napasha Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 hey guys on my system i have 2 sata drives so i could'nt install OSX befor, but now i got myself an IDE drive that i'm gonna try to install on it. the thing is that i already have two xp partitions on one of my sata drives (one for general stuff and one for audio editing). after i will install osx, how will i choos which one to boot? my computer is: AMD 3200 (venice core) gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra 939 (nforce 3) WD 160 SATA WD 80 SATA please help! thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14891-installing-10445-on-ide/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tungtung Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 I believe the easiest (though not free) solution that most people suggest is using the OS Selector that comes with Acronis Disk Director Suite. That is the route I use and it work flawlessly for me. There is another option that involves editing the boot partition or something so that you can use Win XP boot manager, but I believe most people suggested not doing that since it seems that many things can go wrong with that route. Another alternative I believe was using some sort of LILO boot selector, but I'm not sure whether this last option actually work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14891-installing-10445-on-ide/#findComment-95840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
napasha Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 hey tungtung thanx for the answer does any of this software needs flopy disc? becouse i dont have any Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14891-installing-10445-on-ide/#findComment-95846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tungtung Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 I know the Acronis for sure doesn't need any floppy. As for editing the boot partition or something this is a link (I took from the OSX86 wiki about dual booting): http://blog.phnews.org/wp/2006/01/25/how-t...-your-pclaptop/ However I think that link was meant for dual booting on the same harddisk, and I believe there is a big risk if something wrong were to happen that you won't be able to boot Win XP. From the description, it seems that this method also doesn't require floppy. As for the LILO way, I'm not sure, since I'm not entirely sure whether or not this will actually work, but I think it might involve a Linux install, but if I remember correctly most Linux install doesn't require floppy disk anyway. Actually now that I remember. I think some motherboard actually do have sort of a crude boot selector somewhere that you can access by pressing one of the function (F1 - F12) key (just after you see the BIOS check). Since you do have several harddisk, I would rather try this path if your motherboard support it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14891-installing-10445-on-ide/#findComment-95856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
napasha Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 ok thanx i'll check with my bios it seems that this will be the easyest way thanx for youre help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14891-installing-10445-on-ide/#findComment-95951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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