Another Dual Boot win 1st Leo 2nd
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…
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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?
Roy
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I will try and let you know
Really appreciate your help
Roy
Well...
All went well during installation , managed to dual boot as rizalrexy (osx 86.net/../../member.php?u=14043) suggested above.
now i got kernel Panic...but that a differant thread )
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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.
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Automagic
- 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 ↗ bootloader for its beautiful Bootcamp-like user interface.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @RoyCO | Primary Author | 3 | 2010-04-17 → 2010-04-18 |
| @TheTony | Contributor | 1 | 2010-04-17 |
| @rizalrexy | Contributor | 1 | 2010-04-17 |