> On 17Jan 2018, at 18:27 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > 1. Does bootcamp require its own separate hard drive, or can it be installed > on one partition of a drive with several partitions?
Bootcamp works with just two partitions: one Mac, one Windows. Try for more and it gets confused. > > I think I tried using one of several partitions in the past and it did not > work, though my memory is fuzzy. If it is possible to use a partition, the > previous failure may have been user error, since I am not very experienced > with this. > > 2. If partitions work, can I install bootcamp with Windows 7 on one partition > and bootcamp with Windows 10 on a second partition? Or is only one bootcamp > setup allowed? Bootcamp will work with one version of Windows. just one. The current shipping Bootcamp Windows drivers are for Win 10. You will have a problem with Win 7, and would probably have to get an older version... which might not work with current versions of macOS > > I don't really plan to use Windows of any flavor very often, but if I'm going > to the trouble of installing bootcamp and Windows, I thought I might as well > try to install both Windows 7 and Windows 10. May I suggest getting VMWare, or Parallels, or Virtual Box, or some other VM? Then you can have as many installs of Windows,. Linux, whatever, as you like. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > Gregg > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
