A few Boot Camp questions
I have had my iMac for almost a month now. I've found that I only need Windows for a few programs and my girlfriend needs Windows too for some of her CD rom's.
I was going to get Parallels Desktop 8 for the convenience of not needing to re-boot the iMac when I wanted to run a Windows program. But with me not needing to use the Windows programs, CD rom's often I thought I could save myself the price of Parallels Desktop.
I thought I could at least give Boot Camp a go and see how I find it.
I was wondering what amount of space is it recommended to partition for Boot Camp based on the below?
I would be installing Windows 7, HP printing software (for my girlfriends card making CD roms which only run on Windows) and perhaps another 4 small programs.
If I created the Boot Camp partition and then decided later that I either wanted to increase or decrease this partition, is it posssible without wiping the Boot Camp partition?
Is there any performance increase or decrease by using Boot Camp instead of Parallels Desktop 8 and vice versa?
If I took a Time Machine backup would the Boot Camp partition be backed up too?
When I took a clone of my system with Carbon Copy Cloner, would this backup the Boot Camp partition too?
Before I started I would take a Clone of my system with Carbon Copy Cloner and also a Time Machine backup, in case something got messed up 🙂
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iPad (3rd Gen) 32GB iPhone 5 32GB