XP on a MacBook
Phew. I've spent most of today trying to get XP installed on my MacBook, and have finally done it. Once you've partitioned the hard drive it is a breeze. Once you've partitioned the hard drive. It kept telling me that it couldn't move some files, and that to solve this I needed to reformat the drive as a Mac OS X Extended (journalled) drive. Which is fine except that it already was a Mac OS X Extended (journalled) drive.In the end, the following worked:
- Create a bootable backup of the Mac incase it all went the way of the pear.
- Remove all large files and applications (including a "sleep" image that was sat on my drive). This was made easier by the free tool "Disk Inventory X", a great tool allowing you to visually analyze the contents of the drive.
- Use the Mac's Disk Utility to delete free space.
- Use another free program - Onyx - to optimize the system and carry out certain maintenance tasks.
Finally, with 60 gigs free disc space, it allowed me to create a 5 gig partition for Windows and I was away. I wonder if I'll ever use it.
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