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This entry was made for my personal reference and for some who might need it as well. As to date, there is no official support on Windows Vista for MacBooks, and Bootcamp only supports Windows XP. You don’t need to be a tech savvy to follow these instructions, despite it being a little difficult and it took me 3 days to figure everything out to be working perfectly, all you need is understanding my english and a little computer knowledge. I will divide the guide in 3 parts which includes: Introduction and Preparation, Installing Vista and Drivers, and last but not least: activating vista offline (some might want to skip this last bit as this process is actually illegal and I don’t want to be responsible for your actions. Also, I’m just making it easier for you who want to know how as some underground sites provide details in such techy jargons which is quite difficult to understand).

Preparing the Platform

Here’s what you’ll need at least to get it done:

1. A MacBook or MacBook Pro or Mac Mini with intel processor any spec should work.
2. Mac OS X Tiger recovery DVD (usually bundled with your mac).
3. Windows Vista (any edition)

First step is fairly easy but timely, probably around 45 minutes depending on your configuration (it takes about 30 minutes for my Intel Core Duo 2Ghz MacBook with 2GB of RAM and 80GB HDD). Asuming your macbook is new out of the box and never been partitioned etc. But if you have, please return it to its original state: single partition mac journal disk with OS X Tiger 10.4.6 or higher. Next step you will need is bootcamp from apple which can be acquired here. Current version is beta 1.1.2, which would work normally, although you will need version 1.1.1 to make the one button mouse work. Install bootcamp as you would normally install a mac app, double click the .dmg file (which is actually a disk image) and it will appear on your desktop. Open it and install bootcamp by following the instructions given (or just click next, next, yes, yes etc) until done. Once installed, open it. It will ask you whether you want to burn a disc containing drivers for Windows XP (now why would you want to waste a blank CD for such thing? skip it! i’ll let you know how to get it later on) say that you already have the disk. Then it will ask you to partition the existing hard disk.

Disk Partition for Mac and Windows

As for me, I have 80GB (actually its around 72MB since 1GB is 1024MB and 1MB is 1024KB, and they count it in KB) which I want to split into 3 parts: 25 for OS X, 25 for Vista and 25 is for shared documents between OS X and Vista. Alternatively, you can partition it to whatever you need if you have a different size of disk space (assign at least 10GB for Windows Vista). Please remember, if you have less space than 60GB I suggest that you skip the shared documents partition and leave it as 2 partition and assign the windows partition wisely as you cannot re-partition once you already completed the whole process. Also please note that in Windows, you cannot read mac files not even OS X Tiger’s partition, and in OS X however, you can read but not write on Windows Vista’s partition. Ok, if you have 60GB or more, assign any size as the windows partition.

Advance Partitioning

Just FYI, bootcamp creates 2 smalled partition (around 200MB) for the BIOS emulation but you need not to worry as it would not be visible until you start installing Windows. If you have less than 60GB hard disk space or you decide to have only 2 partition, skip this process and continue to the next part of the blog, thank you for reading. Please note that this is a timely process because you need to reinstall you OS X Tiger again.

Ok, if you’re reading this, that means you want a third partition for your documents to share between vista and tiger since it will feel that you have 2 different and unconnected computers which sucks as you might need tiger to do one thing and vista on another to the same file, thats why I suggest you need a shared documents between the 2 computer. Ok, enough of the explanation and let’s continue our process.

Reboot to your Mac OS X Tiger recovery DVD by restarting your computer and press and hold ‘option’ on your keyboard when you hear the ‘bong’ sound. A menu will appear, this is bootcamp. You will have 2 choices, ‘Macintosh HD’ and the DVD. Select the DVD using your cursor and press enter.

Once inside the recovery disc, you must select language, select english or any other language you understand and press next. Go up to the menu bar (beside the apple logo on top), select ‘options>disk utility’ and wait for it to load. In the disk utility, you will see your hard disk, partition the hard disk into 3 parts, remember, you will need at least 20GB for Mac OS X Tiger, 10GB for windows Vista, use it wisely as you will not be able to change the size once you install Vista. Don’t forget to also rename the partitions to prevent mis-installing. Oh, and don’t worry about the partition of bootcamp as I explained earlier, its hidden so your good to go.

Once your done partitioning, re-install your OS X Tiger on your designated partition now or later after you install Vista. You decide. Once done, proceed to the next chapter.

~ by adityapamungkas on March 9, 2007.