Re: Virtual PC 6.1 Installation/Removal
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Date: 07/26/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:01:25 -0400
Steve Jain wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2004 13:28:53 -0700, ecs6@lehigh.edu (Eric Sze) wrote:
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>>Now here's the big question...
>>
>>I'm looking at the MAC hard drive and it says the formatting is "MAC
>>OS Extended (Journaled)". I assume Virtual PC takes an image file and
>>your Win XP install is just a file. However, if I choose to set it up
>>to format NTFS (I guess a windows format?) will that conflict with the
>>native Mac OS formatting?
>
>
> No, its simply a large file.
>
>
>>Could I have formated a 1.5 to 2 gigabyte
>>section of my hard drive for my Win XP that I have now lost to my Mac
>>hard drive forever?
>
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> No, simply a file. VPC doesn't do any partitioning to the Mac.
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>
>>(Does this make sense to anyone? I'm trying to
>>say something along the lines of--Help, I just installed Win XP and
>>formatted NTFS. Now I deleted it. Did I just create a NTFS section
>>in my hard drive that is not not recognizable by my Mac and thus it's
>>gone???)
>
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> Empty the trash.
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>>I called Apple but they were no help. I am NOT paying microsoft $35
>>for a yes/no answer to this.
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NTFS is a bad choice when creating a Virtual Machine and there are
problems with it.
Use FAT32 partition instead, which would be the default installation method.
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