Can Snow Leopard be installed on an MBR partition?
I need to make my MacBook run Windows XP and since i don't have a lot of cash right now i'm not going to go buy Windows7.
I have 2 partitions on my Macbook currently. The drive was originally GUID, but i've sliced it in half with Disk Utility and the second half is now MBR.
I then booted from a Windows XP disc and formatted the MBR partition as NTFS and installed Windows.
Windows seems to work fine for me right now.... BUT I'M SCARED!
Window's XP is Not supposed to be able to understand GUID.
When i try and disable Windows "System Restore" from using the GUID-MacOSX partition, it says ERROR. Probably because it doesn't know what the heck is in that partition.
I would feel much safer if i could just Format the whole drive as MBR and then Make 1 partition for OSX and 1 partition for Windows.
Can OSX 10.6.7 be installed on an MBR partition?
Windows doesn't care about the rest of the drive, only it's own partition. It doesn't understand EFI, either. The Mac has to fool Windows into believing a BIOS exists.
What you have right now is fine.
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Can snow leopard be installed onto current imac
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The iMac in question was manufactured a month ago and came with Lion. I'd like to run it with 10.6.8
I can't purchase as a digital download any longer only a posted disk.
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thanks.An install disc from another machine will not works on yours, nor will an older OS allow itself to br installed over a new one.
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when i try to install snow leopard with install disk, it has me restart the computer instead of installing. can anyone help me figure out how to get the disk to actually install?
Ok, it's just a glitch that it's not auto-rebooting from the disk.
Please backup your personal files off the machine to a regualr external drive and disconnect all drives before doing anything
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How can I re-install Snow leopard having installed Lion? The disk supplied states that I cannot use the version of 'Install Mac OS X'...HELP!
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Running Lion; can snow leopard be set up with bootcamp?
I have several programs that won't run in Lion on my MacBook Pro.
Will bootcamp allow me to partition part of disc to run snow leopard which will run my programs?
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rjchemdocThere is no need to set up bootcamp to install
Snow Leopard. Simply create a partiton on your
hard drive the size that you wish using Disk Utility
and then use your Snow Leopard disks to intall
in that partition.
Make sure you have backup of your stuff in Lion.
Even though adding a partiton should be non-destructive
things can go wrong. -
Removing Snow Leopard and Installing only Windows on Mini
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Can this be done? I don't want to use boot camp and lose all my partitions. I want it to be a Windows only machine.
Thanks for your time.David is right. you need boot camp in order to install winsloth on a Mac.
one way to go about that would be to install Mac OS X on an external drive, boot from there and use boot camp assistant to create one big partition on the Mac's startup disk for the winsloth installation.
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good luck !
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This may help:
Installing or updating Snow Leopard:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Snow_Leopard_Installation_Instructions.pdf -
Can snow leopard server work in mac book pro
Can snow leopard server work in mac book pro
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I am running Snow Leopard on my iMac and have partitioned my hard drive to run Windows XP. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will I still be able to run XP?
bobfromnorth battleford wrote:
...Now what happens if I upgrade to Yosemite on either my iMac or my MBPro?
If I install VM Fusion or Parallels, does Windows run all the time? How does that affect computer performance? and how much do I need to worry about hard drive corruption?
Current versions of Fusion and Parallels are compatible with Yosemite. Both are applications which you only run when you want to run Windows within them. As such, there's no effect on computer performance when they're not in use. Like any other software, there is some additional load on your Mac when both Windows and the Mac OS are running together, but any noticeable effect depends on what each is being expected to do and what resources (e.g. available RAM and the number of CPU cores) you can devote to each.
I think there's less chance of HD corruption with a VM than there is with running Windows natively on the Mac in Boot Camp. Consider that, with a VM, you can create Snapshots of the state of your VM at a given time, and then, if something goes wrong (virus, malware, software installations), you can simply restore the Snapshot in a matter of seconds and eliminate the problems in the process. Moreover you can make a backup copy of the entire VM file, and replace a later version if you wish. Also consider that you can assign, say, 100GB of HD space to the VM, but the actual space devoted to the VM is only what's actually used; as more is needed, more is made available and Windows can't tell the difference. So, for example, my Win 7 Pro VM has an 80 GB virtual HD but only takes up 45 GB on my SSD, and that's with XP Mode in VPC installed inside it.
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How to install Mavericks on MBR partition (or make GUID)
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro running OSX Mountain Lion, and on a separate partition, I have bootcamp running Windows 8. I went to install Mavericks today, and I was greeted with an error message saying that I could not install Mavericks on my Macintosh HD partition (or any other partition) because they are all MBR partition map schemes instead of GUID.
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If you had a triple boot system with Linux or Windows XP, then I could understand why.
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Can OS X Snow Leopard be installed on a MacBook Pro5, 5 with an Intel Core 2 Duo?
This question may already exist somewhere in the support community, but if it is there I have missed it. If not, then here it is for myself and those of this specific inquiry.
I have a MacBook Pro bought in mid-2009, Model MacBookPro5, 5, with an Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, and approximately 140 GB of HD space, which meets the stated requirements for Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. It is currently running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, and I am trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard, or, if possible, Mavericks. I have the Snow Leopard CD, and have tried to install it. However, I get the error message "OS X Can't be installed on this computer". I have tried it from my current OS and by booting directly from the CD. I do not have any partitions, and have backed up and erased the existing Macintosh HD volume, but the error message continues.
Can anyone shed some light into what is the issue? If so, much appreciated in advance.Remousamavi,
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Do you have the white “upgrade” 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, or the white “install” 10.6.3 Snow Leopard DVD? If you have the “upgrade” DVD, then it won’t let you install onto an empty partition; you’ll need to have Snow Leopard installed on your boot disk before it will install the upgrade.
Once you’ve got Snow Leopard installed and updated via Software Update to 10.6.8, you’ll be able to install Mavericks. -
Can not get Snow Leopard to install on my MacBook Intel 2GHz (circa 2006)
I get to about the 33 minute mark in the Snow Leopard install and then my screen goes to a dark grey and then I get a message saying there has been an error and the install can not proceed. This is a purchased Snow Leopard 10.6.3 disc from Apple. It worked fine on my iMac and another MacBook. I have tried resetting the PRAM and verifying the disk and repairing permissions (as per other board discussions). But still nothing. Does this disc limit the number of computers you can put it on? Help! Getting frustrated!!
shannon112 wrote:
Does this disc limit the number of computers you can put it on?
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I have recently purchased a macbook pro 2011 that does not have original install discs. The macbook does not currently have an OS and internet recovery does not work. Am I able to purchase an OS like Snow Leopard that actually has a disc and install it onto this macbook?
Does your Mac meet the hardware specs for Snow Leopard?
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
DVD drive for installation
Allan
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