Re: Advice Sought: Installing Win Xp on a Macbook Pro using Boot Camp

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

Hi Rick,

OSX can be set up on a very small partition indeed. 

I've got a dual boot setup on my MacBook, the entire internal drive is 
only 80GB. 

OSX has a very small footprint, Apple recommend a minimum of just 7GB..!

With a 500GB drive you could safely partition 493GB to XP, but I'd 
recommend giving OSX something more generous, for the eventuality that you 
find something useful on OSX.

-Chuck



Sent from my iPad Nano

On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I just got a secondary internal hard drive (500g) for my
> Mac Book Pro
> 
> *Model Name:    MacBook Pro
>  Model Identifier:    MacBookPro3,1
>  Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
>  Processor Speed:    2.6 GHz
>  Number Of Processors:    1
>  Total Number Of Cores:    2
>  L2 Cache:    4 MB
>  Memory:    2 GB
>  Bus Speed:    800 MHz
>  Boot ROM Version:    MBP31.0070.B07*
> 
> What I would love to do is to install Win XP Pro Service Pack 2 onto 
> this harddrive using Boot Camp
> along with OS X on a separate and, hopefully, very small partition.
> 
> The goal is to have as large a partition possible for Win XP and as 
> small a partition as possible for OSX.
> 
> I've discovered that swapping out harddrives is very simple and takes 
> very little time, so I have a 320gb HD
> running OSX on one harddrive as a back up.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice for me in terms of what the smallest 
> partition I can get away with for a
> very, very stripped down version of OSX (mostly for e-mail and simple 
> browsing)?
> 
> I'm very nervous about doing this,  but I think it will be the perfect 
> solution for me (and save me hundreds of dollars that
> I just don't have now by not having to go out and buy a Win XP exclusive 
> laptop).
> 
> Just so you know, my mind's made up about wanting to use WIN XP (mostly 
> because of the presence of FL Studio Pro, Vegas Video, Sony Sound Forge 
> and
> Sony Acid)  so please don't try to dissuade me from my course for all 
> the typical Mac-centric reasons that people tend to have.
> I KNOW it's virus free and runs really simply and elegantly compared to 
> WIN XP.    I still want to do this in this fashion.
> 
> I just need to figure out how to do this if anyone has any experience 
> with it.
> 
> Thanks so much for all of your advice in advance.  I really appreciate 
> it.
> 
> yours,   Rick Walker
>