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Windows Drive Letter with Boot Camp
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:58 am
by grupo4
Has anybody install a Windows OS on a MAC computer using a boot camp partition?
Is there anyway to assing a desired drive letter like L: or I: to the Windows partition?
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:08 pm
by lebbeus
as far as I know the main drive for windows must be "C"--this is a quirk(?--there used to be A and B drives way back [3.5 and 5.25 floppies] probably dates way back before the widespread use of hard drives) of the OS, not an issue of bootcamp (i've bootcamped 4 machines so far--2 imacs and 2 mac pros)
I think you'll run into many many problems if you change the drive letter of the main system drive…
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:55 am
by grupo4
lebbeus wrote:(i've bootcamped 4 machines so far--2 imacs and 2 mac pros)
Have you ever achieve to have to partition de windows disk in a mac. I thinking that if I can´t have a drive letter different than C: for the OS It woul be useful to have another disk partition inside windows......
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:06 am
by lebbeus
are you asking whether or not you can see the windows partition while in OSX??
the answer is yes, and you can even copy files from it without needing any additional software; if you want full access to the partition then you'd need VMware (works well) or Parallels.
I imagine that you could install other drives in a macpro and partition them (or use them completely) for each OS--you will run into problems if you try to install XP/Vista on a physically separate drive from the main system drive though
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:46 am
by grupo4
Thanks Lebbeus