[uhoh7]

Getting ready to setup bootcamp on a mac book pro

What I need: access to jpegs, lots and lots, from both XP and OSX.

Should I create a seperate partition for the images?

Can XP see into the mac partition?

Basically I need the capabiltiy to see the same images in both iphoto and picasa2 (long story as to why)

excuse my ignorance, TY sirs

[mark.s]

Hi,

BootCamp only supports 2 partitions, unfortunately.

(you can google to find out how to set things up with more partitions, but it's non-trivial).

The easiest solution is to format the Windows partition as FAT32 - you'll be able to read from and write to it from OS X - and store the images on the Windows partition.

Hope this helps.

Mark

[ghporter]

Windows cannot (without third-party help) even see that a Mac partition exists, let alone "see into" one. OS X can see and read, but not write to an NTFS partition (and there doesn't seem to be any third party help here, since Microsoft owns NTFS and doesn't license it where it won't make them money). So the solution by default is to use FAT32 for a partition that both XP and OS X need to be able to both read and write.

Now for the extra cool stuff: any external drive can hold anything you want either and/or both operating systems to see (as long as it's in the FAT32 format). Windows itself must be on the internal Mac drive, but its data and programs don't need to be, so you can put all that stuff on an external drive and not clog the internal hard drive with them-which helps the responsiveness of both OSs.