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whistler222

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I got a 750 Samsung F1 drive waiting.. i would like to put oSX on here, and use it for mac..
use the stock 320gb for windows vista

how do i do this?
remove stock drive, plug into slot 2
plug f1 drive into slot 1
reinstall osx on slot 1
format slot 2 (stock drive), and install vista
?

any more specific ideas?
also, after removing/reinserting the harddrive, how do i get mac to boot to the osx install disc?
 
I got a 750 Samsung F1 drive waiting.. i would like to put oSX on here, and use it for mac..
use the stock 320gb for windows vista

how do i do this?
remove stock drive, plug into slot 2
plug f1 drive into slot 1
reinstall osx on slot 1
format slot 2 (stock drive), and install vista
?

any more specific ideas?
also, after removing/reinserting the harddrive, how do i get mac to boot to the osx install disc?

There is no need to move the stock hard drive. Just put the new one in another slot, format it and install OS X (and set the new drive as the startup drive). Then either reformat the stock drive, or just use bootcamp to partition it, and install Vista.
 
I could be wrong, but I don't think the Mac Pro cares which drive you install OS X on. It may matter which OS boots by default.

I have the 320g Mac OS X in drive one, an 80g windows in drive two, two 500g HSPF drives in drive 3 and 4. If that helps.

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I have a question: I was thinking of splitting my 750 F1 in half, with the first half for Vista and the second half as a partition both OSX and Vista can easily read. So my question is, what file format can Vista and OSX easily read? :)
 
I have a question: I was thinking of splitting my 750 F1 in half, with the first half for Vista and the second half as a partition both OSX and Vista can easily read. So my question is, what file format can Vista and OSX easily read? :)

NTFS. You won't be able to write to it in OS X though.
 
I didn´t want to start a new thread, my question seems to fit the thread title:

I´m a bit confused about what kind of harddrive I need to buy for the new Mac Pro. In the manual it sais "SATA 3Gb/s"

When I look on the web for harddrives, it sais for example: "SATA-300" or "S-ATA II 300MB/s"
I assume, that´s alright. But I wanted to ask any way.


I intend to buy two of this one and put them into my Mac Pro in software RAID 0 configuration, sorry the page is in German:
http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-T166-S...Y/ref=pd_sbs_ce?ie=UTF8&qid=1202393160&sr=1-4
 
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