Windows 7 problem

[TheStu]

I have OS X 10.6 and Windows 7 installed on the MacBook in my sig. Just today, my friend let me borrow his late-2008 MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, nVidia 9400m chipset) to use temporarily.

I dropped my drive into his system and started using it in OS X, no problem. When I went to boot into Windows 7, it starts to load the Windows logo, blue screens and then restarts after a half a second (or less). I have tried Startup Repair, I have tried the various commands to repair the MBR, but nothing is working. This worked in the past for Windows Vista, so what is up here?

 

[Dahak]

Its because the hard drive controllers are different. the late 2008 uses the nvidia hdd controller where as most of all the rest of intel macs uses intel

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Dahak
Its because the hard drive controllers are different. the late 2008 uses the nvidia hdd controller where as most of all the rest of intel macs uses intel

So 7 is less tolerant of these changes than 7?

With Vista I have seen the following drive switches work;
MSI ATi Chipset s939 -> Gigabyte Intel Chipset s775
Late 2008 MBP nVidia chipset -> Late 2006 MacBook intel chipset
Asus VIA chipset sA -> DFI intel chipset s775

Shame that Win7 isn't as friendly with it, though as I said it is probably a highly isolated case, what with the emulated BIOS and all. Heck, for all I know I could pull my desktop drive and it would work in my friend's desktop.

 

[Sahakiel]

AHCI