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MacBooks, Bootcamp and Vista / XP / hell...

Asked by stevenradams in Windows Vista, Bootcamp, Disk Partition Tools

Tags: Bootcamp, XP, NTFS, Vista, Fat32

Hello clever bods,

I'm struggling with something here that - hopefully - I'll be able to sort out today. This may take some creative thinking, as circumstances are not ideal...

I have a macbook with osx 10.5.8. I would like to create a Vista-based partition ... this is frustrating to have to, but company platform vs macbook is just not working.

Now, I've bought Vista from Microsoft and downloaded it and have these three downloaded files on DVD. I have partitioned the drive. As my DVD with Vista files wasn't recognised as a bootdisk, i was forced to borrow an XP boot disk and install that on the partition to get started. this isn't my copy though, and what I'd now like to do is actually install vista.

understood so far? good.

  the next problem is that vista won't write to fat32, so i need to (somehow) reformat the partition as ntfs ... i think i might be able to do this using the XP bootdisk, but i'm pretty sure i remember it forcing me down the route of fat32 before ... not sure.

i'm sure you can see where this is going, but basically i need to do two things:

format a partition on my macbook as ntfs
somehow, using my mac, create a windows bootdisk using the three files I have downloaded (or be told how to just use these to install vista on the newly formatted partition)...

all make sense...? :/

 
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