NoSmokingBandit Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Im ordering the parts to build my Hac today and i plan on using the drive i have in my current rig. I have it set up with a 30gb Vista partition, 30gb OSX partition, and a 130gb NTFS partition for storing {censored}. If i install osx with EFI will that mess up my other partitions? Im going to reinstall both OS's, but i plan on installing OSX, then Vista in bootcamp. So i guess what im asking is 'will Kalyway+EFI destroy my partition table?' I've never installed with efi before so im kinda worried about losing all the junk i have stored on my drive. Thanks for your time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSmokingBandit Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Anyone? My stuff is going to be here by the end of the week, so i need to start backing up asap if i need to.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSmokingBandit Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 ..so nobody knows/cares enough to help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubswinfllclssic Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 ..so nobody knows/cares enough to help? You will need to install Vista first. Installing Vista afterwards seems to mess up all other bootloaders. As far as I know, if you're building a hack, don't use bootcamp-- just use Vista's bootloader or your bios partition boot selector. And I would also suggest that you use a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS for storing files, etc. . Mac can't natively write to NTFS, and if you use a utility it's slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSmokingBandit Posted April 1, 2008 Author Share Posted April 1, 2008 so i can install vista, then leo with efi and my other partitions will be fine? All of my data is on ntfs, and if i had to back it all up i would have switched to fat32, but i made that partition long before i knew about osx86. The ntfs3g driver works fine for me though. I dont need constant read/write to the partition. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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