justtestingit Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Hi everyone, After researching this problem for a week I'm trying my luck here. Here is the story: Step 1: I have a vista ultimate pre-installed HP Pavilion dv9530 laptop with intel duo core, 2GB ram and two seperate HD of 160GB (C:\ has vista installed and there is nothing on D:\) Step 2: I downloaded the ToH RC2 release and burned it to DVD Step 3: I started the DVD and after a while I erased my D:\ to Mac journalling extended and succesfully installed Leopard! So now we have Vista which boots on my C:\ drive and Leopard installed on the D:\ drive but this is not recognized in Vista anymore so in vista I just have a c:\ drive. I can still boot Vista but I'd like to choose if I want to boot Vista (C:\) or Leopard(D:\) because Leopard is succesfully installed but I can't seem to boot it up. Can anyone please help me? Greetings Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
justtestingit Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-589582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gael Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I would suggest downloading EasyBCD from NeoSmart from here http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 This allows the Vista Bootloader to boot into other OS's Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-590120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Well you could use EasyBCD like the previous post said. If you are using two hard drives, you can press F8 (check your bios settings, its F8 on mine) and it will bring you to a selection screen to choose which drive to boot. This won't work if you have 2 partitions on one drive. I would suggest you get a copy of Acronis Disk Director Suite and install their Acronis OS Selector. This would be the easiest and most straight forward approach, but if you want you can just search for Boot Loaders or ways to change the Vista boot loader to add OS X as an option. Just search on google. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-590154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justtestingit Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Hi, I already tried this: 1) BIOS changing startup drive I am unable to do this in my BIOS 2) EasyBCD doesn't work for me either. I get MacOSX option in the windows bootloader but it says file not found 3) I installed Acronis OS Selector and this finds me both drives! Very good...but when I try to search an operating system on the D: it doesn't find me one..so this is all not working What do I have to do now?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-590541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuz_242 Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 im not sure if installing on a partition works, most people use seperate disks. i installed on an external usb disk, couldn´t boot at first. i had to make the partition active / bootable. maybe thats your problem? now i got osx running on internal, i simply copied the partition with acronis. (i guess there are easier ways / tools in osx doing this...) multiboot works well with easybcd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-590740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justtestingit Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 I am not installing on seperate partitions but actual disks. I have two disks in my laptop. It doesn't seem to recognize a bootable OS on the D:\ (leopard) drive although leopard installed succesfully Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-591010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomeray Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Did you flag the Leopard partition as active? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-591396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justtestingit Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 How do I do this? But I still want to be able to choose Vista or Leopard when I start up because I'll be using vista mostly, can I still do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-591835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justtestingit Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 can anyone please help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83023-dualboot-from-different-disks-with-vista-pre-installed/#findComment-597844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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