Hi, Thanks for responding. From you and a few others, I have learned several things about bootcamp.
1. It sounds like bootcamp is only meant to be installed on the primary boot drive. 2. It sounds like only 2 partitions are allowed -- one for MacOSX and one for Windows. 3. If possible, a virtual Windows setup is preferred. In case it matters, the computer in question is a "mid 2012" Mac Pro tower running 10.10.5 (Yosemite). Due to my ignorance, I installed bootcamp on a secondary drive. My primary drive is an SSD with a single partition (for Yosemite). In addition to the SSD, I have several hard drives, one of which I used for bootcamp (and Windows 7). I believe that when I installed bootcamp many months ago, I tried to install it on one of several partitions and failed, though I do not recall the details. I think my next step (no pun intended) was to allocate the entire secondary drive to bootcamp and it worked, sort of. I say "sort of" because there was at least one problem. Once booted into Windows 7, things seemed to work (though I do not know much about Windows). However, if I tried to reboot into Windows, it would hang just before the login screen. The only way I found to successfully reboot into Windows was to first boot into MacOSX (using the option key) and then go into System Preferences and change the boot drive from Windows to MacOSX and then back to Windows again. Perhaps the reason for this problem is related to bootcamp not being installed on the second of two partitions on my primary boot drive. I did not realize that I was not supposed to install bootcamp on a secondary (internal) drive, though it's interesting that it "sort of" worked. In fairness, I did originally try to use Parallels 11, but I could not accomplish what I set out to do. I believe this all started because I wanted to run some low-level disk formatting software that was Windows only (Western Digital's Data LifeGuard and Seagate's SeaTools). I tried doing this via Parallels, but I was unsuccessful, though again I do not remember the details. Maybe I will start fresh, this time with Parallels 11 and Windows 10, and see if it works now. I would like to thank everyone for their help. I really appreciate it. Gregg -----Original Message----- From: "@lbutlr" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 2:10 AM To: Mac OS X-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 2 bootcamp questions On 17 Jan 2018, at 16:27, 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? It is only supported as a second partition on the boot drive. I don't think you are allowed to further partition, but that might have changed with APFS. > 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? Only one per boot drive, as I recall. > 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. If you aren't going to use Windows much, why install it in bootcamp? Use WINE, most things work, and you don't lose tens of GB to it. Short of that, VirtualBox is cheap (as in free) and you can offload the virtual drives to other storage rather than eating your boot drive. In nearly all cases when someone thinks they want to run Bootcamp, they're wrong. Nearly. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
