How big does the Bootcamp partition need to be?
professorbutters:
Yes, I am a total hypocrite. Despite everything I've said before, I want to install a Bootcamp partition on my Mac and play from the Windows side.
I have a few questions.
Assuming that I don't run anything but games, and probably only Sims 2, how big a partition do I need? I currently have about 160 GB of hard drive space and 4 GB of RAM. This is assuming I am running Windows XP/Leopard, some kind of anti-virus, the base game, all the EPs, several SPs, and some third party software, like SimPE. At the moment I have about 2.6 GB worth of CC in the Mac version of the game.
I'd like to be able to copy some of my CC on the Mac side (just things like clothes, etc) and transfer it over rather than downloading every single file. I'd also like to be able to take pictures on the PC partition and transfer them to the Mac partition so that I can use my current versions of Photoshop and MS Office. Can I do that with a flash drive?
I've heard that the limit for a FAT partition is 32 GB. Will that be enough, and does it matter?
Any information would be helpful.
J. M. Pescado:
None of that matters because Windoze uses NTFS, not FAT, which has no such limitations. However, it needs to be big enough to hold everything you put on it! Of course, you can always embiggen it later.
pbox:
The BootCamp FAQs at Apple should answer all of those questions: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
rufio:
Transferring things by flash drive would probably work just fine, but you might also be able to actually mount your Windows partition while using the Mac side and transfer the files directly via the console. I don't specifically know how this would work for Macs, but Apple may have instructions for doing it.
(And IIRC, the last Windoze to use FAT32 was ME.)
professorbutters:
Quote from: pbox on 2010 February 05, 01:37:25
The BootCamp FAQs at Apple should answer all of those questions: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
It does--but it doesn't answer all my questions. When you install Bootcamp, it gives you the option of partitioning it as NTFS or FAT (yes, even with XP.) With FAT, the partition is visible on the Mac side and I think you can drag and drop some things, at least in one direction, but you have a limit of 32 GB. With NTFS, you can't. Also, someone told me that whatever you pick, you're stuck with, so I couldn't make it bigger later. On the other hand, the same guy told me I needed 12-15 GB of hard drive space to install Windows XP, which seems a little big to me. I'm coming up with 15.5 GB for the base game and all the EPs, plus 350 MB each for the SPs, and maybe 3-4 GB of CC, which would be about 24 GB, max.
Snow Leopard evidently has some kind of read-write capacity, but that would mean Snow Leopard, and when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, my Sims installation became FUBAR'd. There's also some kind of third party software that enables back and forth writing (Mac Drive.)
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