Velvetty Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Do I really need 2 hard disks for dual booting? Can I just use 1 hard disk and 2 partitions? I heard there will be boot problems since only 1 OS can be active. If so, how do I make one partition active and yet still have both able to boot up. I'm using Chameleon 2 for the bootloader. Sorry, I'm still a newbie at OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiman Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 No, you don't need two hard drives, 1 is perfectly sufficient. You need not worry about the active partition problem; I think that only applies to Windows, so as long as you have the Windows partition set to active you should be good to go. Install Vista first, and during the install process, simply make two partitions on your drive consisting of your desired size. Then, install OS X on the second partition and it should automatically recognize you have Windows installed and thus add it to the boot loader menu. If it does not, please post back and let us know so we can help. If you have Vista installed already and do not want to reinstall, you can get a partition editor and make a second partition using the free space on the drive. If you need more information on this let me know. (The GParted Live CD is a great partition manager, and since it's a Live CD, you can edit any partition since you are not currently booted from the hard drive) Let us know how you make out, or if you need more details. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1209813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
profchaos Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 No, you don't need two hard drives, 1 is perfectly sufficient. You need not worry about the active partition problem; I think that only applies to Windows, so as long as you have the Windows partition set to active you should be good to go. Install Vista first, and during the install process, simply make two partitions on your drive consisting of your desired size. Then, install OS X on the second partition and it should automatically recognize you have Windows installed and thus add it to the boot loader menu. If it does not, please post back and let us know so we can help. If you have Vista installed already and do not want to reinstall, you can get a partition editor and make a second partition using the free space on the drive. If you need more information on this let me know. (The GParted Live CD is a great partition manager, and since it's a Live CD, you can edit any partition since you are not currently booted from the hard drive) Let us know how you make out, or if you need more details. so if i have ipc installation disk and i install it after vista it will work through vista bootloader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1209859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvetty Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 Okay. So I've installed OS X properly. So I flag Vista as active and now it doesn't even boot Chameleon. I ran into the winload.exe error but I fixed it with my installation disk. If I flag OS X as active again, will Vista work? Will the winload.exe not happen again? Or Chameleon only works for 2 hard drive and I should use EasyBCD instead. I'm confused. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1210372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobie1 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 when u can boot vista,install easybcd then go addremove entries then select mac and choose generic x86 pc then click add...then click save and u aare good to go... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1210605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Okay. So I've installed OS X properly.So I flag Vista as active and now it doesn't even boot Chameleon. I ran into the winload.exe error but I fixed it with my installation disk. If I flag OS X as active again, will Vista work? Will the winload.exe not happen again? Or Chameleon only works for 2 hard drive and I should use EasyBCD instead. I'm confused. I'm guessing that you installed Chameleon on the OSX partition so yes mark the OSX partition as active to use it. iPoco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1210633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvetty Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 Alright guys. I have successfully dual booted them using Chameleon! Thanks guys! It was pretty simple! Time for me to move on to graphic cards now. Apparently, my 4850 has some problems with resolutions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1210703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiman Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 yeah, definitely use chameleon over the vista boot loader whenever possible Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176691-do-i-really-need-2-hard-disks-for-dual-booting/#findComment-1210822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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