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- 27" iMac, Core i7, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB of space, if problem is resolved - Windows XP Home Edition ^^
Hey guys, I have a 27" iMac, i7, 4gig of DDR3 RAM, 1TB of space and I'm trying to install Windows XP via bootcamp on it.
I have a LEGIT copy of XP Home Edition OEM that should work fine!
Heres what happens: I open Bootcamp, designate 100GB (or around that) to my new partition. Plenty of space for everything.
I then insert my disk and click "Install"
My mac reboots into the Windows XP set up, all is well.
The set up starts, all is well, I select my partition (making sure its the right one by name and size) and click install.
After about 10-20 minutes, it changes to another screen with the count-down timer and says "Windows needs to reboot to complete the installation. Press enter to reboot now".
I either wait till the count-down timer finishes (it just counts down how long till it automatically restarts) OR I press enter and restart it myself.
PROBLEM HERE: When windows starts up again, a black screen comes up and says "Press any key to boot from disk....", I have done this and the same thing as above happens but then instead of rebooting again and saying "boot from disk" it says "Disk Error. Press any key to restart."
IF I dont go into the second installation (after the restart) then a message comes up and says "Disk error. Press any key to restart. Disk error, insert proper boot device and press any key."
Normally the "insert proper nook device" error means your hard drive is not connected, but it boots into Mac OSX fine.
Is it a problem with Bootcamp or is it because I dont have a service pack copy of Windows?
I really only need this for a few games from time to time and pretty much nothing else!
Any help would be much appreciated, and I'm willing to answer any questions! =]
Thanks guys!
- James.
I have a LEGIT copy of XP Home Edition OEM that should work fine!
Heres what happens: I open Bootcamp, designate 100GB (or around that) to my new partition. Plenty of space for everything.
I then insert my disk and click "Install"
My mac reboots into the Windows XP set up, all is well.
The set up starts, all is well, I select my partition (making sure its the right one by name and size) and click install.
After about 10-20 minutes, it changes to another screen with the count-down timer and says "Windows needs to reboot to complete the installation. Press enter to reboot now".
I either wait till the count-down timer finishes (it just counts down how long till it automatically restarts) OR I press enter and restart it myself.
PROBLEM HERE: When windows starts up again, a black screen comes up and says "Press any key to boot from disk....", I have done this and the same thing as above happens but then instead of rebooting again and saying "boot from disk" it says "Disk Error. Press any key to restart."
IF I dont go into the second installation (after the restart) then a message comes up and says "Disk error. Press any key to restart. Disk error, insert proper boot device and press any key."
Normally the "insert proper nook device" error means your hard drive is not connected, but it boots into Mac OSX fine.
Is it a problem with Bootcamp or is it because I dont have a service pack copy of Windows?
I really only need this for a few games from time to time and pretty much nothing else!
Any help would be much appreciated, and I'm willing to answer any questions! =]
Thanks guys!
- James.