i got 3x 500GB Drives, how to partition for bootcamp ?
I bought a new MAC PRO with 3 identical 500GB drives.
How would you configure this ? I had planned for having 1 500GB drive for windows and 1 reserved for time machine but since i will buy a airport with 1TB drive also i will use that for bootcamp.
I need windows for autocad and flight simulator, aldo i also use X-plane ofcorse :-)
But 500GB in windows XP 32 bit ? what with that vista crap ? i need 32 bit because otherwise some things dont work in windows.. pfff i hope i don't end up with loads of partitions on the windows side ? What is the best system ? What would you use the 3rd drive for on os x ? Just space ? in a seperate partition ?
Thanks for your answers...
How would you configure this ? I had planned for having 1 500GB drive for windows and 1 reserved for time machine but since i will buy a airport with 1TB drive also i will use that for bootcamp.
I need windows for autocad and flight simulator, aldo i also use X-plane ofcorse :-)
But 500GB in windows XP 32 bit ? what with that vista crap ? i need 32 bit because otherwise some things dont work in windows.. pfff i hope i don't end up with loads of partitions on the windows side ? What is the best system ? What would you use the 3rd drive for on os x ? Just space ? in a seperate partition ?
Thanks for your answers...
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As far as HDD space goes, that doesn't matter 32 vs 64 bit, that's with the ram. Windoze 32 will only see about 3.5 to 4 gigs of ram. Bootcamp is only if you need to create a live partition (example: you have one HDD for both OS X & XP, or you have a RAID setup). All you need to do is pop in a XP/Vista disc and boot from it, select the drive you want, and install. All the Mac drivers are on the 10.5 disc now, you just pop that in after the install/setup is done and run the installer for the drivers.
RAIDs are nice, when a drive dies you just swap in a new one, make sure in the setup it's set for auto rebuild, it repairs itself and off you go. TM, you need the leopard DVD, boot from that, then do a restore from a TM disc.