Hello all! I posted this in the Apple Support forums with hopes of replies but didn't get any. Thought I'd ask here.
What happened: I have a white July 2007 Macbook, currently running Snow Leopard. I have been running Windows XP smoothly since I first got the Macbook (I've done various re-installs and never had issues, I even tried Windows 7 and went back to XP shortly after with no problems). The other day, my Windows XP partition refused to boot, saying it was missing a critical file (which I didn't note and thus don't remember). I did what I usually do when I have a Windows issue: I removed the partition, made a new one, and re-installed. I tried this 3 times. The first time was fine but I couldn't use Bootcamp as my virtual machine under either VMware Fusion nor Parallels...it said the drive was corrupted. My second re-install of Windows brought about a WMI error that made everything go nuts. The third install crashed after Windows XP unpacked the files and tried to reboot for the install.
I went back into OSX, removed the partition AGAIN, and scanned my disk- the first time it said it was fine, then it said it had an error at CACHE003, then again said it was fine. I repaired permissions, I booted from my OSX disk, and repaired the disk.
Then for good measure I just re-installed OSX with an erase and install. After it was all re-installed (with no issues) I made a partition and tried to install Windows XP. It crashed with a dump error of some type, several times (btw I'd made clean, working installs of Windows XP from this disc in the past). Then, I tried to install Windows 7- it gave me a WMIlib.sys error and crashed. Then I tried Windows XP again and it gave me yet another error. Somewhere in my installations I also received a WDF01000 or something like that.
My drive appears to be fine and I have zero issues with OSX. I have reformatted the drive each time I attempted the new install, but it's like something is wrong on that partition even though it's been wiped and rewiped that is keeping me from running Windows on it. I chose different sizes of partition each time, too (anywhere between 32 and 45 gigs). I have plenty of space on my HDD.
Someone please advise.
What happened: I have a white July 2007 Macbook, currently running Snow Leopard. I have been running Windows XP smoothly since I first got the Macbook (I've done various re-installs and never had issues, I even tried Windows 7 and went back to XP shortly after with no problems). The other day, my Windows XP partition refused to boot, saying it was missing a critical file (which I didn't note and thus don't remember). I did what I usually do when I have a Windows issue: I removed the partition, made a new one, and re-installed. I tried this 3 times. The first time was fine but I couldn't use Bootcamp as my virtual machine under either VMware Fusion nor Parallels...it said the drive was corrupted. My second re-install of Windows brought about a WMI error that made everything go nuts. The third install crashed after Windows XP unpacked the files and tried to reboot for the install.
I went back into OSX, removed the partition AGAIN, and scanned my disk- the first time it said it was fine, then it said it had an error at CACHE003, then again said it was fine. I repaired permissions, I booted from my OSX disk, and repaired the disk.
Then for good measure I just re-installed OSX with an erase and install. After it was all re-installed (with no issues) I made a partition and tried to install Windows XP. It crashed with a dump error of some type, several times (btw I'd made clean, working installs of Windows XP from this disc in the past). Then, I tried to install Windows 7- it gave me a WMIlib.sys error and crashed. Then I tried Windows XP again and it gave me yet another error. Somewhere in my installations I also received a WDF01000 or something like that.
My drive appears to be fine and I have zero issues with OSX. I have reformatted the drive each time I attempted the new install, but it's like something is wrong on that partition even though it's been wiped and rewiped that is keeping me from running Windows on it. I chose different sizes of partition each time, too (anywhere between 32 and 45 gigs). I have plenty of space on my HDD.
Someone please advise.