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Attention Windows XP users. DO NOT UPDATE TO BOOT CAMP 3.1

I have had nothing but problems with Bootcamp 3.1 on Windows XP. Boot Camp 3.1 ruined my XP installation. At first the Trackpad didnt work. While the update was installing it said Apple Trackpad could not be installed. It said there was a fatal error. It said that for the keyboard but the basic functionality worked. I uninstalled boot camp services from control panel and restarted as prompted. When the MacBook rebooted I inserted by SL dvd and reran the orginal installer. I got the same error during installtion and now the keyboard dosnt work. Now im gonna have to reinstall XP. I've tried everything I kno to get the drivers to install with no luck. They drivers refuse to install. The bottom line is if your an XP user DO NOT UPDATE TO 3.1.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 22, 2010 8:39 PM

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Posted on Jan 23, 2010 6:32 AM

I can confirm this. I had Bootcamp 3.0 installed on Windows XP SP3, and after updating to Bootcamp 3.1 the OS has continuously failed to boot normally. If I try a normal boot the blue XP status bar freezes partway through loading. I can boot safemode, but uninstalling the NVidia drivers there did not help anything. I'm fairly knowledgeable about Windows overall and I've been completely unable to do anything to get normal boot restored. I would attempt to use system restore but I'm now getting an error on that.

It's not the end of the world since I don't really have much going on in the XP partition and can scrap it and restart, but this is sorta annoying to be stuck with a full reinstall due to an update.
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Attention Windows XP users. DO NOT UPDATE TO BOOT CAMP 3.1

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