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Hi all
As my adventures in Mountain Lion continue I wondered if anyone could advise me on installing XP Pro 64 Bit on the same drive as Mountain Lion?
I still do have use for it for a couple of things that don't run well on Windows 7 or 8.
So far I have Mountain Lion set up very happy on my 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD, and have managed to get Windows 7 Pro (64 Bit) sharing it happily, booting through Chimera.
But I just can't find a way to get XP on there.
So far I've tried creating a FAT partition for it in Disk Utility (like I did with Windows 7) but the XP installer doesn't see the disk at all.
I even tried using a third party partition boot disk to format the partition to NTFS but still the XP installer didn't see it.
In the end I thought I'd try installing to another drive to see if I could then clone the install over.
I had an old IDE ATA drive lying around so I plugged that in (while unplugging the SSD) and installed fine to that.
However my third party boot disk wasn't able to copy it over to the SSD but I eventually read something about gparted so booted up a version of that and copied it across fine.
Then I disconnected the IDE drive and tried booting the SSD but the only thing I could get into was ML and then only using the Unibeast USB.
Updated Chimera, meaning I could boot freely into OSX again but now both my Windows installs wouldn't boot - don't know why Win 7 went south too but it did.
Anyway, I've managed to reinstall Windows 7 and it's playing nice with ML, but I really wanted the XP 64 option on the same drive.
Does anyone have any ideas if it is possible?
I could just leave it on the IDE drive but that kind of defies the point of having a fast SSD system drive.
Okay, maybe a second SSD, but I need to pay my electric bill urgently or all of this becomes pretty academic, so not an option right now.
Any ideas people?
Many thanks!
As my adventures in Mountain Lion continue I wondered if anyone could advise me on installing XP Pro 64 Bit on the same drive as Mountain Lion?
I still do have use for it for a couple of things that don't run well on Windows 7 or 8.
So far I have Mountain Lion set up very happy on my 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD, and have managed to get Windows 7 Pro (64 Bit) sharing it happily, booting through Chimera.
But I just can't find a way to get XP on there.
So far I've tried creating a FAT partition for it in Disk Utility (like I did with Windows 7) but the XP installer doesn't see the disk at all.
I even tried using a third party partition boot disk to format the partition to NTFS but still the XP installer didn't see it.
In the end I thought I'd try installing to another drive to see if I could then clone the install over.
I had an old IDE ATA drive lying around so I plugged that in (while unplugging the SSD) and installed fine to that.
However my third party boot disk wasn't able to copy it over to the SSD but I eventually read something about gparted so booted up a version of that and copied it across fine.
Then I disconnected the IDE drive and tried booting the SSD but the only thing I could get into was ML and then only using the Unibeast USB.
Updated Chimera, meaning I could boot freely into OSX again but now both my Windows installs wouldn't boot - don't know why Win 7 went south too but it did.
Anyway, I've managed to reinstall Windows 7 and it's playing nice with ML, but I really wanted the XP 64 option on the same drive.
Does anyone have any ideas if it is possible?
I could just leave it on the IDE drive but that kind of defies the point of having a fast SSD system drive.
Okay, maybe a second SSD, but I need to pay my electric bill urgently or all of this becomes pretty academic, so not an option right now.
Any ideas people?
Many thanks!
) and see how that goes with cloning from the old ata drive - although it will still have to be bios selection for booting between ssd's - anyone know if that will be fine if I leave them all connected?