Thread: Dual Booting

Hi there,

new day, new hardware, new problems!

So, I've been running a clean install of 7 for a few weeks now, I've solved some problems with help here before and I'm hoping you can help me out some more.
Got a project going at Uni that requires me to use Mac OSX, not enough money for a real Mac, but having had XP, Ubuntu and now 7 I figured I could install yet another OS.
Long story short, my MoBo wasn't compatible, so I went out and got a new one including a new HDD.

Asus P5E VM HDMI MoBo + a Western Digital 16MB Cache 1TB SATA HDD.

Popped everything in, installed 7 first, apart from missing a driver for the LAN (Which I solved by downloading and installing the XP version - worked like a dream) everything worked perfectly.
Now for the big test - Mac OSX.
Wiped 7 off the drive, and installed a vanilla Mac OSX, just to see if it'd work. No probs there loaded in one go.

So, everything was going my way, I figured now I know both systems work, I'll partition my drive and have them dualboot with a 3rd "Shared" partition so when I'm doing Uni work I can atleast listen to my music and swap files out etc. etc.
So far I've tried two guides

The first one is a Windows 7 / Mac OSX Dualboot, making use of EasyBCD and the Windows Bootloader.
It makes you install OSX first, then 7, then manipulate the bootloader in 7 to let you dualboot OSX.
The second one is a Windows Vista / Mac OSX Dualboot, making use of the Darwin bootloader. It makes you install Vista first, then OSX and manipulate the bootloader via Terminal and the Vista bootdisk to allow you to dual boot.

Both guides, sadly, have failed me and only turn up an " H00000000 HFS+ partition error "
There have been some problems during the guides though; for instance:
the command line " y " in either Terminal or CMD don't do anything and just return an error. I dunno what these people are doing, but it looks weird and doesn't do anything.
The utilities -> Darwin bootloader menu doesn't exist in the MacOSX installer. Found out later it had been taken out and included somewhere behind the scenes.

Anyone got any idea's or tips? =/
Running kind of low on inspiration as this is the last option I have to do my Coursework for Uni.

thanks in advance!

EDIT:
Solution found, describing it here for future reference:

Partition your drive (Either with the windows or mac installers - I prefer the mac one)
Install your Mac OS X (There are plenty of tutorials all over the web for your preferred version. Mine is 10.5.2 Kalyway)
Create your Mac account etc etc
Restart and install Windows 7 on your other partition
Boot straight into windows
update etc etc
Download the EasyBCD 2.0 Beta from here
Add a setting for Mac (Really easy, just click: Add)
Done! Should work perfectly.