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Question. Bootcamp. Mac OS X.

JasconiusJasconius sword criminalmad onlineRegistered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I tried to use Bootcamp on OS X 10.6 and is was almost a D: moment.

I ran the assistant, it partioned my drive, I went into Win XP setup, it ran the first step of it, restarted...

Got to the "Press any key to run CD..."

Let it go.


"Internal Disk Error"


D:

so I took the CD out and it booted to OSX...

I saw on the side that you have to hold down the option key to make the dialog appear to choose between Mac and Windows.... do I need to do this to reach the second step of installation or should it be automatically doing that after the Press any key prompt, and I just screwed it up?

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    This was happening to me too. You know what the trick is? Format the partition during the xp install. Srsly.

    Partition using boot camp assistant and reboot into the installer cd. Select the partition you set up for this purpose. Choose to do a quick format on the partition, set it to ntfs or fat32 as you prefer and continue otherwise as normal. It'll work.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    Also I did not google that answer I only came up with it when I hit the "it can't hurt anything and I've tried everything else" stage. You will need your OS X install disc handy after xp is installed. Just toss it in and it'll install the windows bootcamp assistant and drivers.

    Fun fact: this also works just fine with Windows 7. OS X can't yet partition to the filesystem 7 uses but it can make a FAT 32 partition that you can just reformat during install of 7. The drivers for Vista are fully compatible, even if 7 thinks they might not be.


    PPS get new videocard drivers from laptopvideo2go.com I found they made things run way better.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Cool.

    Yeah I was very hesitant to format because I noticed the partition wasn't empty, and I was thinking "oh, those must be special files!"

    Interesting that 7 works. I'll give it it a shot.

    Will W7 64-bit complain?

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Nope. I have 64-bit W7 on my MacBook right now, alongside 10.6.2.

    I've never successfully installed Windows on my machine with Boot Camp. I pretty much just use it to easily make the partition size I'd like... from then, I manually format the partition with the W7 installation disc. Then just manually install the drivers later.

    A few drivers that you may not find on your OS X disc: multi-touch for the trackpad; cursor sensitivity.

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Also if you're anything like me you may have an issue with the drivers on your W7 install. Let me know and I'll tell you how I fixed it.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    I have win7 64 bit installed and the os x disc installed my drivers for everything, including multi touch. No problems.

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I have Win7 (whatever the latest RC build was) via Parallels (the one that starts in MAC OS, not the bootable one) and it works just fine. Especially for those pesky windows only programs I use while traveling.

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    You'd have to enter terminal (via the method I'm thinking) and any error would seriously hiccup your system folder (or erase it). Don't bother? That's my advice.

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    dipalina wrote: »
    How do I delete Mac OS Classic? I've installed Mac OS X and I was wondering how i could delete Classic (Mac OS 9). It's after I installed 10.1 and I want to delete Classic, how could I?

    Are you still using 10.1?!? Man...you need to upgrade! Does new stuff even run on 10.1?

    I think you can get rid of Classic if you reinstall the OS, but honestly it's probably not worth going through the trouble. Classic disappeared in 10.4 or 10.5 anyway.

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