Will this setup work?

[tolas]

I'll be getting my i5 15" MBP soon. I purchased the OptiBay and a 500GB Momentus XT hd. I plan to put the Momentus in the main slot and split it for OSX and Win7 bootcamp.

I am putting the existing hard drive in the optibay as a media/project drive. I would like this drive to be available in both OSX and Win7. How should I partition this drive? fat32? other?

Also, I read that I can boot into the boot camp partition through vmware or parallels. Is running the bootcamp partition as a virtual machine slower or in any way different that running a regular virtual machine partition?

Thanks


edit: sorry just read in another thread that all this should be fine. any idea on bootcamp partition in virtual machine vs regular virtual machine partition? faster, slower, any issues?

 

[DeepIn2U]

You CAN format the shipped HDD inserted into the OptiBay in NTSF format but OSX can only READ those HDD partitioned with that. FAT32 format will allow read & write access from OSX.

Parallels will work for dual boot and quite well and increases your performance and uptime.