MacVador Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi all... this time i'm not coming to get help but to help those who want or need to dual boot Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same hard drive... 1 : You should have a working leopard on the PC, the Snow Leo retail DVD, genuine Windows 7 DVD, BootThink 2.3.18 and EasyBCD 2 : Partition your hard drive like that 1st partition FAT32 or NTFS (seven will ask to format for the right NTFS) 2nd partition HFS+ and 3rd partition FAT32 or NTFS for datas in case you need to access the same data on both system (if NTFS you'll need ntfs4mac to read from Snow Leo) 3 : Install Snow Leopard on the HFS+ partition (from your working leopard, here's a great guide) and finish all installation like if you would only use this one on the HDD 4 : Reboot your PC and install Windows 7 on the NTFS partition (from here you will be unable to boot anymore on your sweet little Kitty ) 5 : Once installed and configured... run BootThink 2.3 (download here) when done you're ready to install EasyBCD 1.7.2 (download here) 6 : configure EasyBCD 6.1 add an entry 6.2 choose a Mac entry 6.3 you must let him know it is for OSX86 PC 6.4 name it to reconize when you have to choose you OS at boot when clicking to view settings you should see something like that 7 : now we are going to adjust settings to make easyBCD know where change as to be made and setup the default OS at boot 7.1 choose the OS (the one you named on point 6.3) 7.2 choose how long you want to be able to change which OS you want to boot 7.3 choose which OS boot you want to edit (it should be windows) 7.4 choose the right drive (should be C:) here is the PDF of that tutorial... those who could make it work let me know... MacVador Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205658-dual-bot-snow-leopard-windows-7-with-1-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickman1000000 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 will try this as soon as windows 7 has finished downloading. right now i have one hard drive and snow leopard installed and i am typing from this. do i just make an ntfs partition in disk utility and then install windows 7 onto that or what do i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205658-dual-bot-snow-leopard-windows-7-with-1-hard-drive/#findComment-1445043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase M Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 I would like to dual boot win7 and snow leopard on the same drive, but with the chameleon bootloader instead. is this possible? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205658-dual-bot-snow-leopard-windows-7-with-1-hard-drive/#findComment-1445671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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