invision620 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 alright,so i installed os x natively and gave it the entire hdd, but now i need to reinstall xp. id usually just screw around until i figure it out, but i love my os x, and dont feel like reinstalling it. every guide ive seen so far says to install xp first, but i clearly can't do that. suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44358-installing-xp-after-i-installed-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tops Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Just a theory, but this should work: Boot to DVD, open Disk Utility Click on your hard drive at the top of the list Click Partition Tab Drag bottom of your Mac Partition upwards til there is enough free space for Windows Click Partition to apply the changes Boot to XP cd-Rom, hit repair, and go to the Command Prompt Create an NTFS Partition Reboot to XP CD again Install XP ??? Profit? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44358-installing-xp-after-i-installed-osx/#findComment-317455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wang Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Not sure about whether Step 4 will break your OS X installation or not. If not, you can follow below procedures to have a dual-boot system with Darwin bootloader: 4. Drag bottom of your Mac Partition upwards til there is enough free space for Windows and make the free space as DOS partition. 5. Click Partition to apply the changes then quit. 6. Boot with XP CD and install to DOS partition and make it as NTFS if you like. (After finishing XP installation, it will boot to XP directly everytime you power on) 7. Boot with OS X DVD and open Terminal from TOOL, type below commands to activate OS X partition: fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 flag 1 update write quit 8. Exit and reboot 9. Press F8 right after power on, Darwin bootloader shall show up and you can select the OS you want to boot. 10. This is optional. Add below keys into Boot.plist <key>Timeout</key> <string>5</string> (This give you 5 seconds to show up Darwin bootloader by press any key) Cheers, Bruce Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44358-installing-xp-after-i-installed-osx/#findComment-317490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 YES, STEP FOUR WILL (WILL!) BREAK YOUR HACKINTOSH INSTALLATION. Disk Utility is incapable of repartitioning a drive without losing data. You will end up erasing your whole drive. If you want to resize the HFS+ partition, try the Gparted Live CD. It's Linux-based, and can non-destructively resize most partition types. http://gparted.sourceforge.net Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44358-installing-xp-after-i-installed-osx/#findComment-317495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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