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    Boot Camp Partition Question

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by eeperman, Apr 1, 2008.

  1. eeperman

    eeperman Notebook Consultant

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    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.
     
    eeperman, Apr 1, 2008
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes, that is right. No, you can't change partition sizes later :p.
     
    Sam, Apr 1, 2008
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    Sam.....new avatar :D....why u removed apple from ur siggy?
     
    Kaushal, Apr 1, 2008
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    Yeah...Cha...I mean Sam :p
     
    Budding, Apr 1, 2008
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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
     
    nscd, Apr 1, 2008
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  6. ItsDaKronic

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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?
     
    ItsDaKronic, Apr 2, 2008
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    You mean FAT32? It is strongly recommended to run Vista on a NTFS file system and not something else. However, if you are set on changing the file system of your Vista installation, you could use Partition Magic to change it without losing any data.
     
    Budding, Apr 2, 2008
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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.
     
    Wolfpup, Apr 2, 2008
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    Why is it strongly recommended? Is it safer or something? I'll look into Partition Magic. Thanx
     
    ItsDaKronic, Apr 2, 2008
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    As I said, it has file size limitations, it's far less robust, it has 9 trillion other little technical issues with it compared with a modern file system. It's NOT something you'd want to run a modern OS on, and it wouldn't surprise me if you run into weird issues trying to run a modern version of NT off of FAT32.

    I'm not even sure if you can install to FAT32-it really shouldn't let you.
     
    Wolfpup, Apr 2, 2008
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  11. ItsDaKronic

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    Damn. thanx for the info man. I guess i wont even mess with it.
     
    ItsDaKronic, Apr 2, 2008
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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.
     
    Fant, Apr 3, 2008
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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.
     
    Wolfpup, Apr 3, 2008
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