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3 partitions - NTFS, FAT32 and HFS+ without reformatting! Possibly more...
I just accomplished this in a slightly similar way, but you won't need to reformat and reinstall OS X - although you will need to access the HD either via the Leopard Install DVD or another Mac in target disk mode:
1. Use boot camp to partition your drive. Set the size of this partition to equal the combined size of the partitions you want for Windows and your other partition. At this point I found that my Windows XP install would no longer boot continuously blue-screening - I took the lucky guess of figuring that the boot.ini file needed to be edited to reflect that the Windows boot partition was not now number 3 but number 4 in the partition table order. Counterintuitively, after step 11, the gpt index of the partition is still number 3 (your middle partition between OS X and Windows will actually have index id#4) but, apparently, XP just looks at the partitions in order in the MBR wrapper inside your GPT on your drive. To edit the boot.ini file on the Windows volume from OS X, I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G and pico. I simply changed the 3's to 4's and saved the file. When I rebooted into windows this time it came up successfully, as did the FAT32 volume; since I'd updated my Boot Camp Drivers to 2.1 already it even sees the GPT partitioning of the drive correctly from Disk Management. After testing this a bit (verifying these steps, seeing how many partitions I can create in what order and whether they can be bootable) I will write this up as a full hint. My goal is to be able to have at least 4 bootable partitions - preferably with 2 available for XP/Vista - which I think will work on this hint right now. Previously, I had luck with attaining this configuration by formatting my drive as MBR but the limitation there was that OS X will not install onto an MBR disk - I had to image clean installs onto their partitions from another (GPT-formatted) disk. I would guess that the method outlined above could be used to make many more partitions, and as long as the partitions that you need to be able to boot windows are among the first 4 on the drive (you go crazy and delete the EFI partition at your own risk - when I had my drive MBR formatted I had deleted the EFI partition without apparent consequence to OS X updates from 10.4.6 to 10.4.11 and 10.5 to 10.5.2.) |
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