Alright, I've come here because this forum has helped me numerous times when it comes to my Mac problems. Usually I can find the answer if I search throughly enough, but I'm kinda stumped on this one.
Anyway, is there any way to install XP on a MBP without an actual, physical CD? Problem is, my drive's busted and wont read ANY CD's. I'm running Tiger, but I do have Boot Camp on it. This is what I have available:
-Boot Camp
-Win XP ISO
-Win XP Complete HD image (C: drive from previous working instalation)
I had a Boot Camp partition with XP on it before, but it got a virus, so i stupidly erased that XP partition before realizing my CD drive didnt work. The C: drive image I have is from said instalation, before the virus (kept on an external HD.
I tried partitioning with Boot Camp and was gonna paste the HD image onto the XP partition directly from OSX, (dunno if that works, but i figured it couldnt hurt) but if you don't put an XP CD in, aparently boot camp doesn't complete the partition process. Or at least you can't acces the would-be XP partiton from OSX.
Or is there a way that I could partition my drive (other than Boot Camp), and just paste the XP on there? iPartition won't let me partition my primary OS, because its running on it I guess.
Was hoping I could install without getting a new drive. Any ideas?
Anyway, is there any way to install XP on a MBP without an actual, physical CD? Problem is, my drive's busted and wont read ANY CD's. I'm running Tiger, but I do have Boot Camp on it. This is what I have available:
-Boot Camp
-Win XP ISO
-Win XP Complete HD image (C: drive from previous working instalation)
I had a Boot Camp partition with XP on it before, but it got a virus, so i stupidly erased that XP partition before realizing my CD drive didnt work. The C: drive image I have is from said instalation, before the virus (kept on an external HD.
I tried partitioning with Boot Camp and was gonna paste the HD image onto the XP partition directly from OSX, (dunno if that works, but i figured it couldnt hurt) but if you don't put an XP CD in, aparently boot camp doesn't complete the partition process. Or at least you can't acces the would-be XP partiton from OSX.
Or is there a way that I could partition my drive (other than Boot Camp), and just paste the XP on there? iPartition won't let me partition my primary OS, because its running on it I guess.
Was hoping I could install without getting a new drive. Any ideas?