KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 I am installing mac for a friend but I cant remember what you have to do so that you can modify windows partition when running mac any help would be greatly appreciated thanks. doing a full new install on windows as well as adding mac partition both on same 160GB hdd sorry if this is very newb like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richtig Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Use FAT32 instead of NTFS when installing WindowsXP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 how i meanyt how to do that exactly he has xp already but its so scrued up i am deleting the partition and clean installing how do i choose fat32 not ntfs there because the last time i remember seeing only ntfs there no fat32 option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 please help me i still need help i know i sound kind of retarted but help me please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 if you reformat in apple's disk utility and check the option to erased and format to ms-dos and thats your fat32 format right there. hope that helps *if your gonna do a whole hd reformat (which is best) pop in your mac install dvd, let it boot, goto utilities > disk utility -click your hd your gonna reformat and install to (the hd not its partitions) > Click the partition tab > Change volume scheme > to the right you get to change the formats and sizes. -once finished choosing sizes and formats go ahead and click Partition and there ya are. i would suggest installing osx first then windows > give osx first partition > then install windows -once in windows open disk management (start button> run> diskmgmt.msc) > select your mac partition (healthy but unknown partition) right click and set as active. now you have the darwin bootloader to select your os mac is first then windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 THANX that the only way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 thats the easiet way ive found to do it without headaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 When you boot the XP install disc, at the point of selecting what partition to install onto, just delete the old(bad) install. That will leave you with an unpartitioned area. Select this unpartitioned area as the partition to install to. Then you are given the chance to choose how to format the partition (NTFS, NTFS(quick), Fat32, etc..) Then the installation will continue..... Or if you install OSX first like Diabolik said create a FAT32 partition and select that partition for the XP install it will then ask you how you want to format it. You can then choose not to format and to use existing file system. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 FFOR DIABOLICK'S WAY DOES THAT let you choose like acronis os selector or just normal mac boot straight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 I've got my own boot issue's I'm working on so I can't be of much help there. Logically speaking I would think that if you install OSX first and then XP(FAT32) booting into XP and start ->run ->diskmgmt.msc setting the OSX partition as active it would use OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 WILL I be able to choose there like acronis or not kust need to know that and if it easily works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 If you install that on XP then you will need to leave the XP partiton as the [Active] partition. If you install XP last then its going to overwrite the Master Boot Record so you will need to install acronis in order to boot select or it will boot into windows without being able to select. I've seen alot of posts here pertaining to dual booting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBS756 Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 THANX I GOT IT I KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW THANX A LOT YOU GUYS just thought of something does bootcamp work on hakintoshes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 bootcamp dosent work on our hackintoshs yett til we get efi going. o yea darwin bootlaoder does let your select your partion witch you want to boot you may have to hit f8 after your bios screen to get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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