andrew_dow Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Is it possible to have vista already installed and dual boot Leopord without reinstalling Leopord? I'm going to be buying a laptop and when I get it I'm going to dualboot. I've done a lot of reseach but no one seems to have the right answer. The laptop is a Sony Vaio FW series with vista already installed. Will. Be able to just pop in the Mac install DVD and set up a partition then install or will I need to install Leopord and then Vista again? Also, is there a GUI bootloader? It would bee cooler to be able to use a GUI instead of the standard white text haha, if there is such a thing could someone give me the name? (links are nice but I can research it ) Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manutd Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 hi you can install leopord then do start up repair by using vista dvd . and then install easybcd to dual booting . good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_dow Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Ah ok so have Vista installed already, then partition the drive, install Leopard on the second partition. Then use the Vista install DVD to install easybcd? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manutd Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 where is the question ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_dow Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hahah sorry. The laptop I'm going to be buying will have Vista preloaded on it. I'm asking, will I be able to partition the drive in half then install Leopard on the other half? Like, partition the 320GB HDD in two, one being Vista and the other have Leopard installed on it WITHOUT needing to reinstall Vista? If you dont understand what I mean just let me know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
relay Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Use any partition manager software you're familiar with and resize the current partition. Then do the following steps: 1) Create a raw partition in Vista 2) Boot with Leopard CD and go to Disk Utility and erase the raw partition 3) Install Leopard and reboot If you don't hit any key during the boot manager, Leopard will be the default OS. If you push a key, you will have the option to boot into Vista. Enjoy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_dow Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Ahh okay thank you. I'm waiting for the new Chameleon to be released so I can have the cool looking GUI haha, thanks again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1082922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plutus Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Hi guys... here is my prob: i've got 2 HD with 2 partitions on each one. On my first HD I've got WinXP and another data partition. On my second HD I've got WinVista and Leopard 10.5.2 (kalyway) just installed. Before installing Leo at the pc startup i had (and i still have) the choice to run either WinXP or WinVista as I set dualboot with those OS. My prob is after having installed Leo if I select my second HD and I try to run Leo the system says: "HFS+ partition error". Someone suggested to use EasyBCD on Vista to add Leo on the dualboot menu and repair HFS. I did it.. and now when I start my pc I have 3 choice: XP - Vista - Leopard... but when I choose Leo I have an error saying: c:\NST\nst_mac.efi I picked up the "boot.efi" file in /USR/standalone/i386 and copied to C:\NST as nst_mac.efi as asked but it doesn't work as well... So far I cannot run Leo at all even though it seems to be installed... can you help me guys?? Thanks a lot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1086490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
relay Posted March 15, 2009 Share Posted March 15, 2009 Why not just use one of the hard drive and put all 3 OS on it? Use the 2nd hard drive as spare disk space for all 3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153369-dual-booting-vista-and-leopord/#findComment-1107302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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