Boot Camp users: We're stuck in Windows

several people have already danced around this point, but i'll just say it a little more explicitly:

I'm a computer scientist, and some of my work has dabbled in information security/best practices, etc. If this Eric fellow is savvy enough to be throwing around acronyms such as PMU, why isn't he smart enough to NOT eff with his mission-critical, dollar-valued data by installing beta software which messes with the system at one of it's most primary levels? It's hard to fault apple for releasing software which is VERY explicitly labeled as beta and unsupported (at least the Windows side)...rather than faulting the user who blows up his computer messing around with it before proper precautions have been taken.

Bootcamp may not do much for long time Mac users, but I've already heard from two die-hard windows users that their next machine will be a MacBook. A lot of frustrated Windows users are looking at this seriously. It's a great excuse for people to move to OSX without any risk of loosing access to their old data.

From everything that I've seen and read, it sounds to me like people aren't following the instructions and are installing Windows over their OS X partitions. If you don't look carefully, and don't follow instructions, that's failry easy to do, but is in no way Apple's fault.

As for the rest of it, if you installed a BETA product that messes with the partitioning of your hard drive, without making a backup first, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Edsel - tell them man tell them LOL - 'Just Say NO' thats my slogan.

Firstly, the portable solutions offered by Apple are NOT laptops -- they're portables. They were not designed to be used "on the lap", as the heat they exert is simply too high. Check http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/care/ for more information.
Secondly, and I know this has been said time and again, never ever EVER trust a beta software package, especially one as potentially detrimental to your system as BootCamp is.
Thirdly, as a rule, refrain from storing your personal information on the same drive (not even a different partition, folks) as the operating system. OS X may be stable and swell and full of pretty colours, but it is far from perfect and is susceptible to the odd crash.
Nuf said.

Look, I'm a pretty tough critic when it comes to Apple products. But to see people complain about Boot Camp that is clearly stated as Beta from the get go is simply hilarious.

Knowing its Beta and I use my iMac for important work and have many family files that are important to me, I simply passed on with Boot Camp. Simply because its "BETA" software and running it on your mission critical machine is at your own risk. Apple owes you nothing. They clearly stated the pitfalls and what you need to do when running Boot Camp Public Beta to protect your files since it is BETA BETA BETA software.

It's a beta, it's clearly stated as a beta, people should be using it accordingly, like most others have said on here, backups etc. and if it fks up, deal with it.
http://mattgrover.blogspot.com/2006/04/boot-camp.html

Bah, I find if hardware can do more why not exploit it for all it's worth? Running XP means I have two major OS installed and at my disposal wherever I go and in one thin and powerful machine. I may have just recently fully switched to a mac for my main system, but I must have missed the blind alliegence booster shot, as I still find it fun to have a multiboot laptop (nothing like taking your work laptop and tossing on random linux distros for fun, so Boot Camp isn't too different from normal tinkering, for me.) I still think that fanboyism is hurting more than helping, if anything macs running windows should please you, since now people can see how nice os x is side-by-side (well, when not running Rosetta-using apps, and not when you want certain games or the best Flash dev preformance... but hey, it's really pretty, right? It does boot fast, too. You need to hibernate XP to match the load speed.)

Any case, I'm off to Think Different about stodgy ideas of restricted OS platforms and limited hardware...

(come now, don't get all riled up, I'm still typing all this on a mac and in OS X, heck even in Safari, despite the Firefox app right next to it in the dock. I promise I'll even boot up the old G3 for all you PPC die-hards out there.)

It's Apple's way of wishing you a Happy Easter! Don't worry, I'm sure a fix will be out soon. After "Descent to Hell" comes "Resurrection."

im so sick of bootcamp.