The bad part about a deceased hard disc is that I’ve had to live a full week without my MacBook. The good part is that using the Leopard DVD I could simply restore my entire system from backup putting it in the state of the last backup which happend to be a few hours before the hard disc died. Great, only too bad that I had to reïnstall Vista again.
Not that I use Vista much, so just a clean install and adding some programs should do just fine. I also thought to be smart and leave some unpartitioned space for the installation, saving me a partition resize using the Bootcamp Assistant. Just too bad that the disc is partitioned using a GUID Partition Table (GTD) which is not supported. Vista (or any other flavour of Windows for that matter) requires a Master Boot Record (MBR).
Many web pages tell me to use Disk Utility to change the disc from GTD to MBR, but unless they are refering to a different Disk Utility mine does not have that option. I almost made a bootable CD with rEFIt (which is used in the tutorial to install OSX/Windows/Linux on a macbook) but decided to stop experimenting around and simply use the Boot Camp Assistant to erase the Bootcamp partition and then to create a Bootcamp partition. Lame solution. Takes about 2 minutes.
Thinking ahead… brilliant!