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zizou

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  1. I'll try to explain. Back when the blue part of the original post was written (It's copied from www.insanelymac.com) there was no bootcamp. (Apple's solution of running Windows on your Intel-Mac) One of the problems was that Apple's 'BIOS' (EFI) didn't have NTFS boot support, so you couldn't install Vista because EFI doesn't like to boot NTFS drives. The first, and obvious solution was to make Vista run from an FAT32 drive, because EFI does support booting a FAT32 partition. A second reason you might want to have it as FAT32 is that MAC OS X doesn't have a Write/Read driver for NTFS filesystems. So if you boot into Mac OS X, you can't move files to your Windows Partition. (And all windows versions CAN'T read HFS+ filesystems, the filesystem Apple uses for her OS, so you can't do it the other way around also.) So again, the solution is make it a FAT32 filesystem, because Mac OS X does have write/read support for that. Although nowadays, there is indeed a port of some Linux workaround for writing to NTFS drives for Mac OS X, but it's still slow as it mounts the NTFS drive as a network volume. But as you can see, it's mostly a solution for Mac-users. (and/or Linux users?) - zizou (sorry for 'bump'?)
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