+**Success with 10.5.3 Mac Pro Intel 8 Core and Vista Ultimate SP1

Long & Short Vista Ultimate SP1 needs a dedicated HD in MBR format Not GPT not Apple, Must be a MBR Partition formated in NTFS, Volumes accessible via Paragons NTFS for MAC. In case i was able install on 1 TeraByte with no problems. Yippy.
Sean.

Great ! exactly the setup I wanted. I too plan to use Vista Ultimate 64 SP1 on my mac pro 2008.
So let me get this clear :
I remove the OSX HDD, I pop in my Vista ultimate 64 SP1 Dvd in the drive, boot via the DVD, format with NTFS using the MBR option and then let the install happen.
Most of us would be obliged if you could give a straight step by step direction.
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