Installing BootCamp *after* Parallels?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by Khoji, Jun 8, 2007.

  1. Khoji

    Khoji Member

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    I have a Mac Pro 2.66 tower with 3GB of RAM and have just upgraded Parallels to 3.0 -- so far, everything looks excellent. My original BootCamp installation got trashed when I made a mistake with an early beta of Parallels and I never bothered to reinstall it. Now I want to set up BootCamp again, but before I do I just wanted to check whether there are any problems or potential pitfalls I should be aware of.

    Is anyone aware of issues that need to be considered when installing BootCamp after Parallels? TIA :)
     
  2. PrinceZordar

    PrinceZordar Member

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    Shouldn't matter, since Bootcamp and Parallels are on two different partitions. Install XP on your Bootcamp drive, get it working with the Bootcamp 1.3 drivers, then when you're happy with it boot to OS X and run the New VM wizard in Parallels. Select Custom and then Bootcamp, it should go fine.

    -Z
     
  3. Khoji

    Khoji Member

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    Thanks for the heads-up! ;)
     

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