bartyl Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 i have 2 hard drives in my pc, 1 sata - 2 partitions: Media(nothing) Windows Vista RC1 1 Ide - Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6 had vista installed first, and then installed os x on the ide drive, installtion went fine, the pc automatically boots into os x, internet works, all good. however how do i boot back into vista to set up dual booting? i ran the vista cd, went to recovery tools and tryed 2 change the active partition at command prompt. it said it worked however still boots into os x? anyone have any ideas on what i do next? any questions please post Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olden Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Have you tried to press F8 at boot to view Darwin options? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/#findComment-180526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
windohs Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 try /v at boot startup, or install acronis os selector Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/#findComment-180582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartyl Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 EDIT: ok reinstalled Vista Rc1 and of course that set the active partition back to vista and booted vista. then used bcdedit.exe, the new built in boot loader editor for the vista boot loader and added a new entry for mac os x. all working perfect now, get the option of either and it boots perfectly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/#findComment-180845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelano Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 EDIT: ok reinstalled Vista Rc1 and of course that set the active partition back to vista and booted vista. then used bcdedit.exe, the new built in boot loader editor for the vista boot loader and added a new entry for mac os x. all working perfect now, get the option of either and it boots perfectly I find the bcdedit quite complex. could you possibly put up some step by step instructions on the process you used? I am teying to boot vista and osx as well but right now am only using vista Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/#findComment-197062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcyone Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Whenever I run bcdedit in Vista, it doesn't see the drive that OS X is installed on. Does anyone know why this might be? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26611-dual-booting-problem/#findComment-197281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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