yoda75 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Hi everybody. I'm going to take a stab at this OSX86 installation but I wanted to get some advice on the "what to get"s and the "how to do"s. First of all here are my Machine's specs: MOBO.........................PC533 SYSTEMBOARD/ P4 MAINBOARD M907 SERIES MICROATX CPU............................SOCKET 478/SSE2/P4 2GHZ RAM............................512MB DDR CHIPSET......................NORTHBRIDGE INTEL 845GL AUDIO.........................AC97 LAN CHIPSET.................RTL8100B VIDEO..........................ONBOARD HARD DRIVE 1.................120GB (SYSTEM DRIVE) HARD DRIVE 2.................200GB W/ONE 65GB + ONE 62GB PARTITION(FAT32) REMAINDER UNALLOCATED OS.................................XP PRO NO SERVICE PACKS I think that covers everything for hardware. I already have an xp pro install on my system drive. I would like to install OSX86 on the unallocated space on my 2nd hard drive. I have the "macosx_10.4.3_8f1111_for_dtk_userdvd" file and the "macosx_10.4.3_8f1111_for_dtk_userdvd.patched.md5" file This is supposed to be the file with the infamous Wesley's patch. (Is this still the best build floating around?)I will make a Ghost disk of my system drive just in case of course, but I'm not sure how to proceed after that. Could somebody please explain to me here or direct me to a nice step by step guide on how to do this? I'd be very grateful for any help anybody could offer. Best Regards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda75 Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 Anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-45804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
powrslave Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 xp pro no service packs? interesting Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-46316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda75 Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 All I want to know is if the wesley's patch will work on my computer and whether or not I should install OSX86 onto unused partition on my storage drive. Can somebody please give me some insight please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-47248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickhamm Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 From what I have read, Wesley's patch is old and outdated and the newest and best patch available is the JaS patch. There is a guide to follow here: http://www.profit42.com/guides.php?id=1 That guide works well and I have used it on several computers without problems (but my own still doesn't work, but it's probably a bad DVD drive). You already have the unallocated space, so you can skip the Partition Magic stuff and go stright to step 4 with diskpart. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-47262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda75 Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 Aaaah perfect! Just what I was looking for! Thanks for the heads up, I already saved that web page and am gonna start working on it. Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-47318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 From what I have read, Wesley's patch is old and outdated and the newest and best patch available is the JaS patch. There is a guide to follow here: http://www.profit42.com/guides.php?id=1 That guide works well and I have used it on several computers without problems (but my own still doesn't work, but it's probably a bad DVD drive). You already have the unallocated space, so you can skip the Partition Magic stuff and go stright to step 4 with diskpart. When I tried to make another partition for OS X on a drive with an existing WinXP partition, it deleted my XP partition. Fortunately Partition Magic was able to recover my data. Its much safe to make a partition with Partition Magic (make it unformated) then boot to DOS (boot off Partition Magic CD if necessary) and use the PTEDIT tool (on CD in /utilities/dos) to change your partition to type AF. THEN install to that partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-47324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sektor Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Or you can boot off of partition magic to resize your existing drive if necessary to create the free space necessary then from windows use diskpart to create the partition and it won't touch your existing partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-48350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 A small problem some people have reported with using the Disk Utility in the OSx86 installer is that with some graphics cards the screen doesn't always update unless you grab the window with the mouse and jiggle it around a bit (I'm being serious!). That can lead to you messing the partitions up bigtime because you don't know what you typed and what it's going to do. Using Partition Magic avoids this little trap. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7297-help-a-newb-winstallation-please/#findComment-48520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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