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Thomas · 29th May 2008, 08:41

I run Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. I choose to do a 32 Gb split, because you can format it in FAT 32 and install XP on it. The good thing with FAT is that Mac OSX can -write- on this partition. If you decide to have a bigger one, you will have to use NTFS as the file format and if you want to write something on it from the MacOS side, you will have to cheat, install stuff and have poor results.

Installing XP will take around 4-5 Gb, then, you have enough space to install 3 games and two software, with enough free space for everything else.

If you need to install vista, well, it's something else (Vista takes around 16 Gb after the first install...)

For your information, I installed several OS with several results :
- Vista 32: ok, no problems.. but vista really sucks : slow, takes a lot of ressources, etc.
- Vista 64: failed : installation was ok, but impossible to install all the drivers for my Mac and the update for bootcamp never worked... see only 3 Gb of Ram. I have 4 Gb
- XP 64: same result about the drivers like Vista 64... See only 3Gb of ram
- XP 32: ok. This s the last one I installed. Faster, not a lot of space taken by the OS, I will continue with that one. Only 3Gb of ram visible.

29th May 2008, 08:41	#2 (permalink)
Thomas Always learning new stuff Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Merignac, France Posts: 11,380	I run Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. I choose to do a 32 Gb split, because you can format it in FAT 32 and install XP on it. The good thing with FAT is that Mac OSX can -write- on this partition. If you decide to have a bigger one, you will have to use NTFS as the file format and if you want to write something on it from the MacOS side, you will have to cheat, install stuff and have poor results. Installing XP will take around 4-5 Gb, then, you have enough space to install 3 games and two software, with enough free space for everything else. If you need to install vista, well, it's something else (Vista takes around 16 Gb after the first install...) For your information, I installed several OS with several results : - Vista 32: ok, no problems.. but vista really sucks : slow, takes a lot of ressources, etc. - Vista 64: failed : installation was ok, but impossible to install all the drivers for my Mac and the update for bootcamp never worked... see only 3 Gb of Ram. I have 4 Gb - XP 64: same result about the drivers like Vista 64... See only 3Gb of ram - XP 32: ok. This s the last one I installed. Faster, not a lot of space taken by the OS, I will continue with that one. Only 3Gb of ram visible. __________________ Polyloop owner & Administrator - no support by PM or email. Polyloop [EN/FR] - Meuuh [FR +16 ans] - Lecaramel.fr [FR - Hélico RC] - Totyo [FR] - Pixologic [JOB] - Le ZBlog [JOB] - La3dpourlesnuls [FR]