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Hey guys,
First post here, but im sure it wont be my last. Have recently made the move to mac, so trying to get my head around a few things.
I have had issues installing and running Win 7 on my MBP so far. I first tried installing Parallels, which worked fine at the start until I tried changing the amount of RAM which was being allocated to the VM. While doing this my mac froze, I restarted only to encounter a kernel panic. After spending days working with mac tech support I decided to backup everything on the 2 non-mac (data) partitions and reinstall OSX snow leopard on the OSX partition.
After this I looked into using bootcamp, which required me to delete the 2 extra partitions before OSX could create a bootcamp partition for windows. I installed Win 7 successfully, booted into it a few times and install all drivers etc. Win7 was working fine until I went back into OSX and created the 2 extra partitions again to reload all my data onto. At this time I also resized my OSX parition as I felt it was too big for what I needed. After this partitioning I am not able to see Bootcamp/Win7 when holding the option key and also cant see it when I try change the startup disk in OSX. I know now that using disk utility to resize and add partitions creates issues with bootcamp, and thus I now cant boot into Windows, however I can still see the bootcamp partition mounted on my desktop in OSX.
So.. what I want to know is, If I cant boot into Windows now, can I format the existing bootcamp partition and install either Parallels or VMWare Fusion onto this partition rather than the Macintosh HD partition? Reason being is because if something goes wrong with the VM software, I'd rather not have to reinstall OSX again on my Mac HD partition. If I install Parallels or VMWare fusion on a dedicated/seperate partition I feel a lot safer, know that if it fails, I wont have to reinstall OSX again.
In short - my question is: can you install Parallels or VMWare fusion on a non-Macintosh HD partition?
Thanks for the help in advance!!
First post here, but im sure it wont be my last. Have recently made the move to mac, so trying to get my head around a few things.
I have had issues installing and running Win 7 on my MBP so far. I first tried installing Parallels, which worked fine at the start until I tried changing the amount of RAM which was being allocated to the VM. While doing this my mac froze, I restarted only to encounter a kernel panic. After spending days working with mac tech support I decided to backup everything on the 2 non-mac (data) partitions and reinstall OSX snow leopard on the OSX partition.
After this I looked into using bootcamp, which required me to delete the 2 extra partitions before OSX could create a bootcamp partition for windows. I installed Win 7 successfully, booted into it a few times and install all drivers etc. Win7 was working fine until I went back into OSX and created the 2 extra partitions again to reload all my data onto. At this time I also resized my OSX parition as I felt it was too big for what I needed. After this partitioning I am not able to see Bootcamp/Win7 when holding the option key and also cant see it when I try change the startup disk in OSX. I know now that using disk utility to resize and add partitions creates issues with bootcamp, and thus I now cant boot into Windows, however I can still see the bootcamp partition mounted on my desktop in OSX.
So.. what I want to know is, If I cant boot into Windows now, can I format the existing bootcamp partition and install either Parallels or VMWare Fusion onto this partition rather than the Macintosh HD partition? Reason being is because if something goes wrong with the VM software, I'd rather not have to reinstall OSX again on my Mac HD partition. If I install Parallels or VMWare fusion on a dedicated/seperate partition I feel a lot safer, know that if it fails, I wont have to reinstall OSX again.
In short - my question is: can you install Parallels or VMWare fusion on a non-Macintosh HD partition?
Thanks for the help in advance!!