consume Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I've been looking around and i finally got the iatkos iso, which is currently burning. But one problem is that i don't have a vista boot disk, because my pc came with the recovery cds instead. Is there anyway i can still do this and dual boot without having the vista boot dvd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
At0mAng Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Get: Gparted Live CD EasyBCD and learn all the Diskpart and Bootrec switches and you should be good to go. If you have a fast connection you may want to download the Vista ISO just incase. The only thing you should need the Vista boot DVD is for repairing but with the OS X cd you can repair by typing -s at the boot prompt. From there type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (assuming you are using disk 0) and then flag 1 which should make the vista partition active again. If you do get the winload.exe error I believe you will need the Vista DVD then. I am not sure but maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
consume Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Get:Gparted Live CD EasyBCD and learn all the Diskpart and Bootrec switches and you should be good to go. If you have a fast connection you may want to download the Vista ISO just incase. The only thing you should need the Vista boot DVD is for repairing but with the OS X cd you can repair by typing -s at the boot prompt. From there type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (assuming you are using disk 0) and then flag 1 which should make the vista partition active again. If you do get the winload.exe error I believe you will need the Vista DVD then. I am not sure but maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong. Hey thanks for that but do you also have some type of instant messenger account? I have a lot more questions but i don't want to turn this into a chat room type of thread....if you can pm me with your aim account name i would be very greatful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
consume Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 I'm trying to shrink this volume that has vista so i can install macosx but vista is telling me that i will only have 570 mb free if i shrink the volume...my harddrive is 320gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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