[mac4theblind] Re: Bootcamp: Oh how Totally! Bazaar!
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 06:38:39 -0700
Oh it works all right. I've used it. did you click options link after clicking
custom? it shoudl hve brought up an dialogue with options for reformating the
disk.
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On May 18, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> OK, now this! is r'r'really! strange! I have enough vision to deploy a
> windows setup from scratch as I'm low sighted. Plus I've memorized all the
> keystrokes. So, I go to utilities, bootcamp assistant. I tell it to make
> the bootcamp partition 40gb in size and use the rest for my Macintosh HD.
> Fine, no problem. I then ran the setup for my windows xp Pro SP3. All went
> just fine. The system formatted the bootcamp partition as n t f s, just like
> it should, I Assume! NTFS anyway? Don't say why did you format, it gave me
> no other choice. Yes, I'm 100% [psotove O was pm tje rogjt partition, the
> 40gb bootcamp one. So it did all that nice birdy butt pp dance. LOL! Then
> it rebooted, and actually started copying files and actually installing. I
> put the product key in, all that stuff went perfectly. It finishes setup,
> reboots, then when I held the option key down, then tabbed to xp, and hit
> return, it gives me the xp logo flying window with the black background that
> says Windows in white letters and XP in the red letters, that goes away, a
> blue screen flickers for about a tenth of a second, same shade of blue mind
> you as the old b s d screen backgrounds, kind of a mid to dark blue, goes
> away, then boom, I hear the system chime, and the bloody thing restarts all?
> over again. I don't get this. I thought the install may a failed somehow,
> but being I installed about 3 times and this happened every time? I have a
> somewhat old tinker windows machine which I popped the disk in, and try to
> repartition, and install xp from that CD and it went flawlessly, and I now am
> staring at my desktop on it, so it's working fine. It even went so far to
> pass activation, so, it's not a bad CD rom either, of Windows. I know the BC
> assistant said win Vista/7 Home Premium, Pro or Business. Does this mean
> that on snow leo, XP's not compatible with BC? Surely it can't mean that!
> Don't tell me that, please! LOL! Could it be that no Sata drivers were
> slipstreamed into that XP disk? I'd not think so, as if that was the issue
> it wouldn't a gotten as far as formatting the bootcamp partition as it
> wouldn't a known what to do with the sata controler on the logicboard, would
> itta?
>
> I'm pulling my hair out over here! Here's hoping! someone can enlighten me,
> as I'm sure endarkened right now. LOL! Heheheheh.
>
> Chris.
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