kaydubs Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Hi. I just put a fresh install of Vista on my laptop. I plan on dual booting, but with both OS' on the same hard drive. Is this possible? Right now, there are two volumes on my PC. The C:\ drive is 65.9 GB and the D:\ is 8.59 GB. The D:\ drive was originally the "HP_RECOVERY" drive that was pre-installed on my laptop when I recieved it but I wiped it out with a format. I was wondering, is there any way I can get rid of that drive and add the rest of the space back to C:\? Sorry if that's a noob question, I am pretty new to this stuff. Anyway, I am currently downloading JaS's 10.4.7 iso and I have Acronis Disk Director Suite installed. Is there anything else I need to know? Can someone point me in the right direction to the tutorial that suits my needs? Thanks in advance. Sorry for the noobness once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 you need two partitions(volumes). one for Vista and One for OSX. Vista uses NTFS, which OSX can read, but cannot be installed on. OSX used HFS+, which cannot normally be read by windows. if i were you i woudl give at least 10GB to OSX, so make the scond one bigger in Acronis and then clear its formatting. the wiki is an amazing tool (http://wiki.osx86project.org/) -absolutly amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 There is a nice Search button in the upper left of the forum window. Just searching for "vista" quickly turns up the following: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28506 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaterSalad77 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I would recommend following one of the many dual boot guides: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...uides#Dual_Boot do your research and you shouldnt have any problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydubs Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 Thank you all for your very fast replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydubs Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 Alright, well to keep this as short and least-embarassing as possible... I was partitioning my hard-drive last nite with Acronis and right in the middle of the partitioning, I got an error and my PC automatically rebooted itself. Upon reboot, I got an error that said MBR Error 1. Since this was a fresh install of Vista, I forgot to place the boot.ini and other two files (forgot the names) in C:\...well after much hassling I finally got to it with removable media and workarounds on the Vista install disc, but after rebooting, it didn't seem to fix the problem. Now, I don't know too much when it comes to command prompt, but I managed to recover the 75 GB hard-drive and now I just have a huge disk of unallocated space and the only volume being my DVD-ROM drive. What I need now is someone to give me the commands to type in command prompt to get my hard-drive back, so I guess I can just reinstall Vista (because getting my data back is out of the question) and use a damn program that works (Norton Magic Partition). Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydubs Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 Anyone? I'm sitting here with an unbootable laptop. I've been trying numerous commands in command prompt. The closest I got to reformatting was it telling me that my disk is not dynamic... How can I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1956 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Hi! I googled MBR Error 1 and this is first response that pops up: "Could you please enter Recovery Console in the way described at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...125120121120120 and type Fixmbr command?" Hope that helps. Google is your friend ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaydubs Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 Okay well I managed to fix it god knows how. thanks for the help though. Time to do this the right way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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