prussiap Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 did a lot of searching but i'm kind of afraid of doing this before asking I already have Osx Installed and working fine.. and i have a second partition i use as data that's fat32.. I would like to resize the second partiton to make room for a 3rd 10gb XP partition install windows in that.. and dual boot.. how would you do that (what tools and order ?) I just want to make sure the mbr isnt screwed up adn stuff after i do that. dGV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Hi Prussiap: I am running Dual Boot at home having installed Windows XP on the FAT32 Partition. Why did I do this? One reason is because Windows XP runs fine on FAT32. Another reason is Mac OS X fully supports reading and writing to FAT32 Partitions. Here's the process I did: 1) Install Mac OS X on one partition and make sure it works (which you already did). 2) Install Windows XP on the FAT32 Partition. NOTE: If you need to repartition the FAT32 Partition, you can use OS X Disk Utility or Windows XP Install Disc. WARNING: Re-partition the FAT32 Partition only -and- only if you have everything backed up. Leave the OS X Partition alone. 3) After installing Windows XP, you will be booted to Windows XP partition by default. Make sure Windows works OK. 4) Reboot and use CD-ROM Boot Disk like Windows 98 or SE, go to command prompt. 5) Type in FDISK to go to the MS-DOS Utility. 6) Highlight the Mac OS X Parition and set it Active. 7) When you reboot, you should get Darwin Boot Menu where you can select either OS X or Windows partition. Since FAT32 can support Windows and can be read and written by OS X, I would just leave the FAT32 Partition and install Windows on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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