Raddav Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 My PC has a Vista/XP dual boot on my PC at the moment in seperate partitions on one drive. I'm thinking of adding OSX to another partition formated as FAT32 but although I have read many of the tutorials & posts here I have not come across a good guide on this configuration!! What I really want to know is will vista & XP get messed up from a bootloader point of view & will I have to fix them with the installation disks for both XP & Vista or will darwin sort all the boot options out? Reading most of the posts I guess they willl get confused. any advice on this configuration would be much appreciated Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar01 Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Im not too sure atm, but I understand that you re-install the Vista bootloader AFTER you install OSX86 and use the program EasyBCD to add a OSX86 entry to the Vista bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/#findComment-338399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Simple to fix this. As you begin to install osx, use the disk utilities to reformat the FAT drive to osx journaled; this will allow you to install osx. FInish your instalation. You may, if you wish, boot into Windows with the osx darwin bootloader (look through this site for ideas) Or, place your Vista disk back in the drive after osx is installed and when prompted, select "Repair" and you want to issue the command, "fixmbr" This should restore your WIndows. Next, you will need to use a program like Easy BCD to load OSX into the bootloader. Enjoy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/#findComment-338474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar01 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 ..... Or, place your Vista disk back in the drive after osx is installed and when prompted, select "Repair" and you want to issue the command, "fixmbr" This should restore your WIndows. Next, you will need to use a program like Easy BCD to load OSX into the bootloader. Enjoy Don't forget to only Repair "Start up" NOT any of the other options because it can stuff up your vista installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/#findComment-338954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raddav Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Thanks for all the advise. Everybody has mentioned Vista but what about XP, will that be okay or does that need to be repaired aswell? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/#findComment-339314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-FLASH08 Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Darwin will let you chose what boot option you want (Mac, Vista, XP) beleive I have seen that, and if you decide to unistall Mac, erase the Mac partition with Parition Magic and then set the Vista or XP partition active. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46918-xpvista-existing-os-adding-mac-osx/#findComment-339465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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