Bootcamp Real beginners Help

Hello
I have a spare 640GB HD sitting in my Mac Pro after updating the main HD.
I am thinking of setting it up for Bootcamp but need some really basic help to get this going.
I posted this here because it will be only be for games and WinUAE, it will never go online.
I need a real idiots for this.
How much HD space will I require ?
How do I install it ?
What Windows version to install ?
How do I boot into Bootcamp ?
Can files just be copied across to the bootcamp drive ?
How do I Boot out of boot camp ?
Will I need virus software ?
Real basic stuff is what is required.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Washac

You did good.
Except what model/year MP do you have and what MacOS are you using? Put it in your profile.
"Boot Camp" is technically just a set of Windows drivers to use Apple hardware and it also installs an "Apple Software Updater" and Boot Camp control panel so you can pick which OS to boot to while in Windows. While booted in the Mac you can pick the Windows startup disk in the "System Preferences" / "Startup Disk".
Brief run through:
Boot Camp Assistant while booted in the Mac, have it partition the drive, it will ask to download the Boot Camp drivers (or the disk if you still have 10.6) then it will reboot into the Windows installer, the Mac is no longer in charge, have Windows format it NTFS and then install, after it installs it will reboot into the Windows new OS, THAT is when you install the Boot Camp drivers.
Read the installer AND the Windows 7 FAQ AND the Boot Camp FAQ a couple of times, and I mean a couple of times and it will help quite a bit. Everything you need is here. Browse the forums if you have time to just get a "gander" at what problems people have in general.
If you have to buy Windows you might as well buy the latest, W7 Home Premium is fine, and is still compatible with quite a few games, etc. do a search on Yahoo/Google for the cheapest price. Amazon, NewEgg, etc, seem to be the cheapest. Seems to average around $100 US. If your going to college you get a **** of a discount.
What are you going to use the the rest of the HD for? I just have a HD exclusive for Windows. A lot easier and don't have to worry about mistakes.
With Mac Pro's, If you do the same, you have to have the future Windows HD in bay #1 or take out the lower numbered HD's. Example, If your going to install it on a HD in bay 3 then take out 1 & 2 and you can leave 4. Or just swap out whatever is in 1 now. You can change back when your done.
Be aware of partition size, I downloaded the BoarderLands game from the Mac-APP store and it was an 8 gig download, (Lord, their servers are slow! 18 hrs on a 1.5 DSL connection.) if you add three more games at say 5 gigs each you've already lost over 20gigs of free space for your partition. Now imagine over the next year. You don't want to do it again.
You cannot drag a file from the Mac desktop to the Windows HD as the Windows "NTFS" format is "read-only" from the Mac. If I need to exchange files I just drag it to my misc storage drive and they can both access it or just leave my USB stick in and use that instead. (via a USB extension cable so it doesn't get busted off)
As far as Virus control, AVG is free as are a few others so you might as well use one. W7 does have one but it keeps suggesting to use a 3rd party?

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