manofmany Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Reformatted my Vista. I have successfully gotten OSX installed and working. Now I want to install Vista on the remaning 150gb free space partition I made. Bootcamp doesnt want to load for some reason. Where should I look from here to get it going? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNutty Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 To install Vista first you need to make that partition active where you are going to install Vista. After making the partition active, install Vista. After installation again make OSX partition active and install a bootloader to have dual boot. Done... Note: To make partition active you can use diskpart (From Vista Install Disk->Command Prompt) or use fdisk in OSX (booting with -s option). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-959626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofmany Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 Thanks. Can I continue to use Darwin or should I look elsewhere? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-959634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofmany Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 Thanks. Can I continue to use Darwin or should I look elsewhere? Is Darwin the best bootloader to use and will it pick up my new Vista partition automatically or will I need to somehow add it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-959969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d!g!t@lTr@sh Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Is Darwin the best bootloader to use and will it pick up my new Vista partition automatically or will I need to somehow add it? Usually, darwin picks it up automatically, if its on the same drive. Darwin can't boot OS from another drive. I followed this example and was able to dual boot vista64 and osx through Darwin (Chameleon). The last step of this instruction set didn't work for me for some odd reason, but I used parted magic to do the job successfully. Hope this helps and good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-961327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofmany Posted November 10, 2008 Author Share Posted November 10, 2008 You were right. Darwin picked up both, although I already installed easybcd. Gotta go back and remove that and just use Darwin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-961461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d!g!t@lTr@sh Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 You were right. Darwin picked up both, although I already installed easybcd. Gotta go back and remove that and just use Darwin Do make sure you can actually boot to vista through darwin first. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/135419-best-approach-to-take-dual-booting-vista/#findComment-961723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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