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18-03-2007, 02:44 PM
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Bootcamp + Vista
Hi Guys,
I need vista for work, don't bag me  And I have an Intel MBP, so no adobe photoshop native for me. Has anyone got Vista working on bootcamp? I did a bit of research on the web, it doesn't seem very straight forward. Does anyone have a detailed How-to guide anywhere?
Oh, and I am using Vista Business, I got 10 licenses for my business.
Thanks.
Last edited by MyMedia; 18-03-2007 at 02:50 PM.
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18-03-2007, 02:56 PM
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I need vista for work, don't bag me
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Haha. Nice deflection.
How about the information here:
http://tinyurl.com/lskk5
Good luck.
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18-03-2007, 03:08 PM
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yeah, thanks! I saw something similar to deleting a partition on the apple forums also. Is this the only known way at the moment? Have the newer bootcamp and Vista Release Version fixed any of this?
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18-03-2007, 03:14 PM
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well, vista isn't that bad...
apart from it blue screened on the first install.
failed to install the first patch, and then crashed
nvidia don't have a vista driver (not ms fault, but it still suck)
photoshop didn't install, second time it did thou
"power button" (sleep) didn't work, it never wakes up, and if it does, its a blue screen...
(this is from my PC)
I just want to use visual studio...
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20-03-2007, 06:02 PM
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I took a gamble and used Bootcamp 1.2 to have a go at installing Vista on my 1.5 Core Solo Mini.
Instead of inserting the WIndows XP disk on restarting from OS X, I inserted the Vista disk.
Lo and behold, Vista installed without a hitch and works fine - though of the 11GB I devoted to the Bootcamp partition, Vista chewed about 7GB of it.
I get a Windows Experience score of 2.0, thanks to the paltry 512MB of RAM - though the next nearest score is 3.6, so if I put extra RAM into it it should be able to do Aero etc. The Bootcamp drivers didn't install completely, but so far everything seems to work.
The only downside is that rather than automatically booting into OS X, the Mini boots into Vista. I have to hold Option to boot into OS X, but for the number of restarts that's not a huge deal.
So - it can be done straight up with few hitches, but I guess YMMV.  |
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20-03-2007, 08:17 PM
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What stuns me is why would anyone want waste space on BootCamp and ever worse Windows? I got a Mac to use a run OSX not windows.
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20-03-2007, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Creative Insanity
What stuns me is why would anyone want waste space on BootCamp and ever worse Windows? I got a Mac to use a run OSX not windows.
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20-03-2007, 10:05 PM
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I did this a little while back on my MBP and it was relatively painless once I'd figured out what to do - I blogged my basic instructions, etc at: http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2007/02/13...a-macbook-pro/
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20-03-2007, 10:14 PM
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If I had a Mac Pro, I'd probably run an XP partition for gaming, running it in Parallels for the times I need to check or use a web site in Explorer.
I gather though that Vista now works in the latest Bootcamp without issues.
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20-03-2007, 10:24 PM
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Can you remove a bootcamp partition easily once you dont want it anymore?
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20-03-2007, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by OziMac
The only downside is that rather than automatically booting into OS X, the Mini boots into Vista. I have to hold Option to boot into OS X, but for the number of restarts that's not a huge deal.
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Try setting the startup disk in OS X Preferences to your Mac Hard Drive.
I dont know if you have it in Vista or not, but in XP when using the Apple Drivers, there is also a startup Disk control panel installed which lets you set your preferred startup option (mac or win)
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20-03-2007, 10:27 PM
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Can you remove a bootcamp partition easily once you dont want it anymore?
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A simple matter of running the Bootcamp installer and changing the partition structure back to your previous configuration (i.e. a single partition) |
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20-03-2007, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by grfxninja
A simple matter of running the Bootcamp installer and changing the partition structure back to your previous configuration (i.e. a single partition)
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20-03-2007, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Creative Insanity
What stuns me is why would anyone want waste space on BootCamp and ever worse Windows? I got a Mac to use a run OSX not windows.
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21-03-2007, 01:39 AM
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rhino 3ds and battlefield 2
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