Hi Pat, The disk you have XP Pro installed in Bootcamp is still on an Internal Disk, not an External Drive. So, yes of course it works fine. "Boot Camp Assistant creates a partition for Windows on your computer’s startup or other internal disk."
Adrian has an iMac with one Hard drive. Cheers, Ronni On 26/03/2010, at 1:55 PM, Pat wrote: > > My Mac Pro, 10.6.2, has 3 hard disks, and I have XP Pro on both a Boot Camp > partition on one of the hard disks (not the startup disk) and Parallels on > another disk. There was no problem setting up the Boot Camp partition on the > non-startup disk. > > If computing speed is a consideration, some applications run rather slowly on > Parallels, but go much faster on Boot Camp. > > I use both of these partitions for the same Windows-only graphic application. > Parallels is pretty user-friendly, while I am still struggling with Boot > Camp, being extremely ignorant about Windows machines. But, I am learning, > sigh. > > Pat > > > On 26/03/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> Yes Gav, >> >> Windows requires its own partition on your computer's internal startup disk. >> Boot Camp Assistant creates a second partition on your startup disk … >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> On 26/03/2010, at 11:26 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Adrian, >>> >>> I haven't tried it but I believe installing boot camp to an external drive >>> is a painful process. >>> >>> If you're doing that, I'd recommend a virtual machine and keeping it on the >>> virtual drive if space is an issue. >>> >>> Gav >>> >>> On 26/03/2010, at 11:17 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
