Boot Camp Beta 1.1.2 Released

[astral]

How interoperable, exactly, are the OSs?...and what sort of functionality do you lose?

gad, i feel like such a n00b. I've been away from windows for a long, long time.

I have my windows XP on NTFS.
In OS X I can see and read my Windows partition, but i cannot write to it.
On windows, with MacDrive installed, my OS X partition is readable and writable.

Since my OS X partition is most of the drive, this works fine for me. Things that'll be written on by both I put on the OS X side, and I can always at least access any data.

NTFS will let you, among other things, work with large files (FAT32 is only up to 4GB) and you can compress files you don't use very often. I author DVDs occasionaly, so I chose NTFS.

 

[AidenShaw]

NTFS will let you, among other things, work with large files (FAT32 is only up to 4GB) and you can compress files you don't use very often. I author DVDs occasionaly, so I chose NTFS.

NTFS is also extremely robust.

For all the misinformed comments here about constant BSODs from Windows, has anyone ever claimed that a blue-screen corrupted the filesystem?

In the 14 years that I've been using NT, I've only had one serious NTFS corruption - and that was using a NT system on a prototype Alpha CPU that had a bad cache board. It was writing random data on the disk due to the bad cache.

(I'm not including disk crashes - no filesystem that I know of can withstand the volume destroying itself...)

 

[twoodcc]

NTFS is also extremely robust.

For all the misinformed comments here about constant BSODs from Windows, has anyone ever claimed that a blue-screen corrupted the filesystem?

In the 14 years that I've been using NT, I've only had one serious NTFS corruption - and that was using a NT system on a prototype Alpha CPU that had a bad cache board. It was writing random data on the disk due to the bad cache.

(I'm not including disk crashes - no filesystem that I know of can withstand the volume destroying itself...)

i'm curious, AidenShaw, do you like Apple? do you like their computers?

the reason i ask is that i've read a lot of your posts, and i believe that you know what you're talking about. but lately it seems that you have been backing up windows a lot

 

[absurdio]

I have my windows XP on NTFS.
In OS X I can see and read my Windows partition, but i cannot write to it.
On windows, with MacDrive installed, my OS X partition is readable and writable.

Since my OS X partition is most of the drive, this works fine for me. Things that'll be written on by both I put on the OS X side, and I can always at least access any data.

NTFS will let you, among other things, work with large files (FAT32 is only up to 4GB) and you can compress files you don't use very often. I author DVDs occasionaly, so I chose NTFS.

This is going to make me look nothing but worse... but...
does that mean that, for instance, if i have all my music on the mac partition, I can still play it from the windows partition?

 

[martijn.s]

u can listen to your music when using windows if you buy macdrive.

macdrive makes your mac data vulnerable to some windows viruses.

 

[martijn.s]

i'm curious, AidenShaw, do you like Apple? do you like their computers?

the reason i ask is that i've read a lot of your posts, and i believe that you know what you're talking about. but lately it seems that you have been backing up windows a lot

the only thing he is saying (in this message), and he is completely right, is that NTFS is a good file system. (especially compared to FAT).

 

[AidenShaw]

i'm curious, AidenShaw, do you like Apple? do you like their computers?

Oh please, after all this thread *is* about running XP on a MacIntel !!

 

[Compufix]

Windows is working perfect on my MacPro 2.66. I'm going to pass on this update... I'm reading nothing but problems. If it ain't broke... don't fix it.

Installed on a MacBook Pro and on a MacPro with 30" Cinema Display

On the MacBook Pro, the scrollling and right click from the trackpad works (yeahhhhhh) and everything else seems to work fine.

On the MacPro, the USB modem is now recognized and everything else is working as it should....the right click and scrolling on the MacBook Pro makes it worth it.

-compufix

 

[Compufix]

Dude, don't you read the thread BEFORE posting? This question has been answered a dozen times and you are wasting time and bandwidth.

So you mean nothing at all like that post? Dude relax.....just being friendly and helping others....lets not mention that before posting the QUESTION a search could have resulted in an answer......but I didnt flame the guy for asking, now did I......We are all in this together, helping each other...


-Compufix

 

[Compufix]

I have my windows XP on NTFS.
In OS X I can see and read my Windows partition, but i cannot write to it.
On windows, with MacDrive installed, my OS X partition is readable and writable.

My Windows partition is NTFS, I use a USB key if I need to, or a network share...I was tired of spotlight indexing the Windows volume, and tired of actually seeing the partition on my desktop that I choose to use a login script to umount the drive so I dont have to deal with it.

 

[mhenny253]

Is there anyway to only install the trackpad driver for two finger scrolling and right click? I've already extracted the drivers, I just don't know which driver i should update and what device (in device manager) needs to be updated.

 

[freakonguitar]

Still NO help to me, since im running xp pro, 64 bit. The installation claims that its not windows xp and won't load.

 

[thechris69]

Boot Camp is really coming along nicely.

By Leopard it should be great

when apple says bootcamp is going to ship with leopard, does that mean its pre-installed and ready to go, or do you have to still go out and buy windows xp?

 

[martijn.s]

when apple says bootcamp is going to ship with leopard, does that mean its pre-installed and ready to go, or do you have to still go out and buy windows xp?

you will have to buy XP, Apple isn't going to include it with every copy, not every leopard user wants to use windows, and Apple would never do such a thing anyway.

 

[digitalbiker]

Linux anyone?

Has anyone installed Red Hat Linux using either a bootcamp setup or parallels setup?

Just curious about your experiences. I need to run both windows (XP or NT) and Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3. Parallels appears to support both and I would think that Red Hat should see the Mac Hardware OK under bootcamp.

Hey for anyone who misses the interoperability of Mac OS X and Windows under bootcamp, may I suggest you buy an inexpensive USB2 Flash Drive. I currently have a 4GB flash drive that I use with a Windows / Red Hat dual boot workstation. The 4 GB drive works great for moving files back and forth very quickly.

 

[Cehtna]

Does Boot Camp support backlit keyboard?
What are the other keyboard issues with the Macbook Pro running XP..

Is XP Media Center supported?


Is there any features you loose when booting XP vs OSX?

 

[04440]

Boot Camp

I'm sure they're will be an option to download Boot Camp.. I don't think Apple would automatically have it installed.. So many Apple users hate the fact that they are trying to help get windows on their systems..


Oh and finally! WIreless INTERNET with no hassel.. thanks to this new boot camp

 

[CockDiesel]

ack

So I hope everyone got the msg with my last post "don't get ..crap install".

For the others who installed ...how is your trackpad working? My trackpad is just soo bad. Sometimes it won't even detect movement... and the two finger scroll is really sketchy. Is this what others are getting? Or does your scroll work as good as OSx scrolling?

Anyone know how to rollback to the old version once you upgrade?

 

[Compufix]

For the others who installed ...how is your trackpad working? My trackpad is just soo bad. Sometimes it won't even detect movement... and the two finger scroll is really sketchy. Is this what others are getting? Or does your scroll work as good as OSx scrolling?

Just today my trackpad started to stutter and lock up, but all day today, and all day yesterday it was fine. 2 finger scrolling and right clicking is working great for me...(MacBook Pro).

-Compufix

 

[RckClimber85]

Frusterated

I am feeling very frusterated that not only do I have a problem with the bootcamp 1.1.2, I think I am the only one that has this issue which makes me think I did something wrong. I installed bootcamp drivers from the start, where isight showed up as a camera tht would bluescreen in mycomputer. Now that I have installed 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 that Icon is no longer there and I can't get it. Also, my trackpad will not scroll or right click, I am not even sure if it did this previously (I mainly use Mac OSX) but it is frusterating to hold the two fingers, scroll down and the cursor just wiggles side to side, it wont scroll down the page. I tried uninstalling, restarting and installing from new burnt drivers DVD and this was my 3rd time. Is there anything I could be doing wrong? Everything else such as wireless and bluetooth and videocard are being recognized and are working fine. Thanks all for your help!

 

[fentex]

Bootcamp 1.1.2 trackpad problems.

I too have trackpad problems with 1.1.2 (on my black macBook 13", WinXP Pro SP2).

1.1.1 worked perfectly for me - all hardware worked fine (camera, sound, video etc) but after installing drivers from 1.1.2 my trackpad did not gain two-finger right click and I lost the previously useful right-command mouse-click for right clicking.

Very very annoying, I've had to employ a third party key-remapper to get right clicks back.

 

[javierbds]

Same here. I still have a Windows partition on my hard drive but it has been a long time since I've booted up in Windows. I've been able to do everything I've needed to do in Parallels.

What are some of the reasons one would still need to use Boot Camp? Is it simply because it's free and Parallels isn't? Or are there some technical advantages to booting up directly into Windows?

GAMING
(I have had Beyond Good and Evil for a couple of years and the 2 PCs I tried it on would not run it even though they met the specs ... Now I'm playing it on my iMac)

I'm gonna pass on this BootCamp update for now ... (I do not find I need it yet).

 

[CockDiesel]

Now I have had my 3rd blue screen. Does anyone know how to rollback the windows side update ? .. I don't have the old driver cd. Or does anyone know what is giving all the trouble?

 

[CJConline]

Mac Pro Windows install problem with GForce7300

I have note the problems with the ATI X1900 cards but have not seen anyone reporting problem with the GForce 7300 card which may(?) be my problem.

Having absolutely no luck installing Windows XP SP2 on a basic Mac Pro configuration – 2GHz, 1GB apple RAM, apple keyboard, apple GForce 7300 video card, 2 button (non-apple) USB mouse. Am running the latest OSX updates 10.4.8 with latest EFI and SMC firmware updates. Using bootcamp 1.1.2, I can partition disk and burn the Mac drivers but when I click the install button and the system restarts to do the windows install the screen stays blank and I occasionally get a small no video message on the LCD screen (a 21" Viewsonic VX2025 connected via a DVI cable to the video card output on the back of my Mac Pro).

Doing a manually restart (holding the option key down and selecting the Window CD drive to boot from) and then tapping the keyboard a few times will sometime but not always bring the screen back and allow the first stage of the install to start. I can then format the C drive (I use FAT not NTFS format) and the install then proceed to copy all the Windows necessary file to the new drive.

However, after all the files have been copied when it attemps to reboot, I am back to the blank screen and no video and tapping the keyboard doesn't seem to do anything.

It is really upsetting as I tested bootcamp on a loan MacBook Pro 17" (just before the Mac Pro's were released) and it installed and ran OK and on that basis decided to give the Mac environment a go while still being able to run some of my Windows specific programs.

I have tried parallels for Mac and was involved in their testing to get the product running on the Mac Pro but their lack of proper working USB functionality, is what prevent me from using what is otherwise a really great product.

Chris

 

[Master Atrus]

Boot Camp Issues

Hi All,

I've noticed with Bootcamp, at least with my MacBook Pro 17", that when I burn the drivers at full speed I always have trouble with the drivers ... blue screens of death and everything. I tell it to burn at 8x (or slowest possible) and everything works like a charm. Just some food for thought.

Atrus