BootCamp Problem after Leopard Upgrade.

I also got the disk error message. I had to boot w/ my Leopard Server CD to help recover. But I managed to boot into Leopard Server and use Bootcamp to remove it's partition. It's junk for me. Worked better in beta. Sigh...

I'm curious why you reformatted when it says at this link that you don't have to? I didn't reformat and everything went fine for me. I'm not trying to minimize your problem or anything, just wondering why you chose to reformat instead of following the installation procedure indicated below.



Just as a side note, the new drivers work very well, and the installation went without a hitch. I was already happy with the way Vista was working on the partition, but now I'm even more happy. I hope you get it worked out.




http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15553.html

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Sorry that you're having the problem. I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard without doing a clean install and everything went pretty smoothly. I had a little bit of a problem with lag at first, but the more I ran Onyx and the disk utility (from the leopard boot disc), the better everything got. If you have a back up of your previous instal (shame on you if you didn't 🙂 ), then I would reinstall that, reinstall the boot camp beta, get windows the way you want it, upgrade to leopard without doing a clean instal, and then instal the newer boot camp the way it specifies in that link I provided. It may seem like a lot of work, but you won't regret it, in my opinion anyway, and assuming that nothing else goes wrong.

I had a Mac Min latest revision w/ Tiger. Upgraded to Leopard. Archive and Install. Later did a complete system reinstallation, but this time with Leopard Server.
I had never had boot camp installed on this mini at this point. I launched boot camp assistant. Created the partition. Inserted XP SP2 32bit disk full installation. Install started. Was prompted to select drive. Formatted already as FAT32. Started installing. Rebooted. Then started getting unrecoverable disk error from boot media - i.e. the HD in the mini. I had to use the install disk to get back into Leopard Server. Lots of problems will retry it again soon.

hello!

many people have the same problem. before i describe how i solved it, i´ll try to explan it:

first you create your partition with bootcamp in leopard. if you reboot from the win cd and if you just go on installing you get this "media error" or something like this. this is, because you´re supposed to format the windows partition(created by bootcamp) again during the windows installation process.
here comes the problem:

within the windows installer there is no option just to format the win partition. you can only delete it and create a new one and then its possible to format it. BUT if you do that, the installation process will later result in an "missing or corrupt hal.dll file" error.(i won´t go into detail why it is that way)

WORKING SOLUTION: (thats how it worked for me on a macbookpro and an imac)

1. create your partition with leopard and bootcamp

2. continue windows installation process. When you get to the screen where you choose the partition, you just select the one created with bootcamp and continue installation.(without formatting the partition!!!). this will result in a "media Error" (i hope this term is correct)

3. then you reboot from the win cd, and after a while when it loaded everything, right before you come to the partition selection you hit f10(on some comps it´s R) continously. (after the first long loading process when the black screen appears with the blinking underscore in the corner)

4. then the recovery manager shuold come up. it is a black window with white text. youre asked what volume you wanna pick. you enter the number 1. the recovery manager only recognizes the windows partition, that´s why you enter 1. (no danger for your mac data)

5. then the screen should say :
c:\>windows>

you enter:
cd ..

then the screen says:
c:\>

6. now you enter:

format c: /FS:NTFS

this allows you to just format your windows partition without deleting it before. if you wanna use FAT filesystem you just exchange it witch NTFS in the command line

then press enter,
you´ll be asked if you wanna format, press yes.

7. once the formating process is over you enter:

exit

then press enter

8. from this point the istallation will continue without any problems


good luck

This is lame, i shoudn't even paid for Leopard, how come beta version is work, and retail version (bootcamp2.0) doesn't work? So disappointed

Thanks diagonalinho! I followed your directions and they worked beautifully.

The only thing I would add is that I found it difficult to boot from the Windows CD. I discovered that when you get the "press any key to boot from CD" message, pressing a key immediately won't work. For some reason you have to wait a couple of seconds first.

I agree Bootcamp 2.0 *****. After installing Leopard and upgrading the Bootcamp drivers XP crashes every time while loading the Apple drivers. Is it possible to install Bootcamp 1.4 beta after installing Leopard? I tried reinstalling XP and using the drivers from Bootcamp 1.4 beta but XP continues to crash while loading the Apple drivers. It is definitely a Bootcamp 2.0 problem.

I just spent the weekend dealing with this.

Credit to this Austrian guy diagonalinho who posted this above. I had a little trouble understanding his instructions (looks like English is not his first language) so I am posting the summary that I wrote for another person having the same problem. Credit goes to diagonalinho though.

First, I think someone already mentioned that the reason you are having the problem is because Boot Camp Assistant formatted the XP partition as FAT32. It needs to be NTFS. Windows Setup is supposed to ask you how to format the new partition (see page 13 of the Boot Camp manual). If your experience is like mine, Windows Setup never asks that question. It simply goes from you selecting the C: drive (Boot Camp manual page 11) to the installation process (a blue screen yellow bar marking progress as things are copied to the partition).

Here is a link to the manual that I'm referring to if you don't have it already: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/BootCampInstall-Setup.pdf

I do not know why the format step is being skipped in some installs but not in all. Call it an "undocumented feature" (e.g., bug).

Here is how to fix it:

Boot Camp Assistant should have instructed you to insert the XP CD in the drive and then it will restart. This is what you want. After some time, you will get a blue screen with white text in the upper left hand corner that says "Windows Setup." On the bottom of the screen there will be some words telling you this and that is loading. Keep an eye on this. It will slowly list a bunch of things that it is loading. Toward the end, it will say something like "Starting Windows Setup." At this point, press and hold the F10 button. Keep holding it until you get a black screen with white text.

You are now in the Recovery Manager. You will be asked what volume you want. The only choice you should have is 1. This is your new Windows partition, it is not your Mac OS partition. YYou may safely type "1" (without quotes) and press return. Then, the prompt will look like this:

C:\WINDOWS\

At the prompt, you type "cd.." (without quotes) and press return, the prompt will now look like this:

C:\

Now, we are going to reformat your windows partition as NTFS. To do so, at the prompt type the following without quotation marks "format c: /fs:ntfs" When typed into the prompt, it will look like this (pay close attention to spacing)

C:\format c: /fs:ntfs

It will give you a warning and ask if you are sure. Type "y" and press return. It will take some time to format and you will see a percentage counter counting up from 1% to 100%. When it is done, you will be back at the C:\ prompt where you will just type "exit" and press return.

Now, Windows Setup should proceed normally.

delete any partitions you have created with Boot Camp Assistant and then restart the process...do not manually try to create a partition


to have windows run successfully make sure u partition in 'FAT' format because even though NTFS is better and faster and can handle spaces larger than 32gb, 'FAT' is the only one thats compatible both ways - and make sure its the full installation not the 'quick' mode.