I have a 2.4Ghz Core Due Intel Macbook with 4GB of Ram. I was running XP in bootcamp with 5GB and decided to delete the partition and reinstall with 32GB. When I put in windows, the old partition was still there with just 200MB. Strange...when I tried to install, the system would get as far as copying folders, restart, and then go back to the same point, in an infinite loop. Stupidly, I selected NTSF for the format rather than FAT, and then I just got a blank screen.
I restarted with Mac, and when I tries to re-delete with bootcamp it told me it couldn't. It said I had to backup my data, reformat my whole drive to mac joural format and start from scratch.
As a last resort, I tried installing windows via parallels...and it worked perfectly! It used the same partition and everything.
But I noticed that parallels was a lot slower than it had been before. I checked system diagnostics, and only half of my 4GB of Ram is active. 2.2 GB are inactive, even when the system needs it. I know that parallels isn't at fault because its set to use as much as the whole 4GB my system has.
I think bootcamp is allocating the ram for the partition, but then not making use of it. Is there any way to get it back besides reformatting my whole computer?
I restarted with Mac, and when I tries to re-delete with bootcamp it told me it couldn't. It said I had to backup my data, reformat my whole drive to mac joural format and start from scratch.
As a last resort, I tried installing windows via parallels...and it worked perfectly! It used the same partition and everything.
But I noticed that parallels was a lot slower than it had been before. I checked system diagnostics, and only half of my 4GB of Ram is active. 2.2 GB are inactive, even when the system needs it. I know that parallels isn't at fault because its set to use as much as the whole 4GB my system has.
I think bootcamp is allocating the ram for the partition, but then not making use of it. Is there any way to get it back besides reformatting my whole computer?