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bsheridan

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Jan 11, 2008
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Can anyone guide me with the step shown below for setting up an existing boot camp partition in parallels 4 (build 4.0.3810) for Windows 7?
I'm unsure as to what the 'positions' mean so don't want to click one naively.

Installation process so far:
  1. New Virtual Machine...
  2. Skip Detection
  3. Version: Windows 7 (experimental)
  4. Virtual Machine Type: Custom
  5. 1CPU, 1024mb RAM
  6. Hard Disk Options: Boot Camp partition
then I see the screen below.

I'm doing this on an internal HD which has a Mac 10.5.6 partition and a Windows 7 partition created through Boot Camp.

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bsheridan

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Jan 11, 2008
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leave as default (0:0) and continue.

Thanks for the reply. Could you briefly explain what each position means?
I don't feel comfortable yet to select one without knowing the consequences.Don't want to potentially mess up my files, I'll make new backups with SuperDuper and Winclone.

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Agurri

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May 8, 2005
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Québec, Canada
Well, since you are on a Macbook... your Bootcamp partition is located on the same HDD as your startup disk. That's why it's located on 0:0. I think you would need to use another position if you were using a Mac Pro, with your Windows installed, you guessed, on another HDD.
 
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