SpikedJuice Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Hi all, Just wanted to say first that you have a wonderful community here. I've only managed to get this far through reading a lot from the forums! However I've reached a point where I don't know what to do. There is much talk of multi-boot installations but none match the setup of what I have at the moment. I have a Dell Studio 1555 with Windows 7 preinstalled on a 250GB drive with an MBR partition format. I have installed Mac 10.6 (Snow Leopard) onto the same drive in a separate partition. I did this by doing a restore off a separate hard drive on which SL was installed. The original installation was a 'vanilla' installation, off a retail SL DVD. I used Empire EFI to launch the original installation and the restore. My hard drive configuration looks like this: Disk 0 Partition 1: FAT 39MB - Not sure what's on this. It's part of the original Dell install Partition 2: 14.65GB - I believe this is the Dell Recovery partition which has an image to restore the computer to original factory installation settings Partition 3: NTFS 80GB - Windows 7 OS (Primary, Boot) Partition 4: 80GB - Mac OS 10.6 Partition 5: FAT32 58.13GB (Extended Partition) - Data partition for sharing between OSes I would like to have a dual boot setup for Windows 7 and SL but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. My laptop specifications are: STUDIO 1555 : PENTIUM DUAL CORE T4300 CAMERA : INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGA PIXEL MEMORY : 2048MB (2X1024) 800MHZ DDR2 DUA HARD DRIVE : 250GB SERIAL ATA (5400RPM) WD2500BEVT-75ZCT2 OPTICAL DRIVE : 8X DVD+/-RW DRIVE GRAPHICS : INTEL INTEGRATED GMA 4500MHD WIRELESS : DELL WIRELESS 1397 (802.11 B/G) I'm at a loss as to what route I should go down. Do I need EasyBCD? Or do I just need Chameleon Bootloader and EFI (netkas)? Or both? Or something else entirely? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199649-dual-boot-windows-7-and-snow-leopard-on-dell-studio-1555/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falling Idols Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 wait could you tell me in great detail how you did this i have the SAME computer as you and i can not get it to work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199649-dual-boot-windows-7-and-snow-leopard-on-dell-studio-1555/#findComment-1366923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalel83 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 set cham rc4 to be the active partition, and boot to windows from there. worked for me. you might have to repair the windows bootloader after setting up osx properly. you'd need to set windows as active, follow these steps, then set osx back to active when you are done http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256 The guide is written for win7, but vista is almost exactly the same, and the commands should work for the repair option on the xp disc as well. not sure how an extended partition effects it, in my experience I had to remove extended partitions. i'd say remove the dell partition, and get a retail disc for your copy of windows + save your cd key. that way when you restore, you aren't installing the {censored}storm of crapware that dells come preinstalled with i was able to use easybcd to boot to cham rc2, but for some reason it dosn't work for rc3 or rc4. i didn't really care, since the chameleon bootloader is soo perty that i wanted that to come up first. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199649-dual-boot-windows-7-and-snow-leopard-on-dell-studio-1555/#findComment-1366981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robi62 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 It did not work for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199649-dual-boot-windows-7-and-snow-leopard-on-dell-studio-1555/#findComment-1374960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kally123 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I Have a T4300 Dual Core processor in a Dell Studio Laptop I'm trying to get iAtkos to install for a friend. iAtkos 10.5.7 installs 100% then when you boot it up it goes to the Apple logo and doesn't do anything no even the processing wheel shows up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199649-dual-boot-windows-7-and-snow-leopard-on-dell-studio-1555/#findComment-1428430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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