PC or Mac

littleowl

Again unfortunately not. I would dearly love not to have to use Windows at all but it just sits there for the one programme and I use it for nothing else.

duncansby

Hi - I am also thinking of changing from PC to Mac. However the only program I would miss is Microsoft money - I know that it's not the greatest program in the world but have been using it since 1995 so is there a similar Mac type program

Thanks

judderman62

duncansby wrote: »

Hi - I am also thinking of changing from PC to Mac. However the only program I would miss is Microsoft money - I know that it's not the greatest program in the world but have been using it since 1995 so is there a similar Mac type program

Thanks

I think there may be more than one alternative but I know Buddi is available in mac flavour - it's free

diable

Marty_J wrote: »

Mac OS X can natively read from an NTFS partition, but not write to it. There are some third party applications which allow it to write to NTFS volumes.

You can of course format a partition as NTFS and install and run Windows from it; you just won't be able to write to it when you're booted into Mac OS X.



"Boot Camp" is just a tool for non-destructively partitioning a hard drive, burning a driver disk, and starting Windows setup. That's all it does. Boot Camp doesn't run Windows; in fact, you don't even need to have Boot Camp installed to run Windows.

Macs can run Windows natively because they now have Intel processors, and they can boot Windows because Apple released a firmware update for the Mac's super-advanced EFI firmware, allowing it to emulate the crummy and antiquated BIOS in use in most other computers.

All correct the only reason I formatted it as Fat32 was so that I could copy files whilst on the Mac to the partition used by XP for use when I boot XP.

I just need to sort my xternal drives as it would be nice to use them on either op sys so I may need to downgrade to Fat32 to achieve this (I have a XP that I still use)

thescouselander

Marty_J wrote: »

Mac OS X can natively read from an NTFS partition, but not write to it. There are some third party applications which allow it to write to NTFS volumes.

You can of course format a partition as NTFS and install and run Windows from it; you just won't be able to write to it when you're booted into Mac OS X.



"Boot Camp" is just a tool for non-destructively partitioning a hard drive, burning a driver disk, and starting Windows setup. That's all it does. Boot Camp doesn't run Windows; in fact, you don't even need to have Boot Camp installed to run Windows.

Macs can run Windows natively because they now have Intel processors, and they can boot Windows because Apple released a firmware update for the Mac's super-advanced EFI firmware, allowing it to emulate the crummy and antiquated BIOS in use in most other computers.

I only said I don't think it works because when I got my new mac and made a windows partition I mistakenly formatted the partition as NTFS and the computer would not boot from that partition. I had to re-create the partition and format as FAT32.

almillar

Sounds like diable already knows this, but just to warn anyone else who's thinking of changing drives from NTFS to FAT32 for compatibility - FAT32 can only handle files under 4gb in size. This is fine most of the time, but, for example, a DVD image that's big enough can't be put on a FAT32 partition...

judderman62

oooh there are more of these - just found this one which I quite like

diable

thescouselander wrote: »

I only said I don't think it works because when I got my new mac and made a windows partition I mistakenly formatted the partition as NTFS and the computer would not boot from that partition. I had to re-create the partition and format as FAT32.

I read the instructions for Boot Camp even though they are slightly miss leading as they don't actually state that you have to format the drive.

Funny though using the MC I haven't had to boot into XP at all ;o))

Leopard

judderman62 wrote: »

oooh there are more of these - just found this one which I quite like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcDpFLSTZWU