MacBookUser1337 Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 Can someone confirm that it's possible to have an HFS+ and two NTFS partitions. I googled and the results say it's not possible but I was checking it out in the store and it's actually possible. Tiger is not able to see the two NTFS partitions but in Windows Vista both partitions are function (HFS+ is not visible). The clerk installed Tiger, BootCamp, BootCamp created a new partition for Vista and in Vista installation he created two partitions and that's how it worked. Does the MacBook have any compatibility issue with any standard SATA drives? I may upgrade the drive to a bigger capacity, 7200RPM drive. The MacBook seems to use Fujitsu drives but I may get a Seagate 100GB, 7200RPM drive. Will it has problem? Is there any program like Acronis True Image that can do disk imaging for Mac? The clerk told me reinstalling Tiger will destroy Windows, so I plan to partition the drive into three pieces, do disk imaging for pristine state of Tiger and Windows and never bother with Tiger reinstallation again. Is it possible? Finally, does a MacBook work perfectly as a PC? I mean will I see anything like a Windows program not compatible with a MacBook running Windows? Theoretically such thing should not happen as it's basically a PC, but I'm just wondering. Thank you for answering~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProMacUser Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 MacBook is not a PC even if it runs Windows, cause it have speciffic alchitecture of it's x86, that PC can only dream about, but all of your progs will work fine, cause you'll be using Windows on a half PC - that's enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassJAw Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 No issues with Sata drives. I popped in a Seagate and it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 (edited) And what specific hardware is that apart from the TPM Chip. ? I have a MacBook Pro and I know under the hood it's still PC components. Its the Same Core 2 Duo that can be found in some lappys. what different x86 architecture does it have.. !! I smell something. Edited March 18, 2007 by itmandan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 MacBook is not a PC even if it runs Windows, cause it have speciffic alchitecture of it's x86, that PC can only dream about, but all of your progs will work fine, cause you'll be using Windows on a half PC - that's enough! that's {censored}. Yes, it becomes a 100% PC when in windows. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. The fact that it has EFI instead of Bios doesn't matter because when using bootcamp, a BIOS emulation is run, and TPM doesn't really matter. BTW, there are PC motherboards with both TPM and EFI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProMacUser Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 I mean that a mac running mac os x is a mac, but when it runs Windows, it becomes single PC with an Apple logotipe on it's cover. So you can use your mac as a PC, but an Apple computer withous OS X - that's a chicken {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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