The original Disco
XP Disk for Mac
Help! trying to install Windows XP on my iMac using Boot Camp...
The only copy of XP I have does not include SP2 - which is required to install the OS. I wont bore you all with the specifics of how to do it...
Does anyone have a disk image or copy of XP with SP2 ? Dont worry about the cd key, I have 'ways' around such things.
Cheers!
Disco
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
Every Day im Shuffling Shuffli
is it a vol license or oem cd you need
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needs to be an OEM xp disk with SP2. I have a volume licensed XP but does not have the SP2.
...when I try to boot my mac and install it, it does not recognise the fat32 partition on my macs hard drive - only the larger 200GB partition that has my mac OS on it. Im hoping that the later version of the XP disk will allow support for recognising this extra partition.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
STEVE!
I have a load of disks, including the oem sp2 discs on there own.
Originally Posted by NinjaNanna
McNoob
I definately DON'T have an iso kicking around
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dammit... bootcamp regected the iso image i burned to disk. Need a genuine copy...
...morcs!!!! you at home?
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
Beware the psychosis llama...
Why for the love of god would you want to do such a thing?!
*Still, I guess it's a better looking idea than a windoze box in the corner*
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I hate windows. Its a piece of crap.
....I just want to play "Half Life 2" again !
Got a pc with vista on it but thats about as good as a blimin gameboy.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
Big xx birdie man
why would you want to ruin a good mac by puttin that poison on it!
its Crazy Big Al but if your have lesbian fantasies you can read it crazy bi gal if you like!
McNoob
odd .. t'is the same iso I used here for 3 mini's ....
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All i did was double click the iso on my desktop, it mounted it and i opened the drive. dragged all the files to my burn folder and burnt them to disk.
Was not sure what to call the disk, called the first one "Winxpsp2" second time I tried "WXPVOL_EN". Bootcamp rejected both disks.
Now, ive just installed "alcahol120%" on a xp machine and transfering the iso through my network to the machine, to try burning the ISO that way.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
McNoob
open apps->utilies->disk utility
drag the iso onto the left hand pain
put in a blank disk.
then highlight the disk image in disk utility .. then click burn
doing what you did doesn't burn the Master Boot record, or hidden files etc
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Cheers for that...
"alcahol 120%" did the trick. Took 10 times as long... but yeah....
Im writing this post on my iMac in Windows XP ! hoooray! ! !
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
STEVE!
Why do you want xp?
If you want to run another os then go for linux... but then have fun sourcing drivers...
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Well my XP install is all up and running. Did a quick 3DMARK05 benchmark test - scored 6350
Not bad for a fresh XP install running on a Apple iMac !
Installed basic drivers, firewall and antivirus software... next I will dig out my copy of Half Life 2.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."
Jeremy Clarkson.
Kawasaki 200mph Club
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