Abbas Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 I have ordered my MBP and waiting impatiently for it. Just wondering how have you guys partitioned your drives. I am thinking of the following for my 80GB drive: 1) 30GB Partition for OSX 2) 25GB Partition for Windows 3) 25GB Partition for Data. I would like (3) to be accessible to both the OS'es so I can place all my Documents, Images, Audio and Video files on it. Will I have to format it FAT? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Viking Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 1) 77 GB partition for OS X 2) 15 GB partition for Win 3) 8 GB lost to the mathematical realities of a gigabyte not actually being, you know, a gigabyte I use MacDrive to view/edit my Mac partition, no problem, and my Mac can view/edit my Windows partition. I keep a link to the other OS desktop for easily putting files on either side. It's not virtualization, but still hells of better than carrying around 2 laptops (which I had to do until this solution was released)! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-78605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbas Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 That is a good idea, but if you ever want to format your OSX or Windows partition, then you'd loose your data- or have to create a backup before formatting. I'm new to the OSX world but will all my Windows Notebooks, I have a seperate parition for the OS and a seperate one for my Data. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-78790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Nightmare Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 50/50 split right down the middle, 40GB for each. I store all my music on my Windows drive though, because I can access it from my OSX partition too, so it works out nicely, and doesn't take up reality on my OSX partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-79196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddh Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I partitioned in 53 GB Mac, 25 GB windows and 1GB as 'swap' space FAT32. However, I'm having a problem where after reboot, the swap space becomes HFS + Journaled.. I've tried FAT, FAT32, also logical/extended. I've formatted using the Windows disk tool. The Mac disk tool won't let me format as any type of FAT... Any ideas what's going on? thanks Todd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-79358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grayc Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 69GB OSX 20.0GB XP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-79944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefsalami Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 How do you guys maintain more than one windows partition? During the efi boot process, it erases the MS-DOS partitions and the installer sees it as free space. In order to create a partition in that free space, it would re-write the MBR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12432-just-wondering-how-youve-partitioned-your-drive/#findComment-79979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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