Some help with bootcamp

[deusexlumina]

Hey everyone,

I've recently got a macbook pro and wanted to install xp on a small partition using bootcamp just for the sake of having a couple of games and office applicatiosn on there. I followed the bootcamp assistant tool and all was going well until it rebooted when setting up windows and i got the following error:

disk read error.
Press any key to restart

Upon some research i needed to have made sure the partition was formatted before the install, which i didnt, but how do i format this partition so i can install windows successfully on it?

I tried using the disk utility but i cudnt find an option, i used the clean option and it said it formatted it to FAT file system but i recieved the same error message any thoughts on whats going on?

 

[mr.sly]

You need to format it during the Windows installer.

On this screen choose the partition Bootcamp created and press 'D'

Then choose FAT if that's what you intended to use...

I imagine the first time around, you just pressed enter (install) on the partition Bootcamp created which is why it failed.

Images taken from this guide. http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_my_mac_using_boot_camp_1.html

 

[deusexlumina]

Ahh ok thanks ill give that a try when i get home the only problem is that when i use the bootcamp utility that option doenst come up when i install xp. Im assuming bootcamp has tried to account for it already but failing so to speak. so if i just create a bootcamp partition, start the mac up with the windows install disk and run the install normally it should let me choose the partition?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Ahh ok thanks ill give that a try when i get home the only problem is that when i use the bootcamp utility that option doenst come up when i install xp. Im assuming bootcamp has tried to account for it already but failing so to speak. so if i just create a bootcamp partition, start the mac up with the windows install disk and run the install normally it should let me choose the partition?

Yes.

All Bootcamp does it allow you to boot from an XP/Vista/7 disc.