Photo Clash

Ok, so I’m assuming you have re-installed your OS X Tiger. Now our next step is to install Vista. Reboot your computer with Windows Vista DVD inside the drive, during the ‘bong’ sound press and hold option button and select the DVD. It will ask you to press any key to boot from DVD, so press any key.

Installing Vista

Once everything is loaded, Vista will ask you to select language, select the language. Now Vista asks for a CD-key. For those with original Vista CD, enter your valid CD-Key, for those who do not (such as myself as I find it ‘not worth’ $399 just to get a full featured software) leave it blank and uncheck the box saying ‘activate when online’. Next, Windows will ask for an option of installing whether its advanced or normal, the only way to go is advanced as the normal will be disabled.

Once inside the advanced, it will show several disk partitions, since in the previous chapter I told you to rename each partition, now is the time to know why, since you gave a name for each partition, make sure you select the correct partition. Installing will be disabled for now, you will need to click on the button which says ‘format’. After formatting, proceed with the installation until its completed.

Congratulations, now you have Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger in your mac machine. In MacBooks, aero (the 3D glass transparent menu) will automatically be enabled by default as the driver from Windows itself is available. For other machines, I’m not sure. For MacBook Pro, you will need to download the drivers first from ATI Website and install it first as this is crucial for your machine.

Drivers

Now for the fun part, you will need to unleash all the power your mac has. To unleash it, you will need drivers for each items in your Mac. The drivers are actually for XP (to date during writing this guide), so it won’t be as easy as installing drivers in XP, but most hardware will work.

So first thing you need is BootCamp drivers. Reboot to Mac OS X Tiger (in case you forget, during the ‘bong’ press and hold ‘option’ key) and install BootCamp. Once installed, the application will be located in utilities. Double click ‘Macintosh HD’, the hard disk icon on the top right of the desktop, double click applications folder and double click utilities folder. In there you will see ‘Boot Camp Assistant’. No need to open it, what you need is control-click on the icon and select ‘Show Package Content’ (third row of the menu), double click ‘Contents’ folder, double click ‘Resources’ folder and lastly, double click DiskImage.dmg. This disk image contains all the XP drivers you will need for running Vista. Copy the content in a USB drive, or copy it to your third partition in your hard disk (which I meant for shared documents in previous chapter). This is why I told you that burning a CD for drivers is just a waste because you can copy it without spending a blank CD. Reboot back to Windows Vista.

Once Windows Vista is loaded, press apple (the key with apple logo) and R simultaneously, type cmd and a popup of DOS command prompt will appear. Go to the directory where you placed the drivers. For me, I copied it to the documents folder so in the command prompt I typed d: and the syntax will start from d:\_ so from here, I type "Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /v /a and press enter. An warning will appear and just allow it to run. Now, an installation wizard will appear, so continue and it will ask where you want to place your files. Choose the same location as the installation or wherever you like. Once done, browse to the installation location with the explorer (from Computer found in the start menu). Three items should appear in the installation location which are Macintosh Drivers for Windows.msi, Program Files folder and System32 folder. Now you can start neccessary installation of drivers which your hardware has. If your confused, start with Apple Keyboard. Run the setup.exe file in the Apple Keyboard folder and proceed as normal installation. Now your apple will be enabled (eject, delete, etc). Next step is the sound driver (please note that you must know which driver is yours). For MacBook, the sound driver is SigmaTel while others probably realtek. Install the sound driver normally as you did on the keyboard. For the other hardware peripherals, you will need to go to Control Panel, and go to Device Manager. Start with iSight, it will appear as an unknown device in your hardware tree as seen in the Device Manager. Double click on the icon and press update driver button, and select ‘Let me choose from a list of device drivers’ and click ‘have disk…’. Browse to where you put the drivers earlier and inside iSight folder, select iSight.inf. Make sure you select Built-in iSight instead of USB Video to make it work. Please note that iSight will work only on some applications such as Windows Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. Ok, now you have the keyboard, the sound and the camera working.

Last one bit is a bit tricky because the bluetooth won’t work with Microsoft native bluetooth driver. Open the device manager again, and go to View menu on the top, and choose ‘devices by connection’ now you have your hardware listed in a different view. Click on the ‘+’ sign next to the ‘pci bus’ to drop down for the full list of connections.

Once you’ve expanded the ‘pci bus’ list you see a number of different ‘Intel 82801G/Intel 82801 GB’ options. The one we’re looking for has the letters - 27CB - after its name. Right click on the ‘USB Composite Device’ option and select ‘update driver software’ from the menu. A window opens and presents you with two options, choose ‘browse my computer for driver software’. A second window opens, from these two options choose ‘let me pick from list of device drivers on my computer’. Select the ‘have disk’ option then navigate to the your Bootcamp Drivers folder. You need to choose the ‘BthKicker’ option which is in the ‘Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP’ folder. Click OK. Click ‘install this driver software anyway’ and then wait for about 30 seconds or so while your Bluetooth software is configured.

So now you have a fully working Windows Vista with all your hardware peripherals working. Have fun!

Ok for those wanting more fun or wanting experiments on how to make your Vista activated without needing to activate online or phone, proceed to the next chapter.

~ by adityapamungkas on March 12, 2007.