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author : voidzzz | category : How-To, Others.if you want to dual boot windows xp and mac with windows xp as boot manager, follow the step by step below :
It’s most likely that Darwin (MAC OS boot manager) is your current boot manager. Darwin can easily read other Operating Sytem that already installed before MAC and make a list of it at boot time. But what if you want to make Windows XP as your default boot manager ? Here’s the step by step to do that :
- Boot into your windows xp
- Right Click My Computer > Manage
- Click on Disk Management on the left hand pane
- Right click your windows XP partition > Mark Partition as Active
- Download chain0 file (for booting into MAC OS X) from rapidshare
- Extract chain0 file to the root of your windows partition (if you install windows in drive c:\, extract chain0 to c:\)
- Launch command prompt (start > cmd > enter)
- In command prompt type attrib c:\boot.ini -h -r -s and press enter
- Still in command prompt, type notepad c:\boot.ini and press enter
- Add the following line to the end of boot.ini file that has been opened in notepad :
c:\chain0="MAC OS X" - Save the edited boot.ini and reboot your computer
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