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Windows NT on iBook G3 help

So Windows NT was designed to run on both x86 and PPC based computers, I have tried putting Windows NT on my iBook but with no success. I used disk utility to format the iBook's HD and the restored it to the image of the Windows NT install cd (I don't have the cd). When I boot it says no bootable partition. Do I need the cd to boot from, or is there something i not doing?

iMac G5 1.8GHz, 500GB WD HD, 1x19in Acer, 90GB External., Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 12, 2010 3:07 PM

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Dec 12, 2010 11:18 PM in response to b noir

Whoops ... my apologies. Disk format looks to make no nevermind. Although NT 3.5.1 did run on some PowerPC systems, it didn't run on all of them. One of the ones it didn't run on were Macs:

Windows NT 3.51 added support for the PowerPC processor in 1995, specifically PReP-compliant systems such as the IBM Power Series desktops/laptops and Motorola PowerStack series; but despite meetings between Michael Spindler and Bill Gates, not on the Power Macintosh as the PReP compliant Power Macintosh project failed to ship.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WindowsNT#Supportedplatforms

Support for NT on PowerPC systems then was dropped in 1997:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/windows-nt-for-powerpc-is-no-more.aspx

... so it looks highly unlikely you'll be able to run your NT natively on the MacBook.

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