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Can I use bootcamp to have both XP and Vista?
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Just bought my Mac Pro today, will hopefully be here Thursday. Just wondering, can I use boot camp and have a Vista partition and a XP partition, or can it only do one at a time?
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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No. Boot camp is for XP only.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Some people have used Boot Camp to run Vista's beta versions, but you still can't run more than one "other" OS with it. Boot Camp will ONLY creat ONE partition for a secondary OS.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Thanks for the help, hopefully apple will add the ability to do this with a future version.
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Join Date: May 2001
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A co-worker installed Vista just fine in Boot Camp today. Just make sure you are running Pre RC1.
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8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Hollywood, Ca
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Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
No. Boot camp is for XP only.
As "goMac" said, it is very easy to install Vista using Pre-RC1 (and I assume Vista RC1 as well) with the newest version of Boot Camp. No need for any tricks or weird deletion of partitions like what was necessary with Vista Beta 2 & the older version of Boot Camp.
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My Computer: MacBook Pro 2GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.5
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Boot Camp is not only a partitioning tool-it provides Windows XP-SP2-SPECIFIC hardware drivers necessary to make the Mac hardwae work properly with Windows XP. THAT is why "Boot Camp is for XP only." If you can find Vista drivers for ANYTHING, more power to you. But Boot Camp won't provide drivers for you, and you may not have all your hardware work properly, or at all.
Read the threads here about running Vista on a Mac-it's no walk in the park.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Boot Camp is not only a partitioning tool-it provides Windows XP-SP2-SPECIFIC hardware drivers necessary to make the Mac hardwae work properly with Windows XP. THAT is why "Boot Camp is for XP only." If you can find Vista drivers for ANYTHING, more power to you. But Boot Camp won't provide drivers for you, and you may not have all your hardware work properly, or at all.
Read the threads here about running Vista on a Mac-it's no walk in the park.
The newest Boot Camp drivers work fine under Vista RC1. GPU worked out of the box too.
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