Marriage of Convenience: Snow Leopard + Windows XP

EDIT: Use a USB installer with Snow Leo Install DVD restored on it and with NetbookBootMaker applied to be bootable for this to work. Explanation found here.

Though I haven't tried it to see for my own self, it's common knowledge that Snow Leopard and Windows XP dual-boot is not exactly without some challenges - piece of cake for the common hackintosher with some experience under his/her sleeve or the great seasoned ones but not exactly that easy for noobs.

First off, Snow Leopard by default will only install on disks which use GUID as their partition scheme; Windows XP doesn't like that, cause being an older OS it wants to play only with MBR.

One solution is to just install Windows 7 instead of Windows XP. But people want to dual boot with Win XP for reasons they only know and that we should respect. It's their choice anyhow.

Ok, so it's gotta be Win XP, another solution is to hack the Snow Leopard installer to make it accept an MBR formatted hard disk as installation destination. It's doable, yes, but still requires work. I myself did not attempt this cause although there are good resources out yonder in the world wide web, there wasn't a thrust compelling enough for me to go down this particular path. Snow Leopard's happily running on the Mini. I didn't care enough to sweat it. Period.

So what do we do now? Look enviously at real Mac heads who can effortlessly configure Windows on their Macs to dual-boot with Apple's big cats? Not anymore.

Who says it's only them who can have the pleasure of using Boot Camp Assistant? Yep, a hackintosher by the name of "modbin" has graciously shared his talent with the community and brought us Boot Camp Assistant that will work on hackintoshes.

In a nutshell, Boot Camp Assistant is just a friendlier front end for the same old Disk Utility we've come to love (and hate at times). We obtain a partition on a GUID hard disk that Windows XP will want to install on.

So, here we go:

Bootloader

They say condemn the sin and not the sinner and then I haven't had much disgrunts about Windows if I think back of the days when I was purely a Windows dudette. I do prefer OS X over Windows but not so much so that I'd let bashing Win XP dominate my days here on this earth. But why did I do this one?

I've gone back to dual booting as you may well know. I've no idea what went wrong but PC_EFI alone wouldn't do the dual boot trick for which I turned to chain0.

Setting it couldn't be easier, and in XP too:

1) Download and unzip chain0 to C:\ - or whatever drive your XP installation currently resides.

2) Go to My Computer > Properties > Advanced tab > Settings. And from the System startup section, click on Edit: