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Switching Bootcamp<>Parallels for same XP install??
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, Ontario
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Has anyone tried moving back and forth between Bootcamp and Parallels booting off a Bootcamp install of XP? This didn't work well in the last beta but does it work now ? I don't want to ruin my Bootcamp bootablility by testing it in Parallels.
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Last edited by WizOSX; Dec 26, 2006 at 02:17 PM.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Read up here; it seems that a lot of people are having decent results. I should think that CarbonCopy Cloner would do a decent job of imaging the Windows partition (Bombich doesn't say it won't work) , and anyway backing that up is a Good Idea™ no matter what, PARTICULARLY with Windows. So make a backup of that partition and give it a shot. Then tell us how it works-I bet it'll work fine.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Definitely post back if you do. I rely on my Boot Camp partition for critical work (income-generating) so I'm not about to mess with it at the moment, but it would be nice to know.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I'm on vacation right now and won't be back to my intel iMac until Wednesday. But I'll give it a try then.
BTW--using my 12" G4 Powerbook right now--always impressed when I use it again what a great machine it is!
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Posting Junkie
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Can a file in the MacOS partition be accessed from the Windows installation, and visa-versa?
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^^ as far as I know you can't access a Mac OS X partition from Windows without using MacDrive or similar. You can however access a Windows partition from OS X if you formatted it as FAT32.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I tried going back and forth between booting my Bootcamp partition through Bootcamp and then through Parallels. Works fine so far (your mileage may vary). Only glitch is that each time I boot in Parallels I keep getting the box in XP saying that Parallels tools is being loaded. After a while the box disappears and all is normal. I guess just a small beta glitch since I doubt it really is reinstalling tools each time.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Did you notice any problems with your Boot Camp partition so far (i.e., when booted into Windows)?
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Mac Elite
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No problems so far. I've booted into Bootcamp directly, printed from MSOffice, played some games, etc. Nothing mission-critcal, but fine so far.
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From Bootcamp, you don't want Windows accessing your OS X partition directly. If Windows gets a destructive virus, you could end up corrupting your OS X partition.
Formatting Boorcamp as FAT32 so that you can access from OS X is a much better solution.
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