Can i install windows XP on Lion?

Understood. I still have the BC drivers on a cd that I used 3 years ago for my other mac. That machine is presently running Snow Leopard, however, I do have the Install disk for Leopard. Any recommendations? Basically. I have a 2 week old MBP running Lion & I need to set up a small partition running xp.

If you go through this thread from the beginning, there is a guide in some of the posts, including a couple of mine, as to how to get XP working inLion with a MBPro, early 2011 or later.

It takes some doing and multiple steps--there is no simple way to do it and get everything, including the touch pad, working well. And first you have to get the network set up, which can be a problem if all you have is wi-fi. Expect to spend a fair amount of time.

However, the payoff is that in the end you'll have a working Boot Camp with only a less-than-optimal touch pad function, which you can overcome using a mouse.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

I have installed XP using Oracle's VM VirtualBox. I am very happy with this way of running XP. It works seamlessly on Lion just like running it natively on a PC. I love it and highly recommed it. I think it is even a better option to running a dual boot.

ALSO, WinClone has been updated. So make sure when you do have Snowie and XP to make a backup image of XP if you need to restore later.

People have cloned Snow to external, then upgraded the external to Lion, and restored Lion to where Snow use to be. You may want to clone Snow to a 2nd external also "for safety and future sake" so you have a bootable copy with older Boot Camp Assistant 3.x

New Macs, yes, new motherboard. Older? no such restriction that they needed new drivers. $$-decision? Tied to Mac frimware, not the host OS.

XP in a VM today probably runs well on quad-core with 4-8GB RAM, too.

Or buy 11" tablet that runs Windows 8 Mobile come summer for a cool $1100.

XP is 20x more likely to suffer malware of some form than today's 64-bit OS.

good to know. thanks

Xp was the last truly functional windows OS, no wonder they kept it around for so long.

I got this thing called rEFIt it works great and let's you triple boot your mac :)

Before finding this thread, I had some luck installing XP on my early 2011 MBP SL by using a procedure someone else had tried with a 2011 MacBook Air using the Boot Camp 3.2 drivers. Many items (including wi-fi and even the facetime camera) are working.

However, in Device Manager I am still seeing a few items with question marks. The two that I am most concerned with getting working are the Video Controller and Ethernet, although the latter can wait since wi-fi is working.

Can anyone tell me which version of the Intel HD Graphics 3000 driver they used? The one noted in Subsurface's 9/28/11 post (winxp_14466) and the most recent one at Intel's download center (14.​46.​9.​5394) both give me a message that my computer does not meet the minimum requirements to install the driver. Has anyone else had any luck with these specific drivers?

KenV54, do you happen to know the versions of the Intel graphics and Broadcom ethernet drivers from the iMac disk you used?

I may need to wipe the whole Boot Camp partition and try again with the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers as KenV54 originally proposed, but I was hoping not to have to do this if someone could recommend driver versions that worked for them.

Thanks.

I didn't get FaceTime or Bluetooth working, but I detailed the steps I took on my website @ http://johnwoltman.com/node/229

It does well playing games on a December 2011 19" MacBook Pro (and really, why else would you want Windows XP?) 🙂

John;

Thanks for the links to the drivers, they worked great! 🙂

Although I didn't need it, the Broadcom WiFi driver you linked to is currently not available through the WikiDrivers site. Hopefully they will fix this for others needing this file.

Also, if you want Bluetooth, the driver at http://bluetoothinstaller.com/ worked on my MBP for a Logitech Travel Mouse - can't confirm if other bluetooth devices work with this driver, though.

Sorry guys, but this guide is a bit of a porker and takes up a bit of room.

As a recent update, I have successfully installed Windows XP Professional to my 13" MacBook running OSX 10.7.2 (Lion). I felt that there wasn't an accurate guide, so I did it myself and wanted to share my process (sorry for the arrogance). I upgraded from OSX Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion, so I have the disks from Leopard, which I used for this. Carefully read through the entire guide before starting this, and gingerly read each step in its entirety before proceeding to do it. I have installed XP on my MacBook at least three times, so I've got some experience with this. This was my first time doing it with Lion, however.

0. Back up all that you have! Time Machine has saved my life so many times.

(That said, this worked perfectly fine for me without any issues. Back up your data just in case and have a hard copy of this when you go through these steps.)

1. Open Disk Utility.

2. Select your main drive in the left column (for me, it is FUJITSU [some gibberish letters] Media). This will probably have your hard drive space as a prefix to the name (for me, 250.06GB. "250.06GB FUJITSU [some gibberish letters] Media" is what mine is called).

3. Click on the "Partition" tab.

4. After selecting your current disk (mine is called "Mac"), press the plus sign at the bottom of the Partition Layout.

5. In the new Partition Map, type in any size that you wish. I used 20GB for the sake of it.

6. On the "Format" drop down menu, select MS-DOS (FAT).

7. Name it whatever you wish, so long as it's identifiable. To make it easier to follow, I'll refer to mine as PROXP.

8. Click "Apply" and after it finishes partitioning, close Disk Utility.

9. Insert your Windows XP disc and restart your computer.

10. Upon boot-up, hold down the option button to select the native drive you wish to use.

11. Use your arrow keys to select the CD and press enter on your keyboard. You probably won't see the partitioned space; don't worry if you only see your original drive and the CD.

12. Go through the process of installing Windows XP.

13. When you reach the point where it asks you where you wish to install Windows XP, make sure that you select the partition you made with Disk Utility. It will have the memory that you specified during step 5 and it will be called what you named it during step 7. In my installation, that means would I select the partition called PROXP with 20,000MB [20GB].

14. It will ask you if you would like to reformat your selected drive (for me, PROXP). You can pick FAT (quick), NTFS (quick), FAT, NTFS, some other options, or to keep the system intact. There is no need to press anything other than to leave it as it is. You will be prompted, however, to select either FAT-32 or FAT-64. Read up on both, and pick the one that's right for you.

15. Allow it to completely install [assuming you agree to all of the terms in the installation].

16. If/when your computer restarts itself, remember to press and hold down the option key to select your new drive (what it was called in step 7). Again, this means I would select PROXP.

17. Start your Windows XP partition (PROXP for me).

18. If you still have your discs in the computer, you'll have options to boot from CD, do checks, etc. Don't press any buttons unless you need to or know what you're doing, such as if your installation was faulty because your computer died.

19. It most likely want to check your system for consistency. Allow this, as it is quick and can save you a lot of time trying to figure out what's wrong with your XP if something is faulty.

20. After finally logging into XP and getting the standard green hill desktop, follow any steps that XP may want you to. However, none of your drivers will work (e.g., pressing the eject button won't eject a disc, no sound, bluetooth, wi-fi, etc.). This is where you need your OSX Discs.

21. After ejecting my XP CD [Start menu > My Computer > Disc Drive > "Eject" in left pane of window], put in Disc one of two of Leopard. I am not sure if Snow Leopard discs will do the same, so try it out and let me know if that works. I see no reason why it would not work.

22. Boot Camp Assistant will come up in a window and prompt you to install the drivers. Accept this, and it will give you your sound, wi-fi, bluetooth, and all that other good stuff.

23. If you don't have your Disc one of Leopard, a friend could help you out; you should not need the exact disc that came with your computer, so any disc Leopard disc, in theory, will work. I have not tested this to see if it's true, but I see no reason that it would not be.

24. There you have it, Windows XP is Dual-Boot accessible on your Mac running OSX Lion, with Boot Camp to add!

If there are any questions, I will be happy to assist, and I could make a video of this process if it is requested. Cheers!

Rain

OK, just purchased a MacBook Pro with intention to boot camp Windows XP.

Ahhhh the fun!

I did not know it was not supported, thus I end up here.

I have XP installed, but no drivers installed so it's not usable to me.

I don't have any OS CD's for leopard or anything else, I don't have old versions of bootcamp, I don't have any friends that have these discs, so the solutions here arn't helping me.

What I really need is working links to the drivers and I'd be off.

But I'm not even sure exactly what hardware is installed so it's difficult.

A lot of the links in this thread are dead now.

So ANY help with this is VERY MUCH appreaciated, as XP is essential to my work.

My computer spec is:

Mac OS X 10.7.2

2.5 Ghz Intel Core i7

Intel HD Graphics 3000

802.11n Wi Fi

Bluetooth 2.1 (not important to me)

Can anyone help me locate XP drivers? Especially Graphics, Network, WI FI and trackpad

XP is not supported, meaning that there are no drivers. Install Windows 7. Windows 7 will run any programs that ran in XP.

I know XP is not officially supported, but there are many on this thread that have found drivers and have it working fine. That is what the thread is all about.

Windows 7 is no good for me as it does not support some older XP drivers I use for my work.

With Windows 7 Pro and above you can get a free installation of Windows XP mode. It is a virtual machine like Parallels or VM Fusion but is a full version of XP. Perhaps this would have all the drivers available that you need. Microsoft could probably answer this question

You can read about here.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-w indows-7