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If I'm understanding you correctly, you could run windows in a virtual machine using VMware, parralels or virtualbox (free) and just have the windows install on the hard drive.
That way, you'd be running it from within OS X. -
You can't run more than one OS at the same time, as they've said ^.
OSX does save your windows though so when you go back into it everything should be as you left it. If you haven't saved your work it will prompt you.
I discovered the other day that even written but unposted forum posts survive a restart :)
To access documents on the mac to edit from Windows, you'd need to make sure the drive in question was NTFS format, not Mac OS format.
You'd also need to manually enable NTFS write access if you wanted to put files on that drive from your Mac, as stupidly Apple gave OSX the ability to write to NTFS drives but left it turned off by default.
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Quick simple question.
I have a mac with SSD hd and also HD in disc draw. I need to run a windows OS for some math software and windows CAD etc.
Is there any way of switching between partitions without shutting down one OS? I'd rather put windows on the SSD as a partition if I can as the modeling software will run faster on there. If I put the OS on different HD would that work? Incase I want to work in Mac but then need to flip to windows to check something, without quitting everything.
If putting it on a differnt HD works and I can flip between HD then I'll but another SSD I think.