I have just recently gotten my new iMac and am getting aquainted with the Mac OS. I have to say I am pleased! However, I would like to have Windows XP on the computer as well, if only for the sole purpose of playing video games that have no Mac compatability, (IE anything distributed over Steam, including the Half-Life series which I am addicted to.)
I downloaded Boot Camp and made a Mac driver CD, and partitioned the hard drive to allow for 32 Gb of space for Windows with no error. (I believe 32 Gb is the maximum allowed space for FAT32.)
I inserted a brand new Windows XP disk, that I bought just today, and started up the Windows Installer. Everything went fine until the Installer gave me the strangest error. It went something like this: "could not recognize Windows XP disk, either there is no disk in the drive, or it is not a valid copy of XP. Please insert disk and press enter." This seemed to make absolutely no sense to me, seeing as how the computer booted up from the very disk that seemed no longer to exist! Of course I pressed enter, and the same error kept on popping up. And of course it was a valid copy since I bought it from the local CompUSA for 100$.
Can anyone tell me what the problem here is? It is very frustrating. Ill be happy to give any needed information about my iMac that is requested to help further its diagnosis.
Thank you.
I downloaded Boot Camp and made a Mac driver CD, and partitioned the hard drive to allow for 32 Gb of space for Windows with no error. (I believe 32 Gb is the maximum allowed space for FAT32.)
I inserted a brand new Windows XP disk, that I bought just today, and started up the Windows Installer. Everything went fine until the Installer gave me the strangest error. It went something like this: "could not recognize Windows XP disk, either there is no disk in the drive, or it is not a valid copy of XP. Please insert disk and press enter." This seemed to make absolutely no sense to me, seeing as how the computer booted up from the very disk that seemed no longer to exist! Of course I pressed enter, and the same error kept on popping up. And of course it was a valid copy since I bought it from the local CompUSA for 100$.
Can anyone tell me what the problem here is? It is very frustrating. Ill be happy to give any needed information about my iMac that is requested to help further its diagnosis.
Thank you.