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Dec 3, 2015 11:36 AM in response to pourrichardby Loner T,You can ignore the CHS messages, which are legacy disk information.
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Dec 5, 2015 6:56 AM in response to Loner Tby pourrichard,Just to wrap this up, I did as you suggested and used the Win repair disk to recreate the boot record. It told me to run chkdsk to fix errors first. I did that and it repaired hundreds of errors, which presumably were created when I used the terminal commands to recreate the MS volume. I was then able to boot into windows although with errors loading programs, including file explorer.exe. So then I ultimately gave up and just installed a new clean Win7 install. It now works perfectly.
thanks for your help on this issue though.
rich
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Dec 5, 2015 7:24 AM in response to pourrichardby Loner T,Were you able to get all your applications and files installed/restored?
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Dec 5, 2015 8:36 AM in response to Loner Tby pourrichard,I had to reinstall everything
Good news is it's really fast again.
On another topic, what are your thoughts on reformatting a imac HD (as NTFS) and installing windows natively rather than using bootcamp. I find that bootcamp tends to make it run slower and adds another layer of complexity. I really only use Windows on this other machine I'm thinking of doing this on. I like the imac hardware esthetics (why I'm even considering this rather than using a win-PC).
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Dec 5, 2015 8:49 AM in response to pourrichardby Loner T,1. What year/model is your iMac?
2. What version of Windows do you want to install?
3. You may still want to keep a minimal OS X installation (externally or internally) for managing updates and other iMac aspects like firmware.
4. You can make the entire internal disk a GPT-only or a Hybrid MBR (based on Windows version you intend to use and your iMac model).
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Dec 5, 2015 8:59 AM in response to Loner Tby pourrichard,mid 2010 i-mac 27". Win7Pro. It won't support Win10.
I can use an external HD. I already made an El Capitan version.
Will this update the firmware if I use it to boot from?
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Dec 5, 2015 9:27 AM in response to pourrichardby Loner T,My suggestion is to make the OS X partition about 32GB and have nothing other than OS X in this partition and install Windows. Once Windows is installed, make Windows the default OS.

