East Carolina University
 
Computing@ECU
Information Technology & Computing Services


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ITCS Title
Macintosh




The ECU ITCS department, Apple and Microsoft do not fully support running Windows XP on a Mac using BootCamp. 

 

 

System Requirements

 

  • Intel-based Mac with a minimum of 2GB RAM
  • Around 50GB of free hard drive space. ITCS will partition your drive (unless you have an extra drive) so that Windows is 32GB so you'll need to determine how much space will be needed to run your other Mac applications. If you run Photoshop or any media software, you may want to consider upgrading the drive (external drives will not work using just Boot Camp). These applications need as much of your free drive space as possible to function. This size was determined to help standardize the software being installed.
  • 2-button mouse
  • OS X.5 or higher and all updates run
  • The original DVDs that came with the Intel Mac. These are necessary as they contain the BootCamp drivers.
  • ITCS requires all Windows systems to be logged into the INTRA domain. Logging into the INTRA domain insures the Windows operating system is up-to-date and is running all necessary virus software. Not doing so could bring harm to the rest of the network.