XP Users Rejoice - Official Windows on a Mac

[Free Range Lobster]

Whatever is left make into a data partition, and dump all your files there. Otherwise you'll lose data if you ever have to reinstall the OS.

Incorrect.

Repair install is your friend.

RTFM.

[justcuz]

All you computer guys are going to laugh your @sses off when I ask this...but here goes.

Say I'm running XP through boot camp and I create a MS Word file. Since I have no effin clue how Mac OSX works....I have to ask; can I open this file that I've created on XP in Mac OSX with whatever OSX uses as a word processing program (what is this, by the way)?

I guess where my JONG butt is confused is, I'm not really sure how the two partitions communicate.....or for that matter IF they can communicate. If my wife puts pics on the XP partition, I want to be able to mess around with them on the Mac partition. Is this possible? Or is this just plain retarded.

Yeah, I'm freakin clueless.

[Meathelmet]

First,i dont have the new macbooks so i dont know this first handed.Only like second or third or whatever.

.I have to ask; can I open this file that I've created on XP in Mac OSX with whatever OSX uses as a word processing program (what is this, by the way)?

Yes. OS X can see in your windows partitions because it recognizes both FAT and HFS in addition to its own HFS+.
I have a Appleworks 6 that i use for writing stuff.I recognizes .whatever, so you can use that.

If my wife puts pics on the XP partition, I want to be able to mess around with them on the Mac partition. Is this possible? Or is this just plain retarded.

Yeah, I'm freakin clueless.

Again yes.
Either work them on XP partition, transfer to OS X partition or if you create a "data partition" as sphinx suggested, throw all the data there. If you manage to fuck up either OS X (that´ll take some effort...) or XP, just replace the farked up OS and continue working.

[fez]

First,i dont have the new macbooks so i dont know this first handed.Only like second or third or whatever.

Yes. OS X can see in your windows partitions because it recognizes both FAT and HFS in addition to its own HFS+.

I don't think it can read/write to NTFS though. so make sure you don't use NTFS on your XP partition (not sure if boot camp deals with this during install.) NTFS is the default file system for XP, I can;t remember if you get a choice of NTFS/FAT when you install XP or not.

[Sphinx]

Where the fuck have you jongs been?

The jong has been stuckathuntermountain.

[jibij]

I don't think it can read/write to NTFS though. so make sure you don't use NTFS on your XP partition (not sure if boot camp deals with this during install.) NTFS is the default file system for XP, I can;t remember if you get a choice of NTFS/FAT when you install XP or not.

Yea... you get the option to partition as NTFS or FAT during BootCamp install. MacBook won't see Windows if you partition XP as NTFS. You can open anything on your XP partition from within Mac, but there doesn't appear to be a way to see your Mac drive from within XP.

Has anybody had any experience with, or knowledge of Parallels Desktop for Mac?
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
It's still in Beta but sounds like it'll let you run XP or Mac without a reboot. That'll be a definite BootCamp killer if it works well.

[Meathelmet]

You can open anything on your XP partition from within Mac, but there doesn't appear to be a way to see your Mac drive from within XP.

There are at least two programs that can do this,but i cant remember their names now.


Usefull useless info, Prt.23.



Edit : Here is something..

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

The full version cost something like 60$.

Then there is MacDisk, dunno what that costs.


Here is a short list about the HDD formats etc..

There are a few major file system formats available for formatting hard drives...

-HFS+ (Mac OS Extended, journaled or un-journaled)
-Fat32 (MS-DOS, old Microsoft format)
-NFTS (new Microsoft Format)
-Unix (several options).


The following operating systems can read/write to the following formats...

-Mac OS can read/write to HFS+, FAT32, and Unix. It can also read NFTS (but cannot write). (Writing to NFS is very close to being possible by installing custom drivers, ported from Linux.)

-Linux can read and write to Unix, FAT32, and HFS+ (kernel 2.6).

-Windows can read/write to FAT32 and NFTS

[jibij]

FYI... Parallels rocks! Unless you're planning to do gaming in Windows on your Mac (you are an uberdork if you are) forget about Boot Camp and buy Parallels. Runs FAST and flawlessly in a Mac window. Too cool.

[dirtybryan]

FYI... Parallels rocks! Unless you're planning to do gaming in Windows on your Mac (you are an uberdork if you are) forget about Boot Camp and buy Parallels. Runs FAST and flawlessly in a Mac window. Too cool.

Yea the Parallels software is pretty cool, but only issue I have with it is that it tells windows it only has a 8mb graphics card, and when you have the 256 in your MBP it seems like a shame.