need help - partitioning for bootcamp and additional partition
I'm having real problems getting bootcamp to work properly with leopard and another partition I wanna create to swap info between os and share media/files. I know not everybody does it this way, but I feel more confortable this way. Also windows can sometimes come in handy, specially in games.
What I had b4 leopard was a 3 partition system; osx, vista and saved partition. This is a macbook with 80gb hd. I reformated the hd completely during installation of leopard, installed it and then updated the system before trying to get windows working. But... When I try to use bootcamp for partition it only allows 2, if I try to use diskutil it won't partition 3 if one is vfat either. So instead I partitioned with bootcamp in a 2 scheme, installed windows, updated it and then tried to resize the partition in osx... Of course it didn't work, windows became totally unbootable -- said "cannot find operating system or ntlr" (or close to that). Also if I try to use bootcamp to start windows setup it says it wasn't partitioned with bootcamp so that won't start.
What I want right now is osx leopard taking 20-25gb (journaled), windows xp taking 20-25gb (ntfs) and a saved partition taking remainder (prob vfat). Then I'd prob install ntfs/fuse in osx in case I accidentily left something on the desktop or had issues with windows and wanted to backup files/settings. I was wondering if someone has a similar partition scheme they can tell me how they did it cause right now I've formatted so many times it's beginning to get on my nerves frankly. I'm not sure if it's just an issue with partition table / ---, partition setup or just something I'm doing wrong here so any help or suggestions are welcome.
Message was edited by: freeballer
What I had b4 leopard was a 3 partition system; osx, vista and saved partition. This is a macbook with 80gb hd. I reformated the hd completely during installation of leopard, installed it and then updated the system before trying to get windows working. But... When I try to use bootcamp for partition it only allows 2, if I try to use diskutil it won't partition 3 if one is vfat either. So instead I partitioned with bootcamp in a 2 scheme, installed windows, updated it and then tried to resize the partition in osx... Of course it didn't work, windows became totally unbootable -- said "cannot find operating system or ntlr" (or close to that). Also if I try to use bootcamp to start windows setup it says it wasn't partitioned with bootcamp so that won't start.
What I want right now is osx leopard taking 20-25gb (journaled), windows xp taking 20-25gb (ntfs) and a saved partition taking remainder (prob vfat). Then I'd prob install ntfs/fuse in osx in case I accidentily left something on the desktop or had issues with windows and wanted to backup files/settings. I was wondering if someone has a similar partition scheme they can tell me how they did it cause right now I've formatted so many times it's beginning to get on my nerves frankly. I'm not sure if it's just an issue with partition table / ---, partition setup or just something I'm doing wrong here so any help or suggestions are welcome.
Message was edited by: freeballer
Intel Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
