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Postby Don_HH2K » Thu 16 Mar, 2006 6:51 pm

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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Postby Mandrake » Thu 16 Mar, 2006 11:40 pm

A FAT32 partition should be fully accesible by Windows and Mac OS X.
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Postby DJGM » Fri 17 Mar, 2006 9:20 am

Mandrake wrote:A FAT32 partition should be fully accesible by Windows and Mac OS X.


In which case, it'd be advisable to create a small additional partition, formatted as FAT32, about 5-10GB
in size during the HDD preparation, so that a partition can easily be shared between the two OSes.
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Postby DJGM » Fri 17 Mar, 2006 12:44 pm

Meanwhile, I think we all know who'll like the headline of this article, now don't we . . . ?
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Postby Antony » Sun 19 Mar, 2006 5:41 pm

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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Postby Antony » Wed 29 Mar, 2006 8:49 pm

The Macworld has a report on the actual experience...

http://www.macworld.com/2006/03/firstlo ... /index.php

And the conclusion?
[quote]I think the ability to run Windows XP at full speed on an “as neededâ€
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