As a matter of interest is that XP or Windows 7? I have seen on other lists that people installing XP have no problems but people using Windows 7 under Lion especially are plagued by slowness and flaky set up so it is a known issue and not just my setup.
David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: 06 February 2013 14:38 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: configuring bootcamp for windows seven I don't know, I installed bootcamp and it went as smooth as warm milk through a puppy. Windows runs fine, it doesn't slow anything down, there are absolutely no problems. Wish I could help you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[email protected]> To: "'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:16 AM Subject: RE: configuring bootcamp for windows seven > You may not find this advice that useful but I spent a lot of time and > frustration trying to set up a working boot camp partition on my I-Mac. > There were too many problems to list here. > The point is that after spending all this time to set Boot camp up, I > never > use it, particularly as the default environment is very restricted , > especially with regards to disk space. It also takes an absolute age to > switch from one environment to another. Windows 7 Boot camp on my Imac > takes ages to load. Putting Boot camp on has slowed my Mac start-up as > well. > I am seriously thinking of getting rid of it. It is staying just for the > unforeseen sod's law that if I get rid of it there will be a reason emerge > which means that I should not have done it. > > If I ever need Windows on my Mac I use Fusion which is simple to set up > without the restrictions of partition size etc. > Increasingly though I use the Mac for Mac stuff and a Windows Laptop, > which > I am on now for work and Windows stuff. When I got my Mac I saw it as a > holy grail to get a single all in one singing and dancing multi-operating > system. In practice , given how cheap windows machines are I think it > is > not a route I would now recommend. The only possible exception would be > a > fusion set up which can be convenient for occasional windows usage. I > would > stick to using your Mac for Mac OS, at which it is very good, rather than > Mac for Windows which it is, in my view, very flaky. > > > David Griffith. > > . > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Lomas > Sent: 06 February 2013 12:02 > To: [email protected] iOS Accessibility > Subject: configuring bootcamp for windows seven > > hi all i am trying to get my internal flash dis of the air to configure > for > the bootcamp program. i have used a USB drive to put windows on and the > support software and now when i run the utility it bought i could > partition > my existing internal HD it states though can do this as some files can't > be > moved, use disc utility to make it a single partition but it is? > any thought please? > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum > at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure > that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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