you can also make it dynamic, so as the partition needs to grow, it grows.

Post edited at 4:26 pm on Aug. 21, 2009 by IGotAddicted

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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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idk but there is some kind of software called bootcamp that lets your run windows on a mac

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Yeah, that comes with your computer but apparently that requires rebooting when going from OS X to the Windows virtual machine and I was trying to avoid that but if VMWare is causing this problem, I'd do it anyways.

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"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar."
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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Thats like using a condom when your girls on the pill.

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Using VMWare you mean?

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"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar."
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

As for installing and running Windows natively, you can use BootCamp to do that, it should be in the utilities folder under BootCamp assistant or on the original OS X install disk. BootCamp is more effort in the sense that you do have to partition the hard drive itself to allow it to run, and that cannot be changed once you install windows, so you can't just give it more space as you desire. It also means you have to shut down OS X and start up in Windows if you want to use it, unlike VMware or Parallels where they can both run at the same time.

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and victorious in war shall be made glorious in peace.

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You shouldn't need to partition the actual disk itself for VMware. I've got a Windows XP install on my VMware fusion set up and it works rather nicely, fairly responsive too. What was your actual problem?

As for installing and running Windows natively, you can use BootCamp to do that, it should be in the utilities folder under BootCamp assistant or on the original OS X install disk. BootCamp is more effort in the sense that you do have to partition the hard drive itself to allow it to run, and that cannot be changed once you install windows, so you can't just give it more space as you desire. It also means you have to shut down OS X and start up in Windows if you want to use it, unlike VMware or Parallels where they can both run at the same time.

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Well, one of the few things I plan on doing with Windows is gaming. I tried putting Perfect World International on and running it but it was really glitchy and laggy. It downloaded and installed okay but when I actually tried to start the game, the window kept flickering wildly before basically crashing altogether. I tried again and it did the same thing but eventually stopped and let me sign in. As soon as I got in, it was so laggy that I quit after less than five minutes and shut both the game and Windows down. My boyfriend uses Boot Camp and he said that the game was laggy for him as well but I'm not sure what he considers "laggy", he's anti-f2p anyways. XD

Although, I think he ran a few other games on Windows and didn't have a problem so I can't tell what exactly is the issue.

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"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar."
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

For that you will have to use BootCamp, and depending on the specs of your system it shouldn't be too bad. I've seen a video on youtube of crysis being run on a MBP. It's not amazing but it had fairly decent performance. Really in BootCamp it will be just the same as a Windows laptop of similar specs.

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and victorious in war shall be made glorious in peace.

Sorry, this is the first Mac I've ever owned and I'm learning along the way. XD

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"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar."
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Unless you want to transfer stuff over (in which case start up the machine and copy whatever you need) you can go ahead and just remove the image file, because you'll have to make a completely fresh one to get Windows running in BootCamp.

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and victorious in war shall be made glorious in peace.