dewdrinker19 Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 I have a 120 gig hard drive and have set osx86 on a 20 GB parition. I am planning on doing the rest for Windows XP. Will my osx86 be able to recognize the other partition? I want to have my itunes library on my xp partition but be able to play the same library in iTunes on either OS. What do you all think? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 OSX can read from an NTFS partition, but not write to it. I would make a FAT32 partition for things you want to share with both the Mac and Windows, because both operating systems can read and write to a FAT32 partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-20963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewdrinker19 Posted October 7, 2005 Author Share Posted October 7, 2005 Are there any disadvantages to using FAT32 if my partition size is around 100GB? I've heard it is slower? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-20964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 I think NTFS is a "safer" partition than FAT32 because it uses journaling. What I was suggesting is for you to make 3 partitions -- like 20 for OSX as a HFS+ partiton, 60 for Windows as a NTFS partition, and 40 as a FAT32 partition that both Windows and Mac can read and write to for shared files and moving things back and forth between the two. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-20965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 if you set up a partition just for your music you won't notice any speed differences using fat32. once a song starts playing, it either does or it doesn't. that's talking about a 40gig partition. as for the 100 gig fat32 partition... "FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB." Microsoft doesn't want people using really large fat32 partitions, the XP limit is artificially imposed. you have to use a third party program like Acronis Partition Expert or something to make really large fat32 partitions. searching through 100gigs of small files would be noticeably slow to me. still very useable, but laggy. you would have to keep your fat32 drive defragmented. wouldn't keep 100gigs of anything on fat32, but i'll admit, it's a feeling, i have no experience with losing anything on fat32 myself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-20986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 I put my XP installation on Fat32, (second time around) because I wanted read/write access from the other OS'es.. admittedly I don't use it for anything very demanding, but I haven't noticed any difference from when it was ntfs. Ironically, I use ReiserFS for my linux partition, which is far less accessible than ext2/3, for instance.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-21008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 One of the technical differences in speed between FAT32 and NTFS is the placement of the file index - FAT (File Allocation Table) in FAT32 and MFT (Master File Table) in NTFS. The central location of the MFT makes for quicker access on most HDDs. Also the dynamic allocation of MFT reserved space is a performance bonus. All this really only matters if you're doing disk-intensive stuff like recording live video. For all normal use FAT32 is fine, and I've never had a problem with FAT32 that I haven't had on NTFS. If you want to write to it from OSx86, go for it - it's your only option anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-21099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewdrinker19 Posted October 8, 2005 Author Share Posted October 8, 2005 Last question about the dual boot. Is there a way to make the Darwin bootloader force me to choose an operating system? Right now if I don't press anything during those eight seconds it goes to osx86 by itself. Any ideas? Thanks everyone. you have been MUCH help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-21126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewdrinker19 Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 OK, how about changing the default system to OS from bootup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-23586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 I think NTFS is a "safer" partition than FAT32 because it uses journaling. What I was suggesting is for you to make 3 partitions -- like 20 for OSX as a HFS+ partiton, 60 for Windows as a NTFS partition, and 40 as a FAT32 partition that both Windows and Mac can read and write to for shared files and moving things back and forth between the two. That's what I did - it really made moving things from Win to Mac easy... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-23606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtatic43 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 OSX can read from an NTFS partition, but not write to it. I would make a FAT32 partition for things you want to share with both the Mac and Windows, because both operating systems can read and write to a FAT32 partition. how are you able to do this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-23640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest OSx86er Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 what I did so I could use my OSX install and WindowsXP install and read/write to same drives is I made a 20gb for OSX and a 8gb for WindowsXP and formated the rest in HFS+ w/journaling! Then after you get WindowsXP and OSX installed go into WindowsXP and install (MacDrive) it is a great program I have read/write access for my HFS+ partitions without any problem. if you install MacDrive and still dont see the HFS+ partitions in Windows load the updates for MacDrive and yer all set. Hope this helps. I know I dont have to worry about my data in HFS+ Journaled format in XP cause it all works without problems.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3301-osx86-xp/#findComment-23652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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