Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-26 Thread cait furness
schler" > To: "MacVisionaries" > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows > > > Thanks for all the advice. I am also curious to find out if certain > sites and PDFs are accessible while using a virtual

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-26 Thread Phil Halton
cember 26, 2012 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows Thanks so much for the info Phil. I will definitely take a listen to these podcasts, as this is a big process that I am planning to start later this week or weekend, as I have never partioned a drive, or used a virtua

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks so much for the info Phil. I will definitely take a listen to these podcasts, as this is a big process that I am planning to start later this week or weekend, as I have never partioned a drive, or used a virtual machine, or another screen reader besides voiceover, but am looking forward to t

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-26 Thread Phil Halton
cVisionaries" Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:22 PM Subject: Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows Thanks for all the advice. I am also curious to find out if certain sites and PDFs are accessible while using a virtual machine? I have never used a screen reader on the PC side

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for all the advice. I am also curious to find out if certain sites and PDFs are accessible while using a virtual machine? I have never used a screen reader on the PC side except for the old one in Zoomtext which was pretty limited as it was more of a magnifier. What do people suggest using

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-25 Thread Phil Halton
wasteful, but storage is so cheap these days it doesn't really matter. - Original Message - From: "Brian Fischler" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 3:10 PM Subject: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows Hey all, I finally

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-25 Thread cait furness
I've never used boot camp. I like fusion because I can do everything without a sighted person around. I don't have a pair of working eyes here except for the dog and cats, which aren't much help! All I need the windows side for is for running k 1000 and for a few games that don't have mac ver

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Kaitlyn, Just wanted to say thanks for your advice. I am pretty solid on the mac with VO, but never having done a clean install of the operating system, I guess I want to learn as much about it before doing it. I plan to do a time machine backup to the external of my entire system before the c

Re: Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-25 Thread cait furness
It's very easy to do a clean install of mountain lion using the recovery pane on the mac by holding down option r when you boot the mac. After that, you go to disk utility and then go to first aid, I think, and then erase your hard disk, of course make sure you have a back up of your drive and

Virtual Machine VS Partioning to run Windows

2012-12-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I finally got around to ordering an external hard drive for my mac. It is the 3 TB from Seagate. I am curious what people think is best, as do I need to partion the drive as I would like to use part of it for Time Machine, and set aside another part to run Windows 7. Do people find it eas