mlmorg Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 I have osx on one hard drive and xp on another. Is it possible to boot into osx and then through parallels or something like that be able to use windows on the other hard drive? Or am I just dreaming and wishing? Matt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
badeavasile Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 Sorry Matt, but you're just dreaming A virtual machine is one thing, and a "virtual" booting is a different matter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-374942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassJAw Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 I guess you don't read the genius bar? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=41085 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-374999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Sorry Matt, but you're just dreaming A virtual machine is one thing, and a "virtual" booting is a different matter. He's not dreaming. I run it this way. I have OS X on my 500GB drive and Windows XP on my 80GB drive. I boot the computer into OS X, and have Windows on the left screen and OS X on the right. You just have to modify the configuration file to tell it what your "boot camp" partition is. I chose disk1s1 for mine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 wow! very cool by the way sarah, thanks for answering basically every post of mine! ha u seem to know everything i want to know Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 lol. You're welcome. I seem to be on a posting spree right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspr Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 He's not dreaming. I run it this way. I have OS X on my 500GB drive and Windows XP on my 80GB drive. I boot the computer into OS X, and have Windows on the left screen and OS X on the right. You just have to modify the configuration file to tell it what your "boot camp" partition is. I chose disk1s1 for mine. Hi Sarahbau... Could you tell us how to modify the configuration ? Do you have a tutorial or similar ? Thank you Bye Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlmorg Posted June 8, 2007 Author Share Posted June 8, 2007 Glassjaws link earlier in the thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=41085 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 He's not dreaming. I run it this way. I have OS X on my 500GB drive and Windows XP on my 80GB drive. I boot the computer into OS X, and have Windows on the left screen and OS X on the right. You just have to modify the configuration file to tell it what your "boot camp" partition is. I chose disk1s1 for mine. Same here, mine goes a little further as I have partitioned an 80GB partition on one of my 200GB drives leaving the other ~120GB partition as HFS+. Parallels boots the 80GB partition without unmounting the HFS+ partition. One thing to watch out for is that Parallels doesn't seem to want to work with more than one NTFS-formatted drive; I have to plug-in my external NTFS drives after booting up WinXP under parallels or else Parallels will just complain with a few error messages and not boot WinXP. Make a search for Parallels and BootCamp, you just need to input the target partition into the *.pvs file as your startup disk, after that everything should fly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51747-parallels-xp-and-osx-on-different-hds/#findComment-380636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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