Vista bootcamp and Fusion vs Paralles

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by jconlinjr, Apr 17, 2007.

  1. jconlinjr

    jconlinjr Bit poster

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    On my Mac Book pro I have a bootcamp installed with Vista it is formated NTFS.

    When I put the Vista dvd in it did not give me choice as to fat or ntfs.

    When I try paralles to see the boot camp partition it does not, I would guess since the format it ntfs.

    Fusion has no probles with it and boots up Vista just fine, of course I do not get aero but other than that it is fine.

    So the question is when will paralles get support for ntfs.

    Or I am doing something wrong.

    If paralles does not support ntfs it is a feature that is needed.

    John
     
  2. wingdo

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    Parallels supports NTFS in boot camp. They do not support Vista in Boot Camp (at least not officially although some have gotten it to work).
     
  3. jconlinjr

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    I am not knocking parallels, I have been using it for a long time. I purchased it way back for the discounted price and have been amazed with it, but not supporting ntfs with vista is dissapointing.

    So for now I will be using fusion for vista.

    I am sure that someday they will support ntfs for vista, even though it has been some time since a update has been posted.

    I do remember not that long ago that updates came out often.
     
  4. paragoat

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    I have searched these forums for a while and cannot find the non offical steps to fix this issue. Does anyone know the thread? I jumped the gun and upgraded my BootCamp XP to Vista.
    Thanks
     
  5. Eru Ithildur

    Eru Ithildur Forum Maven

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    Plug-in these two words into the search:
    VISTA
    BootCamp

    It's number five on the list...
    "Vista BootCamp Anybody?"

    Not that hard.
     
  6. paragoat

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    Thank you, for some reason searching on "vista" " bootcamp" and "1.2b" returned no results. I will be less specific in my search criteria in the future.
     
  7. Eru Ithildur

    Eru Ithildur Forum Maven

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    Hey, at least you used the search...
     

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