1. To
start with obtain a
sufficiently
large Thumbdrive or USB Hard drive (suggest 2 gigs minimum but 8-64
gigs is probably better, and it should already have a primary partition
about 1 gig or so at the very front
of it, if not create one using Disk Management, you can use
Section IX. C, Part A - Step A2.
down below to help guide through this, except you'll be creating a 1st
primary partition and not a 2nd one, and you can go ahead and format it
FAT32).
Be sure you’re
willing to lose ALL
data on this drive.
If you are using a USB Hard drive skip to step #2. If you are using a
USB Thumb drive you should use one of the tools here
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=87993&st=17
to format the drive to prep it properly
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7739 I suggest
this tool RMPrepUSB. If you're using Windows Vista/Windows 7, be sure
to run this as Administrator (thanks Jaclaz!)
i. First clean the drive of all
partitions. Use the Boot Option\CLEAN USB drive (erase USB drive
partitions) and then hit Prepare Drive. You'll get some warning
messages just hit OK then OK again until it wipes the drive.
ii. Safely eject the drive then put it back. Then prep it for VistaPE,
set the Filesystem for FAT32 or NTFS. Set the Size (1 gig or more
suggested, 980 used here for later OS/X dual-boot integration
purposes), set the Volume Label. Uncheck Boot as HDD (2PTNS). Select
WinPE/Vista v2 bootable and click Prepare Drive. Click OK, OK then it
should be ready.
2. Open My Computer then right click and
choose Format the drive using FAT32.
(PLEASE
MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE
RIGHT ONE!)
They say you can use NTFS, but I stick with
FAT32 for
compatibility issues such as MacOS files etc. (see figure for step 3),
if you formatted using RMPrepUSB you can skip to 4.
Note:
On FAT32
you’re limited to 4 gig max file size if you’re
doing large file transfers/backups. No single file can be any larger
than 4 gigabytes. So no huge ghost or dvd images for instance.
3. Quick format is fine. If
you’re using a U2/U3 enabled flash drive like the Sandisk
Cruzer’s then you will have to use their utility to remove
this feature first then format. (or alternatively if you have a U3
drive that boots an iso image file you can replace the .iso file that
it boots u3Custom.iso or something, with the VistaPE-Core.iso file and
have it boot that instead, thanks to Jaclaz for this suggestion
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121502&hl=
for more
detail). Go ahead and quick format. Capacity can
be larger or smaller as you need. I suggest a minimum of 1 gig though.
Go
ahead and hit Start then OK to format it. Hit Ok when done formatting
the Close.
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4. Return
to Winbuilder and goto
Finalize\Create ISO/CD/USB and where it says Please select the root
directory of your USB-Device use the folder button to select the
correct drive letter.
5.
On the Browse for Folder dialog
window hit OK then on the Information window hit OK
again (don’t worry it’s not going to format it
again and we can ignore the error message about Windows cannot find
“D:\WinbuilderBLAHBLAHBLAH\HPUSBFW.exe”
6.
Once you hit ok it will start to
copy
the files from the c:\Winbuilder076\Target folder
7. Grub4Dos
installing –
Here
again be sure to select the correct disk. Selecting the wrong disk will
result in problems (especially if you choose the primary OS’s
active boot drive). And again I can’t stress this enough.
BE SURE TO SELECT THE
CORRECT DRIVE!
Then hit the Install Button and voila you now have the bootloader
installed. And if you’re adventurous you can try tweaking
chainloads etc. and add more tools like the XP Recover Disk, DBAN,
Parted Magic, other LiveOS’s etc. If you encounter problems
installing the Grub4Dos, you may have to use "--skip-mbr-test" (remove
quotes) in the Options\Extra field.
Requirements:
This
requires a USB Hard drive to consolidate as Windows
refuses to multi-partition or recognize past the 1st partition for
Flash drives typically (or if you have a USB
thumb drive with the removable bit set to off). This assumes you
already have a OS/X bootable thumb drive with 10.5.2+ (might work with
10.5/10.5.1 but haven’t tested) and a USB Hard drive with a
bootable/working VistaPE or other WinPE based USB bootable files. I
suggest 8 gigs or better hard drive and I suggest 16 gigs minimum. This
will allow for expansion to future OS’s like Windows 7 and
also allow you to run updates on OS/X without having to reimage every
time due to space constraints. For 16 gigs I suggest 4 gigs to PC side
and 12 gigs to Mac side. If you have only an 8 gig drive, I suggest 1
gig to PC and 7 gigs to Mac side.
Part A. Under a
Windows XP/Vista/7 box (note these
instructions are for Windows Vista/Windows 7, but XP is similar, just
that it is creating a New Partition instead of Simple Volume)
Step
A1) First backup your working
WinPE/PE2/PE3/VistaPE drive with Ghost11,
be sure to ghost using the –ib switch to preserve the boot
sector.
What we're doing here: Creating a 2nd primary partition big enough for
your MacOSX
bootable
thumb drive to be restored onto 7 gigs minimum or better. However if
this is a small drive I suggest not using all the available remaining
space so that this image can be used to image other drives. Not all 8
gig thumb drives have the same space. So I usually buffer my numbers by
about 50-100 megabytes of gap space at the end.
Step A2) Open Control
Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management
and then goto Storage then Disk Management.
Step A3) Right click on the unallocated space or partition you want to
use and choose Create New Simple Volume (in XP this is Create New
Partition)
Step A4) Hit next then set the Simple Volume Size. I chose 6659 megs
here, hit Next again.
Step A5) Assign a drive letter, doesn't really matter here, hit Next.
Select "Do not format this volume". Leave it raw or you may have
trouble formatting it in Disk Utility later. Hit Next again.
Step A6) Click Finish.
Note:
Autoplay
may ask you to format this volume. Do not format it leave it a raw
partition.
Step A7) Eject the drive safely
Part B. On an Intel Mac
running Leopard (10.5.6 is what I used)
Step
B1) Attach the drive to the Mac
running Leopard.
Step B2) Go to Applications then Utilities then open Disk Utility.
Step B3) Use the Erase Tab to format the 2nd primary
partition as OSX Extended (Journaled). You can label the drive here as
well.
There will be a confirmation dialog. Verify things are correct then hit
Erase.
Step B4) Use Disk Utility's Restore command to restore the files from
the
Leopard only volume to the newly formatted partition (this can be done
with a premade .dmg source file instead if desired). Make sure that
"Erase Destination" is
NOT
checked.
Note: This
will convert the GPT
OS/X to a MBR OS/X. Also this process screws up the MBR. Don't worry,
it will be
fixed in Step C2.
There will be a confirmation dialog. Verify things are correct then hit
the Restore button.
Step
B5) Eject the volumes from the
Mac.
Note:
At this point
Grub4DosInstall won't work because it detects a
broken/corrupt MBR. The below steps will fix this and allow
Grub4DosInstall to work again.
Part C. Back to the Windows
XP/Vista/7 box.
Step
C1) Re-attach drive to PC.
Step C2) open a command prompt (cmd.exe, in vista/win7 might have to
open in
admin mode) use 'diskpart'
Step C3) use 'list disk' to get a listing of all disks.
Step C4) use 'select disk X' where X= the drive number desired.
Step C5) use 'list partition' to get a listing of all partitions.
Step C6) use 'select partition X' where X= the 980 meg partition.
(unless you created yours as a different size)
Step C7) use 'active' to set the partition active.
Step C8) use 'exit' to quit diskpart.
Step C9) Eject the drive safely.
Note: Another option is to run once more through the steps (the part
where grubinst occurs will fix it) from the
Chapter IX.
section b.
Creating a USB Thumb Drive/Hard Drive.
Part D. Follow-through
Step
D1) Test both PC and Mac sides.
Ensure both boot sucessfully. I suggest
one time on PC, once on Mac, once again on PC, once on Mac again. Or
reverse order. But it's best to test twice to ensure the drive is
successful.
Step D2) Cleanup:
- Rename Windows side GENIUSW9B7 Rename Mac side GENIUSM9B7 (or as
appropriate).
- Delete Mac generated Trash
files on PC side.
- Set the Attrib on the files
in the Windows side to Read Only.
- Create a save_files_in_here
folder on the windows side (optional
on Mac
side)
Step
D3) Once the drive is set, attach
it to the PC again and Ghost it
using
the -ib switch.
Step
D4) This new image can now be used
using Ghost and Disk from Image. If
you have more space the Windows side can expand it.
Note: To
upgrade the Leopard image the
MacOS partition must have 1.4
gigs free to install the combo 10.5.6 update
WARNING: Test the image for
integrity after creating it also test restoring it to another USB
drive. If the restore of the image indicates that the Mac partition's
new size doesn't match the old size chances are very good that it will
fail to restore properly. You probably will have to reimage the device
completely by deleting all partitions in Disk manager then redoing it
from top steps. Partition as before then restore mac image then use
winbuilder to inject VistaPE onto the front PC partition. After this
side-by-side upgrading should be possible but if the condition of mac
partition restore size new != old pops up again get ready to redo it
again.