I'm having some difficulty figuring out what to do, so I hope you can guide me.
My current situation: I have a MacBook with a 32 GB Windows (XP Pro) partition made with Boot Camp. Some of the software I need is Windows only, so that's where I boot when making music.
But I have two main problems. First of all, I'm running out of space on the Windows partition (sample libraries really take up a lot of space).
Secondly, I find Windows to run not very well. I'm getting a lot of audio glitches and hang ups, sluggish UI, and just plain can't record audio with any reasonable latency (I do this on OSX instead - despite the fact that my old USB 1 soundcard has a dedicated driver for Windows and shouldn't be Intel compatible, it actually works much better with core audio in the latter). A re-install is tempting.
So, solution seems to be to first get a bigger drive - I need something for backup anyway. Decision is if I should swap the internal drive for a larger one, getting a case for the old one and using it for backup. Or just buy a large external drive.
To make this decision, however, I need to have some things clarified. There's a lot of material that I'd like to be able to access on both OSs - possibly in excess of the 80 GB on the current drive. This seems to speak in favour of a large, external drive. However, I've just been pointed to these two products:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
http://www.amazon.com/CSDC-MD70-E0W...9YGE?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1178408433&sr=8-1
My first question is: would either of these let me access in either direction from an internal drive partitioned to OSX and Windows?
(Sorry for this long-winded post! And I'm afraid there's more to follow - but your help would be very much appreciated).
My current situation: I have a MacBook with a 32 GB Windows (XP Pro) partition made with Boot Camp. Some of the software I need is Windows only, so that's where I boot when making music.
But I have two main problems. First of all, I'm running out of space on the Windows partition (sample libraries really take up a lot of space).
Secondly, I find Windows to run not very well. I'm getting a lot of audio glitches and hang ups, sluggish UI, and just plain can't record audio with any reasonable latency (I do this on OSX instead - despite the fact that my old USB 1 soundcard has a dedicated driver for Windows and shouldn't be Intel compatible, it actually works much better with core audio in the latter). A re-install is tempting.
So, solution seems to be to first get a bigger drive - I need something for backup anyway. Decision is if I should swap the internal drive for a larger one, getting a case for the old one and using it for backup. Or just buy a large external drive.
To make this decision, however, I need to have some things clarified. There's a lot of material that I'd like to be able to access on both OSs - possibly in excess of the 80 GB on the current drive. This seems to speak in favour of a large, external drive. However, I've just been pointed to these two products:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
http://www.amazon.com/CSDC-MD70-E0W...9YGE?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1178408433&sr=8-1
My first question is: would either of these let me access in either direction from an internal drive partitioned to OSX and Windows?
(Sorry for this long-winded post! And I'm afraid there's more to follow - but your help would be very much appreciated).