![]() The Mac OS X partition rectangle in the graph will grow to reclaim the unused space. Delete the existing Boot Camp partition if you have one.You will see a nice graph of the hard drive with the Mac OS X partition as a rectangle. Select the hard drive on the left and click on the “Partition” tab on the right. Run the “Disk Utility” application under Mac OS X.Here’s how I added the Windows 7 and XP partitions: I did not need to re-install Mac OS X (per simscada’s instructions) because Disk Utility allowed me to resize the existing Mac OS X partition without destroying the OS on it. ![]() I created the partitions using the Disk Utility which comes with Mac OS X. Note: Per simscada’s instructions and my experiment, you must install Windows XP in the last partition on the hard drive in order for the triple boot to work. I plan to use Windows 7 and Mac OS X equally. I will be using Windows XP mostly for testing so don’t plan to install much software on it. Microsoft Office 2007 takes an additional 15GB. A bare installation of Windows 7 takes 25GB and a bare installation of Windows XP takes 5GB. The above size allocations reflect my predicted usage pattern and accounts for the minimal installation size for each OS. My Macbook Pro had a 320GB hard drive and I decided to size them like so: Partition To prepare the hard drive for triple boot, I had to shrink my Mac OS X partition (first partition) and delete my existing Windows 7 Boot Camp partition in order to create two new partitions, one for Windows 7 (second partition) and the other for Windows XP (third and last partition). Supposedly, some commercial partition tools for Mac OS X would have allowed me to free space at the end for Windows XP (without destroying the existing Windows 7), but I didn’t want to spend the money.įirst: Create Windows 7 and XP Partitions
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