krystifa Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Does anyone know how to dual boot Vista and OS from 2 separate HDs without losing any data, I have tried Easy BCD to edit my bootloader file in Vista but this just wont recognise my Mac drive, I know that vista wont see Mac's file system but are there any other options? I have tried and have not been successful, most of the threads I'm seeing have OS and Vista on the Same HD but separate partitions. CPU= Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 M/Board= Gigabyte P45 chipset [iCH10] RAM= 7 GB DDR 2 VGA= Nvidia 9600 GT HD= 500GB[Vista], 250GB [OSX86], 640GB [Data] OS= Vista 64bit SP1, Mac OSX86 iDenebv1.3 10.5.5 Both are running smooth individually but I wanna use a bootloader instead of forcing a specific boot from my Bios [F12] Any suggestions..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140614-dual-booting-vista-os-on-separate-hds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Does anyone know how to dual boot Vista and OS from 2 separate HDs without losing any data, I have tried Easy BCD to edit my bootloader file in Vista but this just wont recognise my Mac drive, I know that vista wont see Mac's file system but are there any other options? I have tried and have not been successful, most of the threads I'm seeing have OS and Vista on the Same HD but separate partitions. CPU= Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 M/Board= Gigabyte P45 chipset [iCH10] RAM= 7 GB DDR 2 VGA= Nvidia 9600 GT HD= 500GB[Vista], 250GB [OSX86], 640GB [Data] OS= Vista 64bit SP1, Mac OSX86 iDenebv1.3 10.5.5 Both are running smooth individually but I wanna use a bootloader instead of forcing a specific boot from my Bios [F12] Any suggestions..... Did you try reinstalling the Vista Boot manager using EasyBCD before setting up OS X in EasyBCD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140614-dual-booting-vista-os-on-separate-hds/#findComment-996015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krystifa Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 I did and it didnt work out Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140614-dual-booting-vista-os-on-separate-hds/#findComment-996062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-K Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 I did and it didnt work out And that was the fault ...you have to fix your Bootloader after the Installation of Mac OS X with EasyBCD...then it should work.... On EasyBCD there's an option for reinstalling the Vista-Bootloader. Restore it, fresh Install of Os X, and then fix the Bootlader with EasyBCD. This always worked for me! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140614-dual-booting-vista-os-on-separate-hds/#findComment-997191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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