bikemike's Profile

I love this community.

You never mentioned what XP programs you intend to run, or how much space they require. Personally I can't think of one, so I skipped the Boot Camp step in the install process, leaving, well, just Migration Assistant, and very little else to do before fully utilizing my Mac as shipped - most everything I needed, preinstalled. Should I need to run XP in the future I can use better alternatives without reformatting any drive. I trust Apple to do a lot of hard work for me, especially before, and the moment, that I turn on a new machine. I figure they're smarter than me. You strike me as the sort of user who goes it alone first and discovers the benefits of the product later - having not read any help, support, or manuals. For example, the same drag-and-drop process you used to avoid Migration Assistant could have been used to trash (or hide) any unwanted apps from your old Mac - before - or after - letting Migration Assistant do its thing, which at least would have been clean according to its existing rules. Further, rather than let Boot Camp do its thing FIRST, you created a reinstall conundrum that isn't clean in any way. You might wait to describe how successful it is because you haven't yet discovered the magnitude of the mess you've created. Your methods remind me of someone who is desperate to save a dying computer - yet you apply them out of the box. This simply is not the Mac way. You will soon find your hard disk partitions are unnecessary, too small, and cause more problems than they solve. Why not use the better products that let you use XP on a Mac? Apple's Boot Camp isn't the first, and in many ways, not the best. But you ignored that, and ignored Boot Camp's own installation rules in the process. I suggest users of new Macs put a little faith in the new technology and new rules - all available in shipped, printed, pre-installed, and online documentation, from Apple and others, depending upon what you need and use. Thousands have worked hard to make that first experience easy, painless, and, well, jaw-dropping. Sorry, yours wasn't one of them.