Boot Camp Hard Drive Warning
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For any of you going through the Boot Camp install on your Mac for the first time, I wanted to show you something that is VERY very important in this process. Failure to do this step properly can result in OS X being completely messed up.
When you get to the screen that allows you to select the partition to install, you will see all of your partitions listed (including unpartitioned space). Make SURE you select the partition that has the Boot Camp label, and is formatted using Fat32. If you choose any of the others listed there, you will honestly completely mess up OS X. Why Fat32 you ask? According to Bwana.tv:
Fat32 gives you read/write access to the partition which is, in my opinion, the main benefit. NTFS is better overall since you don’t have partition and file size limitations and you also get the security features of the file system. The main drawback is that NTFS is read-only from Mac OS X so you can’t write files to your Windows partition.
Also, be sure to choose to “Leave Current File System Intact”.
As I said, this video is dedicated solely to this part of the Boot Camp setup process. I cannot stress enough how critical it is to follow these steps.
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42 Comments
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November 13th, 2007
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November 13th, 2007
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November 13th, 2007
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November 13th, 2007
at 10:26am
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bangulo2012
November 12th, 2007
at 3:15pm
how convenient for apple to do that. Microsoft would never make something like this. why FAT32 and not NTSF?
kevnca
November 12th, 2007
at 3:20pm
OS X can read/write FAT32, not NTFS.
bangulo2012
November 12th, 2007
at 3:21pm
awsome TY
mattfogz
November 12th, 2007
at 6:53pm
Did that actually work with that last step? I read through the manual and it stated in bold that you had to chose to reformat as FAT32 again. Or NTFS if you don’t want to easily transfer files inside of osx to your bootcamp drive.
philos4r
November 12th, 2007
at 11:02pm
thanks
narcoti
November 13th, 2007
at 1:58am
os 10 should be messed up
GranitW
November 13th, 2007
at 4:29am
“A Mac ‘can’ be a PC”, well then what is it? lol
Andrew
November 13th, 2007
at 2:28am
Just what I need from a Windows Fanatic Newsletter … A video about the Mac!
danny3793
November 13th, 2007
at 2:51pm
A Mac an only be a ‘PC’ when it is an Intel based Mac. You can’t just go out and buy a Mac and slap Winblows on it.
NomadMog
November 13th, 2007
at 5:55pm
I may actually use Boot Camp eventually if Final Fantasy XI doesn’t see a Mac release, so thanks for the tip Chris
Aaron Brazell
November 13th, 2007
at 11:53am
Well… my Windows partition is NTFS and I have no known problems. Care to elaborate on “messing up OS X”?
chrintov
November 15th, 2007
at 3:48am
if your new to the world..there IS a difference between Mac and PC, yes they are both computers but a mac is not a pc
GranitW
November 15th, 2007
at 5:59am
A Mac is a Personal Computer, an Apple xserve isn’t.
Yes there is a difference between an unlimited OS Mac PC and a Cloner PC, but that doesn’t mean a Mac is not a Personal Computer. As many have said, Apple started the PC industry, not including the Xerox Alto(which even Xerox doesn’t count).
GiM
November 15th, 2007
at 8:35am
If you want to write/edit files from OS X to Windows system partition… maybe, but you can have a “spare” FAT32 partition for data and so you can have full access to it from both os.
battlekhan
November 17th, 2007
at 8:26am
OS X can read/write FAT32 partitions, where as NTFS partitions OS X can read only.
bangulo2012
November 18th, 2007
at 3:31am
Thanks for the info guys!
missedagain
December 12th, 2007
at 5:36pm
God you have such a fucking gay voice you fucking faggot. Jesus christ i want to punch my monitor.
Pikachux1000
December 18th, 2007
at 2:43am
you do that you’ll be sorry ^^
creativeatheart
December 23rd, 2007
at 11:24pm
there are about 5 things wrong with your sentence
greenday052492
December 31st, 2007
at 2:19am
you think dropping a bunch of f-bombs makes you cool? think again..
KCR07UK
January 4th, 2008
at 6:31am
You can only install windows properly if you format it during the windows installation
adamskateboardyeaaah
January 18th, 2008
at 3:43am
I have a simple little question here. Im trying to use boot camp to install windows. I went through all the steps correctly I think. I selected “leave the current file system intact” It notifies me that the setup will continue after the system reboots. I let it reboot, and then it says press any key to boot from cd, if I choose this, it runs through the setup again. If I wait it says disk error press any key to continue. when I press a key nothing happens. id love some help
thanks
Tirsey
January 18th, 2008
at 8:01am
Hey man I have the same exact problem myself. I have been trying to figure out for the past while now without finding any answers. Please any help from anyone would be amazing!
destro63x
January 19th, 2008
at 1:01pm
ME TOO…the same dam screen is showing up for me
Tirsey
January 19th, 2008
at 4:00pm
I figured it out. It says that that will happen on occasion and when it does, this is what you have to do: Re-install if from the CD, this time choosing NOT the leave as is, yet the full format in NTFS or FAT32 (depending on if you want OSX to see and have access to the files on that partition). After this it will work fine. I did 3 after finding that out with no probs. So I imagine that that will solve your problems. Cheers and best to ya :]
sunmax1
February 2nd, 2008
at 5:00am
Windows XP displays “Disk Error” message during initial setup, what did I do wrong?? .in apples page >> Important: Do not use the option named “Leave the current file system intact (no changes)”.
tcumaniac2010
February 12th, 2008
at 2:05pm
the boot camp instructions say not to choose”leave the current file system intact” but to choose FAT or NTFS according to the size of ur partition
cameraking360
April 19th, 2008
at 12:33pm
Hey… I have a regular macbook (black 160 GB). I partitioned my hard drive and when i put my windows install disk in, it loads everything necessary for windows. It tells me to press the Enter key to start the Windows setup. When I do this, my macbook’s keyboard doesn’t respond…
Can someone please give me feedback!?!?!?!
GhostXoP
May 19th, 2008
at 9:38am
nothing will happen if you delete an unknown partition? or will it? its not EISA
GhostXoP
May 19th, 2008
at 9:38am
nothing will happen if you delete an unknown partition? or will it? its not EISA
GhostXoP
May 19th, 2008
at 9:38am
nothing will happen if you delete an unknown partition? or will it? its not EISA
GhostXoP
May 19th, 2008
at 9:38am
nothing will happen if you delete an unknown partition? or will it? its not EISA
CoachezCardz
May 23rd, 2008
at 1:42pm
GET UBUNTU, It’s Grrrrreat!!
jsnmud
May 29th, 2008
at 1:05am
thanks chris
Katie
July 16th, 2008
at 9:23pm
I really wish I had watched this before I ran boot camp, ruined my harddrive, and took it into the Apple Store to get it fixed.
Thanks anyway. <3 I’m about to try again, so I watched this video a few times first just to make sure.
McSimmons
August 17th, 2008
at 8:57pm
You actually got the last step wrong Chris. You have to format the partition (not leave it intact). It states this in the instructions.
Chris L
March 12th, 2009
at 11:37pm
Mac OS X can read and write to NTFS with a free third party utility. All you need is MacFUSE and NTFS-3G after MacFUSE is installed. Linux ext2 filesystem can also be both read and written to using Ext2FS for MacFUSE.
I have no idea why these utilities aren’t more common, they are a Godsend when needing to access Windows and Linux data in a pinch.