Cannot install XP - Windows Installer Disc

[andy317]

Hi All,

I am having trouble installing Windows XP on my new Imac.

The disk is a copy from work with a valid licence key but it says to insert the Installer Disc and try again.

I don't have a clue what to do. It does work on my Windows laptop though.

Any help would be appreciated!!

Regards
Andy

 

[richard.mac]

is it Windows XP SP2? has to be version SP2 to work with Boot Camp.

 

[steveza]

Do you know that it is a good copy? Can you boot a PC off it? That would be my first guess.

 

[andy317]

Sorry,

Yes it has SP2 on the disk and also it is a good copy as it does boot on my laptop.

 

[richard.mac]

have you followed to Boot Camp documentation properly? open Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder and click "Print Installtion & Setup Guide".

you can read it without printing by going to /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj and opening Documentation.pdf if you like.

 

[andy317]

Yes, I followed the docs correctly and once I get to the stage of installing the error occurs and states I need the "Windows Installer Disc".

 

[Stridder44]

I'm having problems too. After it copies all the files and restarts I get "Disc Error. Press any key to reboot". I've followed the Boot Camp instructions as well.

What's worse is that I can't get it to format to NTFS or else it deletes this little 128MB "space" that BootCamp made, and then I get "hal.dll missing or corrupt" errors. @#$%!

What's more annoying is I've already installed and ran Windows (in NTFS mind you) before just fine. So why all these errors!?

 

[babli20]

You need to make bootable XP SP2 disk. Here's the link which provides exact details around how to make a bootable copy. Previously i had made data copy of my windows xp cd that didn't work . I especially followed steps 4 and 5 in the below link that worked for me.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp