I need help with windows on mac....?

Question

Well, not help per say...well kinda. Ok, my mac is 60 gigs and its all dedicated to the OS. What I want to do is play games for windows on it. But I have no room. So, If I bought an external harddrive, plugged it in...could I put windows on in and run it? Or, does it have to be part of the mac computer? (I dont know anything about mac other then it has cool video and audio programs...I was a windows person) And if I unhooked it would it make it not work if I hooked it back up?

Random questions...but, I had problems with an external harddrive before. I put files on it from a windows os, then tried to put them on Mac...but I couldnt cause it was read only or something. So I had to switch the file format to make it work.

Thanks ahead of time. Hopefully this all makes sense and holds enough information. If not, I wil gladly add more.

Answer 1

you can only run windows on a Mac if it has an intel dual core processor...

I would hazard a guess that as you only have a 60GB hard drive you are probably not on an intel but on a PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) processor...

the way to check is click on the apple in the top left hand corner, and click on about this mac, you will get a screen that says MAC OS X and the version number, under that it will say Processor and list the processor you have...

for example mine says Processor: 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4

so mine won't run windows...

Answer 2

you would need to put all the stuff on your mac at the mo to the external hard drive and install windows on your mac hard drive. You will need bootcamp to do this which is available on the mac website to download.

I would make sure you put any important stuff on the external HD incase it is lost during the install. You can then choose a percentage of your hard drive that you want windows to control ie. mines on 50/50