Raxco FD-ISR on a Mac?

[silver0066]

I do not like the bloat in Vista. Will the old version work from Raxco work with XP on a Mac?

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> I do not like the bloat in Vista. Will the old version work from Raxco work with XP on a Mac? <-QUOTE}

Depends on the file system. Is it MS's NTFS?

[silver0066]

{QUOTE-> Depends on the file system. Is it MS's NTFS? <-QUOTE}Hi Pete, I am not sure. I am thinking about getting a new notebook in the next month or two and I have not looked into the Mac file system. I just know that you can run XP on a Mac. I was not aware that you had to use a different file system. I didn't even think of that. Can you run XP on a Mac using NTFS? Silver

[lucas1985]

Macs use the HFS+ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus) filesystem. You can run XP in a Mac using VMs or BootCamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)). Only VMs allows you to use NTFS as the filesystem.

[aigle]

{QUOTE-> You can run XP in a Mac using VMs or BootCamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)). Only VMs allows you to use NTFS as the filesystem. <-QUOTE}
As far as I know, these two are the only ways to run XP with OSX( VM or BootCamp). Am I true?

[lucas1985]

That's correct :)

[silver0066]

{QUOTE-> Macs use the HFS+ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus) filesystem. You can run XP in a Mac using VMs or BootCamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)). Only VMs allows you to use NTFS as the filesystem. <-QUOTE}Thanks Lucas, Is VMs the same as Vmware or is it something different? I already have VmWare's Workstation.

[lucas1985]

VMs mean Virtual Machines. VMware (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/), Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/) or VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) will work fine.

[Longboard]

{QUOTE-> I already have VmWare's Workstation. <-QUOTE}
HAs to be VMare Fusion to set up VMs on the Mac.
See Lucas's link above..
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=vmwarefusion

[silver0066]

{QUOTE-> VMs mean Virtual Machines. VMware (http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/), Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/) or VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) will work fine. <-QUOTE}Thank you. I will look into these VMs.

[wilbertnl]

Excuse my ignorance, but I always thought that when using Bootcamp Windows would be installed with native NTFS in it's own partition?

[lucas1985]

I don't know. The Wikipedia article about BootCamp didn't give me that impression (native NTFS in its own partition)

[wilbertnl]

From the Bootcamp Setup Guide (http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup.pdf):

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I realize that the boot record of the partition might be different and incompatible. I would not know that. But I think that I would give it a try if I had a Mac.

[lucas1985]

Thanks wilbertnl :) So, NTFS is available in BootCamp.
{QUOTE-> I realize that the boot record of the partition might be different and incompatible. <-QUOTE}
That's another possible problem.

[Rata]

Two cents worth... from a newbie

Yes.. You can run XP, Vista on a native NTFS partition on the latest Intel Macbooks.

Problems with boot record.. The first issue is the disk (a 2 1/2" SATA drive on the Macbook Pro) comes formated as GUID (or GPT: same thing). This is a new standard to allow much larger disk sizes, and is not compatible with the boot record found in a MBR disk. The disk can be switched to MBR and formated with Vista's version of NTFS but limits access to Mac OS install.

I too want to get ISR working on a mac (cf: recent post) but having a few problems.

Bootcamp.. is really two things; 1) a boot manager and 2) a set of device drivers to allow a windows install to access the apple hardware (keyboard, wifi, camera etc...)

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