When I install Boot Camp and set the partition size is that partition then the space that is available to Windows? So, if I set a 100Gb partition and then run XP, will XP perform as though it had been installed on a 100Gb Hard Disk?
Can partition sizes be changed later without losing data? How much space will an XP Home installation take up? I am planning on getting a 250Gb HDD, but want to be able to run XP for gaming so I will need a decent chunk of space for XP.
Many thanks.
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Yes, that is right. No, you can't change partition sizes later
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Sam.....new avatar
....why u removed apple from ur siggy?
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Yeah...Cha...I mean Sam
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There are programs that allow you to access the windows partition from the mac side (or vice versa, I don't remember). That way you could make a smaller partition and still have full access to everything. I forget what its called but another poster put it up here a while ago, if you search you can probably find it or maybe they'll put it up again
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I got a question. Is there a way to change my vista partition from NTFS to the other one? Without deleting anything?
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FAT32 has a 4GB file size limitation though, along with other problems. It's been 7 years since we switched away from FAT32, and it's really not appropriate for running a modern OS on.
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Damn. thanx for the info man. I guess i wont even mess with it.
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Guys if you will be using OSX as your primary OS and just need to dual boot windows to run other applications/games, I would strongly recommend you do XP via NTFS rather than Vista. Vista is a bigger hog and XP is much quicker.
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Yeah, that seems like it might be a good idea for a lot of people. If you're not using it as your primary OS, Direct X 10 support is probably the biggest gain in Vista, only the 8600GT isn't really powerful enough to use SM 4.0 anyway, so it's kind of a moot point.
I suppose at some point games and the like will require Vista, but that's probably at least a year or two off, and by that point that GPU won't have a prayer of running them anyway.
Boot Camp Partition Question
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by eeperman, Apr 1, 2008.