thebestguru333 Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I am not very knowledgeable in the dual boot subject, so i need some assistance. Having the intention of dual booting, i set up my hard drive in the following way. I have one hard drive. 640 gb. i installed os x leopard and while doing that, i made 3 partitions with disk utility, during the time i was installing leopard. partition 1 = mac os x 45gb (this is my drive for mac os) partition 2 = FAT32 shared drive to share my files between windows and mac. 75gb partition 3 = free space (i left this for windows) 450gb so now what action should i take to install xp and be able to boot both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymnastdaniel5 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Well, I installed in this order: Vista, OSx86, Windows 7 Beta, and then reinstalled in that order a million times for driver testing . But, here's what you can do, if you have OS X installed and working, download easyBCD and add a mac, genericx86 PC boot entry. If that doesn't work right away PM and I can try to help, though I did vista not XP so I don't know if its different. Though I do know one thing, Vista was stubborn as hell, if Mac was installed, it didn't want anything to do with that free space, so I had to install windows 7 last to fix it so I could use the Windows boot manager, and not the Darwin boot loader. -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunyooh Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 use tboot and read this thread http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=163317 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Hi thebestguru333, Could you tell me what format the drive partiton tables is? GUID or MBR? @gymnastdaniel5 & sunyooh Could you tell me how to install XP after OSX on a GUID partiton with the setup thebestguru333 has? All the best NSCXP2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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