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