i was just wondering if using bootcamp to install windows xp, will i be able to share the storage? (song folders can be opened with both operating system.
also. acer did not give me a full windows xp installation cd. instead it is a acer empowering technology disk where you insert the disk it installs xp along with drivers for you. can i use this for bootcamp?
thanks
If you format the disk NTFS, you can only read from the XP drive partition. So technically, you wouldn't be able to move/edit the files on the XP side from OS X.
I tried it once using the acer disk, it failed horribly.
An Acer Disk, on a Mac, failing? Realleh?
You need to use a non-OEM'd copy of XP to get a working operating system on your Mac.
i meant like making a third partition with the format of like fat32.. then both os can open that partition right? is that possible?
It's better to format your drive NTFS. But yea, if you format it FAT32 then OS X can read/write to it.
Also, there is an app called HFSExplorer or something which lets you browse HFS(+) volumes and save files from them on your Windows disk. You would have to do this from the Windows side, however.
i meant like make the thrid storage (1st being osx storage, 2nd for xp storage) the storage for my osx home folder. and also my windows xp "my documents" so that i can share music in between both operating systems
Aqua-Soft Forums