Comments on: Boot Camp Installation Tips

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:46:27 +0000

Copy your entire cd image to a folder on your PC. Then download the Service Pack. Then Drag the servicepack straight onto the installer just like you would if the installer was a folder. The SP will update your installer and then you can re-burn your image from the updated folder.

By: george

george — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:58:06 +0000

Installed windowsXP/ 32 meg partition successfully on
macbook pro
intel core dual
OSX 10.5.6

everything seems fine
BUT: I can’t connect to the wireless internet.
any help?

By: I-Exist : Tech, Tips, Downloads and more.. » Blog Archive » Booting Into Different Operating System From Leopard

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:25:05 +0000

[...] there are so many great tutorials already. Here is Apple’s Manual, and a tutorial from Paulstamatiou.com explaining in details how to install Windows using Boot Camp. If you prefer virtual machine use [...]

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:55:00 +0000

awesome info you explained so basically that it no longer seems insurmountable

By: alex

alex — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:36:40 +0000

so how did you get the windows cd and did u have to bye it?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:36:40 +0000

so how did you get the windows cd and did u have to bye it?

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:49:28 +0000

Just wanted to add for all those Leopard people out there; it’s MAC OS X DISC ONE (for new Leopard users who got it with their new Macbook) which has the Boot Camp stuff on it.

Putting the wrong disc in may slow you down quite a bit since you can’t eject it until you go back into Mac OS X.

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:41:24 +0000

Yep I got it to work. Thanks for the help. I was a bit confused on whether to use QUICK or FULL format (doesn’t give any guidance in Boot Camp installation instructions) but ended up going with FULL on my new Macbook with Leopard.

Thanks again. Your instructions were excellent.

By: Dale Satterfield

Dale Satterfield — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:49:16 +0000

I have a mac pro and installed the new Leopard 10.5, with the non-beta bootcamp. I have tried to install Xp Pro with SP 2 5 different times. I can install it and have it boot. However, mshtml never installs. At about the 64% point, I get a message that it cannot copy mshtml. I have to hit escape to proceed. This is from a just recently purchased XP . Any hints on how to get it to copy?
The problems with this is that while I have internet access ( system downloaded updates) I cannot launch IE, which means i cannot activate, etc.

By: Tim Russell

Tim Russell — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:33:31 +0000

Hi, yes have just this second completed the boot camp/windows vista hp installation on my new MacBook Pro, was very simple apart from i did not print out the .pdf which made for a lot of guess work as i went along, everything seems to working fine on windows and the drivers have all fully installed (even the iSight camera!)

Interesting guide, hope everyone else has as much luck as me.

Tim Russell

By: kris

kris — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:41:24 +0000

is there any possible way to hide the xp partition as it is on my mac os x desktop under ‘Untitled’ – is there any possible way to rename this? can somebody run me through quick steps? thanks in advance!

By: John

John — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:35:03 +0000

birdbrain.

Al;l I know is I decided to start over. very slowly, I ran the Boot camp installer, partitioned the Hard drive and installed windows.
Now here is the thing i found.

After you get a stable windows login then use the driver CD.
Also, I have found that if you plan on using parallels, restart the OS X system and do all the activation and updates in that enviroment. If you activate and service pask the windows in boot camp, when you try it in a parallels setup, it will ask for another activation, but be out of them.

You need to call, wait through the autosystem, get a bad english speaking tech who will quiz you on why are you installing and activating again and how many machines… yada yada yada.

I hate that.

But if you follow the above, it has worked for me now on about 15 systems I have had to set up at my company.

remember, driver disk is the first thing after windows comes up, or there are some drivers, audio is the worst, that will not install.
good luck

By: birdbrainX

birdbrainX — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:04:38 +0000

i’d just installed boot camp on my newly bought macbook pro 2.16 with 2gig ram. the windows xp professional corporate version disc i’d installed seems fine after installation, but my mac drivers disc cant seem to install itself after i inserted the cd. it reported that my “windows installer” doesnt seem to be up to date. so i went on to install a sp2 package tat i had, but it doesnt seem to be able to install itself… i’m currently stumped. it reported tat i dont seem to have sufficient hd space and says i need an additional 4mb of space even when i had a free 21gig(25gig windows partition) of space. i’d eventually tried again with a bigger windows partition thru reinstalling bootcamp, but it still doesnt seem to work. should i re-purchase another set of windows xp with its own xp2 package? need serious help… seems everyone else has their’s working just fine…

By: P Karza

P Karza — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:05:09 +0000

I have a 500 gb imac core 2 duo that has one partition and will NOT let me install. Says it won’t – and it is only one partition.

btw – I upgraded the original hd to 500 gb -

By: John

John — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:12:08 +0000

Anyone solved the audio issues. I have a MBP, fully packed and running WinXP via BootCamp. Everything is fine except the audio device can not be found.
The device manager shows a unknown PCI device, and no way to force the sound card drivers onto it.

It is supposed to be a Simtel audio device, or driver anyway.

Any help would be appreciated.

John

By: Moe

Moe — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:52:04 +0000

Thanks for that tip, Jim. Here’s one in return. I have the Apple USB modem on my Mini at work for faxing, and I experienced the same problem of the bluetooth keyboard not working. Since I had the modem before BootCamp, I never related it to the problem of the Bluetooth keyboard not working after BootCamp boot-up.

What worked for me was to just turn the keyboard off and back on. Then Windows would see it. It’s a hassle to have to do that each time I go into BootCamp, but probably easier than unplugging the modem.

Now I’m using Parallels with my BootCamp partition and it works on at least 95% of my Windows software. The notable exception is TheaterTek, which works booted to BootCamp, but not through Parallels.

Hope this helps.

By: Jim Van Hoy

Jim Van Hoy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:36:43 +0000

My troubles installing Boot Camp came from a bad header on the OSX volume.. Took several attempts with Disk Utility, but it finally cleared. I am using Win XP because of some unique programs that I have. I need them to work with the Apple USB modem. After several attempts I finally figured that when starting Win XP, don’t have the USB modem plugged in. If you do, and have a Bluetooth mouse, the mouse works, but the keyboard won’t!!! Plug the modem in after booting and everything will be fine. This is reminiscent of Win XP not starting up if some USB devices are plugged in before booting…. Live and learn! Jim

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:16:16 +0000

Hey Paul, I’m having a hard time getting windows to install on my 20 inch iMac. I do have windows xp pro w/sp2 and everything runs smoothly until after I agree to the windows installation terms. It gives me a message saying it can’t recognize my windows disc. Any ideas?

By: Jim Van Hoy

Jim Van Hoy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:43:47 +0000

I had Parallels installed but didn’t like it. I uninstalled it and have tried to install Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro. Everything seems to work until I get a screen that says hit enter to go to Windows XP, r for repair or F3 to quit. The screen locks and that’s it. I am able to get back to OSX fortunately. I have all of the updates, etc. to my MacBook Pro… I never get to the screens shown in the manual where I should select a partition etc. Oh yes, the partition is 15 GB. Should be ok? Any thoughts? Thanks, Jim

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:10:39 +0000

Cosmin,

That may be caused from the upgrade. I know when I installed Vista I had issues unless I did a clean full install. You might want to do more digging but I had no issues when I did the full install.

By: Cosmin Varlan

Cosmin Varlan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:47:04 +0000

Hi, I installed Win XP sp2 and after that installed VISTA

My problem seems to be the same… when trying to install new software, my windows writes in temp directory but after that tries to execute the file it just wrote ?!?! (it says that the tmp file is not a valid win32 application)

Does any1 know why I get that error ?

PLease help

By: Joseph Crawford

Joseph Crawford — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:20:28 +0000

Hello,

I have it all setup and running fine…. If i am using a wired keyboard. Does anyone here know if there is a way to make the drive option page come up with every boot of the system? I am sure there is a configuration for that somewhere I just do not know where.

I have the bluetooth keyboard and mouse and the alt/option key will not bring up the disk choice screen for me.

Thanks,
Joseph Crawford

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:18:20 +0000

I didn’t have a SP2 version of windows (just XP professional) but tried it anyways. bad idea!!!

Everything went fine till it asked where to put windows. The partion that bootcamp said I created didn’t appear in windows setup….there was just one partion which was the entire drive which I had the option of formattting but figured it would delete OSX so I canceled setup.

Now when I turn on my computer there is a blank grey screen and it wont start up from the cd.

By: Devin Gantt

Devin Gantt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:58:04 +0000

Hello first i would like to commend you on your guide but i have a problem with my macintosh drivers cd when i put it in everything start working but then a box pops up saying fatal error and the driver disk uninstalls and i cant right click,go to the internet or anything please email with help coolkid9054@yahoo.com

By: Craig Lewis

Craig Lewis — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:46:46 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro 2.16ghz dual core processor’s brand new out of box, updated to 10.4.8, updated all firmware, checked SMC value against apple web site before loading xp 2nd addition. I’ve attempted to install several times but keep getting an error that the windows installation has been stopped to protect the computer, so windows never gets loaded, the error message is *00000006* which indicates an optical drive issue on a windows machine. I never get the chance to choose FAT of NFTS. The message occurs after windows has placed the drivers on the machine and then says loading windows. Anyone else have this problem?