noptuno Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) I have two SATA drives one with Vista and the other with MACOSX, how can I use them both at the same time with an boot up interface, and i dont mean use them at the same time, I mean to have them connected while I can switch on oss, so I dont have to be disconnecting one to get into the other and viseversa, and ofcourse to acces my files on the NTFS partition of Vista! thanks in advance PS: Do I still need the chain0? like it says in this guide: http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/12/...ot-on-intelamd/ Edited March 11, 2007 by noptuno Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 You need two PC's and a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. Problem solved hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noptuno Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 ?? Man what the hell?!?!? lol anyways Im not trying to use two operating systems at the same time on one pc... thats.... uhm... yeah you know the answer, the question is even stupid! anyways im trying to get the two HDD connected while using any OSs I want to use, so I can access the other one, cause ive read that Mac can read NTFS partitions but it cant write on it, and thats obvious cause NTFS made it Microsuck, I mean Microsoft, so Im trying to just get them to work with a bootloader when someone turns on the comp... so how can I do this... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs2388 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) That is how I have mine setup... but with windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.8 just use the chain0 file... in C:/ then format your other HD like this in windows. click run and type diskpart select disk 1 create partition primary id=af if it fails and says something delete the partition... control panel > administrive tools > Computer management > Storage select your hard you want OS installed and delete it... then do the code above assuming the hard drive your installing is 1... then boot the install DVD and you should be able to take it from there Edited March 11, 2007 by srs2388 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noptuno Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 But I need to reinstall mac again?, cause is already installed... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wang Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 When you power on, which OS will it boot to? Bruce Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 If your motherboard support a BIOS bootloader (like "Press F12 to choose boot device" in BIOS, most newer boards have this option), you can use that to choose your other bootable partition and get it loading. That's what I do when I need Windoze, which is rarely these days with Parallels. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 (edited) ?? Man what the hell?!?!? lol anyways Im not trying to use two operating systems at the same time on one pc... thats.... uhm... yeah you know the answer, the question is even stupid! anyways im trying to get the two HDD connected while using any OSs I want to use, so I can access the other one, cause ive read that Mac can read NTFS partitions but it cant write on it, and thats obvious cause NTFS made it Microsuck, I mean Microsoft, so Im trying to just get them to work with a bootloader when someone turns on the comp... so how can I do this... Sorry for the stupid joke. I gather what you really want is to have read/access rights to both drives from OSX and Vista, right? If that it the case, then I can tell you that you're in for a dangerous ride because NTFS support for OSX is not ready yet. Even read support seems a little buggy. There are several reports (I include my own) of OSX now showing the files in NTFS partitions (this could well be just a hacintosh problem). They files just seem to disappear and may reappear after a reboot. Really annoying, if you ask me. I decided to dump the whole windows OS after this happened to me. For Mac OSX NTFS support, look here: NTFS Read/Write Support Finally here! Don't know about Windows HFS support though. You'll have to do some research for that. Hope this helps, hecker Edited March 12, 2007 by hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-321875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noptuno Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 nice, b ut i finally did a bootloader, with EasyBCD, but im gonna try the read/write thinggy... hehe thanks for all! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44947-how-can-i-use-my-two-hddone-vista-other-mac-connected-with-a-boot-up-interface/#findComment-322199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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