Advice needed for booting options(OSX, Vista, Ubuntu)

[saul1d]

So I presently am booting OSX(iAtkos 5i 10.5.6 updated), Vista, and Ubuntu. I'm not extremely familiar with the new iAtkos but I believe the bootloader I am using is pc-EFI 9. Correct me if i'm wrong with any of this please. Now what i'm really trying to do is use Parallels in Mac. Now i understand that presently using pc-EFI 9 or whatever, i'm on a GUID partition... and then windows is on a MBR partition... ubuntu on a GRUB partition. as of right now i only have OSX and Ubuntu installed and my Vista partition is clean and formatted to NTFS ready to put Vista back on. So what method or instructions should i follow to get Vista installed back on that partition and make sure it's working through Parallels? If anyone can help or even just further explain to me some details on what i'm doing, i would reeally appreciate it. THANKS

[mrr]

So I presently am booting OSX(iAtkos 5i 10.5.6 updated), Vista, and Ubuntu. I'm not extremely familiar with the new iAtkos but I believe the bootloader I am using is pc-EFI 9. Correct me if i'm wrong with any of this please. Now what i'm really trying to do is use Parallels in Mac. Now i understand that presently using pc-EFI 9 or whatever, i'm on a GUID partition... and then windows is on a MBR partition... ubuntu on a GRUB partition. as of right now i only have OSX and Ubuntu installed and my Vista partition is clean and formatted to NTFS ready to put Vista back on. So what method or instructions should i follow to get Vista installed back on that partition and make sure it's working through Parallels? If anyone can help or even just further explain to me some details on what i'm doing, i would reeally appreciate it. THANKS

 

IMO the easiest way to dual-boot is to get two drives. put OS X on one and whatever else on the second. if your BIOS has a boot-menu (say, hit f12) it's really easy to pick the second drive..

 

useless if your mobo has no such feature, but i think most do these days?