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    Santa Rosa Macbook BootCamp Problems

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Jokkon, Dec 19, 2007.

  1. Jokkon

    Jokkon Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I just installed windows XP SP2 on my macbook, and there are few issues that is starting to annoy me. Hope you guys can help me.

    1.) When I restart my computer and hold the option key, the windows partition doesn't show up on the screen. Only the OSX partition is there.
    This is actually my second time installing XP on my macbook, because I had the same problem the first time I installed. I thought I messed something up.
    Does anyone has similar problems?

    2.) When I boot into OSX, spot light has to index for a while before I can use it. It usually takes 1 to 2 minutes. I figure that it is probably indexing the windows partition. Is there a way to stop the computer from doing this? It is starting to get annoying.

    Thanks
     
    Jokkon, Dec 19, 2007
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  2. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    Hmmm.... which partition did you install it in? Should have been "Partition 3 BOOTCAMP"
     
    Arquis, Dec 19, 2007
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  3. SGT Lindy

    SGT Lindy Notebook Consultant

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    Yes I just did the same thing but with Vista....and it runs super good. Vista is smoking fast on this macbook.

    Only huge negative is no single tap on the trackpad for a mouse click :( Hopefully Apple will fix that...and make drivers for Vista 64bit. I hate not being able to see my extra gig of RAM while in Vista.
     
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  4. Jokkon

    Jokkon Notebook Evangelist

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    well, i installed on the partition that is 20gb, since there is only 1 20gb partition there. I am pretty sure that i installed on the correct partition. After doing a search on the apple forums, it seems to be a pretty wide spread problem. Some people claim that it works only if you use ntfs..
     
    Jokkon, Dec 19, 2007
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