XP installer cant find my partition. Ugh.

[adamvk]

Now I know windows has its problems, but....

I used the boot camp manager to make a windows partition, and I made it 80GB. Then I restarted the computer and the XP installer opened. When I select where to install XP, the only option is a 130GB Disc. Leopard is 150GB and XP is 80GB, so where did it find this drive? Disk Utility clearly shows 2 partitions, nothing else. I didn't select it obviously because I don't want to screw up Leopard, but what should I do? Should I just bring it to the Apple store and have them do it for me?

Thanks.

 

[SHADO]

Now I know windows has its problems, but....

I used the boot camp manager to make a windows partition, and I made it 80GB. Then I restarted the computer and the XP installer opened. When I select where to install XP, the only option is a 130GB Disc. Leopard is 150GB and XP is 80GB, so where did it find this drive? Disk Utility clearly shows 2 partitions, nothing else. I didn't select it obviously because I don't want to screw up Leopard, but what should I do? Should I just bring it to the Apple store and have them do it for me?

Thanks.

Hmm that is weird. Did you try re-partitioning?

 

[adamvk]

Hmm that is weird. Did you try re-partitioning?

Sure did.

 

[neilhart]

Are you using 10.5? Do you have a XP SP2 CD?

Neil

 

[adamvk]

Are you using 10.5? Do you have a XP SP2 CD?

Neil

I'm running 10.5.6. It is a Windows XP SP1 disc. I do have a separate SP2 disc that I can install once XP is running.

 

[Heinekev]

You have to install using an SP2 CD, can't upgrade after the fact. XP SP1 is not supported and will destroy your data.

 

[Tallest Skil]

XP SP1 is not supported and will destroy your data.

Untrue on both accounts, but you really don't want to use SP1.

Find an SP2 disk or better.

 

[adamvk]

Untrue on both accounts, but you really don't want to use SP1.

Find an SP2 disk or better.

I don't have any SP2 installer discs though

 

[Amdahl]

I don't have any SP2 installer discs though

You have to get one or make one. You can 'slipstream' SP3 onto an existing SP1 disc, and then burn the results to a new disc. Google "slipstream SP3 nlite"

Untrue on both accounts, but you really don't want to use SP1.

Actually, SP1 is 'unsupported' by Apple. SP2 has always been the minimum XP supported. I recall it was because of something stupid (like no way to eject a disc to provide drivers in mid-install), so maybe it can be worked around.

 

[Heinekev]

Untrue on both accounts, but you really don't want to use SP1.

Find an SP2 disk or better.

No, it's true on both accounts. Try it. It does not properly recognize the new partition and will corrupt if you try to install. It may work if you have a secondary HDD solely for Windows, but that's not the case here and nor was it the case when I tried.