Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Boot Camp Partition guide

This is by no means a step by step tutorial. Just a quick reference to remind me how I do things.

  1. Make sure you have one MacOS partition. This is the drive that will be split.
  2. Use the Boot Camp assistant to make a second FAT 32 partition. This will hold the OS and apps
  3. Once it resets and boots the Windows disc, delete the partition and replace it with NTFS.
  4. Install Windows on the NTFS partition
  5. Once finished, boot into MacOS
  6. run Disk Utility and split the MacOS partition. This will make a middle partition between MacOS and Windows.
  7. Format this middle partition to exFAT. Give it plenty of space since Windows and Mac can read / write to it.
  8. Once done you should have a partition both OSs can utilize. Install rEFIt to make dual booting easier.

1 comments:

Athey said...

This is you posting from Athey's iMac. The instructions are wrong for the following reasons.

Windows can only understand 4 partitions in a GUID Partition Table. Since Lion makes a "Recovery" partition, it is first necessary to remove this partition.