Windows 8 and OSx

hello I recently installed Windows 8 on my new MacBook Pro 13. It works fine. I also installed Bootcamp drivers so that I could log on to the Mac partition because I prefer to use my PC in native mode. The only problem I have encountered is that under Win 7 I could use Boot Camp Manager to select the boot disk and this would take me to either the Mac or Win partition. Now when I am in Win 8, it will only restart me back in Windows even though I have chosen OSX (Mountain Lion).
I can choose Mac if I use the Option Key on start up. Is there a fix for my minor issue?

1. Boot Camp doesn't support Windows 8, so wait until Apple releases new Boot Camp drivers.
2. Boot Camp requires only one volume on the hard drive, so you can't create a volume to store data

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Never in my reply did I say I don't use Boot Camp or not to use boot camp. But I don't. And I don't have Windows installed in its own partition. I use a VM for Windows on my Mac for the few Windows programs I run on the Mac.
I started to read that reply but then didn't finish it as that poster was talking about Win 8 and AFAIK right now neither Boot Camp or the driver package supplied by Apple for Windows supports Win 8. Even though it isn't much different then Win 7.
It does create a Separate partition, as does Win 7, that is a hidden partition, just like Win 7 does, but it is different in some ways from Win 7. So that may of been the original problem that poster was having.
In any event I don't think that post will help the OP of this thread. But I may be wrong. Only time will tell.
The big reasons I don't use Boot Camp is I can't stand Dual Boot system and that I can't Re-Partition the BC partition without screwing the whole system up. Tried it, didn't care for it, then removed it and went VM.
wjosten wrote:
You read that thread I provided the OP a link for...don't you use Boot Camp? Got any better ideas?

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