Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-23 Thread Naama Shang
Hi, Mine dint' even mention xp, and the disk did have sp2, so I think it's a vitage issue. Naama On 23 Jun 2011, at 17:33, Shannon Dyer wrote: > It did mention XP. However, it did say that it needed to be XP with service > pack 2 or later. So, just the XP disk alone won't work. Because I don't n

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-23 Thread Shannon Dyer
It did mention XP. However, it did say that it needed to be XP with service pack 2 or later. So, just the XP disk alone won't work. Because I don't need windows for a lot of things, the operating system gets only 32 GB, and works well. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Hi, Do you remember if you chose ntfs or quick format or what they call them when installing windows? How large is your windows partition and your mac os x? Are you running latest mac os x with latest bootcamp that speaks about all flavours of windows7 when setting it up and it never mentions x

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Shannon Dyer
et On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > But... did you do it with a macbook pro? or just a white macbook? > > Which a the two? > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Shannon Dyer" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 1

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Shannon Dyer
The Mac is new. I just got it like two weeks ago. Yes. I did have sighted help installing XP. I've tested it, as I've installed various programs, and all seems to be working well. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Collect

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Naama Shang
Hi, I think some mac books still support it, depends what vintage they are. Naama - Original Message - From: "Shannon Dyer" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Bootcamping with windows xp How very strange! I acquired a MacBook about two weeks ago, and,

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
But... did you do it with a macbook pro? or just a white macbook? Which a the two? Chris. - Original Message - From: "Shannon Dyer" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Bootcamping with windows xp How very strange! I acquired a MacBook about two week

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Is it nnnew? Did you install xp with sighted help? Original message: How very strange! I acquired a MacBook about two weeks ago, and, just this past Saturday, installed Windows XP Pro using bootcamp. I've had no problems getting it to work properly. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Shannon Dyer
How very strange! I acquired a MacBook about two weeks ago, and, just this past Saturday, installed Windows XP Pro using bootcamp. I've had no problems getting it to work properly. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Collec

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Bryan Jones
Here are links to 3 relevant Apple KB articles regarding the supported versions of Windows, which Mac models they will run on, and which versions of Bootcamp are required. The following KB article states that drivers for XP and Vista are no longer supplied or supported for 3 recent mac model li

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So, sounds like it simply won't do it any longer. That really really sucks. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Georges Zaynoun" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:59 AM Subject: Re: Bootcamping with windows xp Same experience here with a 13inch macbook white t

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
The odd thing is that I tried to do this same thing with xp and bootcamp, and it decided to be a thing, and not work with my white mid 2010 stocked macbook, so I almost wonder if the latest build of Bootcamp simply won't support xp, period. This is incredibly disappointing, as though I love Wi

Re: Bootcamping with windows xp

2011-06-22 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Same experience here with a 13inch macbook white that I bought in February 2009, at that time they came with leopard pre-installed and I had xp pro on it using bootcamp. Sadly I was shocked after upgrading to the latest os available now and trying to reinstall same xp pro having removed it a ye