jccool Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hi, Here is my situation and hopefully there are some options for me to dual boot. I just upgraded to an e6600 from an old amd 3200+ and it seems that new intel mobo's only have 1 ide so I can only have 1 hard drive :-(. The way I have it setup right now is that first I partitioned into 3 partitions. C:= 1.2gb fat32 (for windows boot files or something because when i had first installed osx then tried to install xp, it said that my partition wasnt windows compatible) then I have D:=58GB HFS+ (for mac) then E: = 90.2GB NTFS (for windows). Upon setting up my partitions, I setup osx on D and my video/audio card drivers (ati and m-audio) then tried a 1080p movie and went wow and rebooted. I then proceeded to install Windows on E. Windows said there was currently ANOTHER osx installed and it had to make it inactive in order to boot windows! xp installed and booted flawlessly but now I cant use osx anymore. What would be a recomended bootloader for this situation? I just wanna see a dialog box at startup bringing me either to darwin bootloader or legacy os thing bootloader. was thinking grub but i think I need linux installed? Are there any other options that don't envolve a 3ed os like linux? Thanks, Jccool Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48327-dual-booting-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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