Download the patched , put the "patchedboot.bin" on an external USB drive and given on their forums in detail. These instructions require you to boot from your OS X Lion Setup DVD (or USB key or most bootable distributions such as or ) and replace the Master Boot Record with the patchedboot.bin.

Creating a complete image of your Mac (both Mac OS X Lion and Windows) isn't straightforward: Time Machine has some trouble with Windows partitions and Windows 7/8's image feature isn't designed to work with HFS+, either. I tried a couple of backup tools, but stuck with in the end, thanks to its fantastic file system support (Hint: Try out Clonezilla Live to burn a bootable CD/DVD or USB Flash disk to restore an unbootable Mac system).

This marks the end of this series, for now! If you're struggling with some serious Windows+Mac issues, let me know.