Hi. I wanted to install windows xp on my macbook using bootcamp. After i made a partition with boot camp assistant 3.0, i insert my windows xp disk with service pack 2 in it, and click start installation. However, boot camp could not detect the installer disk, even though it did appear in finder.
Please help.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Boot Camp.
Press Option key while your Mac is starting and select the Windows disc
The computer will not even reboot. When pressing the start installation button, the error message will appear, saying that the installer disk cannot be found.
You must be able to press keys before it appears. Press Option key just after the startup sound, so you'll be able to start in the Windows disc and Mac OS X partition. Are you sure that you have a bootable Windows disc?
So I am suppossed to not use the boot camp assistant to install, but to off my mac and then on it again, while holding down option and boot it up from the windows install disk?
You're right. Boot Camp has created the partition, so you have to start from your Windows disc
Well, when i restarted my mac, and hold down the option key, there is only 1 choice for me to choose, which is Macintosh HD. There is no other option. However, the installer disk did appear in my finder. So I am not sure whats happening...
Your Windows DVD isn't bootable, so you can't install Windows. Get a new Windows XP disc
Awww....
Thanks for your help. I will see what I can do about it.
You're welcome
Boot camp cannot detect windows installer disk.
