only gave me a black screen with "Missing operating system". Try to run the windows repair disk and it can see c:\windows. When I run BOOTREC /FIXBOOT or BOOTREC /rebuildbcd, it complained that the file system is invalid.

I noticed that rEFIt partition tools only show GPT/MBR information on the 1st hard drive. No option to check the 2nd hard drive is available. What I did was to pull out the 1st hard drive and run rEFIt partition tools to sync MBR with GPR on the 2nd hard drive. Run BOOTREC /FIXBOOT and BOOTREC /rebuildbcd and Windows 7 boots successfully.



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