{"id":71,"date":"2006-01-29T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/dual-booting-windows-xp-on-a-macbook\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:29:02","slug":"dual-booting-windows-xp-on-a-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/dual-booting-windows-xp-on-a-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP on Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alert\">This solution is outdated. Use&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">EasyBCD<\/a>&nbsp;instead.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"alert\">Macintel Articles @ NeoSmart:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/70\" rel=\"follow\">Windows XP on Mac?<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/hardware-mods-to-get-xp-on-a-macintel\/\" rel=\"follow\">XP-Macintel Hardware Hacks<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/bypassing-the-acpi-and-bios-functions-of-xp-on-macintel\/\" rel=\"follow\">Hacking XP to Support EFI<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/75\" rel=\"follow\">Free Macintels!<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Problems<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Macintosh uses a different MBR <\/li>\n<li>MacBooks use EFI, XP x86 uses BIOS <\/li>\n<li>The modified Darwin Bootloader is made for EFI w\/ EFI supporting operating systems <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK&#8230; So step by step. Where is the BIOS used? For what? How? The OS sends low-level calls to the BIOS that tell it exactly how to deal with the hardware. Now I don&#8217;t have the Windows XP source code at hand.. so all I can tell you for a fact is that NTLDR uses it to access the drive at first to boot Windows, and Windows uses it at *least* once more when it is mounting the drives.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Required Programs and Stuff <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acronis Disk Director Bootable CD <\/li>\n<li>Acronis True Image <\/li>\n<li>Another computer with a clean install of XP. No programs installed at all. <\/li>\n<li>A MacBook obviously! <\/li>\n<li>A Windows Vista DVD (not for installation purposes!) <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Downloadable Vista Boot Loader\" href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/downloads\/boot.7z\" rel=\"follow\">Vista boot files<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"bcdedit.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/downloads\/bcdedit.exe\" rel=\"follow\">bcdedit.exe<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>BCDedit <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/downloads\/MacBook.bcd\" rel=\"follow\">restore file<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of the problems can be theoretically quickly dealt with.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Using the Bootable Acronis Disk Director CD on the MacBook, shrink the Mac partition. Create a new partition of type NTFS\/HPFS in the remaining space. <\/li>\n<li>Setup a clean version of XP on a PC. <\/li>\n<li>Extract Boot.7z to the root drive of your XP installation.. So you have C:\\Boot\\ <\/li>\n<li>Copy bcdedit.exe to the root drive of your XP installation. C:\\BCDedit.exe <\/li>\n<li>Copy MacBook.bcd to the root drive of your XP installation <\/li>\n<li>Use sysprep to &#8220;reseal&#8221; your XP install and remove all hardware info from the setup <\/li>\n<li>Use Acronis TrueImage CD to make an image of your XP install. <\/li>\n<li>Use the bootable Acronis True Image CD to recreate the image on the partition you just made on your MacBook. <\/li>\n<li>Use the Bootable Vista DVD to boot on the MacBook. <\/li>\n<li>Select &#8220;Repair Startup&#8221; -&gt; Next -&gt; CMD -&gt; Run too. <\/li>\n<li>Browse to drive C:\\Boot (which is the partition you created on the MacBook and then extracted the Acronis TrueImage file to). (cd C:\\boot) <\/li>\n<li>Run &#8220;fixntfs.exe -lh&#8221; without the quotes <\/li>\n<li>Browse back to drive C:\\ (cd \\) <\/li>\n<li>Run &#8220;bcdedit.exe \/import MacBook.bcd&#8221; without the quotes <\/li>\n<li>Eject the CD and restart. <\/li>\n<li>In Mac now, hack the Darwin Bootloader to add another entry that chainloads Drive(0) Partition(2). With GRUB it would look something like this&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure if Darwin is the same, but this step is very simple, and has nothing to do with EFI.<br \/>\n  <br \/><code>title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 <\/code> <\/li>\n<li>Restart <\/li>\n<li>By selecting &#8220;Windows XP&#8221; on the Darwin Bootloader you should be chainloaded to the Vista bootloader, which should in turn boot the entry &#8220;NeoSmart Windows XP&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>If everything has gone well, XP will boot!! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This solution is outdated. Use&nbsp;EasyBCD&nbsp;instead. Macintel Articles @ NeoSmart: Windows XP on Mac? XP-Macintel Hardware Hacks Hacking XP to Support EFI Free Macintels! The Problems Macintosh uses a different MBR MacBooks use EFI, XP x86 uses BIOS The modified Darwin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/dual-booting-windows-xp-on-a-macbook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,102],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-macintel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.4 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This solution is outdated. 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