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Can I run Windows 8 dual boot on a mac using an external drive instead of having both OS's on the internal drive

Basically, I want to keep Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro's hard drive only, I don't want to partition the drive to install Windows 8. I'm already using Win7 and WinXP in Parallels Desktop ...
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iMac replace GRUB2 with rEFIt

I have a dual-boot of Mac OS X Lion and Ubuntu 12.10. When I installed Ubuntu, it came with GRUB2 as a boot manager, but I can't really use it since I have a bluetooth keyboard that is not supported ...
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Using Bootcamp with Windows Recovery Disks?

My friend is a regrettable Mac owner and wants to play some Windows-only games. I recently built a new computer with 7 and kept the CD Key from my old Vista 32-bit installation. He has a 1-2 year old ...
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Removed Mac OS X by mistake on dual boot system

I had OS X Lion and Windows Vista installed on my iMac. I wanted to re-install my Lion and in the process I removed it but could not re-install it since Apple have removed it from Mac Store. Now my ...
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How to dual-boot Ubuntu and OS X on iMac?

I trying to install Ubuntu on an iMac. For that purpose I have installed rEFIt and it is trying to boot Ubuntu from my pendrive. Whenever I do so, however, I end up with a black screen saying ...
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Can Mac OS X and Windows 7 have same computer name in a dual boot setup?

I am running Mac OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro, and I just set up Boot Camp on the system and installed Windows 7 into another partition. This means it is now a dual-boot machine, and I can boot up into ...
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Manually remove Windows 8 from Mac Book Pro (OS X 10.8.2 ML)

Here's what I did: I wanted to try W8 on my MBP. installed W8 dualboot with bootcamp got fed up with W8 cause it wouldn't work as expected I deleted the Windows partition with the Disk Utility of ...
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Resizing and moving MacBook partitions

I have a MacBook Pro set up with a dual boot OS X Lion + Windows 7. My OS X partition is ~100 GB and the other partition is ~300 GB. I would like to make the OS X partition bigger and the Windows ...
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Can I access my Ubuntu partition from OSX?

I have a MacBook, on which I have a dual-boot setup with OSX and Ubuntu. When logged in to Ubuntu, I can easily access my files on my OSX drive (albeit read-only). Is there a way to similarly view ...
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Extend boot camp (mac) partition

I have windows on boot camp installed, but I don't have enough hard drive space so i want to increase it. Is there any safe way to do this whitout reinstalling the whole boot camp + windows stuff?
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Windows 7 Boot Camp Partition Not Recognizing Full Disk Space

I recently used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on a small partition on my MBP, and have found the need to extend the partition for more space. Through the use of several tools, I have managed to ...
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Resizing Bootcamp Partition Without Wiping

I done goofed and made my Win7 bootcamp partition just a little too small (about 850mb left after installing critical software). So, I kinda really want to get a little bit more space. However, after ...
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Dual boot OSX and Windows 7 natively

I'm considering getting one of those new fancy Mac Book Pro's with the fancy screens, but after reading some stuff on the internets about running Windows 7 with bootcamp: ...
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Hibernate between OS X and Bootcamp Win 7

Is it possible to use the true hibernate system functionalities of Win 7 and OS X to create a kind of instant switching between the two? Imagine this when reading/writing the sleep images to a quick ...
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Which filesystems has first class support on both Linux and Mac OS X [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which file system to use in between OSX and Linux I'm replacing the optical drive on a Macbook with an HDD and plan to use half of the new drive for Linux. The other ...
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Windows doesn't show up as bootable operating system on Mac

My MacBook Air running Windows 7 got messed up after my cat forced power off. After a reboot, I kept getting a STOP error trying to boot, and my OS X installation vanished as a bootable OS (and the ...
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Full disk encryption on a dual boot system OS X/Win7 (one hard disk)

I have a macbook pro with lion on it. I'd like to put win 7 on it and dual boot it - on the same HDD. I'd also like to encrypt as much of it as possible and use open source encryption if possible. I ...
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How do i install windows xp on my partitioned mac hard drive, without a CD?

The situation is that my Macbook Pro's disk drive doesn't work. It just rejects a lot of CDs or DVDs you put in there. I've partitioned the hard drive using Disk Utility, so now i have 225GB of OS X ...
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MacBook Pro and Backtrack 5R1 Configuration

I have a Macbook pro Quad core (2.2/8gb ram/750gb hdd). I have went through tons of forums on the Internet, but none of them seemed to be updated for the current Backtrack 5R1, or the question of ...
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How to install Ubuntu on a Mac running OS X Lion?

Anyone tried to install Ubuntu dual-booting on Mac OS X Lion 10.7? I know it is doable with Leopard and Snow Leopard. I heard that the Ubuntu installer will write the first 446 bytes from the ...
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Configure Multiple OS on Mac

I just had a iMac delivered today. I want to configure it in following way for testing on various versions. I need to set up 10.7 Server, 10.6 Server and Windows 2008 server and possibly one more ...
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Is blessing the Ubuntu partition reversible on a Macbook Pro? How?

So far, I've been dual booting Mac OS X with Ubuntu. Blessing the Ubuntu Partition will speed up the boot process. Apparently, all I have to do is this: sudo bless –device /dev/disk0s3 –setboot ...
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How to boot to Windows 7 after installing Lion on my OS X (using rEFit)

I just installed the Lion upgrade to OS X. Now, when I boot i don't get any options to boot to Windows 7 as i did before the upgrade. I have rEFit installed. What can I do? When I installed the ...
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Wireless Driver Not Working Ubuntu / OS X dual boot

I'm using a MacBook Pro 10, dual-booting Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Ubuntu 11.04. Ubuntu is working well for all intents and purposes, except there is no internet connectivity, due to the fact that Ubuntu ...
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Dualboot (10.5.8/XP) MacBook freezes at startup

My MacBook freezes at the boot screen The wheel is not spinning. I can however do the following: Hold down alt and select if I want to boot Mac OS X or Windows XP Start windows in safe mode, if ...
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How to bring back Ubuntu after Lion install using rEFIt

Upgraded to Lion this morning which went mostly smoothly, but when I tried to boot back into Ubuntu (I do most of my work in Linux) I was only able to get as far as the grub command mode. I spent a ...
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Install Windows 7 and Mac OS on a laptop [closed]

I have an Intel Core 2 Duo laptop. I already have Windows 7 in one partition but now I want to install Mac OS in the other partition. Is it possible and how can I boot into both partitions at will? I ...
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Use one home directory for more than one operating system

I want to configure the same user account across multiple operating systems. Right now, I'm set up for general use in Mac OS 10.6.6 "Snow Leopard," and I have about 200gb of files in my home directory ...
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How can I install Ubuntu on my MacBook?

Will Ubuntu 10.10 run out of the box on my MacBook 7,1? What steps must I follow to get Ubuntu 10.10 running as a dual/triple boot with Mac OS/ Windows?
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Using the same storage drive with dual partitions

I'd like to use a dual partition from my ssd (Windows 7 & OS X). I would also like them both to share my two internal SATA hard drives (which is generally where all my additional files that are ...
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Boot Camp Windows 7 shows Vista boot screen after setting up with Parallels 5

I have a Windows 7 Professional installation set up using Boot Camp, alongside Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my MacBook. My MacBook boots Mac OS X by default. The other day I decided to take Parallels ...
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Can I boot to a different Mac OS X partition from the command line?

I need to test some software (nightly) on 3 Mac OS X versions: 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 -- the software interfaces with the hardware, so non-native solutions (like virtualisation) are not ideal. So I figured ...
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Dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows: any way to avoid closing all my applications in Mac OS X?

I have a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.6 and a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition. If I'm on Windows, I can easily go back to OS X without losing any of my open applications by using Hibernate. Mac OS X, ...