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Another Dual Boot question-win 1st Leo 2nd
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 |
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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. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR COMPUTER MAKE PLENTY OF BACKUPS XD
snowosx universal 10.6.4- Everything working except quartzgl and quartz extreme Last edited by TheTony; 04-17-2010 at 08:27 PM. Reason: forgot a step |
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Thanks!!
I will try and let you know Really appreciate your help Roy |
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Well...
All went well during installation , managed to dual boot as rizalrexy suggested above. now i got kernel Panic...but that a differant thread thank you 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. |