Dec 29, 2015 - Windows uses NTFS and Mac OS uses HFS and they're incompatible with each other. You can format the drive from either the Mac or the Windows machine. Best thing if you want to use an external hard drive for both time machine (on mac) and also for use. Thank you very much, this is very helpful.
Do You Actually Need to Use Boot Camp? RELATED: Before you install Windows, stop and think about whether or not Boot Camp is the best choice for your needs. There are a couple of drawbacks to consider. When you use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac, you’ll need to re-partition your drive, which is going to take up quite a bit of your available drive space. Since storage on a Mac is fairly expensive, it’s something you should really think about. In addition, you’ll need to reboot every time you want to use Windows, and reboot again when you want to switch back to macOS. The benefit of Boot Camp, of course, is that you’re running Windows directly on the hardware, so it’ll be a lot faster than a virtual machine. If all you need to do is run a few Windows applications on your Mac, and those applications don’t a lot of resources (like 3D games), you might consider using a virtual machine like (there’s a free trial), or to run that software instead.
The vast majority of the time you don’t actually need to use Boot Camp, and you’d be better off using a virtual machine. If, however, you’re looking to play Windows games on your Mac, Boot Camp might be a good choice. RELATED: For most people, though,. It’s something we use at How-To Geek every single day for testing software and running Windows. The integration with macOS amazingly well done, and the speed blows away Virtualbox. In the long run, the price is well worth it. You can even use Parallels to load your Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine while you are in macOS, giving you the best of both worlds.
What Version of Windows Can I Run? Which version of Windows you can run depends on your Mac: recent models support only Windows 10, while some older Macs only work with older versions of Windows. Here’s a quick outline, along with links to Apple’s official lists of supported models. Windows 10 is supported on. Windows 8.1 is supported on most, with some exceptions.
Windows 7 is supported, for the most part, and you’ll need an even older Mac to run Windows Vista or XP. Note that Macs can only run 64-bit, non-Enterprise versions of Windows. RELATED: To install Windows, you’ll need an ISO file of the installer. You can if you already have a product key, though. If you’re installing Windows 7, you’ll also need a USB drive at least 16GB in size for the installer and drivers. Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 do not any external drive for installation. How to Install Windows on Your Mac Ready to install Windows? It’s probably a good idea to before getting started, just in case.
Odds are nothing will go wrong, but any time you’re partitioning things there’s always a chance. Done? Let’s get started. You’ll use the Boot Camp Assistant application that comes on your Mac.
Open it by pressing Command+Space, typing Boot Camp, and pressing Enter. The Boot Camp Assistant will walk you through partitioning, downloading drivers, and starting the installer for you. Click “Continue” and you’ll be asked which ISO file you’d like to use and how big you’d like your Windows partition to be. RELATED: How you should allocate the space depends on how much space you want for your Windows system and how much space you want for your macOS system. If you want to resize your partitions after this process, you’ll need to use a third-party tool, so choose carefully now. Note that, if you’re installing Windows 7, the order here is slightly different: Boot Camp will first guide you through setting up your installer USB disk, then ask you about partitioning. When you’re ready, click “Install” and Boot Camp will start downloading drivers, which it calls “Windows support software.” The installer will also partition your disk, copy the installer to that partition, and place the drivers so they’ll run after installation.
You can keep using your Mac while all this is running, though things will slow down a lot during the partitioning phase. Eventually, your Mac will reboot and you’ll see the standard Windows installer.
Select the partition labeled BOOTCAMP if asked—do not install to any other partition, or you might end up removing macOS and losing all your data. (You did back up, right?) Windows will now finish installing normally. The Windows on-boarding process might ask you to connect to the Internet, but you won’t be able to do this without drivers: just skip these steps until you get to your desktop, at which point the Boot Camp installer will appear. Proceed with the installer to set up your drivers, and you should be all set! How to Boot Into Windows On Your Mac By default, your Mac will still boot to macOS.
To access Windows, you need to turn off your Mac, then turn it on while holding the Option key. You’ll be asked which drive you’d like to boot from. If you’d like to boot to Windows by default, you set this, or using the Boot Camp Control Panel in Windows. You’ll find this in your system tray after installing Windows, though you may have to click the Up arrow to find it. This control panel allows you to choose the default operating system your Mac boots to, as well as tweak keyboard and trackpad settings. While in Windows, the functions as the Windows key, while the Option key functions as the Alt key. If you have a Touch Bar, you’ll see a complete set of buttons, similar to the Extended Control Strip in macOS. To see the function keys (F1, F2, etc.) simply hold down the Fn key.
There’s no way to make this the default in Windows. How to Remove Windows From Your Mac If you want to remove Windows from your Mac and free up space, reboot into macOS and open the Boot Camp Assistant again. You’ll see the Restore Disk to a Single Volume option. Boot Camp Assistant will automatically remove Windows and expand the macOS partition for you, reclaiming all of that space.
Warning: This will delete all the files on your Windows partition, so be sure you have backup copies first!
It's the first time I install Ubuntu. I need some advise to plan a good partition strategy for a Ubuntu (12.04) + Windows7 (64bit) system. I have 1TB Hard disk, 8GB RAM. I'd like to have a big partition NTFS to share data between the two OS. I often use a lot of (big) apps.
(So my partition Widows C: must takes about 150GB) What is the partition size should I put for root and home? - 20GB?). /home (??? - 20GB?). /swap (16GB).
Windows (150GB). ShareDriver (NTFS Max Left Space) If I install and use a lot of apps, will the 20GB be too small for root and /home? Will it quickly be filled up over time? I've never used Ubuntu, so I have no ideas what is the reasonable numbers in my case. It's difficult to know these things in advance, of course, so even with the best planning you may need to make adjustments later. However, I'd recommend the following: You won't likely need a swap partition larger than 8 GB. You have room for it and it won't hurt, but it doesn't make much sense, either, so if I were you I'd keep /swap at 8 GB.
I've had my root partition at 30 GB for about a year, and I'm still using less than 10 GB of it. You might install larger programs than I do, so give yourself a buffer: I'd recommend 20 - 30 GB. As for the /home partition, that's where you'll store your data and files, including pictures, videos, projects, etc., whatever sorts of things you store and keep. I don't what sorts of things you keep, but in my case my pictures take up perhaps the largest share. Even so, having given myself lots of room (about 300 GB for /home), I have used only about 50 GB. You'll have to decide for yourself, but since you'll use a large NTFS partition to share data with Windows, you can probably get away with 30 - 60 GB for /home, with the knowledge that you might make adjustments later.
As far as space for Windows and its apps, etc., if you think you need 150 GB then that sounds fine. And the rest NTFS to share? That's fine, too. (Eventually you might want to revise that, but it's certainly fine at the beginning.) You didn't say whether or not you already have Windows installed on the drive, but I assume you do. Windows can sometimes get finicky when being resized. I would recommend resizing your Windows partition first from within Windows itself using the Windows administrative tools, and then you can create the Ubuntu partitions as you install it.
I've never needed more than 10GB for my root. I install a lot of packages too.
To be sure you can give it 15-20gb. Windows 7 with a few applications needs 60-70gb. If you want to install a little more give it 150gb. You said you need this much anyway;-) For games you'll eventually need a lot more. /home will be for all your personal files so it depends on how much you have. It also stores the properties of applications but that really isn't much. Even 1gb should be enough for those.
A rule for swap is twice the RAM size so 16gb are good. If you want to use suspend to disk you need at last as much as you have RAM because it is stored in the swap partition. So for that 8gb will be enough too. If you want to make partition of the hard disk. Then follow instructions given below. In Windows 8, on your desktop, right click on computer icon. Then, click on 'Manage' so it will open your computer management tab.
Click on 'Disk Management' now you will see two disks available there. Right click on (c:) drive and click on 'Shrink Volume' now you will see the new tab 'shrink C:'. There all the volumes given in MB. If you want to shrink 250GB then put 250000 into 'Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB' box then click on shrink button. After that, you will see your new disk with available space inside the black 'unallocated' box. This available disk space is not usable now.
Right click on that black box and click on 'New Simple Volume' button. Now you will see 'New Simple Volume Wizard' tab.
Click on 'Next' again click next now assign the drive letter as you want (the letters C & D are used already so these letters are not available there) and click on next button. Now, in the new tab in 'File System' box make it 'NTFS' and in 'Volume Label' box put name of the disk you want to name that disk(eg.
Hard disk) and click on next. Now you see your new disk created successfully. Now enjoy new disk with new space.