Running Win on a Mac...??

[Frederik]

Thanks again all...!
Much appreciated...

I gave my sister in law all your advices...
She tried making a boot camp, but the system failed...
What she'll do now - I don't know...

[michaliszissiou]

Well

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[Jean Lemire]

Hi Frederik, hi folks.

Tell your sister to follow exactly the procedure given by Apple:

1 - Buy a windows disc. I bough Windows 7 Family Premium Edition last year for 224 $ CAN.

2 - Start the Mac.

3 - Open the Utilities folder.

4 - Start the BootCamp assistant.

5 - Follow the BootCamp assistant instruction. When prompted to set-up the Windows partition on your hard drive, think about which softwares you will need and how many space for your file you may need. Don't use a too small partition. On my Mac Book Pro, I have a 750 Gigs hard drive. I set up the windows partition at 200 Gigs and left the remaining 550 Gigs for the Mac OS.

When everything will be completed, you will be able to boot as follow:

1 - Start the Mac and do nothing. The Mac OS will boot.

2 - Start the Mac and immediately press and hold the Alt key. When you see two icons, one for Mac OS and one for Windows, use the right arrow key to select Windows and then press the Return key to boot Windows.

In either operating system you can use the Restart function to restart in either system and also to tell the Mac to always start with the operating system of your choice. Of course, you can still press the Alt key on startup and change your mind and, of course, you can also use the startup control pannel to tell your Mac from which partition it should start.

Just ideas.

[Frederik]

Thanks for the advice, Jean...!
I've sent it to my sister in law...

[caronte01]

On my macbook I have parallels and an old copy of windows xp. I use it to run autocad (2008, if i'm not mistaken) and other misc sofware. I have 8 GB of ram on this machine and have allocated 3 GB to parallels. Windows does not see the internet, for security reasons, just my home folder.

I had bootcamp and parallels at one time, using the same windows install, but windows complained, because it thought there were two different machines and asked to be reactivated. I switched to windows xp-parallels only. I use autocad for 2d work only, and the performance is more than acceptable.

You probably have an unused windows license laying around somewhere, so that can be less expensive than buying windows 7. And, xp is a lot faster than 7 under parallels.

My advice, parallels, unless some heavy 3d intensive app is needed.