Jezek Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hey I was wondering if I could do this. I have this old crappy computer that im going to toss once i get my new computer tomorrow. But it has a 12 gig hard drive in it. So I'm thinking. Can I install the core operating system on the 12 gig hard drive? And then will I be able to have everything else on a partition on the other hard drive? (for example the programs ). If it's really hard I won't do it, I just wanted to know if it was possible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10339-different-hard-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Yes, 12 GB is plenty of room for installing OS X (the core install, and then some). Just be sure to keep at least 2-3 Gigs free, as OS X likes to make large Virtual RAM files. In fact, your install on that drive will probably be easier if you have XP on the other drive. It makes life simpler for lots of reasons when the bootable partitions for each OS are on separate drives. Be careful when partitioning the other drive, if you are making a HFS+ partition for OS X storage (read about prepping the drive in the Wiki, if you just use disk utility to set it up, you could damage Windows partitions on the same drive). Ideally, you should set up a storage partition as FAT32, that way Windows and OS X can both write to it. You can do that from within the XP install on your main drive, and not mess up the XP boot partition (which is probably NTFS). Good Luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10339-different-hard-drives/#findComment-64557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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