jmp473

I've just recently tried VMware Fusion, Virtual Box, and now Bootcamp. Could not connect Windows to the internet through Fusion or Virtual Box but with Bootcamp it was automatic. Bootcamp is primarily drivers and helper software to make Windows function with Apple's hardware. It requires a go-between external drive formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32) (Apple's exact terminology) this format is accessible to both OS X and Windows. I used an old drive I already had which may have been the source of many of my difficulties - a new cheap USB flash drive would probably have been much better. Knowing what I know now, I would install Windows in it's own partition without BootCamp first, to see if my hardware functioned OK and proceed from there. Wish too, that I had made the Windows partition at least 40GB, as 30GB is not going to be enough. Windows 7 (64) alone plus minimum security software and updates etc is taking up 27 GB.