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iPhones need to be unlocked to be used in Canada.  The best unlocking tool seems to be Pwnage currently, but it only runs on Mac.  Of course I am not giving up my Vista installation, so here’s the procedures to dual boot Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard the Dell 640m/E1405 system.

1. Get a Mac OS X x86 distro.  I got the “Kalyway 10.5.2“, available from major torrent sites.
2. Make sure the Windows Vista DVD is on hand, to fix the Master Boot Record after installation.
3. Create a partition within the system, either a different disk or on the same disk. Format it while in Windows, so that the Mac installation will be able to see the partition.
4. Install the Kalyway distro onto the spare partition, being careful to choose “Customize” before install, and make sure to select the Intel GMA driver under Graphics.
5. After installation, it probably shows a HFS partition error and no OS will load.
6. Boot up the system using Windows Vista DVD, choose Repair, then choose the command prompt.
7. Enter the following:
   diskpart
   list disk
   select disk n  (n = disk number)
   list partition
   select partition n  (n = partition number of your VISTA)
   active
   exit

   bootrec.exe /fixmbr
   bootrec.exe /fixboot

8. Exit the repair utilities and restart the computer.  Now Vista should load normally.
9. Download and install EasyBCD.
10. In EasyBCD, add an entry for Mac OS X, using automatic settings.
11. Dual-boot menu should pop up at restart.  Choose the Mac installation, and at the next menu make sure to choose the Mac install too.

Finally it’s working.Setup:

• Using Vista’s boot loader
• First partition (C): Vista
• Second partition (D): XP Continue reading »

So yesterday I spent more than half the day trying to get that screwed up harddrive to boot up again, but couldn’t. Even BartPE refused to boot up if that screwed-up drive was connected. So then I used BartPE to back up my data drive, installed Vista on this data drive, then backed up the data of the screwed-up harddrive. These all went well… Continue reading »

I have decided to add a Windows XP partition to my existing Windows Vista system, for gaming purposes. I found a couple of tutorials on the net and followed them exactly as written, only to be left with a system that contains Vista and half of XP, and not bootable at all. GREAT! Continue reading »