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Confused about bootcamp and Parallels
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<blockquote data-quote="tadd5181" data-source="post: 1090858" data-attributes="member: 137471"><p>What I read on the Parallels forum has confused me more.</p><p></p><p>A post in May says ( and I summarize a bit) “I have a Bootcamp partition. I want to use Parallels to access the partition while in Mac OS X without losing the ability to restart and go into a native version of Windows 7.” [end of quote]</p><p></p><p>An answering post on July 26 to that is as follows; ”Try this (using Parallels Desktop 5):</p><p>File -> New... -> Skip Detection -> Windows 7 -> Custom -> select Processors (probably half what you have), select RAM (probably half what you have or at least 4 GB less than your total) -> Boot Camp Partition -> select the disk and which partitions are for Windows 7 -> Shared Networking -> Virtual Machine -> select name and location.” [end of quote]</p><p></p><p>Wow…do I have to do that if all I want to do is be able to have Windows 7 where I can reboot and go to Windows or use Parallels and also be able to go to Windows7?”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tadd5181, post: 1090858, member: 137471"] What I read on the Parallels forum has confused me more. A post in May says ( and I summarize a bit) “I have a Bootcamp partition. I want to use Parallels to access the partition while in Mac OS X without losing the ability to restart and go into a native version of Windows 7.” [end of quote] An answering post on July 26 to that is as follows; ”Try this (using Parallels Desktop 5): File -> New... -> Skip Detection -> Windows 7 -> Custom -> select Processors (probably half what you have), select RAM (probably half what you have or at least 4 GB less than your total) -> Boot Camp Partition -> select the disk and which partitions are for Windows 7 -> Shared Networking -> Virtual Machine -> select name and location.” [end of quote] Wow…do I have to do that if all I want to do is be able to have Windows 7 where I can reboot and go to Windows or use Parallels and also be able to go to Windows7?” [/QUOTE]
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