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  • Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions

    From Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 2 10:10:57 2010
    Hi all - My second computer is a Mac Mini, and I've used Boot Camp in the past to install Windows on it and dual-boot Windows and OS X. But what I'd like to do now is to give Windows 2 partitions. The reason is that I want to run my BBS on it, and I have my BBS configured to be on a D: drive rather than the C: drive. The problem is that setting up multiple Windows partitions on a Mac seems to be tricky. By default, Boot Camp will just create one partition for Windows, and it does some tricks to set up an MBR-style partition map that Windows will see (Mac, by default, uses a GUID-style partition map). I've noticed that if I try to change the partition scheme after I install Windows on the Mac, Windows won't be able to boot anymore. Does anyone know of a good way to safely make 2 partitions available for Windows on a Mac?

    Nightfox
  • From Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 2 19:52:51 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 02 2010 10:10:57

    BBS on it, and I have my BBS configured to be on a D: drive rather than the drive. The problem is that setting up multiple Windows partitions on a Mac seems to be tricky. By default, Boot Camp will just create one partition fo Windows, and it does some tricks to set up an MBR-style partition map that Windows will see (Mac, by default, uses a GUID-style partition map). I've

    I found a Windows command that I forgot about that provides a simple enough solution for now - the subst command, which lets you map a drive letter to a folder on the hard drive - for instance:
    subst D: C:\Data

    Nightfox
  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to Nightfox on Sun Oct 3 00:48:32 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 02 2010 07:52 pm

    I found a Windows command that I forgot about that provides a simple enough solution for now - the subst command, which lets you map a drive letter to a folder on the hard drive - for instance:
    subst D: C:\Data

    Duh! I should have thought of that. I've used that command often enough myself...lol. I was racking my brain for an hour or two earlier as I was cleaning house trying to figure something out for ya, but it's often the simplest solutions that work out the best. :)

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  • From Nightfox to Dreamer on Sun Oct 3 09:08:56 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Dreamer to Nightfox on Sun Oct 03 2010 00:48:32

    subst D: C:\Data

    Duh! I should have thought of that. I've used that command often enough myself...lol. I was racking my brain for an hour or two earlier as I was cleaning house trying to figure something out for ya, but it's often the simplest solutions that work out the best. :)

    :) I had forgotten about that command myself.. And for some reason, I thought I had used that command in plain DOS, but a site I found said that command is only available in Windows 2000 SP4 and up. Not sure where I had seen that before.. And unfortunately, it looks like the subst command has to be run each time the system boots, and if an external hard drive is plugged in when the system boots, that drive will be assigned D: rather than what I want with my subst.. but subst is a solution that looks like it will work anyway..

    Nightfox
  • From Dreamer@VERT/SETXBBS to Nightfox on Sun Oct 3 16:01:43 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Nightfox to Dreamer on Sun Oct 03 2010 09:08 am

    :) I had forgotten about that command myself.. And for some reason, I thoug I had used that command in plain DOS, but a site I found said that command i only available in Windows 2000 SP4 and up. Not sure where I had seen that before.. And unfortunately, it looks like the subst command has to be run e time the system boots, and if an external hard drive is plugged in when the system boots, that drive will be assigned D: rather than what I want with my subst.. but subst is a solution that looks like it will work anyway..

    *nod* I always swear I'd used it in the 90s. Could be there was a third party utility, or an unsupported internal Microsoft hack back then. Maybe 4dos?

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  • From Nightfox to Dreamer on Sun Oct 3 21:19:02 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Dreamer to Nightfox on Sun Oct 03 2010 16:01:43

    subst.. but subst is a solution that looks like it will work anyway..

    *nod* I always swear I'd used it in the 90s. Could be there was a third par utility, or an unsupported internal Microsoft hack back then. Maybe 4dos?

    I found another site that said it was available in MS-DOS 3.1x and above.. so, I guess it had been there for a while.

    Nightfox
  • From art@VERT/FATCATS to Nightfox on Mon Oct 11 18:50:14 2010
    Re: Dual-booting Windows on Mac with 3 partitions
    By: Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 02 2010 10:10:57

    Hey Nightfox,

    Hi all - My second computer is a Mac Mini, and I've used Boot Camp in the
    to install Windows on it and dual-boot Windows and OS X. But what I'd like do now is to give Windows 2 partitions. The reason is that I want to run my

    Depending on which Windows you want to install, I believe you can sub-partition the partition prepared for Windows by Boot Camp. This can be done during initial stages of Windows Vista/Server 2008/7 installation, if I remember things correctly.

    That may be an alternative to the subst solution already posted. Good luck.

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