foohoo Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Hi Guys! first off thanks for all the help! Right. I currently have 1 hard drive dual booting xp pro and iAtkos v5i, this is working great. So great in fact that I now want iAtkos to have its own 250gb rather than the 13gb test partition I made on my main hard drive. I have ordered it but in the mean time I'd thought I better check for any potential problems, in light of that I have a few questions: 1. when I install my new hard drive, do I keep it as a primary (as it will contain an operating system) or do I make it a slave? 2. am I going to have to setup the boot loader any differently to how I currently have it? 3. Will I have to do anything special in the iAtkos install how that is is a separate hard drive as opposed to a partition? plus if there is anything I need to do that I haven't thought about please let me know! thx everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Hi Guys! first off thanks for all the help! Right. I currently have 1 hard drive dual booting xp pro and iAtkos v5i, this is working great. So great in fact that I now want iAtkos to have its own 250gb rather than the 13gb test partition I made on my main hard drive. I have ordered it but in the mean time I'd thought I better check for any potential problems, in light of that I have a few questions: 1. when I install my new hard drive, do I keep it as a primary (as it will contain an operating system) or do I make it a slave? 2. am I going to have to setup the boot loader any differently to how I currently have it? 3. Will I have to do anything special in the iAtkos install how that is is a separate hard drive as opposed to a partition? plus if there is anything I need to do that I haven't thought about please let me know! thx everyone! Recommend you use MBR rather than GPT for partitioning the new HDD......Use Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your OS X System to the new HDD and then use OSx86Tools to install PC_EFI v8 bootloader to the new HDD......to dual boot XP and OS X use chain0 in XP boot.ini.....you can update to PC_EFI v9 or Chameleon 2.0 RC later if you wish..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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