Extra partitions with bootcamp

[PaulMBP]

Hi,

Im a long term windows user and new-ish to Mac.

Im thinking of getting a Mac with a 1TB hard drives as I will need to be running windows too using bootcamp.

As well as the windows partition I would also like another partition because, well, its windows and I will need to save my work somewhere safe. I dont really want to backup to an external drive as I want the work always with the Mac, and not to cloud in case I dont have connectivity.

Is this possible when windows is already installed via bootcamp?

 

[SteveJUAE]

Whilst what you wish to do is possible and possibly better to do before bootcamp and install W10 manually

I think you need to look more at security issues of disk encryption etc as your 3rd partition for backup maybe vulnerable

Alternatively you could look at parallels or even a utility that allows both OS's to read/write to each OS partition

 

[PaulMBP]

Im sure that when I originally set up botcamp I split the drive into 4 partitions, 1 for each OS, and each OS having a separate partition to save files to.

I think I remember bootcamp not liking that and would only install if there was just one extra partition.
Its been a while back since I did that and I was very new to Mac back then, so I'm happy to be told I'm wrong!

 

[Mike Boreham]

Does this thread help?

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...till-apply-to-bootcamp.2037884/#post-24411508