CAUTION:- I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF U LOSE UR DATAS.BE SURE TO BACKUP
UR DATAS BEFORE DOING THIS STEPS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. DO THIS ON
OWN RISK.
Before doing this steps you need to perpare several things first. The things are listed below.
- A decent size hard drive (more than 160GB will be better)
- Windows XP installed cpu
- Mac OS X install DVD
- Acronis Disk Creator Suite 10 (ADCS10)
Before installing MAC OS X, u need to do some other things first. U need to create partitions in your hard drive.The steps are given below.
- Lets say we are using a 160GB hard drive (hdd).How will you do partitioning? Using
XP cd? Of course not. We cannot use the windows XP cd to create partitions because
have to delete the existing partitions before creating a new one and this takes a
longer time because we need to install windows all over again. So,we need to do it
while running windows. How? See below.
1) Install ADCS10.
2) Reboot your computer by pressing "yes" at the end of the installation.
3) After reboot launch ADCS10.
4) Choose "manual mode".
5) We need to make 3 partitions (each for Windows XP,Mac OS X and file sharing)
- Total space in hdd is 160GB
- Windows XP = 60GB NTFS
- Mac OS X = 60GB FAT32
- Shared = 40GB FAT32
6) Now create partitions using ADCS10 if ur happy with the partition sizes.Make sure
that both Mac OS X abd shared are FAT32.Also make sure that Mac OS X partition is
yellow.
7) Congratulations!Now you have three partitions.Before installing Mac OS X, install
Acronis OS selector (AOSS).It will allow us to pick which operating system to boot
into,once we have Mac OS X installed.
8) Reboot your computer by pressing "yes" after the installation. After reboot, a
screen will pop-up and ask you which operating system to use (of course windows xp
since u havent installed Mac OS X yet).
- Now the moment you have been waiting has arrived. Its time for installing the
Mac OS X. After this things might get a little confusing so be careful.You need to
make sure that you Mac OS X install DVD is properly patched to work on a PC with either intel or AMD processor. Your CPU must support at least SSE2.SSE3 would be
better. For this briefing, im going to use AMD but not much different between AMD and
intel processors. Im using the AMD patch on the install DVD.You can use a sofware
called EVEREST to check wheter ur processor has SSE2 or SSE3. Now to install
Mac OS X,follow the steps given.
1) Insert the Mac OS X install DVD in the DVD-ROM drive and reboot the computer.
2) Then enter bios by pressing "f2" or "delete" button. Set ur DVD-drive as a primary
booting device. Safe and exit.
3) The PC reboots again and press any key to boot from DVD-ROM drive.
4) Now install the Mac OS X in the other partition (60GB FAT32).
5) Its just quick and not like Windows XP or any other windows.
6) After Mac OS X is finally installed, you can drag the DVD icon to the trash to eject
it from your DVD-ROM drive.
7) Now go back to WIndows XP.
- Now u have dual-boot with Windows XP and Mac OS X.Lets say if u want to get rid of
Mac OS X partition,the shared partition and AOSS. How can you do it? Ill show you.
Just follow these steps.
1) Restart your PC.
2) AOSS will pop-up and ask u to select an operating system.Just delete Mac OS X
from the list and run the AOSS uninstalling wizard.
3) Now you will be directly go into Windows XP without AOSS pop-up.
4) Next,you have to delete Mac OS X and shared partitions.So,launch ADCS10.
5) Delete the Mac OS X and Shared partition and you will have free space.
6) Now you have to add the free space back into Windows XP partition.
7) Hehe.Now ur PC back to the level it was before.Like you never happened.
- Well we have come to an end. This is a untested guide of making a dual booting hdd.
Im giving this warning again. Do this at your own risk. Have fun with the dual boot
hdd in your PC and good luck. Thanks for reading this.
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