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Jo

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Registered: 2012-08-28

Posts: 6

Dual boot ArchLinux and Windows 7

I've installed windows 7 on first partition of  the disk.

Afterwards, I've installed Linux (GPT, RAID1, LVM, Syslinux) on the disk with problems but resolved now.

At the boot when Windows is choosen, a screen appeared with :
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be cause.
....
File \boot\BCD
Status : 0xc000000e
Info: An error occured while attempting to read the boot configuration dt

The syslinux.file contains :

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 1

I've tried also withous success.

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        KERNEL chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 1

I've read on the net that Windows is not compatible with GPT disk. Is there any workaround ?

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,279

Re: Dual boot ArchLinux and Windows 7

I've read on the net that Windows is not compatible with GPT disk. Is there any workaround ?

Not really.
You have two (three) choices. Either you change back to good old MBR. or you use use UEFI instead of bios and be happy with windows and GPT after a reinstall of windows. If you don't have UEFI, have fun with the setup of DUET

Last edited by progandy (2012-08-29 12:14:51)

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