- #Windows xp disc for mac mac os x#
- #Windows xp disc for mac install#
- #Windows xp disc for mac drivers#
#Windows xp disc for mac install#
A bona fide installation disc for Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Home or Professional (No multi-disc, upgrade or Media Center versions.)Īccording to the Apple website, “Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.A printer for the instructions (You’ll want to print them before installing Windows, really.).The latest Firmware update (check Support Downloads).
#Windows xp disc for mac mac os x#
Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.6 (check Software Update).Requirements for this download to work are: This is big news for those that were considering Apple, but hesitated at losing the ability to run certain Windows based programs they needed and is likely to make Apple notebooks (the MacBook Pro and upcoming iBook) much more appealing.īoot Camp promotion image displayed on Apple websiteĪt the moment Boot Camp is classified as a Beta release and can be downloaded here. This will activate all the Ethernet ports, wireless, display, sound card, etc.Apple today announced availability of a download feature named Boot Camp that will allow Apple MacBook and other Apple Intel platform owners to run Windows XP on their computers.
#Windows xp disc for mac drivers#
Once you conclude installation, one step that I didn't see in other hints that stumped me (mainly because it's the RTFM issue, and was my fault) was that you can get all the hardware drivers installed by simply inserting your Mac OS Leopard installer disc after rebooting into Windows XP. This way you can have four separate Mac OS partitions (I have System, Applications, User, and EFI header - which is created for all IntelMacs) and the Boot Camp (FAT) partition, and you can still install XP manually. Now when you boot up using the Windows XP installer, it will only see the partitions that were formatted in FAT (under 30Gb please!), and will lump all the other Mac OS partitions together as "unrecognized disk space" and ignore them. For this, I found that if you use iPartition v3, you can make your Mac OS partitions "vanish." Launch the program, and in the partition inspector, uncheck the 'Viewable by Windows' box for all of the Mac OS partitions. The way to get around this three-partition limitation in the XP installer is to trick it into thinking that the Mac OS parititions do not exist. If you try, it will force you to reformat the entire drive (including the MacOS portion) to NTFS. However, due to XP limitations, if you have more than two Mac OS partitions in addition to the Boot Camp partition (ie more than three partitions total), XP cannot handle it, as XP can only detect up to three partitions. (You will have to make sure the FAT partition is less than 30G, and that you do a Quick Reformat into FAT before install into C:).
Many of the installations with only one or two Mac OS partitions (in addition to Boot Camp) can be done by simply starting up the Mac with the XP installer disc and installing into the C: drive that it recognizes. If you already have partitioned your hard drive, you need a manual installation method. For those who already have partitioned their disks manually, this is truly inconvenient. When you try to install Windows XP for Boot Camp using Boot Camp Assistant, you are required to have a single partition to start out with.
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