Greetings,
I am having a little trouble with my configuration and I have spent hours reading and I can't find any information on the subject.
I have a new 15" MBP (Early 2011) with a 750 GB HD. I have 3 partitions: 1) OS X, 2) Bootcamp (W7 Ultimate), and 3) a shared partition (for general data storage...ie, pictures, music, documents, etc).
When I boot fusion, it makes my bootcamp and shared partitions inaccessbile. This creates a lot of problems because the shared partition is home to many files that I use regularly for both OS'. For example, I have a library of photos on the shared drive that are indexed by Picasa. The other day, picasa was running while I booted Fusion, so Picasa thought the folders were deleted. Later, I had to re-import and thus re-index all my libraries, tags, etc afterwards.
I'm still not sure why Fusion needs to disable access to the shared partition. I don't understand why it needs to disable the bootcamp partition either (but that is not an inconvienience). Why can't OSX and Fusion both have access to the shared partition?
As-is, I pretty much have to shut down all programs that might use data on the shared drive (picasa, itunes, netbeans, database servers, etc). This is tantamount to shutting down the OS entirely, which makes Fusion little more than a small time-saver (ie, booting Fusion is quicker than restarting in bootcamp).
It would be really great if the partition was still accessible while booting fusion. Can anyone help?
Thank you very much.
