Somebody1 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Hello guys! First of all I would like to say that I am new to all of this so please bare with me Anyway my specs first: Corsair TX750W Cooler Master 690 II Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Intel Core i7 920 3.0Ghz (oc) Prolimatech MegaShadow w/ Scythe 1600rpm fan Gigabyte GTX460 1GB SLI 6GB Mushkin 1600mhz RAM CL7 Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HD103SJ + 160GB Maxtor something I am currently running Windows 7 x64 as well as Ubuntu 11.04 but I will be deleting it My current partition setup is So you can see that on my main 1tb HDD i have a C partition where w7, a G partition where i put my docs, music, games and everything I wouldn't want to get lost if W7 fails Than I have the older 160gb HDD in which i have the 29 gig partition for storage, and than the remaining 2 for the Ubuntu installation Anyway I am currently dual booting using the GNU GRUB Which brings me to Q #1 Could I just format the entire 160GB HDD (all its partitions thus deleting Ubuntu) and not have a problem booting Windows7? Anyway once I have (if the answer to the q above is yes ) formatted that HDD I would like to have the Mac OS on that partition What distro would suit my PC best..iPc, iDeneb, iATKOS, a retail one, something else? Please give your thoughts Once I have picked the distro would this be a proper procedure to get the dual boot running 1. In W7 format the 160GB HDD to FAT32, and give it a name, lets say "Snow Leopard" 2. Restart the PC, inser the MacOSX distro. 3. Boot to it. 4. Go to Disk Util and than select the 160GB HDD. 5. Erase it and than make it so it is the Extended Journaled Option 6. Install MacOSX and than when it boots restart the PC and boot w7 (if boot0 (1) error is displayed I insert the Windows 7 boot disk, go to repair and than repair the boot) 7. After Booting Windows 7 i use EasyBCD and create an entry for the MacOS 8. Restart the PC, boot MacOS, install kexts and enjoy the apple magic? So please leave your thoughts, suggestions and answer the questions (bold) Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/261691-help-dualboot-w7-and-sl/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacFaceKing Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Hello guys!First of all I would like to say that I am new to all of this so please bare with me Anyway my specs first: Corsair TX750W Cooler Master 690 II Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Intel Core i7 920 3.0Ghz (oc) Prolimatech MegaShadow w/ Scythe 1600rpm fan Gigabyte GTX460 1GB SLI 6GB Mushkin 1600mhz RAM CL7 Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HD103SJ + 160GB Maxtor something :censored2: I am currently running Windows 7 x64 as well as Ubuntu 11.04 but I will be deleting it :pirate2: My current partition setup is So you can see that on my main 1tb HDD i have a C partition where w7, a G partition where i put my docs, music, games and everything I wouldn't want to get lost if W7 fails Than I have the older 160gb HDD in which i have the 29 gig partition for storage, and than the remaining 2 for the Ubuntu installation Anyway I am currently dual booting using the GNU GRUB Which brings me to Q #1 Could I just format the entire 160GB HDD (all its partitions thus deleting Ubuntu) and not have a problem booting Windows7? Anyway once I have (if the answer to the q above is yes ) formatted that HDD I would like to have the Mac OS on that partition What distro would suit my PC best..iPc, iDeneb, iATKOS, a retail one, something else? Please give your thoughts Once I have picked the distro would this be a proper procedure to get the dual boot running 1. In W7 format the 160GB HDD to FAT32, and give it a name, lets say "Snow Leopard" 2. Restart the PC, inser the MacOSX distro. 3. Boot to it. 4. Go to Disk Util and than select the 160GB HDD. 5. Erase it and than make it so it is the Extended Journaled Option 6. Install MacOSX and than when it boots restart the PC and boot w7 (if boot0 (1) error is displayed I insert the Windows 7 boot disk, go to repair and than repair the boot) 7. After Booting Windows 7 i use EasyBCD and create an entry for the MacOS 8. Restart the PC, boot MacOS, install kexts and enjoy the apple magic? So please leave your thoughts, suggestions and answer the questions (bold) Thanks! You didn't like Ubuntu? I freaking love it! It's almost the same thing at Mac OS. Obviously, there are differences, but I honestly wouldn't mind switching back to Ubuntu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/261691-help-dualboot-w7-and-sl/#findComment-1710047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirbow2 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 wow faceking your helpfull :censored2: Yes wipe the 160GB 1. [u]In W7 format the 160GB HDD to FAT32, and give it a name, lets say "Snow Leopard"[/u] 2. Restart the PC, inser the MacOSX distro. 3. Boot to it. 4. Go to Disk Util and than select the 160GB HDD. 5. Erase it and than make it so it is the Extended Journaled Option 6. Install MacOSX and than restart[u] the PC and boot w7 (if boot0 (1) error is displayed I insert the Windows 7 boot disk, go to repair and than repair the boot)[/u] 7. OSX works 7. Boot Windows 7, use EasyBCD and create an entry for the MacOS 8. Restart the PC, either boot from osx hdd and go strait to chameleon or boot win HDD and select osx from easy bsd. no need to do the underlined stuff. ok if you wipe the 160GB and install osx on that, you dont need to do anything with windows. they are on seperate HDD's which can be selected from bios. or easybsd i would go retail definitely, better down the road. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...mp;hl=X58A-UD3R what revision of mobo do you have? ex 2.0, 1.0, 1.6, 1.7 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/261691-help-dualboot-w7-and-sl/#findComment-1710189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somebody1 Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Have the rev2.0 Can you please explain further about the distros? So I can wipe the 160GB HDD without hazard? also is the process i described correct? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/261691-help-dualboot-w7-and-sl/#findComment-1710319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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