...however; it appears I can't.
Don't care about the sob story? Please go to the questions in bold at the end - thanks.
After my Dell Inspiron 6400 (henceforth known as the 'Pile of crap') finally died of hard drive failure a few months ago after much heartache and so many reinstallations of Windows I've lost count, I finally decided to get myself a Mac. I then had to wait a little longer for the Macbook Pro updates and my 15" MBP, 2.66 i7, 8GB, 500GB 7200rpm, Hi Res Antiglare finally arrived last Friday. I was thrilled; no more Windows BS - yaaay!!
The first thing I wanted to do was sync my Sony Ericsson Satio to the Mac and found out I can use iSync and The Missing Sync to look after all my phone data - yaaay!!
But it does not work properly without the latest firmware update on my phone - booo!!
I then discovered that the SE firmware update software for my phone only works on Windows - booo, hisss!!
So, I thought to myself, Mrs Zaqfalcon has her own Pile of crap, I can just use that to install the PC sync and firmware update software I can do the back up and update on that - yaaay!!
But; oh oohh Windows XP needs Service Pack 3 for that software and Mrs Zaqfalcon never does updates on anything "because they always go wrong!" "It worked fine on mine" I says "hmm, OK" she says - yaaay!!
Aaaaarrrgggghhh Blue Screen of Death Error "An attempt was made to execute non-executable memory". Hours spent recovering back to SP2, tears, shouting, madness - booo, hiisss, baaah, grrrr!! C*cking bloody Windows!!
So a new hard drive for the Pile of crap is required (assuming this will raise the dead) just to use my bloody phone - booo!!
But what's this I discover today? 'Bootcamp' you say? 'Fusion and Parallels' will wonders never cease!
So after much Googling, MRoogling and furrowing of brow I have a couple of questions of you kind and learned people.
At the moment I only really need to use Windows for the above phone issue and don't want to spend money on it. I have the Windows SP2 disc which came with the Pile of crap and will try using that in Bootcamp. I will then attempt to update to SP3.
I understand that there were previous issues with updating to SP3. Am I correct in understanding that these are now resolved by the latest iteration of Bootcamp? Any hints to make sure this goes smoothly please?
If I can't get SP2 / SP3 to work and I have to buy Windows 7, will an OEM version bought from a shop really work (this is what they are telling me if I also buy some hardware like some CDs) or do I need to buy the retail version?
As I said I'll just use Bootcamp for now but if I want to use Fusion or Parallels in the future can I just install it on top and use the already installed Windows with them? Or will I have to re-install Windows?
Am I right in thinking that accessing data through Mac OS X that has been added using Windows would only be possible if I were using Fusion or Parallels?
What about the data that was added with Bootcamp before I added Fusion or Parallels is this only accessible using the virtual Windows or in Mac OS X too?
Thanks very much for your help and assistance, I'm completely new to Mac and wasn't very good with Windows as atested by the above, so it is greatly appreciated.
Don't care about the sob story? Please go to the questions in bold at the end - thanks.
After my Dell Inspiron 6400 (henceforth known as the 'Pile of crap') finally died of hard drive failure a few months ago after much heartache and so many reinstallations of Windows I've lost count, I finally decided to get myself a Mac. I then had to wait a little longer for the Macbook Pro updates and my 15" MBP, 2.66 i7, 8GB, 500GB 7200rpm, Hi Res Antiglare finally arrived last Friday. I was thrilled; no more Windows BS - yaaay!!
The first thing I wanted to do was sync my Sony Ericsson Satio to the Mac and found out I can use iSync and The Missing Sync to look after all my phone data - yaaay!!
But it does not work properly without the latest firmware update on my phone - booo!!
I then discovered that the SE firmware update software for my phone only works on Windows - booo, hisss!!
So, I thought to myself, Mrs Zaqfalcon has her own Pile of crap, I can just use that to install the PC sync and firmware update software I can do the back up and update on that - yaaay!!
But; oh oohh Windows XP needs Service Pack 3 for that software and Mrs Zaqfalcon never does updates on anything "because they always go wrong!" "It worked fine on mine" I says "hmm, OK" she says - yaaay!!
Aaaaarrrgggghhh Blue Screen of Death Error "An attempt was made to execute non-executable memory". Hours spent recovering back to SP2, tears, shouting, madness - booo, hiisss, baaah, grrrr!! C*cking bloody Windows!!
So a new hard drive for the Pile of crap is required (assuming this will raise the dead) just to use my bloody phone - booo!!
But what's this I discover today? 'Bootcamp' you say? 'Fusion and Parallels' will wonders never cease!
So after much Googling, MRoogling and furrowing of brow I have a couple of questions of you kind and learned people.
At the moment I only really need to use Windows for the above phone issue and don't want to spend money on it. I have the Windows SP2 disc which came with the Pile of crap and will try using that in Bootcamp. I will then attempt to update to SP3.
I understand that there were previous issues with updating to SP3. Am I correct in understanding that these are now resolved by the latest iteration of Bootcamp? Any hints to make sure this goes smoothly please?
If I can't get SP2 / SP3 to work and I have to buy Windows 7, will an OEM version bought from a shop really work (this is what they are telling me if I also buy some hardware like some CDs) or do I need to buy the retail version?
As I said I'll just use Bootcamp for now but if I want to use Fusion or Parallels in the future can I just install it on top and use the already installed Windows with them? Or will I have to re-install Windows?
Am I right in thinking that accessing data through Mac OS X that has been added using Windows would only be possible if I were using Fusion or Parallels?
What about the data that was added with Bootcamp before I added Fusion or Parallels is this only accessible using the virtual Windows or in Mac OS X too?
Thanks very much for your help and assistance, I'm completely new to Mac and wasn't very good with Windows as atested by the above, so it is greatly appreciated.