Purple Puppy Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 I have a computer with a 3-partition harddrive: all three are HFS (journaled). One of them is for OSX, one of them is for data, and the third one is empty. I would like to find out the most reliable way to install Windows Vista on the computer without losing any data on OSX. I don't trust methods which use Acronis OS Selector because I have had many, many bad experiences with it and I have made a personal note to never use it again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47877-installing-windows-vista-on-a-computer-with-existing-osx86-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 I don't see why you can't directly install Vista on the empty space. Alternatively maybe you might want to format the empty space into FAT32 and then try and install Vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47877-installing-windows-vista-on-a-computer-with-existing-osx86-installation/#findComment-343130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted April 9, 2007 Author Share Posted April 9, 2007 But after I install vista onto the empty space, won't I be unable to boot to OSX again? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47877-installing-windows-vista-on-a-computer-with-existing-osx86-installation/#findComment-343468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar01 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 You have to add an OSX86 entry to the Vista bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47877-installing-windows-vista-on-a-computer-with-existing-osx86-installation/#findComment-344158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostproc Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 But after I install vista onto the empty space, won't I be unable to boot to OSX again? No. I did the following: /hda/partition1/winxp /hdb/partition1/osx /hdb/partition2/vista I installed osx on the second harddrive first. I then installed vista (it will ignore the osx partition if it can find another MS partition somewhere - if not I could not get it to install on the same disk as osx) Use osx boot cd to fix osx part. add vista to darwin boot loader Should have no problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47877-installing-windows-vista-on-a-computer-with-existing-osx86-installation/#findComment-344453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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