My Mac Pro, 10.6.2, has 3 hard disks, and I have XP Pro on both a Boot Camp partition on one of the hard disks (not the startup disk) and Parallels on another disk. There was no problem setting up the Boot Camp partition on the non-startup disk.
If computing speed is a consideration, some applications run rather slowly on Parallels, but go much faster on Boot Camp. I use both of these partitions for the same Windows-only graphic application. Parallels is pretty user-friendly, while I am still struggling with Boot Camp, being extremely ignorant about Windows machines. But, I am learning, sigh. Pat On 26/03/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Yes Gav, > > Windows requires its own partition on your computer's internal startup disk. > Boot Camp Assistant creates a second partition on your startup disk … > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 26/03/2010, at 11:26 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote: > >> >> Hi Adrian, >> >> I haven't tried it but I believe installing boot camp to an external drive >> is a painful process. >> >> If you're doing that, I'd recommend a virtual machine and keeping it on the >> virtual drive if space is an issue. >> >> Gav >> >> On 26/03/2010, at 11:17 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
