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Running Windows on your Mac
Bootcamp versus Parallels.
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Dan" data-source="post: 799565" data-attributes="member: 85017"><p>I'd say give it at least 20 GBs of HD space just to be safe; once you partition I don't believe you can resize. Yes you need to give it enough space for XP and all the programs and stuff you will be piling on. I would also consider formatting your XP partition as FAT32 so you can read/write from it from within Leopard. If you format the drive as the windows standard, NTFS, you can only read from the drive from within Leopard. FAT32 supports up to a 32GB partition so you should be fine there size wise. Don't forget when in bootcamp you can always use an External drive just like if you were on Windows. </p><p></p><p>I did read on the parallels site that you can your BootCamp partition as a virtual machine. This way you get the best of both worlds you can run small programs in the VM if you need the full power of your computer for games and what have you just reboot into the Bootcamp partition. </p><p></p><p>Even though I was strongly considering Fusion, I may go with Parallels as it seems to have the best feature set out there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Dan, post: 799565, member: 85017"] I'd say give it at least 20 GBs of HD space just to be safe; once you partition I don't believe you can resize. Yes you need to give it enough space for XP and all the programs and stuff you will be piling on. I would also consider formatting your XP partition as FAT32 so you can read/write from it from within Leopard. If you format the drive as the windows standard, NTFS, you can only read from the drive from within Leopard. FAT32 supports up to a 32GB partition so you should be fine there size wise. Don't forget when in bootcamp you can always use an External drive just like if you were on Windows. I did read on the parallels site that you can your BootCamp partition as a virtual machine. This way you get the best of both worlds you can run small programs in the VM if you need the full power of your computer for games and what have you just reboot into the Bootcamp partition. Even though I was strongly considering Fusion, I may go with Parallels as it seems to have the best feature set out there. [/QUOTE]
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