Windows Partition Larger Than 32GB?::How To?

[Saladsamurai]

Sorry. I know that this has been mentioned before. But I am kind of slow when to come to this stuff.

I am about to install Windows XP on my MBP using Bootcamp. I had already done this with Win7, but changed my mind and am now going with XP.

When I did the install of Win7, I remember I could only make a 32GB FAT32 partition for Windows to reside on. I have a new HDD that is 500GB.

I would like to give Windows XP a 250GB partition (don't hate ). I know that it must be NTFS. Will Bootcamp give me a NTFS option?

How do I go about this?

Thanks,
Casey

 

[spinnerlys]

Boot Camp Assistant will allow you to make a FAT32 partition bigger than 32GB (I just tried it with 100GB - my left free space).

During the installation of Windows (the actual installation, not in Boot Camp Assistant) you get the option to format the Boot Camp partition with NTFS.

PS: FAT32 supports partition up to 8TiB.