Another Dual Boot question-win 1st Leo 2nd

[RoyCO]

Hello!
i Am a Hackintosh Newbie.
I have win7 installed and want to install LeoPard on differant Hard drive and make dual boot-which is the best way to do it without destorying any data?
Searched the threads but all i could find is Mac first-->win second.
The Leopard edition is Hazarad if that matters...

Does the Leopard installation will write ont eh Win MBR? or do i need to edit the boot.ini and add the Mac location?
Thanks!

Roy

[TheTony]

ill telll you how i did it, It probably wont matter which distro you use but anyway lets start.
Since you have a seperate hard drive that you dont want to lose data on (if im correct) you're going to want to make a partition on it.
*Go to start
*right-click on computer
*click on manage then click on disk management at the bottom.
*click on your desired hard-drive and shrink it to desired space capacity.
*then right click on the unallocated space and make it a new volume.
*you can assign it a letter but DO NOT format it.
*restart your computer with the mac boot disk in your drive, make sure when it boots you press your "boot from" button
*boot from your disk.
*let the disk boot and an ugly apple screen with an apple and a spinning circle should appear.
*choose your language and then start disk utility in the top bar under utilities(obviously)
*choose your unformatted partition in the left toolbar, make sure its the one on your destination hard-drive
*click erase at the top and choose mac os extended journaled (something like that) from the drop down, then press erase at the bottom.
*get out of disk util when its done
*then press next and click on your partition, it should be the only choice.
*press next then press customize.
*choose anything you will need (cant help you there) and press done then install.
*Have fun!

Since its on another hardrive im not sure how it will boot, you may need to boot from that external hard-drive every time im really not sure, this guide also isn't tailored exactly to you. This is what i used.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR COMPUTER MAKE PLENTY OF BACKUPS XD

[rizalrexy]

Plug out your WIn7 HD.
Install Mac OS and make sure this HD is the first boot on BIOS.
Plug in your Win7 and automagically the bootloader willl detect your Win7. I prefer using Bootthink (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=168500) bootloader for its beautiful Bootcamp-like user interface.

[RoyCO]

Thanks!!
I will try and let you know
Really appreciate your help

Roy

[RoyCO]

Well...
All went well during installation , managed to dual boot as rizalrexy (http://osx86.net/../../member.php?u=14043) suggested above.

now i got kernel Panic...but that a differant thread :):)
thank you