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Triple Boot Macbook - OSX win XP win 7
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<blockquote data-quote="kiwitech" data-source="post: 979248" data-attributes="member: 139744"><p>I had triple boot working OK on my old system, however I have just installed a new 500GB HDD, with Snow Leopard and I get the same hal.dll error.</p><p></p><p>I checked boot.ini (the usual culprit with thse kind of errors, and also checked if hal.dll was Windows/system32 and sure enough all was in order.</p><p></p><p>To avoid wasting too much time, I have resolved the problem by doing this:</p><p>Boot into Mac OSX, go to Applications-->Utilities-->Disk Utilities</p><p>DELETE the second FAT32/NTFS partition you were going to use for W7.</p><p>ERASE the FAT32/NTFS partition you were going to use for XP, gove it a label like XPPRO3 when you erase it.</p><p></p><p>Now reboot and hold option/ALT key on reboot and select the win XP bootable installation CD.</p><p>The installation should now proceed OK.</p><p></p><p>I plan to create the second partition either from XP disk manager or during installation of W7, that should resolve the boot issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kiwitech, post: 979248, member: 139744"] I had triple boot working OK on my old system, however I have just installed a new 500GB HDD, with Snow Leopard and I get the same hal.dll error. I checked boot.ini (the usual culprit with thse kind of errors, and also checked if hal.dll was Windows/system32 and sure enough all was in order. To avoid wasting too much time, I have resolved the problem by doing this: Boot into Mac OSX, go to Applications-->Utilities-->Disk Utilities DELETE the second FAT32/NTFS partition you were going to use for W7. ERASE the FAT32/NTFS partition you were going to use for XP, gove it a label like XPPRO3 when you erase it. Now reboot and hold option/ALT key on reboot and select the win XP bootable installation CD. The installation should now proceed OK. I plan to create the second partition either from XP disk manager or during installation of W7, that should resolve the boot issues. [/QUOTE]
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