PT HD, Bootcamp, Converters Questions

[Sammas]

Bootcamp is just the windows installation app in osx. It just adds all the mac hardware drivers to your windows installation (things like the mac specific graphics card, mouse, imac web camera, wireless keyboard + shortcuts, etc). Once you install your windows partition, it boots and acts just like any other windows computer when selected at start up.

That being said, my experiences with bootcamp have been less than stella. With XP installed and a piece of CAD design software (and that was it) it crashed and corrupted the OSX installation at the same time.

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to install the protools ASIO drivers within your XP installation and do what you intend... but to be honest, have you considered giving samplitude the flick and just using something designed for mac? The approach you intend could work, but if it were me I'd find it rather infuriating.

HD runs on PC... why not just buy a pc and stay entirely in windows? Call me a Mac-evangelist, but the day XP crashed was the day I threw my XP cd's in the bin.

[Bent my VU]

Bootcamp is excellent as long as you install windows on it's own hard disk. I'm writing this from Windows 7 64bit (bootcamp) and it hasn't skipped a beat in the last 4 months.

Just disable all the hardware you don't want to use in device manager and it should work fine.

[Bent my VU]

Win7 can read from the mac drives directly but it can't copy files to HFS+ drives - that might be the same under XP, I can't remember.

There's no limit to the size of the Windows partition when it's on a seperate disk.