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Re: Advice Sought: Installing Win Xp on a Macbook Pro using Boot Camp
Hi Rick,
OSX can be set up on a very small partition indeed.
I've got a dual boot setup on my MacBook, the entire internal drive is
only 80GB.
OSX has a very small footprint, Apple recommend a minimum of just 7GB..!
With a 500GB drive you could safely partition 493GB to XP, but I'd
recommend giving OSX something more generous, for the eventuality that you
find something useful on OSX.
-Chuck
Sent from my iPad Nano
On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just got a secondary internal hard drive (500g) for my
> Mac Book Pro
>
> *Model Name: MacBook Pro
> Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
> Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
> Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
> Number Of Processors: 1
> Total Number Of Cores: 2
> L2 Cache: 4 MB
> Memory: 2 GB
> Bus Speed: 800 MHz
> Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07*
>
> What I would love to do is to install Win XP Pro Service Pack 2 onto
> this harddrive using Boot Camp
> along with OS X on a separate and, hopefully, very small partition.
>
> The goal is to have as large a partition possible for Win XP and as
> small a partition as possible for OSX.
>
> I've discovered that swapping out harddrives is very simple and takes
> very little time, so I have a 320gb HD
> running OSX on one harddrive as a back up.
>
> Does anyone have any advice for me in terms of what the smallest
> partition I can get away with for a
> very, very stripped down version of OSX (mostly for e-mail and simple
> browsing)?
>
> I'm very nervous about doing this, but I think it will be the perfect
> solution for me (and save me hundreds of dollars that
> I just don't have now by not having to go out and buy a Win XP exclusive
> laptop).
>
> Just so you know, my mind's made up about wanting to use WIN XP (mostly
> because of the presence of FL Studio Pro, Vegas Video, Sony Sound Forge
> and
> Sony Acid) so please don't try to dissuade me from my course for all
> the typical Mac-centric reasons that people tend to have.
> I KNOW it's virus free and runs really simply and elegantly compared to
> WIN XP. I still want to do this in this fashion.
>
> I just need to figure out how to do this if anyone has any experience
> with it.
>
> Thanks so much for all of your advice in advance. I really appreciate
> it.
>
> yours, Rick Walker
>