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Don_HH2K
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 16 Mar, 2006 5:51 pm |
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| Antony wrote: |  | DJGM wrote: | What I'd like to know about this project is ... when XP is running on the MacIntel machine, is the Mac OS X partition accessible from within Windows, and is the Windows partition accessible from within Mac OS X? |
I only had a quick read on the onmac.net website. To read Mac partition, you will need to install HFS+ support to Windows. It will be a smart idea to keep Mac OS X partition inaccessible from the Windows, to keep it safe. |
Read-only access of either partition from either OS would probably be pretty safe. If there's a port of ntfsutils to Darwin, then that could always be used to mount an NTFS partition. The current ntfsutils package has experimental write support, though I've never actually tried it.
On the other hand, Macdrive, MacDisk, and other HFS+-mounting software for Windows aren't free. Since HFS+ is documented, though, there's a good chance that mounting an HFS+/HFSJ (with journaling support)/HFSX partition wouldn't destroy anything.
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Mandrake
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| 16 Mar, 2006 10:40 pm |
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A FAT32 partition should be fully accesible by Windows and Mac OS X.
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DJGM
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DJGM
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| 17 Mar, 2006 11:44 am |
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Meanwhile, I think we all know who'll like the headline of this article, now don't we . . . ?
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Antony
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| 19 Mar, 2006 4:41 pm |
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Cnet News.com has an interview with the man behind XP on Mac competition, How the XP-on-Mac prize was won.
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Antony
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| 29 Mar, 2006 7:49 pm |
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The Macworld has a report on the actual experience...
http://www.macworld.com/2006/03/firstlooks/xpmini/index.php
And the conclusion?
| Quote: | | I think the ability to run Windows XP at full speed on an “as needed” basis could be a huge selling feature for Apple. Anyone will be able to specify a Mac instead of a PC to Purchasing, and there will no longer be any legitimate technical reasons to say “no.” Once the machine is in the building, it could then be used in OS X most of the time, only rebooting into XP when needed. |
Buy a Mac and don't steal Mac OS X!
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