Install Vista BC on Lion

[yettimillan]

Hi,

If I were to create a partition not using BC. Then install Vista onto it, then using a snow leopard disk to install the BC tools.

Can this be a workaround?

 

[balamw]

You can even create the partition with BCA. Just install manually using the Alt/Option key at every boot to Windows. If your machine originally shipped with SL you should be fine.

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[BacklitKeyboard]

Great so that means if I already have a Boot Camp installation of XP, and upgrade OS X to Lion. And then if I mess up XP, I can boot from my XP disk and format Boot Camp partition and overwrite with a fresh install? Am I right? Oh, and the drivers on the SL disk, will they still work??

Thanks!!

BK

 

[balamw]

They should.

The only complication in the mix is that Lion now uses two partitions by default and this complicates the hybrid GPT/MBR partition scheme.

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[mdgm]

Great so that means if I already have a Boot Camp installation of XP, and upgrade OS X to Lion. And then if I mess up XP, I can boot from my XP disk and format Boot Camp partition and overwrite with a fresh install? Am I right? Oh, and the drivers on the SL disk, will they still work??

That should still work. If you make a backup image of your XP partition you should be able to restore that too if you prefer. I cloned my XP partition from my old disk onto my new SSD. See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1213346/

I assume that something like this should be possible for Vista as well (though there may be a few differences in the steps).