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Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista

Disclaimer : This Guide is for educational purposes only, I suggest you buy yourself a original Mac. Also please do not post links to the Torrent’s as they will be removed.

U will need

* Vista Already installed on your Primary Hard Disk.
* Mac iATKOS v1.0 DVD. (Do not ask me where you can download this)
* Windows Vista Boot DVD (Just incase something goes wrong)

Installation
* Install Windows Vista on the First Partition of your Hard Disk. I
* Right click on My Computer and Click on Manage. Select Disk Management. Now Create a new Volume for Mac OSX by shrinking an existing volume. You need atleast 5GB of space and the new volume should show up as Unallocated.
* Make sure that the partition shows up as Unallocated, else repeat the previous step.
* Now restart the machine and boot into the Mac Leopard DVD that you burned using the iATKOS v1.0 DVD Image.
* Press F8 as the countdown begins and type -v at the prompt and hit enter.
* You should see scrolling text on the screen now.
* After a while you should be looking at the Mac Leopard Installer. Follow the instructions on Screen.
* Once the Loading Bar vanishes Select Utilities -> Disk Utility .
* Select the Volume you created previously and format it as MAC OSX Journaled Extended. Once the formatting is done the volume is ready for installation.
* Now Close Disk Utility and Select Utilities -> Darwin Boot. Type Y at the prompt.
* At the prompt when it asks for the Disk Number enter 0. For the Partition Number if your Mac Leopard Partition is 2nd on the disk, then enter 2 and so on.
* Accept the following prompts and you should see a success prompt saying that so many block of data were written successfully.
* Now get back to the Leopard Install Screen. Choose the partition that you made in the beginning and follow the instructions on screen.

Please don’t select any patches etc during the installation, this is normally the reason for most failed installations. Just the plain install would do.
* Once the Install is done, reboot with the Mac DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.
* Execute the following commands :

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot
* Now before the PC restarts remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Windows Vista normally.

* Now that we have almost everything running fine, lets proceed with the dual boot setup.
* Boot into Windows Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:
* Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.
* Type the following into the prompt

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0

In the first command type {current} as it is, literally..nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.
* Close the Command Prompt and Restart Windows Vista.
* You Should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into Mac OSX or Vista.
* Select Mac OSX to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you dont do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Windows Vista and MAC OSX options. Dont panic!

Again select MAC OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the partition with MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER.
* your Mac should be booting up as you read this..