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Boot Camp broken in Leopard? "Disk Error"

Tried Slipstreaming

I got farther on my install but it gives me issues with the USB driver. Then i click no dont install and it turns off the keyboard and mouse. WTF??? any ideas?
 
jodders said:
if this option is not in bootcamp assistant, how do you get around this?
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You don't. You start the Windows installation process as normal, then format the Windows partition from within Windows. Boot Camp formats the partition as FAT32, but not in a way that can boot Windows - hence the requirement that the partition be formatted from within Windows, to make it bootable, as it says in the Boot Camp install instructions.
 
ok then, please excuse my stupidity on this, i have recently switched from windows..

Do i just stick in the Windows CD, without going through bootcamp assistant? ie.restart my imac ?
 
jodders said:
ok then, please excuse my stupidity on this, i have recently switched from windows..

Do i just stick in the Windows CD, without going through bootcamp assistant? ie.restart my imac ?
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No, that doesn't work. Have you partitioned your drive / prepared a second internal drive using the Boot Camp Assistant yet? If not, you need to do this. You'll then be prompted to insert the Windows disc - do this, and click Start Windows Installation. Your Mac boots into Windows, where you can complete the install process and format the Windows partition properly.

Make sure you print the setup instructions before going through this process - it helps a LOT in explaining exactly what you have to do.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
No, that doesn't work. Have you partitioned your drive / prepared a second internal drive using the Boot Camp Assistant yet? If not, you need to do this. You'll then be prompted to insert the Windows disc - do this, and click Start Windows Installation. Your Mac boots into Windows, where you can complete the install process and format the Windows partition properly.

Make sure you print the setup instructions before going through this process - it helps a LOT in explaining exactly what you have to do.
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thanks for your message wrldwzrd...I have downloaded the bootcamp manual as requested, and things are a lot clearer, although Im having trouble my XP Cd i think. Basically, i installed XP2 first using parallels and it works perfectly. I think the "format option" appeared. I just now tried installing a separate virtualisation of xp2 and it came up with a format option so im pretty sure its not the CD. I used bootcamp to install xp2 the same cd,and went through the whole process, but still time,the format option did not appear. Could this be due,to it already being installed on my system?

j
 
Only works updating

I updated to Leopard in my iMac 20 and good results.

But when installing for the first time, negative.
My son installed in two MacBooks. NADA. I know Windows world and tried to help but no results.
Same disk error message in a black screen
No options to solve it because, according with the instructions on page 11
the blue screen with Select"C Partition3 k<BOOTCAMP> [FAT32]. never appears. From yesterday to now, almost 30 attempts. Sorry but I think the guys upthere should release a new version, this one is not what
should be.
 
Wait for new version

If you upgrade from 1.2 Leopard works OK.
If you install at the first time 2.0 NO-NO.
The better is wait for a new version.
(There was a very dangerous moment when the partition blue windows selected only my MacOs HD inviting me to reformat. You know what that mean?
ERASE ALL MY MacOs FILES..... UF! Really scary!
Yes, better wait for a new version.
 
Solution: Do not use the options named "Leave the current file system intact (no changes)" or "Convert the partition to NTFS.". You need to format
 
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