everyaa
3rd March 2006, 04:16 AM
*before you beign, if you screw up, dont blame me, it worked on my MacBook
The Required Programs (links at bottom)
Acronis Disk Director Bootable CD
Acronis True Image
Another computer with a clean install of XP. No programs installed at all.
A MacBook obviously!
A Windows Vista DVD (not for installation purposes!)
Vista boot files
bcdedit.exe
BCDedit restore file
1. Using the Bootable Acronis Disk Director CD on the MacBook, shrink the Mac partition. Create a new partition of type NTFS/HPFS in the remaining space.
2. Setup XP on a PC.
3. Extract Boot.7z to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\Boot\
4. Copy bcdedit.exe to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\BCDedit.exe
5. Copy MacBook.bcd to the root drive of your XP installation
6. Use sysprep to reseal your XP install and remove all hardware info from the setup.
7. Use Acronis TrueImage CD to make an image of your XP install.
8. Use the bootable Acronis True Image CD to recreate the image on the partition you just made on your MacBook.
9. Use the Bootable Vista DVD to boot on the MacBook.
10. Select “Repair Startup” -> Next -> CMD -> Run too.
11. Browse to drive C:\Boot (which is the partition you created on the MacBook and then extracted the Acronis TrueImage file to). (cd C:\boot)
12. Run “fixntfs.exe -lh” without the quotes
13. Browse back to drive C:\ (cd \)
14. Run “bcdedit.exe /import MacBook.bcd” without the quotes
15. Eject the CD and restart.
16. In Mac now, hack the Darwin Bootloader to add another entry that chainloads Drive(0) Partition(2). With GRUB it would look something like this… I’m not sure if Darwin is the same, but this step is very simple, and has nothing to do with EFI.
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
17. Restart
18. By selecting “Windows XP” on the Darwin Bootloader you should be chainloaded to the Vista bootloader, which should in turn boot the entry “NeoSmart Windows XP”
19. If everything went good, XP will boot!!
Vista Boot Files
http://neosmart.net/downloads/boot.7z
bcdedit.exe
http://neosmart.net/downloads/bcdedit.exe
BCDedit restore file
http://neosmart.net/downloads/MacBook.bcd
The Required Programs (links at bottom)
Acronis Disk Director Bootable CD
Acronis True Image
Another computer with a clean install of XP. No programs installed at all.
A MacBook obviously!
A Windows Vista DVD (not for installation purposes!)
Vista boot files
bcdedit.exe
BCDedit restore file
1. Using the Bootable Acronis Disk Director CD on the MacBook, shrink the Mac partition. Create a new partition of type NTFS/HPFS in the remaining space.
2. Setup XP on a PC.
3. Extract Boot.7z to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\Boot\
4. Copy bcdedit.exe to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\BCDedit.exe
5. Copy MacBook.bcd to the root drive of your XP installation
6. Use sysprep to reseal your XP install and remove all hardware info from the setup.
7. Use Acronis TrueImage CD to make an image of your XP install.
8. Use the bootable Acronis True Image CD to recreate the image on the partition you just made on your MacBook.
9. Use the Bootable Vista DVD to boot on the MacBook.
10. Select “Repair Startup” -> Next -> CMD -> Run too.
11. Browse to drive C:\Boot (which is the partition you created on the MacBook and then extracted the Acronis TrueImage file to). (cd C:\boot)
12. Run “fixntfs.exe -lh” without the quotes
13. Browse back to drive C:\ (cd \)
14. Run “bcdedit.exe /import MacBook.bcd” without the quotes
15. Eject the CD and restart.
16. In Mac now, hack the Darwin Bootloader to add another entry that chainloads Drive(0) Partition(2). With GRUB it would look something like this… I’m not sure if Darwin is the same, but this step is very simple, and has nothing to do with EFI.
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
17. Restart
18. By selecting “Windows XP” on the Darwin Bootloader you should be chainloaded to the Vista bootloader, which should in turn boot the entry “NeoSmart Windows XP”
19. If everything went good, XP will boot!!
Vista Boot Files
http://neosmart.net/downloads/boot.7z
bcdedit.exe
http://neosmart.net/downloads/bcdedit.exe
BCDedit restore file
http://neosmart.net/downloads/MacBook.bcd