I think you are one step further because you allready have the controller recognized by Windows. I believe that the other guy did not have his AHCI driver recognized on loading with Windows.
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Help with Bootcamp/Fusion settings - MacPro
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What is your Windows drive called internally in disk utility, do you know that?
Also which partition table did you use on it, MBR?
In your case I remember that you had problems to get the AHCI driver aahci.inf accepted by the system. If all the previous steps are completed (system restore point setting, registry editing, MBR patching) I recommend to force the system to use the aahci.inf. At that point you will need to select the right controller but you know allready your system has ICH10. You will need to do this twice for the 4 HDD ports and the 2 ODD ports.
When you are running in AHCI mode you can start the Intel .exe file. It will install the Intel Matrix Storage Driver. That can also be manually done by installing iastor.inf.
Also which partition table did you use on it, MBR?
In your case I remember that you had problems to get the AHCI driver aahci.inf accepted by the system. If all the previous steps are completed (system restore point setting, registry editing, MBR patching) I recommend to force the system to use the aahci.inf. At that point you will need to select the right controller but you know allready your system has ICH10. You will need to do this twice for the 4 HDD ports and the 2 ODD ports.
When you are running in AHCI mode you can start the Intel .exe file. It will install the Intel Matrix Storage Driver. That can also be manually done by installing iastor.inf.
Name : BOOTCAMP
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk2s2
Mount Point : /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
File System : Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT1@1/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : No
Universal Unique Identifier : 83D7CE66-BE78-4F78-AE57-6FD6BA805D16
Capacity : 596.0 GB (639,923,912,704 Bytes)
Free Space : 529.1 GB (568,127,741,952 Bytes)
Used : 66.9 GB (71,796,166,656 Bytes)
Number of Files : 79,892
Number of Folders : 0
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Be Formatted : No
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 2
Name : WDC WD6400AAKS-41H2B0 Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk2
Media Name : WDC WD6400AAKS-41H2B0 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Connection ID : "Lower"
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT1@1/PMP@0/@0:0
Bay : "Lower"
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 596.2 GB (640,135,028,736 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 0
no, I tried before but it always failed, cannot modify MBR, I think this is because I have formatted the drive as GUID, do you think this is the problem?
Scanning drives...
Windows partition found on /dev/disk8
Do you want to use this drive? (Y/N)n
Enter drive to use: Disk2s2
Backing up MBR from Disk2s2 to ./backup.mbr
ERROR: Unable to read MBR
bash-3.2#
Scanning drives...
Windows partition found on /dev/disk8
Do you want to use this drive? (Y/N)n
Enter drive to use: Disk2s2
Backing up MBR from Disk2s2 to ./backup.mbr
ERROR: Unable to read MBR
bash-3.2#
I'm positive that is not the problem. In a Mac Pro you have the choice to use MBR table and GUID but in a laptop you have no choice but GUID. So the procedure was made for GUID as well. I have it in the MacPro with GUID.
Are you sure that you have edited the registry right?
Edit: I just went to the Howto thread and realised that the link to the Ludachris Howto did not work. I have now repaired that link.
EDit2: I checked the Howto of Ludaschris and realised that he was using MBR partition table. Now I'm not so sure that my above statement is correct. I will check my Mac Pro what Partition table I have used on that install.
Edit3:
Festplattenbeschreibung: ST3250620AS Media
Gesamtkapazität: 232,9 GB (250.059.350.016 Byte)
Verbindungs-Bus: Serial-ATA-2
Schreibstatus: Lesen/Schreiben
Verbindungs-Typ: Intern
S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Überprüft
Verbindungs-ID: "Bay 3"
Partitionstabellen-Schema: GUID Partitionstabelle
So I used GUID on a 32bit EFI machine. Yours is 64-bit EFI. Perhaps it makes a difference.
That is bad news indeed. Perhaps you have allready succeeded to make the patch and it will not let you do it again. Make sure you have your restore point set and proceed. That would be my advise.
If you fail with this the next step would be making a backup of your Windows installation, partition your disk fresh and rstore from backup. Then give it another try.