Hi All,
Been looking around for some help with my MBP and bootcamping Xp on it. Loads of thread on the issues but non of the solutions posed work for me. I'd descrbe myself as very good with a computer, I worked reparing computer hardware for years and now do programming but this problem has me stumped.
Its the standard problem that other uses on these forums have had, start the Xp instillation, choose the correct bootcamp partition, format it, it copies files, restarts and then.....
"No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
I'v tried all the possible solutions I've seen on these forums and others but none work. I'v tried around 8 different Disks, some original MS disks, some sp2 and sp3, one's Windows 7, other's burned from our MS partnership pack thingie, and the burned ones are all different brands of disk. I'v tried taking the disk out after the restart, leaving it in. Re installing from scratch, fromatting in fat 32, NTFS, different size bootcamp partitions, formatting the machine and re installing OS X 10.5. OS X is fully up to date too. My bootcamp is version 2.0 according to the info pane in OS X.
If I think of anything else I have forgotten I'll post it up, this driving me nuts
I'm going on a trip in 4 days and would really prefferrr to take my Mac instead of the crappy laptop I've got as a standy by ( I'v been trying all of the above for 8 days now, a different thing every day! ! ! )
The Mac is an Intel Core 2 Duo, late 2007, 2.2 Mhz with 2 GB of ram, if that helps at all.
I take it the bootcamp is the highest version available to that version of OS X 10.5? I know technically that Win 7 is't compattable with 10.5 but I gave it a try anyway.
Been looking around for some help with my MBP and bootcamping Xp on it. Loads of thread on the issues but non of the solutions posed work for me. I'd descrbe myself as very good with a computer, I worked reparing computer hardware for years and now do programming but this problem has me stumped.
Its the standard problem that other uses on these forums have had, start the Xp instillation, choose the correct bootcamp partition, format it, it copies files, restarts and then.....
"No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
I'v tried all the possible solutions I've seen on these forums and others but none work. I'v tried around 8 different Disks, some original MS disks, some sp2 and sp3, one's Windows 7, other's burned from our MS partnership pack thingie, and the burned ones are all different brands of disk. I'v tried taking the disk out after the restart, leaving it in. Re installing from scratch, fromatting in fat 32, NTFS, different size bootcamp partitions, formatting the machine and re installing OS X 10.5. OS X is fully up to date too. My bootcamp is version 2.0 according to the info pane in OS X.
If I think of anything else I have forgotten I'll post it up, this driving me nuts
I'm going on a trip in 4 days and would really prefferrr to take my Mac instead of the crappy laptop I've got as a standy by ( I'v been trying all of the above for 8 days now, a different thing every day! ! ! )
The Mac is an Intel Core 2 Duo, late 2007, 2.2 Mhz with 2 GB of ram, if that helps at all.
I take it the bootcamp is the highest version available to that version of OS X 10.5? I know technically that Win 7 is't compattable with 10.5 but I gave it a try anyway.
