I need a little BootCamp Camp help

Satcomer

Satcomer

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Finally have to get windows on a Mac. I am planing to put Windows 7 on its own drive in my Mac Pro (see my signature). I just a forth drive in my Mac Pro and it is sitting there waiting for Amazon to deliver Windows 7.

So how do I install Windows 7 on its own drive? I know this sounds funny to some here that i am asking this but this is the first time I tried Windows on my Macs. My ultimate plan is to get VMWare Fusion to run both system at the same time from my Mac drives in the Mac Pro.
 
Well I want to have Windows 7 on one of my drives and then get VMware's Fusion3. This way I could boot into windows for games but when try doing some work some stuff for work I don't have to leave Snow Leopard. I wouldn't be doing Windows at all if it wasn't for work.

I just want to know if I should just load Windows on the drive (without Boot Camp) and then just use the SL disk to install needed drivers. But I was wondering if I still need to launch Boot Camp to install Windows on that lone drive (one of the four in my Mac Pro).
 
I think you will still need to run boot camp setup assistant from your boot drive to partition the other drive for Win7. But doing Windows through boot camp is still going to leave you needing to reboot every time to run Windows. If you want to toggle between Windows and OSX your best bet is VMWare or perhaps an good open source alternative like VirtualBox.
 
One other Windows & oddity that bugs me. The Boot Camp idea djackmac had it it worked for a whole disk, thank you. :)

The oddity is on my two external Firewire disks (I use one for Time Machine and the other for a Carbon copy daily clone backup) something strange happened to them upon going back into Snow Leopard I found those two Firewire 800 disks were unreadable. After restoring them (DiskWarrior could NOT fix then) I now just turn them off before Windows 7 boots up, to avoid them problem again.

Anyone care to chime in and explain why this happened in Windows 7 so the Firewire drives (both Firewire 800) could not be read by Snow Leopard?
 
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