Partitioning Hard Drive through Boot Camp

When I go to partition the drive in Boot Camp and select divide equally it splits into 56GB for each partition, would switching it to 60GB be more accurate because it's not counting the space taken up by the OS, or is there only 112GB of space available overall?

I dont use Windows all that often and didnt want to partition my drive so I used Parallels. I loaded parallels (55mb) onto MacAir and installed Microsoft 7 onto external hard drive. After installation I copied the 'single' file to a 16gb USB flash drive. Now I just plug in the flash when I want to use Windows and the apps are in the MA's task bar. Works well. Windows 7's new way of only loading required process's makes it pretty nippy. Windows 7 takes up 6gb on flash drive. Also I used a 'trial' windows 7 disc and installing through parallels it didnt ask for a 'key'.

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  • How do I partition my hard drive for boot camp?

    Model Name:          MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier:          MacBookPro1,2
      Processor Name:          Intel Core Duo
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      Number Of Processors:          1
      Total Number Of Cores:          2
      L2 Cache:          2 MB
      Memory:          2 GB
      Bus Speed:          667 MHz
      Boot ROM Version:          MBP12.0061.B03
      SMC Version (system):          1.5f10
      Serial Number (system):
      Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB982183
      Sudden Motion Sensor:
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    dpx wrote:
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    Its just sitting there, but i doesent to anything, any way to get rid of the icon from the desktop?
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    but its a read only, y cant rename the file...
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    Hi,
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    The Boot Camp - Installation & Setup Guide (OS X Lion) describes how-to do this.
    OSX 10.7 Lion does not come on a disc.
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