Do I have to partition for Windows as soon as I start my new MB Pro?

I have a new MacBook Pro coming tomorrow and want to partition for Windows. Do I have to do that right away or can I do later? I also have Parallel 6 Desktop coming in. Does that make any differecne before I start using my new Mac?!
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You only need to partition for windows if you're using Bootcamp. If you're using Parallels than no partition is necessary.
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Hello everybody,
I've just recently bought a new MacBook Pro, I'm not very familirar with Macintosh. I installed windows 7 using bootcamp but the problem is that I just can see one partition in which I've installed windows.
actually, I want to partition my 500GB disk to three different partitions as following:
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2) 80GB for Windows
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so that I can have third partition both in Mac and Win.
I searched internet and I found a few documents about it and I followed the instructions but I had no luck of success. one of the instructions I tried is: http://davidseah.com/index-ee.php/wikilab/Creating-2-Windows-Partitions-with-Boo t-Camp/
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2: Apple expects users to have one Bootcamp partition, one OS X Lion partition and that's it and that's all they are going to hold your hand on.
(note: there is also a hidden EFI and a Lion Recovery Partition also on the drive.)
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There is a security issue allowing Windows to read HFS, but that should do transferring the small amount of files your going to be using in both operating systems.
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normbenard wrote:
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