sup3r1or Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I have spend 2 bloody days already tyring to make these 2 things work. 1st EVERY SINGLE TUTORIAL HERE STATES THAT I NEED TO CREATE PARTITION and SELECT GUID type and format using HSF+ settings. Now there is my problem My 500gb drive have 3 partitions C, D, E all in NTFS with a lot of precious data on it. I made a separate partition for 50 GB for OSX, If i leave it as Unallocated , DISK Utility doesnt see it! If I make it FAT32 I does, then I can format but in the partition tab, I CANNOT SET GUID the settings are locked if I select current partitions. The only way seems possible is to re-partition the whole HDD, then I loose all 300 GB of data! Otherwise ony format into Mac OS Extended Journaled with MBR if availaible. Any console command that can do that for me? PLEASEEEE!!!! And the Last, how to make USB Wireless adapter work? I mean I plug it in, and it shows like yes 802.11 b/g adapter and thats it. There is no WIFI utility or anything that I was able to find. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedavis1 Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Why do you need to format with GUID? I have mine as MBR and don't have any problems with it. If fact if you only have 1 drive and use different partitions on the same physical disk and boot windows on it, you have to use MBR, Windows won't work with GUID... As far as the USB wireless, you will need to find the appropriate drivers/utility that works for yours. Only a few will work natively with Airport stuff. What kind of USB wireless adapter do you have? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-813034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup3r1or Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Is there any chance of getting Vista bootloader to choose between mac and Vista, MY gf might get confused by darwin. If yes how? I get error msgs non stop, like HFS+ partition error. I have D-Link WUA-1340 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-813157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alien2xx Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Hi, I have Windows Vista and Windows Server on one drive and Leopard running on a second drive... after a long time of trial and error I was able to boot (triple boot), this is what I did, I hope this works for you: (as a note I am using GUID for Mac OS X). Install "VistaBootPRO_3.2.0.exe" (http://www.vistabootpro.org/) and create a legacy entry using your osx installed name (your mac os hard drive name) - this pro0gram allows you to edit the Vista bootlader with a GUI (unless you want to do it via command line). Copy "boot.ini", "ntldr" and "boot0.guid" to the root c:\ on windows Vista (I have attached these 3 files I used, you can open boot.ini file with notepad and see what it does). reboot Vista. When booting vista you will have the option to run either OS... it will use Windows bootloader. I hope this helps. 3_files.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-813178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Quick comment. I have 32bit Vista on my GUID partitioned hard drive and it works perfectly, though it initially looked impossible. In the end it was very simple, just follow the instructions on iATKOSv2.0i installer, to the letter. If you were talking about everything being on one hard drive and need GUID, which is flexible and an almost subjective whisker quicker, it does require that you format a whole drive with gparted live CD, or what have you, as FAT32 primary and then partition in Disk Utility in the Partition options tab as GUID. With GUID you should only have two or three partitions, or the iATKOS installer won't be your friend, and keep the names short, like HD1 and so on, or at the very least just one short word, no spaces. You can read about the whys of that elsewhere. I use a Sweex LW053 USB wifi dongle but had to download drivers from a Taiwanese site, which was an interesting challange. If by any chance you are using the same dongle, message me. It's cheap but serviceable. I would probably buy it again but something more powerful would be nice, at times. It's a shade better than my laptops existing wifi, which doesn't work under Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-813203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup3r1or Posted July 10, 2008 Author Share Posted July 10, 2008 Alien2xx I have 1 HD with 4 partitions, C is running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, D,E use for games music and so on! The last 4th partition is 40 GB (I guess its enought for leo? )I use for leopard and partition name is "Leopard" with no brackets. So I guess legacy name is going to be Leopard? --------------------- Detosx I have D-Link DWA-110, I found a driver on CD but its made for Tiger not leo, u reckon it will work? --------------------------------------- How much space if enough for Leo to do work?? I gave it 40 GB, I think it should be ok right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-814292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alien2xx Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Alien2xxI have 1 HD with 4 partitions, C is running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, D,E use for games music and so on! The last 4th partition is 40 GB (I guess its enought for leo? )I use for leopard and partition name is "Leopard" with no brackets. So I guess legacy name is going to be Leopard? --------------------- Detosx I have D-Link DWA-110, I found a driver on CD but its made for Tiger not leo, u reckon it will work? --------------------------------------- How much space if enough for Leo to do work?? I gave it 40 GB, I think it should be ok right? Leopard name is fine. 40gb is fine too to run Leopard. -plain install should take around 7gb. You can only have one 'active partion' on the same hard drive at the time, so just leave you windows as the active partition, the bootloader will take care of the rest when booting into leo - so leo's partition does not have to be active. - Remember to do backup of your stuff (Rule # 1) - just in case - things can happen and you don't want the headache - trust me - backup backup backup. just a suggestion ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-814424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detosx Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 Alien2xxI have 1 HD with 4 partitions, C is running Windows Vista Ultimate x64, D,E use for games music and so on! The last 4th partition is 40 GB (I guess its enought for leo? )I use for leopard and partition name is "Leopard" with no brackets. So I guess legacy name is going to be Leopard? --------------------- Detosx I have D-Link DWA-110, I found a driver on CD but its made for Tiger not leo, u reckon it will work? --------------------------------------- How much space if enough for Leo to do work?? I gave it 40 GB, I think it should be ok right? Leo works better if the drive isn't full to the brim. Let's not even talk about windows and swap files! I read elsewhere that you should give Leo 25gigs of unused space, which gives it the working equivilant of a freshly defragmented windows setup. Yes, the analagy is a clumsy and crazy one but I have found that it runs faster. I went through a process of slimming down un-needed files but in made only a small difference. Leo is an efficient operating system. I would try and find a more up to date driver. Learning Taiwanese might be an idea! I was told that I would have to unplug and replug my usb wifi at every boot, which was very irritating but true for the driver everyone was saying to use. The driver from the Taiwanese site didn't require that I do that. Truly life changing! The same applies to Acer products. Apparently Americans can't be trusted to update their bios without hosing their motherboards? You often have to go to the European Acer site to find an up-to-date bios where there is none listed for certain models on the American site. I had a particularly annoying argument with Acer technical support in the US who insisted there was no bios update for my particular laptop. I want to a European dealer and they directed me to the European site which I had already jelously visited. In my case, the bios from the Euro site reduced the temperature of my laptop, though didn't solve my periodic no boot up. After a bit of digging it turns out that a user here called coccoinomane uses your modem via his Mac laptop's usb1.1 port. You might try messaging him and finding out if there are more up to date drivers. Best of luck with that one. Edit:-Scratch that, he's using a PPC based mac. I found a hardware list that says 10.5.2 works with that modem with the driver for Tiger 10.4.0 Links sometimes go down but here's my source:- http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...p;printable=yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/114785-vista-and-leopard-dual-boot-becomes-hell/#findComment-814528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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