I know this question has come up before, but not really answered to my satisfaction. I'm about to upgrade my hard drive and do a clean install of OS X. My question is as follows: Which of the following would result in the greatest performance: 1. One partition with Windows being installed on to a virtual disk on the same, single partition as OS X 2. Two partitions, both HFS formatted with OS X on its own partition and a separate 60GB partition for the virtual disk for Windows. 3. Install Windows using boot camp and run Windows through Parallels virtualization. I'm currently running a MacBook Pro 13" 2.53 Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM. Thanks, -Jaspreet
There is no much difference in performance, really. You can have plain preallocated virtual image to avoid defragmentation and store it on MacOS partition.
