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Lessons from a Failed NTFS Boot Camp Partition

This article describes the failure of the Windows Boot Camp partition on my iMac, a partition that worked well for over 2 years. The partition was originally formatted as FAT32, but I changed it to NTFS about 6 months ago to improve its performance.
I’m sharing this experience in hopes that it might be useful to [...]

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The Comfort of Automatic Backup

Until yesterday I was backing up my iMac manually, once a month (I used a periodic appointment for a reminder). Now, thanks to my new 500GB external hard drive and Leopard’s Time Machine utility, the backups are done hourly. This gives me some additional peace of mind.
I must say, this full backup surprised me [...]

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Converting a Bootcamp Partition to NTFS

Since about a third of my regular readers use a Mac, I thought I would share my experiences in converting my iMac’s Bootcamp partition to an NTFS file system.
When I first set up a Bootcamp partition on my iMac, about a year and a half ago, I set it up to use the FAT32 file [...]

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New VMware Fusion Beta: One Problem on My Bootcamp System

Last week, VWware made available a second beta of its VMware Fusion. There are a lot of new features, which I’ll highlight briefly in a moment. But, first, I wanted to cover a problem I ran into with one of its new features:

“Unity 2.0—Tighter Windows-Mac Integration: Building on Unity 1.0, you can now launch any [...]

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Freshen Up Your Mac

In case your Mac hasn’t alerted you yet, there is a Leopard update to version 10.5.4
To access it, all you have to do is select the Software Update from your main menu. Once it checks and confirms that an update is available for you, you will see a link that describes the upgrade. (Several [...]

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