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I just purchased an iMac, (a first for me), and I’m starting down the dual OS path for the first time. I need some advice for partitioning the HD. I have a 320Gig HD and I want (1) Partition for the Mac OS and Applications; (1) Partition for WinXP and Applications; and (1) Partition for “Data Files”, formatted as NTFS.

From all I’ve read, I’m fairly comfortable with the “how to’s” and of partitioning for the aforementioned and the sizes I allocate for each partition, but I’d like to know if I also need an HFS+ partition for my Mac applications' Data Files. If so, how do I create that partition? Via Boot Camp?

For what it’s worth, I’m going to use Boot Camp and VMW Fusion.

Last, though “fairly comfortable” with partitioning, I’d like to have Windows as my “C Drive” and Data Files as my “D Drive”. I’ve read some posts that say I may not be able to pick and choose the naming of the various partitions/volumes. True or False?

Thanks for whatever help and suggestions you can give.