Oddity of the Bootcamp Partition
Hi all
Recently, I created a Boot Camp partition on my drive of Fusion that I then had to remove the Windows could not be installed (different question). Then, I see that my drive looks like which is very good:
But curiously, the player is actually two partitions:
And when the partition Boot Camp put it in the middle of my drive of Fusion. Logically, I guess this is not matter as long as the operating system knows that OSX partition 1 and partition OSX 3 are a logical drive of fusion (with WIN 2 Boot Camp partition) but it does seem weird. Why it would be doing Boot Camp instead of put the score at the end?
For clarity, the Fusion drive was wiped clean and so it was not because of the fragmentation of the files.
Thank you.
This is normal and expected behavior. On a Mac, when a hybrid MBR is used to support the old BIOS/MBR facilities, it has two limitations.
1. it supports only four 4 entries.
2. it supports only 32-bit integers. This limits the size of addressable blocks 2 TB and 2 to the MBR.
BCA wizard locates the Windows partition in the middle of the LVG CS and then spans the two pieces into one. Use Time Machine to blend in the contiguous physical disks.
This limitation does not exist on Mac GPT/EFI (the latest models 2013 and following). W7 has many problems with GPT/EFI and is not used on the Mac, but can be installed using GPT/EFI on PC.
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=========================================================
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----------------------------------------------------------
Encryption type: no
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Reversible: Yes (no required decryption)
Name: Mac 1 TB HARD drive
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