Dual boot windows xp and mac os x snow leopard

At last done by following your tutorial. Most of the tools supports in windows platform. Faced difficulties switching from mac to desktop PC by pausing the work. Really thanks for your great effort. I recall 7 years ago, a collegue using a Powerbook G4 1. That to me is pure efficiency. One thing I did recently was restore a MacBook Air for a friend of mine. Booted to a wireless network and restored it online from the Apple store.

Took about 4 hours but how cool is that. I am executing the above steps properly and yet my Macbook pro is booting Windows XP as well but when I switch Admin accounts, it automatically restarts? Is any one else facing the same issue. Please help!

Good guide, clear and concise. Could you elaborate please? Any suggestions? Hi Lindsay.

Thanks for replying so quickly. I need to use programs that are from that era. Now running an old PC or laptop is getting frustrating. Can this work or no? I was able to get xp on my bootcamp partition and it works except the windows support software will not load and so I cannot go online, etc with the xp. Your email address will not be published.

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Learn how your comment data is processed. This allows you to use both operating systems at the same time. I then installed Windows XP and after rebooting, found that neither the new Windows XP or the existing Windows 7 would successfully boot. To prepare the hard drive for triple boot, I had to shrink my Mac OS X partition first partition and delete my existing Windows 7 Boot Camp partition in order to create two new partitions, one for Windows 7 second partition and the other for Windows XP third and last partition.

The above size allocations reflect my predicted usage pattern and accounts for the minimal installation size for each OS. Microsoft Office takes an additional 15GB. That is so not the apple.

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While running Windows 7, do the following:. I found this out the hard way. If any file gets corrupted say from a power outage , Windows 7 will do a chkdsk check disk operation on its own partition and the Windows XP partition. To prevent Windows 7 from automatically running a chkdsk command on the Windows XP partition, do the following:.

If you were affected by this chkdsk issue, there is a way to recover. Just let the Windows 7 chkdsk complete. Once chkdsk is done, follow these steps to reset the Windows XP permissions:. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this drive? Surprisingly, Mac OS X The latter is enabled by the Boot Camp driver installation on Windows. Unfortunately, write access is not allowed for either case. If you are using VMware Fusion and was able to load the old Windows 7 Boot Camp installation which we deleted as part of the triple boot process previously, you can load the new Windows 7 partition with a simple change.

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When VMware Fusion next runs, it will regenerate the necessary info to be able to load the new Windows 7 partition. I found a hint that the rEFIt boot icon labels can be renamed. Mac OS X. Sorry to hear. Which step in the Windows XP installation did you get to? You might be able to repair Windows 7 by booting from the Windows 7 install DVD and selecting the recovery option. Try ended with disk read error.

The C: So if you boot into Win7, the C: Likewise, if you boot into WinXP, the C: It sounds like when installing XP, the wrong partition Win 7 might have been selected; which would explain how the Win7 partition got overwritten. In this case, you might need to restart and re-install the Windows 7 onto the Win7 partition again. Hold C button after boing boot sound to start directly from CD. Your email address will not be published. Epic Failure: Windows XP gave me this error: Please re-install a copy of the above file. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

Also please exercise your best judgment when posting in the forums--revealing personal information such as your e-mail address, telephone number, and address is not recommended. In reply to: You are correct in that the Boot Camp app in Lion only supports Windows 7, and above?

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