I just wonder if it's possible to add an external hard drive to the macbook with a firewire-cable and then get it to work in boot camp??
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External hard drive
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It's my understanding that XP wants to be only on the primary hard drive, so booting from an external will be difficult, if not impossible. You *could* install OS X on the external, and XP on the internal, but why would you want to do something stupid like that 
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?OS X is the primary on the internal, but i want to store my windows files on the external drive..
theonlyone said:
So you have both XP and OS X on the internal, and would like to store data on the external? I think this is straightforward. Can't XP see the external drive when plugged in using FW?
theonlyone said:
How is the drive formatted? If it's formatted NTFS (typical for Mac OS) then Windows can't see it. FAT32-formatted drives can be seen by both. There is more information on this on the web, I'll look for a link (try macosxhints.com).