Triple Boot on the MacBook Pro: Leopard, Vista x64 and Windows 2008 x64

Aw-yeah... Spence just posted a killer little series of articles documenting the process of setting up a triple-boot experience on a MacBook Pro. I've been living with a MBP for the last 6 months and love it. The only thing I'd like is to have a partition with Windows Server (2k8 preferred, but 2k3 works fine too) for SharePoint for when I'm teaching, presenting or generally planning to live in a server environment for an extended period of time. Why? Because I'd like to work right off the bare metal, using all 4GB of RAM and not having to be attached to some USB/Firewire drive.

Spence's series is EXACTLY what I need. Can't wait to wrap up some billable work so I can carve out a day to walk through the process and get setup. Only thing I'll need is a good reimaging solution for the Win2k8 partition.

» Triple Boot MacBook Pro: Running Mac OS X, Windows Vista x64 and Windows Server 2008 x64 on a MacBook Pro

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posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 10:04 PM

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# re: Triple Boot on the MacBook Pro: Leopard, Vista x64 and Windows 2008 x64 5/6/2008 12:04 AM Asif Rehmani

Awesome plan AC! Look into Acronis for your reimaging needs. Now I'm *almost* jealous and feel that maybe I should have taken your advice about getting a MBP.... but that cool $1000 I saved on my purchase of the Dell XPS keeps me content :-)

- Asif

# re: Triple Boot on the MacBook Pro: Leopard, Vista x64 and Windows 2008 x64 5/6/2008 5:22 AM Sushant Bhatia

Acronis should do the trick. I just installed Win 2008 on my dell laptop. Runs smooth. Didn't even need to install drivers.

# Good stuff 5/7/2008 11:05 AM Shaymaa

Thanks, thats useful. I already have Vista on my iMac... will add in Win Server 08 too!

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