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Dec 26, 2010I had a spare drive bay in my Mac Pro, so decided to install an extra HD, partition into two, and put on Windows XP on one partition and Windows 7 on the other.
I've now done this. I didn't install using Bootcamp, since it doesn't support two Windows partitions on the same drive, so I removed all my Mac HDs and then installed both versions of Windows as though installing on any other PC, only using Bootcamp to install the Windows drivers after.
The Windows HD is formatted NTFS with MBR partition scheme. With my three Mac OS drives (1 system, 1 Audio Data, 1 Timemachine) now back in, everything is now working, with holding the option key on startup giving me the choice between Mac OS and Windows. Selecting Windows brings up the Windows 7 boot menu, with the option to boot into XP or 7.
The only problem is that boot up now takes an extremely long time, and the part of the sequence that is taking a long time is worrying me.
When you press the power on button, you get the boing as normal, but it's now about 50 seconds from the boing until you see the grey startup screen (or boot menu if you are holding option). Once into the grey screen, start up time is as it was before.
Is this normal behaviour with three normal HFS+ and one MBR NTFS drive with two Windows partitions in a Mac?
I have tried resetting the PRAM but it made no difference.
If it's normal, I suppose I can put up with it, but it would be great if I could do something about it.
This is a 2009 Mac Pro, Quad 2.66 GHz, 5GB RAM.
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