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I would like to install Windows XP as a dual boot using Bootcamp Assistant. I've done it before, but this time around I have a big problem. The actual Windows XP OEM disc I have will not mount in the DVD drive. I've tried every possible solution I can think of to get around this, but it's no use. I can hear the drive attempt to mount the disc three times. Then, it spits the disc back out.
The same disc mounts just fine on my MacBook and on another machine running Linux. The same disc even starts up and attempts to do the installation on my MacBook using Bootcamp Assistant. I just haven't found a way to get it to mount on the iMac.
Other CD's mount just fine on the iMac. In fact, I was forced to reinstall Snow Leopard on that same machine prior to trying Bootcamp Assistant because I had a non-standard partitioning scheme. The Snow Leopard disc mounted and ran just fine.
So, any ideas/thoughts/anything? I'm really out of ideas. I tried burning a new copy of the Windows XP disc (disc copy), tried burning it to a thumb drive for install through USB, and tried burning the ISO to a DVD instead of a CD. Nothing is helping.
Thanks,
Dave
The same disc mounts just fine on my MacBook and on another machine running Linux. The same disc even starts up and attempts to do the installation on my MacBook using Bootcamp Assistant. I just haven't found a way to get it to mount on the iMac.
Other CD's mount just fine on the iMac. In fact, I was forced to reinstall Snow Leopard on that same machine prior to trying Bootcamp Assistant because I had a non-standard partitioning scheme. The Snow Leopard disc mounted and ran just fine.
So, any ideas/thoughts/anything? I'm really out of ideas. I tried burning a new copy of the Windows XP disc (disc copy), tried burning it to a thumb drive for install through USB, and tried burning the ISO to a DVD instead of a CD. Nothing is helping.
Thanks,
Dave