KHIT Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Hi I want to install retail copy of Snow Leopard on my notebook, which runs Windows 7 64-bit, and then make a dualboot. My problem is that it wants me to make the partition table GUID, but then I have to install my OEM Windows 7 again, and I don't want that. Is there any way around that? I'm booting with Empire EFI 10.6.3 compatible, and the retail disk, where is stripped of all languages I don't need, and all printer drivers, to make it fit on a DVD5, because a friend of mine has broke my original DVD, which I luckily had made a backup-copy of. Can someone help me here? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordadmiral Drake Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Win7 only allows install/boot from GPT-Disks when on an EFI-Mainboard, on the other hand OS X requires GPT. SO for dual boot you need 2 HDDs in your laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1gdadd1 Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 ...SO for dual boot you need 2 HDDs in your laptop Sorry but I beg to differ. I have a work laptop, Toshiba Tecra S11 with i5-M520@2.4GHz and Nvidia NVS 2100m, with Windows XP SP3. But I managed to install Windows 7 Ultimate and Snow Leopard without reinstalling Windows XP. Used the following: WIN7PE with Snapshot or RDEPLOY - to backup you existing HDD Ubuntu live on USB - to resize and move your existing HDD partition MBRWiz - to backup your MBR a copy of chain0 into windows root directory - did not use fdisk440/boot0hfs BCDEasy in Windows 7 to include MAC OS X in boot Deviato's OSInstall - to allow MBR install of OS X Now the laptop triple boots Windows XP, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard with MBR partition. For detailed instruction, follow this http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4749 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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