Hi Diana, Yes, it is my understanding that you cannot use Boot Camp to boot from an external drive, so you will have to partition your internal drive. According to this Apple video, Boot Camp Assistant will do the partitioning for you.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#windowsmac Cheers, Carlo On 2011-10-04, at 17:29, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > Hi Mike & Carlo > > Thanks for your help. > > This CD runs on XP so I was told it would be OK with Windows 7. > > I shall have to investigate Boot Camp. Will this mean I need to partition my > HD and reinstall everything? > > Best wishes from Diana > > On 04/10/2011, at 3:12 PM, Mike Murray wrote: > >> Does the CD run on a real PC with Windows 7? It was released in 2004 I >> think. Some of my older Family History CDs won't run on Vista...I keep a >> laptop running Windows98 just to access the stuff! >> > On 04/10/2011, at 4:25 PM, cm wrote: > >> Parallels runs what is called a virtual machine, so even though it is real >> Windows, it does put an emulation layer between Windows and the hardware. If >> you want real Windows on real hardware you can boot up in Windows using Boot >> Camp. >> >> >>> I have long known that the Sussex Marriage Index would not run on Macs >>> using >>> simulation but in my innocence I thought that with an Intel Mac this was >>> real >>> Windows! >> > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
