p0rnstar Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 This should be a pretty straight forward yes no +little info answer. Background: Windows XP (sata drive) OSX86 (ata 100) Both work well, I simply want to add a boot manager. I have a legal vista CD and attempted to copy the windows/boot directory to my XP drive. EasyBCD says I'm missing the subfolder pcat/. I can not see this folder on the CD. Do I actually have to install vista to get these files? I really don't want to do that. I hate vista and I'm happy with XP. BTW I want to say a big thank you to everyone on this forum, if it wasn't for this forum I would have never gotten OSX86 working on my IntelD915 mobo. I didn't even have to post, there is just so much info here and its so well structured that I found all the info I needed without having to register until now. =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160283-vista-bootloader-files/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0rnstar Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 I just tried vista 64 boot folder and its not the same as the 32 bit version. =( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160283-vista-bootloader-files/#findComment-1123324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0rnstar Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 correction it does work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160283-vista-bootloader-files/#findComment-1123365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 I just tried vista 64 boot folder and its not the same as the 32 bit version. =( Why not just use the chain0 method...... 1. Go to My Computer > C: Drive > Tools > Folder Options 2. Click the view tab in the new window.......tick Hide protected System Files and Show Hidden Files and Folders. 3. Co back to C: drive and open the file named boot.ini 4. Copy C:\chain0="Mac OS X86" into the last line of text 5. Save and close the file. 6. Copy the file called “chain0″ to your C: drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160283-vista-bootloader-files/#findComment-1123367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0rnstar Posted April 4, 2009 Author Share Posted April 4, 2009 I got it working now and I'm very happy with results so I'm not going to change it but thank you very much for your reply. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/160283-vista-bootloader-files/#findComment-1123635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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