Monday, January 2, 2012

Installing Windows on Tiger (10.4) without using BOOTCAMP

Hello , So i was trying to install windows on an Imac on which mac os x 10.4 is installed. Searching around, i couldn't find the bootcamp utility for non-destructive partitioning of the disk and also diskutility GUI is not allowing my changes, so i had to improvise. You should have your Tiger updated to at least 10.4.6 in order to proceed with this tutorial

1- To resize the current disk without loosing data :
for example: lets say i want the system drive to become 100 gb
If you are resizing another external disk or that you have multiple disks , do a diskutil list first and know which disk you want resizing ..
go to terminal :
                diskUtil resizeVolume disk0s2 100G  

2- Download rEFIt and Gparted Live CD
download both,  burn Gparted on a CD ..
install refit and reboot ,  put your Gparted , run it and format your freespace to NTFS for your windows volume

3- reboot and use windows CD for installation

Note : If you're restoring using winClone , make sure you use the 1.6.6 version of winclone
Winclone , you can download it here :

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