Dualboot Windows 7 & OS X Leopard
 

Hey!

I've a question and hope you can help me :) Here it is:

I own a hackintosh for almost half a year now. However, now that Windows 7 is available I want to install it as well, as I don't get the FullHD Resolution of my display with OS X ( thanks to ATI X1400 -_-).

Therefore I'd like to ask, how to dualboot Windows 7 and Leopard!
Is it like Vista, so could I just use a Vista - OS Guide? Which one would you recommend?
And right now I'm using a Leo4all v3 OS X - should I change? Is there something new/better (I'm on a Thinkpad 2007-6RG) ? With Leo4all v3 I already now which drivers to select etc. - but as mentioned my graphics card doesn't work (artefacts + max. res. only 1600x1400) - do you thing another distribution could solve this problems?

Thanks in advance & I'm looking forward to your answers! ;)

Can nobody help me?

I created one partition with the OS X Installation Disc. Next I installed OS X. However, when I try to install Windows 7 on the other free HD drive space is says that it isn't able to install, as the partiton table or something similar is not correct.

Installing Windows 7 and then OS X doesn't work either!

I also tried to create the partitions in Ubuntu, but that also didn't help.... :(

you can try windows 7 from bootcamp...
www.lifehacker.com/5131766/install-windows-7-beta-on-your-mac-with-boot-camp

As a general rule, it is useful if you copy the exact message you get and post it so that people don't have to guess what is happening. Maybe that is why nobody replied.

I haven't installed Windows 7, so I can only try to guess what's happening.

Have you tried to install Windows 7 to a blank HDD (i.e. remove all partitions first) using, say, 50% of the capacity and then install MacOS to the remaining 50%?

Bootcamp is for real Macs to run Windows. A PC can run Windows without bootcamp!

I know that. I just provided him with an alternate way.

Thanks for your replies!
I'm not quite sure what it exactly said - but I'll take a picture the next time I try to install it!
Thanks!

For starters, Windows 7, like past versions does not respect the MBR (master boot record). So you will need to install Windows first, then OSX86. OSX must have a primary partition to boot from also. This can all be done from within, Windows command prompt with diskpart.

Follow this guide: http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversi...p/t129261.html

The guide is for Vista yes, but it works just the same for Windows 7. Print the guide if you can, or use another computer to read it from.

In addition, if you use Gparted to parition your disks (see the guide) then you will have to delete the partition that you want windows to go in, and recreate it from within the windows 7 installer. It does not like the partitions that Gparted makes and will not install on them. Unless of course you already have Windows 7 installed, then just ignore this last paragraph. :)

Anyway this is what worked for me. Good luck!

That sounds EXACTLY like my problem!
Thank you so much - I'll try it today!

I have to say it...second drive FTW. Installing Windows 7 was a piece of cake for my Hack for that very reason. :)