Hey everyone! I am both a new Mac user and a new Parallels user. Before I get started installing Parallels on my machine I wanted to ask a few *very* basic installation questions. I'm a statistician and unfortunately some of the programs I use only work in Windows. So I'm planning on using Parallels to run Windows. I do not intend to use bootcamp asI will need to go between several programs on the two OS.
If I do not plan on using bootcamp to boot the machine in Windows and only plan to use it as a VM do I need to partition my drive? If I leave it unpartitioned do I select NTFS or FAT? Does anyone have any suggestions on configuring parallels given what I'd like to do with it? I'm running a 2.66 ghz macbook pro with 4GB memory and a 320 gig hard drive.
Again, I apologize for the basic questions but I want to make sure it's configured correctly before I do anything unnecessary to the drive.
Thanks!
Danielle
If I do not plan on using bootcamp to boot the machine in Windows and only plan to use it as a VM do I need to partition my drive? If I leave it unpartitioned do I select NTFS or FAT? Does anyone have any suggestions on configuring parallels given what I'd like to do with it? I'm running a 2.66 ghz macbook pro with 4GB memory and a 320 gig hard drive.
Again, I apologize for the basic questions but I want to make sure it's configured correctly before I do anything unnecessary to the drive.
Thanks!
Danielle