Using a burned Windows XP disc for Boot Camp

[Whitey594]

I've tried installing XP on my MBP using Bootcamp, but I guess the XP CD that I have is actually an upgrade CD and not the full system CD that I need for Bootcamp.

Now, I am definitely going to ask around to see if anyone I know has a XP CD, which shouldn't be a problem, but just on the off chance I can't find one(will ebay have em?) could I torrent XP and just burn it to a disc and then insert that when Bootcamp tells me to?

 

[redboxcar]

Theoretically, yes. Find an ISO and burn it. I've done it with a non-torrented copy of XP. It was on a burned disc and worked just fine.

 

[StruckANerve]

I did this and it worked fine. I went digging for my old copy of XP and sadly the disc was cracked. I downloaded a torrent .iso and burned it and the install went just fine.

 

[Whitey594]

Thanks! Glad to know it is possible and will work I downloaded and burned a disc just now, so we'll see how that pans out

 

[Whitey594]

I tried using my burned Windows XP disc but when I put it in for installation, it goes to a black screen and says 'no bootable device found, please insert disc and press any key'

It doesn't recognize the disc I guess. Can anyone help me with writing a bootable disc? I do have an iso so I don't know whats wrong
Not sure what to do now.

 

[StruckANerve]

Did you burn the Iso to a CD or a dvd? I think XP was released on CD's and that's what you have to burn it on.

 

[aiterum]

when you are burning the disc, make sure that you're using disk utility to burn the actual image file of the CD to the CD and that you are not just burning the .iso onto the CD directly. If you burn the actual image, it should already make the disc bootable since that is how the image itself is by default from microsoft.