Raiyu245 said:
I understand that I have to partition the drive to leave space for the new OS. I talked about that with my friend. I also know (now) that its called dual bootloading. and I need programs like GRUB like RedIce said to boot up and decide which OS to run. But I find that a bit complicated, so I did a bit of research and wondering if something like Easy BCD would be better to work with?
As I mention above, GRUB is unnecessary here. EasyBCD is far easier for this situation and will achieve your desired results.
I just want to stress. Worst case scenario here is that you toast your Vista install. Far from the end of the world and a reinstall builds experience. Still, just make sure anything really important is backed up if you can do so.
Also, yaoluislg IS an idiot and may have possibly experienced issues. But they would be completely unrelated and coincidental. I can't fully remember what he said originally but I think he said formatting a new partition destroyed critical system files on his windows partition. Which is full'o'shit.
Alright, so I think I got the gist of it. I'll use Partition Magic to make some space for Mac OSX. Now an opinionated question: What version of Mac OSX should I use? Mac OSX Leopard or is there something better out there? I have a gaming/entertainment laptop.
QUOTE(sjones411 @ Oct 11 2008, 04:15 AM)
OS X does not install easily onto Windows machines, by design. Even if you know what you're doing it can still be a pain in the butt to install. The driver support is also very minimum once you get into it. All in all, it's not something you want to do on your only machine, especially if keeping data intact is important.
Throwing the dual booting scenario into this mix just complicates things even further, and there are several points where you could loose your ability to boot back into Windows.
Sorry to be such a downer. I tried to dual boot OS X a while ago and the whole thing didn't end well. I highly suggest trying something like Ubuntu is you're still interested in dual booting operating systems. It's different enough from Windows that it might be new and shiny enough for you until you can save up / convince your parents for a Mac.