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Running Windows on your Mac
Struggling with Win 7 Bootcamped then pulled into Mac via Parallels VM
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1109188" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>You definitely have a rather complicated problem here. Let's address the Windows installation and what may have happened. Parallels is not going to work right until that is resolved.</p><p></p><p>My guess is that because the XP boot sector and Win 7 boot sectors are different, that during the install process something got overwritten. I find it strange that you had to have XP installed before Win 7 Pro would install. There is no way that XP can be upgraded to Win 7 (according to MS). Win 7 would have had to do a clean install over XP which makes it kind of senseless to have XP installed in the first place.</p><p></p><p>It looks like you're able to boot to your MacIntosh HD since you seemed to have installed Parallels. However, you indicate that your MacIntosh HD is listed as EFI? A normal MacIntosh HD OS X factory installation contains two partitions: One small partition of 200 MB (EFI) and the remaining partition which contains the operating system and applications.</p><p></p><p>Your MacIntosh HD should not be listed as EFI. I have used CCC many times to clone a smaller HD to a larger and have never seen that happen. I suspect something went wrong there. I'm at a loss as to how to resolve this without starting over. That would mean reinstalling everything including your Mac operating system.</p><p></p><p>Let us know what you want to do so we can advise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1109188, member: 46727"] You definitely have a rather complicated problem here. Let's address the Windows installation and what may have happened. Parallels is not going to work right until that is resolved. My guess is that because the XP boot sector and Win 7 boot sectors are different, that during the install process something got overwritten. I find it strange that you had to have XP installed before Win 7 Pro would install. There is no way that XP can be upgraded to Win 7 (according to MS). Win 7 would have had to do a clean install over XP which makes it kind of senseless to have XP installed in the first place. It looks like you're able to boot to your MacIntosh HD since you seemed to have installed Parallels. However, you indicate that your MacIntosh HD is listed as EFI? A normal MacIntosh HD OS X factory installation contains two partitions: One small partition of 200 MB (EFI) and the remaining partition which contains the operating system and applications. Your MacIntosh HD should not be listed as EFI. I have used CCC many times to clone a smaller HD to a larger and have never seen that happen. I suspect something went wrong there. I'm at a loss as to how to resolve this without starting over. That would mean reinstalling everything including your Mac operating system. Let us know what you want to do so we can advise. [/QUOTE]
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