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bigvb@hotmail.c

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i currently have 1 XP partition of 60GB on my uMBP, and the other 260GB is used for OSX.

I now want to partition off 80GB for a Windows 7 OS. Bootcamp only seems to allow 1 partition, solution???
 

bigvb@hotmail.c

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Use Disk Utility to make another partition, boot from the disk, and choose that partition.

that was my thinking, in DU, under partition i can see my Macintosh HD and BOOTCAMP partitions.

if i select, Mac and click '+' to add a partition, it will only let me format as "Mac OS Extended Journaled" i want NTFS
 

MacDawg

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You will need to install NTFS-3G to format NTFS

But it really isn't that simple
There are triple boot threads around here that will help
MRoogle will help you find them

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Bill Gates

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Make another partition in Disk Utility. The format doesn't matter.

Install rEFIt.

Run rEFIt's partition utility, which runs a program called 'gptsync' which will sync the GPT table with the MBR table.

Install Windows.
 

gugucom

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i currently have 1 XP partition of 60GB on my uMBP, and the other 260GB is used for OSX.

I now want to partition off 80GB for a Windows 7 OS. Bootcamp only seems to allow 1 partition, solution???

You cannot do this! You can have a maximum of 3 visible partitions on a drive with GUID partition table. The last partition can be a Windows partition. You cannot have more than one Windows partition on a GUID partitioned drive.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table something to read.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2006/tn2166.html
 
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