iPC dual boot on empty partition from clone...?

jigga1 · #1 09-24-2009, 10:33 PM

Hello community, long time reader first time poster...

I have some questions about creating a dual boot I hope can be answered.

Here are my resources:

I have a 100 gig MBR 1 partition journaled formatted drive that I successfully installed iPC (with some tips read here) for use on my T61 lenovo

I have a 500 gig laptop drive that I have partitioned into 4 partitions using the standard XP utilities.

90 gig for xp (running great)
6 gig for recovery
300 gig for general storage (empty right now)
100 gig for hopefully OS X

I also have another mac desktop computer with lots of storage and I have 2 external usb enclosures if needed for my two laptop hard drives.

What I want to do, but I am scared to try, is to somehow simply clone my 100 gig working iPC install onto my 500gig hard drive, and then some how use chameleon 2 as the boot loader to be able to switch between xp or os x. and then have the remaining partition to be able to be used for storage for both xp and os x using the NTFS utility found in the iPC install.

Any suggestions or software on how to do this most efficiently and quickly. I would ideally like to not touch the current XP partition because all my programs and files are already on there. I am thinking that perhaps I can clone the hard drive onto and empty partition on the 500 gig hard drive and then load the chameleon boot-loader, and then go start into xp(because that is the primary partition rt now) and then set the os x partition as the primary.

Is this correct thinking...will this mess up everything...

Thanks for any suggestions to method or software to accomplish this!

thorazine74 · #2 09-25-2009, 10:41 AM

You can use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the working partition to the empty one and install chameleon to it, it should be pretty easy assuming all the partitions are primary. You cant clone the whole HD to a partition, just copy partition to partition with CCC and then reinstall Chameleon to be able to boot with just the 500 gb drive.