On my MacBook I used the Boot Camp Assitant. I partitioned 20GB for XP. I put in the disc and I chose C/: and it said it had around 130,000 MB. I'm pretty sure that meant megabits. It finished installing and then it restarted. Nothing happend...just the sound and then after a while it went to a black screen and said "No bootable devices found - insert boot disc and press any key"...thats probably what it was. I realized that SP2 wasn't on the disc. Then I even tried pressing and holding OPTIONS and a mouse pointer showed up...nothing else. I booting from the OS X disc and the screen was stuck on the grey apple and the circle. I have no idea what to do. Please help me!
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OS X Won't Boot Up On MacBook! Help!
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Did you hold down "c'' key with the OS X disc in the drive when you started up the computer? Just give it a while. When booting from the install disc it can take a while to start up.
I used the app called Boot Camp Assistant. I had a burned CD of the retail version of XP but lost the original disc. But it only had SP1 on it and I found out that you need SP2 for it to install...I have a disc of the SP2 installation. It's separate from the XP disc.
I had also made a copy of the OS X disc and lost the original one. I put that in and booted it with the OPTIONS button...it was on the apple and the disc for a while and now it just shows the aurora background and the mouse pointer is on the loading symbol (the color wheel).
I believe you need a full version of Windows SP2 in order for boot camp assistant to run correctly.
If you click on the link I gave you, and then look there, everything you need will be there. It should be a fairly simple proccess. It sounds like you might need to reformat the Hard Drive.
Hey,
Hold down the Shift Key when your computer is booting up.
This should allow OSX to go into safe-boot,
When it is going into Safe-boot, it will perform a disk Check (FSCK)
you can also boot into your OS X installation disk and check your OSX partition manually with Disk Utility.
as everyone else said, for XP you need an SP2 disc to finish bootcamp assistant correctly, but the main thing here is get OSX up and running first, windows can wait...
Hold down the Shift Key when your computer is booting up.
This should allow OSX to go into safe-boot,
When it is going into Safe-boot, it will perform a disk Check (FSCK)
you can also boot into your OS X installation disk and check your OSX partition manually with Disk Utility.
as everyone else said, for XP you need an SP2 disc to finish bootcamp assistant correctly, but the main thing here is get OSX up and running first, windows can wait...
you partitioned 20 gb for windows, then chose a 130 gb install partition during windows setup? I think it's pretty clear what you did - you overwrote your OSX partition. it's gone, hope you had a backup of it before you started..