Vista on Mac book

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Recent i got mac book from CEO to install Vista on it (intel inside Core 2
duo 1GB ram 120 GB disk) . i boot it from vista 32 and 64 bit but i stucked
when i deleted all mac partitions, and saw a message in botom of screen "you
can't install vista on GPT disk" then i restart the setup and slected
"recovery" from command prompt. using this (diskpart) i created 1 partition
for EFI (128 MB fat) which displayed as hidden and one for os 30 GB NTFS. but
i am still getting above message,

have any one installed vista on GPT drives?
 
Ammad said:
Recent i got mac book from CEO to install Vista on it (intel inside Core 2
duo 1GB ram 120 GB disk) . i boot it from vista 32 and 64 bit but i stucked
when i deleted all mac partitions, and saw a message in botom of screen "you
can't install vista on GPT disk" then i restart the setup and slected
"recovery" from command prompt. using this (diskpart) i created 1 partition
for EFI (128 MB fat) which displayed as hidden and one for os 30 GB NTFS. but
i am still getting above message,

have any one installed vista on GPT drives?
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AFAIK all Mac drives on the newer Intel computers are formatted with the
GUID partitioning system. As it should be. According to a quick Google
you can't install the Vista 64-bit version on a GPT drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx

Stick with Vista 32-bit for your boss' machine.

This doesn't address the problem you had installing Vista 32 but I
suspect that you didn't use Boot Camp correctly. Just booting from the
Vista install DVD and messing about with partitions is not how you
install a Windows operating system with Boot Camp. From your post, I
suspect that you've messed up the Mac install, too.

Restore the Mac to its original configuration - you *did* back it up
with something like SuperDuper first, didn't you? And then go to the
Apple site and read about using Boot Camp correctly.


Malke
 
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