Hi, when using bootcamp to install window, can the window drive be accessed while working under OSX and vice versa to transfert data in-between the two? how about viruses? can a virus on the window partition cause damage to the OSX partition? or are the two partition acting like completely different drives? thanks
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If you formatted it in FAT then you can read and write to the partition in OS X. Windows viruses are windows programs. They will not run in OS X. They can be there, and files CAN be infected.. it just won't do anything.
Windows, without third party software, can not read HFS+ partitions. If you formatted your windows partition in NTFS, OS X is the same. But they are now, essentially, two different drives.
Windows, without third party software, can not read HFS+ partitions. If you formatted your windows partition in NTFS, OS X is the same. But they are now, essentially, two different drives.
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Hi Mike:
Boot Camp 3.0 and Snow Leopard kind of changes all that. BC 3.0 loads a driver in Windows which allows your HFS+ Mac partition to be accessed when booted to Windows. I've tried it out in Win 7 with my SL partition and it works OK (although I was a bit apprehensive at first).
Also, R\W capability to NTFS partitions is built in to Snow Leopard although not turned on by default. The very handy free app called "NTFS Mounter" will turn it on for you. I've used it a couple of times and so far it works OK.
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Boot Camp 3.0 and Snow Leopard kind of changes all that. BC 3.0 loads a driver in Windows which allows your HFS+ Mac partition to be accessed when booted to Windows. I've tried it out in Win 7 with my SL partition and it works OK (although I was a bit apprehensive at first).
Also, R\W capability to NTFS partitions is built in to Snow Leopard although not turned on by default. The very handy free app called "NTFS Mounter" will turn it on for you. I've used it a couple of times and so far it works OK.
Regards.
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