Installing Windows XP Pro alongside Windows 7 & Mac OS/X Snow Leopard
I am running mac os/x snow leopard. I have partitioned my hard disk three ways:
Mac OS (journaled), Windows 7 and a third partition on which I intend to install Windows XP Pro. The 3rd partition is formatted NTFS.
My understanding is that if I were to insert a Windows XP Pro CD and hold down the C key the Mac would prompt me on which partition I wanted to install my Windows XP Pro.
However, that does not appear to happen.
I hold down the C key as soon as the Mac starts booting up and the CD sounds like its spinning up, but instead of being prompted to select a partition on which to install the Windows XP Pro the system defaults to the Windows 7 partition and it boots up into Windows 7.
Anyone got any ideas as to what is going?
Thanks in advance.
Eddie
Hi Eddie,
have a look here at how-to TripleBoot a Mac http://guides.macrumors.com/Triple_Boot
(substitute Vista with Windows 7).
Something may have awry when you did the partitioning.
regards
Stefan
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