estebanrao Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Hi Everyone, this a simple question... well... not that simple for me. I installed Leopard in my AMD PC using the tutorial of dual booting XP with Leopard (Kalway 10.5.2) and everything worked fine. I first installed XP and then Leopard and now is dual-booting like a charm. But here's the thing... I need to reinstall XP again. Right now that is my activa partition and the one booting both systems (using CHAIN0 for Leopard) Is it OK to install XP again formating that partition (and then adding the same line to boot.ini and CHAIN0 in C:)? or then I'll need to install Leopard as well, or at least fix darwin bootloader? Sorry if this is an idiot question, but Leopard is working great and I don't want to mess up the hole thing. I searched for this problem with no luck, sorry if it's repeated. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103446-solved-installing-xp-again-with-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
estebanrao Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 Someone?Plzz I need to format Windows tonight!Ok, searching a little more I've found this topichttp://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t64952.htmlSo I guess as both are primary partitions they have they one bootloader, so installing xp again on it's own primary partition won't mess up with darwin in leopard's partitionI think I'll try anyway and see what happens Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103446-solved-installing-xp-again-with-leopard/#findComment-736971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
estebanrao Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 Hey! Good news... Everything is working ok! Info for others with the same question Just make the XP partition active (mine was alrready) and then install again and don't forget to configure again your boot.ini file with CHAIN0 or Boot up with the Leopard DVD and run fdisk to make Leopard's Partition ative Thanks anyway to all! Good Luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103446-solved-installing-xp-again-with-leopard/#findComment-737036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SigmaNuClay Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 This helped me, just so you know. I am in the same situation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103446-solved-installing-xp-again-with-leopard/#findComment-740227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
estebanrao Posted May 9, 2008 Author Share Posted May 9, 2008 great Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103446-solved-installing-xp-again-with-leopard/#findComment-740810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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