Hi all,
My 17" Macbook pro just arrived today, and I'm overwhelmed by the mammoth screen and design.. I have winxp pro with bootcamp, but once I tried using partition magic to try to partition the windows partition, it fails to load, and upon using the partinfo program, I reported incorrect start/end sectors of the partitions, which is really bumming me out coz I have no idea what to do to solve it.
Anyways, I uploaded a screencap of what my disk looks like in windows disk management.. is anything out of the norm here? I'm just wondering what's the 200 meg and 128mb unallocated...
Sorry if I sound like a noob! Hope someone has some experience with this problem.
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nevermind...seems like this **** was deigned so your mac must use only 1 partition and windows only 1 partition... no further organizing allowed... agrh.
time to make good use of external drives.. -
Hmmm....good to know. I just picked up a 17" MBP yesterday. Used bootcamp and partitioned the 160gb drive. 60 for OSX and 100 for Vista. I tend to use more windows software hence the biased sizing. Install went super smooth and is running great. I hope I don't run into any problems.
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Have you guys tried Parallels? Do you plan to use it? I plan to get the demo first and see how it goes before I make any firm commitment to pay the $80 for it. -
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With Parallels, you can start up a partition created with Boot Camp. So you won't have to waste more disk space. I know this is possible with version 3.0, and I think its available on version 2.5 and above too. -
As for your partition problem. Did you try partitioning the drive when you first did the install of XP? If that doesn't work I'm pretty sure you can set up a partition on your OSX portion of the disk, and then allow for Windows to access it. -
WinXP on MBP Partition Problem
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by winterarin, Jul 27, 2007.