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Re: Prevent Your NTFS Boot Camp Volume From Mounting on Startup

club penguine cheats — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:47:10 -0000

If you already have that XP partition and you don't want to reboot in order to use it, get VMware Fusion. It costs money, but it's capable of virtualizing Windows off of the partition you created with BootCamp.

Re: Prevent Your NTFS Boot Camp Volume From Mounting on Startup

George Gumpert — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:32:40 -0000

There are a few reasons someone may not want to use virtualization. Virtualization software still has a hard time emulating graphics cards (can't really do it at all), so using 3D Software such as 3D Studio Max (like I do from time to time) or playing graphic-heavy games are still not possible without a true blue Windows installation.

I should note that I use Virtualization software as well- usually when testing web sites for IE compatability. But I also have a Boot Camp partition as well for 3D Studio MAX and the occassional Windows game.

Re: Prevent Your NTFS Boot Camp Volume From Mounting on Startup

ThirdSection — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:58:34 -0000

Why not just get VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/, it's free) and run Windows on that? Then you don't have to worry about the XP partition mounting and you don't have to reboot when changing operating systems.

Now, if you already have that XP partition and you don't want to reboot in order to use it, get VMware Fusion. It costs money, but it's capable of virtualizing Windows off of the partition you created with BootCamp.