I created a partition for windows using bootcamp (I chose 20 Gigs for Windows) but when I use disk utility to see the status of my harddrive, it shows that there is 40 gigs saved for disk0s3 (which I assume is windows). My macintosh HD has a capacity of 71. Why did bootcamp take 40 instead of 20 gigs?
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Sure it isn't the OS X partition? how big are the other partitions?
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I would try the process again from scratch. Nevertheless we both have about 9 GB not accounted for; guess its for both XP and Mac OS operating systems.
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If you're talking about overall diskspace compared to advertised disk space thats due to the way they calculate diskspace.
Advertisers use 1MB = 1000KB. It reality, it's 1024KB. So, when you're talking about millions of MB, it ends up having a big difference between the physical space vs. advertised space. It explains this on any retail box for any HDD you purchase.
If thats not what your talking about, can you clearly explain what the problem is? -
Mine shows 93.2 GB total space, with OS X being 72GB and XP being 20.84GB. -
Okay...seems that I messed up when using the slider. Anyways, the partition worked well but now, I can't get bootcamp to recognize my windows xp cd. It's titled VX2PFPP_EN (Educational copy of Windows XP Pro with SP2)
Bootcamp Confusion
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by FidyYuan, Nov 3, 2006.