XoDeus Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hello. I managed to install the latest iDeneb 1.6 and got it working the way I want to. And that's cool. But the deal is that I started from a fresh computer. No installs, no other OS'es and so on... Now I need Windows for HomeBanking purpose, as it's an exe from my bank that uses some IE components and so and so and so... I've left some unpartitioned space left on the harddrive for the Windows as I knew that I had to install it... What are my next steps? Just to install windows and install EasyBCD, or? Please assist me as I don't want to get stuck with Windows... Thanks in advance.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195008-wrong-way/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachabower Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I had a lot of trouble when I tried dual booting when windows wasn't the first partition. Idk, my mac os was a fresh install so I didn't mind trying several different configurations though, so I ended up just installing windows on the first partition and it seemed to make things simpler. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195008-wrong-way/#findComment-1315132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hi XoDeus I'd better install a virtual Windows machine. If you need Windows just for running that only banking program, a virtual machine is more than enough. Besides, a virtual machine let's you do not mess with shrinking/resizing OS X partition. Windows must be installed to the first partition of the disk. It may work from any other partition, but installation will only be possible to the first partition. So you can install a windows on a blank disk, then shrink the OS X partition using Disk Utility. Then using GpartedLiveCD create a ntfs partition and clone the windows to it. So as you can see, the easiest way is to use a virtual machine, ether the VMware Fusion or Parallels. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195008-wrong-way/#findComment-1315175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoDeus Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 So the best way for me is to start over, with a new Windows XP install, then install iDeneb 1.6... Do you know if Chameleon 2 automaticly finds my Widows XP/Vista/7 and adds it to its list of OS'es to boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195008-wrong-way/#findComment-1315235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachabower Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 It auto finds windows 7 for sure, I haven't tried it with xp but I don't see why not. However, Das_Human is right, you can just pick up a program called parallels which will allow you to run windows software from your mac os. Similar to wine in linux if you use that at all. Quick and easy with no modifications to your partition set up. But if you absolutely want windows on your machine then yes, the simplest way will be to load the mac os dvd, run disk utility, erase your hdd, create your partitions all formatted as fat. Then install windows 7 first I would say, then xp, then mac os. With 2 windows partitions I would think the chameleon loader will show 3 windows partitions and 1 mac part. The first listed windows partition should be the windows loader so you'll need to use that to boot in. Then I would assume that would take you to the windows bootloader where you would choose the windows version. If you plan to have 3 OS's on there it may be easier to just install mac first to the third partition, then windows 7 to the first, then xp to the second. Then use easyBCD to create your own bootloader(super easy). That might make be better if you can't get around the extra windows bootloader. Though personally I like the chameleon bootloader to be the first thing I see, much more visually appealing, but thats just me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195008-wrong-way/#findComment-1315354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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