smooth3006 Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 okay, im so darn confussed. i have a 120gb hard drive. as of right now i have windows xp pro installed on one 55gb ntfs partition. i have the rest of the hard drive just as unallocated space as of now. i have jas 10.4.8 amd / intel sse sse2 sse3 iso. i want to install mac os x on a small partition ( probably 10-15gb ). then the rest of the space im gonna install vista on. i have a gateway mt3418 laptop, with a nvidia go geforce 6100 gpu and a amd turion 64 mobile processor. how would i go about installing mac after xp, but before vista ? i have norton partition magic, but theres no option to pre-format the space as hfs. ( what is af by the way? ) can you guys give me some advice as to how to do this with simple instructions ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcrumpets Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 make your os x partition in p-magic and format it as FAT32...insert your install dvd, boot from it then go to Utilities -> Disk Utility, youll see your HDD with your partitions listed under it, select your newly created FAT32 volume then go to the "Erase" tab. this is how you can format it to an HFS+ partition. once here, choose the Mac OS Extended (journaled) option and type in whatver name you want your partition to have and hit erase. now your partition is HFS+ this should work fine as long as the apps on your dvd are intact, works everytime with my .4.6 dvd. after youve done this, if you made your partiton only 15gb you can go back into p-magic, and format the rest of your space into a partition to install vista on...never done any of that before so...im geussing you can do that normally as for the other question, in p-magic an HFS partition will show up as Type AF...i have no idea what it is but im assuming it does that beacuse windows cant see mac formatted disk and thus niether can p-magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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