Hardware:
Mac Pro - Standard Configuration
2 WD2500JS 250GB hard drives (1 Apple OEM, the other OEM from Newegg.com)
What I wanted:
2 250gb hard drives, one as my main/boot drive for OS X, the other partitioned for Windows XP and storage. I wanted to be able to install windows on a partition that was located on a second hard drive, I also wanted to use Parallels to access and run windows off of that same partition. But Parallels does not let you choose a 'Boot Camp' partition that isn't a partition of your OS X boot drive.
Problems:
I tried pulling the main boot drive and installing/partitioning the second drive manually, but after reinserting the OS X boot drive it would not let me format the 2nd (storage) partition (to something useful while in OS X), and I was stuck with a 200GB NTFS partition that I could not use. Also, I could not select the windows partition as 'boot camp' under parallels.
After that I tried leaving the partition as unused space, and formatting from OSX but could no longer boot to the windows partition.
I also tried creating the two partitions manually with Disk Utility, but the windows installer kept giving disk errors. (FAT32 and NTFS alike)
SOLUTION:
I partitioned the extra drive as 1 mac partition,
Next I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my entire OS X boot drive to it.
I then removed my OS X boot drive from the computer (to prevent accidentally effing it up)
After that I booted to the freshly cloned drive.
Next I ran the boot camp assistant and created a 45gb partition for windows.
I ran the windows installation (formatted as NTFS).
I rebooted in to OS X (clone) and used Parallels to created a new virtual machine that used the boot camp partition.
Next I shut down and reinserted the OS X boot drive and booted in to it.
After that I copied the new virtual machine (that I had just created to use the boot camp partition) to my OS X boot drive and opened it with Parallels (see notes below on how that went).
Finally, I used Tinkertool to show hidden files, and deleted all of the contents of my cloned partition, and renamed it "storage" (i did not want to format the partition, as not to risk damaging any part of the partition scheme on the drive, and potentially put the windows installation at risk.)
NOTES:
When you create the new VM and link it to your boot camp partition Be sure to use a unique name, not the default name. I just added Boot Camp at the end of the name.
When the virtual machine is opened it asks for the administrators password, i am not sure if this is normal behavior when booting the Boot Camp partition in Parallels.
Also, rather than cloning an existing OS X partition, a fresh install would probably work too, but rather than doing a fresh install, downloading boot camp, and installing parallels, i just cloned.
Mac Pro - Standard Configuration
2 WD2500JS 250GB hard drives (1 Apple OEM, the other OEM from Newegg.com)
What I wanted:
2 250gb hard drives, one as my main/boot drive for OS X, the other partitioned for Windows XP and storage. I wanted to be able to install windows on a partition that was located on a second hard drive, I also wanted to use Parallels to access and run windows off of that same partition. But Parallels does not let you choose a 'Boot Camp' partition that isn't a partition of your OS X boot drive.
Problems:
I tried pulling the main boot drive and installing/partitioning the second drive manually, but after reinserting the OS X boot drive it would not let me format the 2nd (storage) partition (to something useful while in OS X), and I was stuck with a 200GB NTFS partition that I could not use. Also, I could not select the windows partition as 'boot camp' under parallels.
After that I tried leaving the partition as unused space, and formatting from OSX but could no longer boot to the windows partition.
I also tried creating the two partitions manually with Disk Utility, but the windows installer kept giving disk errors. (FAT32 and NTFS alike)
SOLUTION:
I partitioned the extra drive as 1 mac partition,
Next I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my entire OS X boot drive to it.
I then removed my OS X boot drive from the computer (to prevent accidentally effing it up)
After that I booted to the freshly cloned drive.
Next I ran the boot camp assistant and created a 45gb partition for windows.
I ran the windows installation (formatted as NTFS).
I rebooted in to OS X (clone) and used Parallels to created a new virtual machine that used the boot camp partition.
Next I shut down and reinserted the OS X boot drive and booted in to it.
After that I copied the new virtual machine (that I had just created to use the boot camp partition) to my OS X boot drive and opened it with Parallels (see notes below on how that went).
Finally, I used Tinkertool to show hidden files, and deleted all of the contents of my cloned partition, and renamed it "storage" (i did not want to format the partition, as not to risk damaging any part of the partition scheme on the drive, and potentially put the windows installation at risk.)
NOTES:
When you create the new VM and link it to your boot camp partition Be sure to use a unique name, not the default name. I just added Boot Camp at the end of the name.
When the virtual machine is opened it asks for the administrators password, i am not sure if this is normal behavior when booting the Boot Camp partition in Parallels.
Also, rather than cloning an existing OS X partition, a fresh install would probably work too, but rather than doing a fresh install, downloading boot camp, and installing parallels, i just cloned.