dual boot with iDeneb and Windows XP

Summary:

how to install windowsXP on eeePC 1000H (with OSx pre-installed)so that I can dual boot

getting back to Windows from Mac

teresa-will 27 Jan 2009 09:43

I am wondering what application I should probably use if , instead of having a Windows on my eeePC 1000H, I have only installed iDeneb V1.3 10.5.5 on my 1000H with 2 partitoins both currently in use by the Mac system and I want to dual boot the system with Windows XP installed as the 2nd operating system. I've seen postings saying that we shouldn't use boot camp coz ours are eeePC, not original apple computers. But how can we do this?

with thanks!

Last edited on 29 Jan 2009 02:37 by teresa-will Show more

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

tapash 27 Jan 2009 13:10

just use the dvd came with it to restore. but u may loose your back up while restoring.

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

teresa-will 29 Jan 2009 02:39

actually, I didn't make my point clear enough. I want to have both windows xp and iDeneb on my computer at the same time with dual boot so I can choose which one to boot into every time I turn on my 1000H. Anyways, thanks for your suggestion!

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

Toonces 30 Jan 2009 07:28

The tutorial on installing iDeneb keeps XP intact. Look at the partitioning section. http://ipis-osx.wikidot.com/installing_ideneb_1_3_1000h

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

teresa-will 31 Jan 2009 05:45

hi, thanks for the reply.
I've tried to download gparted by following the link you provided. It seems to me that it's an application which can only be run on Linux. Coz I could only find Linux executable files in the package I've downloaded. Because of this , i searched around for Acronis Disk Director and I found that it only supports PC, not Mac OSx.
I've put up this enquiry on many online discussion board for 2 weeks but until this moment, very few people could tell me what to do. I think formatting my computer and start afresh is the only way out.

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

baza210 31 Jan 2009 13:37

You don't run GParted from within the operating system you download it on- you use it with a bootable device such as a USB key or a CD-R.

Re: getting back to Windows from Mac

ace7196 01 Sep 2009 17:44

Alright, what I did was install Win7, partition, then install OSX, but (I think) this will work for OSX then WinXP. Also, I'm feeling lazy as to exact details, but everything can be searched for online fairly easily. This assumes you don't have an external dvd drive (just as I didn't), but you have at least a 4GB flash drive (a smaller one and a larger one in addition to the 4GB makes things a bit easier)

Make a bootable flash drive using old windows 98 files, press esc key when the eeepc bios screen pops up, select the flash drive.
You'll see a cmd prompt. Set the partition active that you want to install WinXP on (s0d2, I assume)
Copy the WinXP cd to the flash drive, boot from it again, install XP.
Do w/e on XP (update/install drivers, etc). When you're ready, make another flash drive/use the same to do the Win98 thing again, change active partition to the OSX one.
Boot into OSX, install Chameleon 2.0 RC2 (or w/e is newest).

Now see what happens. Hopefully it should show both operating systems. If not, you may need to repair the MBR for WinXP WHILE THE WINXP PARTITION IS ACTIVE, then activate the OSX partition and test.

This took me a lot of time to get everything working, but boy did I learn a lot. It was fun, too!