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After untold installs and reinstalls using every guide on the web, I gave up and tried it one more

time.
This time I tried to just logically attack the disk problem I was having and respond using some of the info
I had come across somewhere in my exhaustive search for answers. Many thanks to Sir Charles and
Movemint for their encouragement, and especially to the DellEFI guys; their stuff is good.

Here's how I made it work (and it was really rather easy after all the craziness it took getting here):

Stuff I used:

USB Thumb Drive with Win 7 32 bit Installer (you can find out how to make this in other posts)

USB 123 Boot Thumb Drive (you can find out how to make this in other posts)

USB Thumb Drive with OSX Disc Image (you can find out how to make this in other posts)

This process is going to take a couple of hours, so I recommend having something to do while the
installers are running.

Start by boot up with your Win 7 installer thumb drive; agree to the license agreement and when you
get to the choice of doing a custom install, choose the custom install.

Hit shift F10 (hold down shift key while also hitting your 'F10' function key)

This will open up a command prompt window; type 'Diskpart', enter

Type 'list disk'

Should see disk 0 and disk 1. Make sure you note which one is your internal hard drive versus the thumb
drive. In my case the internal was disk 0.

Type 'select disk 0' but change the 0 for whatever disk the disk list step above was your internal.

Type 'clean'. Warning this step will wipe your drive of EVERYTHING...all data, all partitions, everything,
so make sure you really want to go down this path.

Type 'convert GPT'

Type 'create partition EFI size=200'


Type 'create partition primary size=14400

Type 'create partition primary size=14400

Note the above size values were to roughly divide my 32 gig SSD into 2 equal drives with an EFI partition;
you can change them to whatever you want, but each OS needs about 10 gig to play with.

Type 'select partition 3'. This is the last partition you just created. If you want to see your partitions type
'list partitions' before this step....you will see all three.

Type 'format fs=NTFS quick'; takes a while....

When complete type 'assign letter c'

Type 'exit' and close the command window. Quit out of the Win 7 installer and turn off the machine.

Put your Boot 123 Thumb Drive and your OSX Image Thumb Drive into the machine and turn it on.

When you get to the prompt, hit 'esc' and type '80' and then hit enter.

You should see the option to boot your Mac OSX Installer. Hit enter again and you should get the grey
screen with the apple logo.

Choose your country and when you get to the point of choosing where to install, select 'Utilities' from
the drop down menu at the top of the screen and select 'disk utilities'.

On the left you should see your hard drive and either all 3 (or more likely) just the 2 14 gig partitions you
created with Diskpart.

Click the one called disk 02 or something like that (not the last one in the list) and then go to the erase
tab. I formatted mine with Mac OS Extended (journaled) and entered 'OSX' in the volume name. Once
the format is done quit out of disk utilities.

Back in the installer you should see your newly formatted and named partition showing up as a drive
icon. Select it and hit install.

When you get to the screen with the button on lower left called 'customize', click that and get rid of the
printer drivers and language packs...this will save quite a bit of space.

Let the installer run until finished. Don't upgrade or mess with any of the DellEFI stuff at this point, just
finish the install and move on to the Win 7 install.

When finished, turn off the mini and take out all thumb drives. Put the Win 7 Installer thumb drive in
and restart.
Get to the 'custom install' menu and choose 'custom'. You should see a list of partitions. You want to
install on Partition 3, so make sure to select that one.

Let the installer run;

When the Win 7 installer is done, get your wireless working and do the windows updates to get
everything up to speed and working right. There are (at this time) 2 necessary and 3 optional updates....I
did them all.

When that is done (a reboot is involved), run Windows (your machine should be booting directly into
Windows, without any indication that you have a Mac install) download EasyBCD 1.7.2 (freeware by
NeoSmart Software - Google is your friend).

Run the EasyBCD installer within Windows 7. Once installed launch EasyBCD and go through the 'add'
boot option to add a Mac OSX boot option. Make sure you select the Generic i86/pc version (something
like that...you only have two options, it's not the mac one).

Shut down windows and put your Boot 123 Thumb Drive in and boot the machine.

When you get to the prompt, hit 'esc', type 81 and you should see your Mac OSX as the only choice. Hit
enter.

OSX will boot up and once in configure your wireless to work (if you didn't do that during the install).

Run the software upgrade to 10.5.6 (out of the list of upgrades, it was the only one I did).

Remove your Boot123 Thumb Drive and download and install the DellEFI v 1 beta 7 or newer.

Restart the computer and you should see the EasyBCD boot menu with Windows 7 and OSX as choices.
Choose whichever you like, they both should be working. You are done.

This seemed to be (by far) the easiest dual boot setup I have seen documented. Once you get the
diskpart done, it really is nothing but the two installs done in the right order, and then the EasyBCD
install. The EasyBCD install is so easy, you will think it can't work, but it does.

Hope that helps.

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