Dual Booting OS X/Windows XP on a PC

[Sam Alex]

I have an 80gb hard drive that i've split into two partitions. One has XP on it and formatted in NTFS. The other on the other hand has no file system in waiting to be formatted to AF to install OS X.

 

After booting into Ubuntu using the live CD, I open terminal to launch "cfdisk". Unfortunately my reply to the command is "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive. Press any key to exit".

 

My source of instructions is, "http://www.360insider.net/forums/showthread.php?t=203". It is the first step. If anyone has an idea on the solution pease tell.

 

Regards,

Sam

[DrJägermeister]

I have an 80gb hard drive that i've split into two partitions. One has XP on it and formatted in NTFS. The other on the other hand has no file system in waiting to be formatted to AF to install OS X.

 

After booting into Ubuntu using the live CD, I open terminal to launch "cfdisk". Unfortunately my reply to the command is "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive. Press any key to exit".

 

My source of instructions is, "http://www.360insider.net/forums/showthread.php?t=203". It is the first step. If anyone has an idea on the solution pease tell.

 

Regards,

Sam

fdisk -l (to see your drives)

cfdisk /dev/hda (change /dev/hda with the drive you found with fdisk -l)

Maybe you have to use sudo with Ubuntu (sudo fdisk -l)

[sektor]

The windows route of using diskpart will probably be easier as it doesn't involve a 3rd os. That's how I did it and it worked like a champ and am now dual booting between osx and xp via grub.