Dual Booting

[Leezy]

Hi guys,

Ive been staring at the Apple store for a few days now because I do want to try something new (I need a new toy! ) and im thinking of delving into an apple mac possibly a mac book air.

But I was wondering if I should try the OS first and set up a dual boot with Win7 and Snow leopard or whatever its called.

Im currently running windows on a 500gb Caviar Black with a F1 1TB for storage. Is a dual boot easy to set up? The set up I'm hoping for is format the Caviar Black into 2 halves and have 250 for windows 7 and 250 for the Mac OS (I know its not 250 exact just making it simple).

is this possible? and if it is can I access my storage drive from both OS's? say can I Boot into whichever I fancy and then access any of my music/video from the F1 on either? I would obviously still need windows to have my steam library on and to play games on. And I could jump into the Mac OS whenever I was just browsing or what not.

Hopefully that made sense..

Thanks

 

[robinbredin]

Leezy
Dual Booting
Hi guys,

Ive been staring at the Apple store for a few days now because I do want to try something new (I need a new toy! ) and im thinking of delving into an apple mac possibly a mac book air.

But I was wondering if I should try the OS first and set up a dual boot with Win7 and Snow leopard or whatever its called.

Im currently running windows on a 500gb Caviar Black with a F1 1TB for storage. Is a dual boot easy to set up? The set up I'm hoping for is format the Caviar Black into 2 halves and have 250 for windows 7 and 250 for the Mac OS (I know its not 250 exact just making it simple).

is this possible? and if it is can I access my storage drive from both OS's? say can I Boot into whichever I fancy and then access any of my music/video from the F1 on either? I would obviously still need windows to have my steam library on and to play games on. And I could jump into the Mac OS whenever I was just browsing or what not.

Hopefully that made sense..

Thanks

You can duel boot, as long as you install apple first to keep it legal, it has Boot Camp on the disc which will help you. But, you will run into problems with drivers for your IBM PC. But, you are not allowed to install it in VM mode within Windows, as this is known as Hackintosh. Apple are releasing their new OS next month, called Lion , would not mind testing that.

 

[Leezy]

yeah I watched the WWDC 2011 on youtube with the new OS, IOS 5 and iCloud and it just made me want a mac lol n thats what I wanted to try out the Lion OS and Ide even buy it if I could do what I was planning in the OP. At $29.99 It wouldnt be no miether.

Maybe if its a ballache, ill just buy a mac book