boot camp help

[n0greenfx]

i ran boot camp so i could install vista on my mac.. i setup a 15gig partition with boot camp assistant and then inserted the vista cd. it booted into the vista install and then asked me to pick a partition. i figuered it was the partiion called boot camp that was 15gig. the vista install said it can only be installed on ntfs and wanted me to format. from what i know mac cant read ntfs so i didnt format and quit the installed. now the mac boots into os x even when the vista cd is inserted. i try to run boot camp assistant and it tells me the startup disk is not supported. so basically i have now two partitions on my hdd...

this one

Name : disk0s3
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s3
Mount Point : Not mounted
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:3
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 49AD55BF-3BB1-351C-8CF5-FB2AF04139CF
Capacity : 15.2 GB (16,331,620,352 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 3

and

Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s2
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 4E73ACAE-20C2-34C9-8DCE-08C34778FEB0
Capacity : 58.9 GB (63,216,549,888 Bytes)
Free Space : 40.3 GB (43,249,692,672 Bytes)
Used : 18.6 GB (19,966,857,216 Bytes)
Number of Files : 597,967
Number of Folders : 148,309
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 2



how do i get rid of that 15gig partition so i can start fresh on my vista install i think that is the problem...and when i use boot camp the partition called boot camp should be the one i use to install windows on rght? but why does it ask me to format

 

[dukebound85]

run bootcamp assistant to get rid of windows partition

 

[ayeying]

hold the "C" key when you turn on the system. This will cause the system to boot CD first.

 

[gloss]

And also, reformat the damn partition. 🙂

 

[dukebound85]

vista needs to be ntfs formatted fyi. not mac journaled

 

[n0greenfx]

will i be able to transfer information for the vista partition to the os x partition and vise versa. if it s ntfs formated

 

[dukebound85]

osx can read ntfs but not right

windows wont see mac at all


fat32 will let mac right and read it but windows still wont see it. buut i think vista requires ntfs

 

[ayeying]

Vista only runs on NTFS, not FAT32.

OSX can only read NTFS, not write into it.

With me, in order to share my files with my windows partition, I just use Parallels when I don't need to reboot into boot camp, set up a network drive, and use offline files to save stuff I need in Windows. Its a little waste of space but it works.

 

[n0greenfx]

yea vista didnt give me and option on what format i want so vista and mac really can comunicate to well. mac can only read ntfs if im not mistaken correct?

 

[dukebound85]

yea vista didnt give me and option on what format i want so vista and mac really can comunicate to well. mac can only read ntfs if im not mistaken correct?

that is correct

 

[n0greenfx]

ok got vista installed and was rather unhappy with how it ran and felt on my macbook so i deleted what was in the bottcamp partition my question now is. on my mac hdd there are two partitions one with mac osx on it the other with nothing on it how can i merge the two partitions together so they are all one partion?

this is what the two partitions look like

Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s2
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 4E73ACAE-20C2-34C9-8DCE-08C34778FEB0
Capacity : 47.9 GB (51,405,389,824 Bytes)
Free Space : 29.3 GB (31,437,340,672 Bytes)
Used : 18.6 GB (19,968,049,152 Bytes)
Number of Files : 597,976
Number of Folders : 148,311
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 2




Name : BOOTCAMP
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s3
Mount Point : /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
File System : MS-DOS (FAT32)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:3
Writable : Yes
Capacity : 26.3 GB (28,276,998,144 Bytes)
Free Space : 26.3 GB (28,262,252,544 Bytes)
Used : 896 KB (917,504 Bytes)
Number of Files : 0
Number of Folders : 0
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 3


what i want is all the empty space on the bootcamp partition to be added to the mac hd partition

 

[JNB]

Launch BC Assistant, select "Create or remove...", click continue, follow the instructions. Real simple. It'll return all the space to your preexisting Mac partition.

BTW, we don't need the detailed listings of the drives. That's pretty standard.

 

[n0greenfx]

awesome thank you very much