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My current hard drive is partitioned as follows:Â
Name:Â Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Size: 132.5 GBÂ
Name:Â BOOTCAMP
Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Size: 26.69 GBÂ
When I was partitioning the new drive I did so as follows:Â
Name: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Size: 973.51 GBÂ
Name:Â BOOTCAMP
Format: MS-DOS (FAT) --- This was the only option that I was given that I thought would work. I did not have the option of "Windows NT File System (NTFS) to choose from. Question # 1: is that going to be a problem? I only run 1 program on Windows and that is the only reason I have BOOTCAMP on there at all. However, I do HAVE to have that program. Like I said it didn't give me the option to choose Windows so I didn't know where to go with this. Any help with that would be awesome.
Size: 26.34 GB (I just used the same size that was current, or close to it.) I connected the Western Digital 1 TB through an external device, partitioned it as stated above, and then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drives. The first one went through fine. (It took 2 hours and I went to bed before it finished.) This morning I woke to see that it had gone through well. I then started the process with the BOOTCAMP drives. However, before I started it gave me errors stating that I wouldn't be able to run Windows off of the Cloned BOOTCAMP drive. Question #2: Is it because of the Format type I chose when partitioning?
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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