Dual booting Windows with Leopard

[Anonomys1991]

I have to use my laptop for college and it has iDeneb 1.4 which is osx 10.5.6 and i want to know how to put windows 7 on my computer.

 

Im running a Hp/Compaq NC6400

Intel Core Duo

Intel GMA950

Ich something like that idr exactly

[nocturnal_50]

there are 3 common ways of doing this:

the first being shrink your HFS+ boot partition to the size you want your mac partition and installing windows on a freshly created MS-dos (FAT) partition, all done using disk utility.

the second is wipe the drive clean and start again installing windows first and work with what you know works.

the third being use a Gparted live cd/usb and use a similar method to the first.

 

assuming you only have one internal drive

[Anonomys1991]

will i need more than one hard drive to put both os's on my laptop?

 

if i dont which methods call for two hard drives for it to work?

[nocturnal_50]

its easier to work with 2 (or more) seperate SATA drives, but any of the 3 methods i've suggested should work properly as long as windows is installed on the first available partition, if you have jumpers set on secondary and tertiary (possibly sequencial slave drives) make sure windows is installed on the first partition of the primary drive, as it is easier to work with, it is possible to install on other partitions but it can be painful to reset drive space allocations if it takes up all of a secondary partition

[Anonomys1991]

is there anything specific i have to do to get it to give me a boot option?

or does it automatically let me chose between mac or windows?

[nocturnal_50]

if you are using chameleon it should work normally, not sure about boot 132