Bootcamp - dual partitions

[bigvb@hotmail.c]

i currently have 1 XP partition of 60GB on my uMBP, and the other 260GB is used for OSX.

I now want to partition off 80GB for a Windows 7 OS. Bootcamp only seems to allow 1 partition, solution???

[Tallest Skil]

Use Disk Utility to make another partition, boot from the disk, and choose that partition.

[bigvb@hotmail.c]

Use Disk Utility to make another partition, boot from the disk, and choose that partition.

that was my thinking, in DU, under partition i can see my Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP partitions.

if i select, Mac and click '+' to add a partition, it will only let me format as "Mac OS Extended Journaled" i want NTFS

[MacDawg]

You will need to install NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) to format NTFS

But it really isn't that simple
There are triple boot threads around here that will help
MRoogle (http://mroogle.edesignuk.com/) will help you find them

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[Bill Gates]

Make another partition in Disk Utility. The format doesn't matter.

Install rEFIt.

Run rEFIt's partition utility, which runs a program called 'gptsync' which will sync the GPT table with the MBR table.

Install Windows.

[gugucom]

i currently have 1 XP partition of 60GB on my uMBP, and the other 260GB is used for OSX.

I now want to partition off 80GB for a Windows 7 OS. Bootcamp only seems to allow 1 partition, solution???

You cannot do this! You can have a maximum of 3 visible partitions on a drive with GUID partition table. The last partition can be a Windows partition. You cannot have more than one Windows partition on a GUID partitioned drive.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/GUID_Partition_Table_Scheme.svg/275px-GUID_Partition_Table_Scheme.svg.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table something to read.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2006/tn2166.html