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16-12-2007, 08:55 PM
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Boot Camp trouble
Hi everybody,
I have some Boot Camp trouble- When I boot from the Boot Camp drive, it gives me the blinking underscore. When I have the Windows XP SP2 disk inserted, it gives me a 'Press any key to boot from disk' message. The keyboard doesn't respond when I do try to press a key. I'm sure it's not the media. I did install it on another machine to see and it works.
The Boot Camp partition is formatted as NTFS, using Paragon NTFS for Mac OS under Disk Utility. It gives me a media error when I do install it in FAT 32.
Is anybody else in the same situation? How did you fix it?
Why did Apple break Boot Camp in Leopard?
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Last edited by DavyG; 16-12-2007 at 09:22 PM.
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16-12-2007, 09:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DavyG
Hi everybody,
I have some Boot Camp trouble- When I boot from the Boot Camp drive, it gives me the blinking underscore. When I have the Windows XP SP2 disk inserted, it gives me a 'Press any key to boot from disk' message. The keyboard doesn't respond when I do try to press a key. I'm sure it's not the media. I did install it on another machine to see and it works.
The Boot Camp partition is formatted as NTFS, using Paragon NTFS for Mac OS under Disk Utility. It gives me a media error when I do install it in FAT 32.
Why did Apple break Boot Camp in Leopard?
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Use the bootcamp formatter, thats probably really the only reason. |
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16-12-2007, 09:26 PM
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I did. I went Boot Camp format-> install Windows-> fails, DVD error. Read that other people have the same problem, the solution was NTFS. Then I went:
Boot Camp format-> Use Disk Utility to format NTFS-> installs, fails. <- It's here I need to fix- It gives me a either a blinking underscore (without Windows install disk) or a 'Press any key to boot from disk' message which I can't respond to.
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17-12-2007, 04:45 PM
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bump bump bump
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17-12-2007, 04:53 PM
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Some of your details seem odd, but you say when it says press any key to boot from disk it appears to not respond (or the keyboard is not working).
Tried a different USB port for the keyboard to see if you can resolve it, how about a different keyboard?
EDIT: Don't bump your thread.. I consider it only appropriate in trading forum, not in the general forums. Might raise a poll on that actually tonight 
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17-12-2007, 04:55 PM
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I did. I even removed every USB peripheral and turned off the BT Mighty Mouse. The keyboard is USB BTW. Still no dice. 
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Last edited by DavyG; 17-12-2007 at 04:57 PM.
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17-12-2007, 07:19 PM
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I managed to partially fix the install. I just kept rebooting until the keyboard works. The boot from disk message was basically that: Boot from the Windows install disk in the drive. Now, when I boot, I see a blinking underscore at the top left corner. looks like a lot of work just for some Half Life 2...
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17-12-2007, 07:21 PM
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Recreate a slip streamed SP2 disk.. maybe it just hates that drive of yours.. I had huge issues but managed to resolve it in the end. Took a few weeks though
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17-12-2007, 07:23 PM
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I already tried an official Windows XP SP2 disk, TinyXP with SP2 and an unofficial slipstreamed XP with SP2 made from Home edition.
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17-12-2007, 07:28 PM
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kill the boot camp partition.. reboot ya machine.
Start the process again.
Making sure your machine is fully upto date with Firmware and the like on the Mac side of things.
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17-12-2007, 07:35 PM
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All I can say to you and already said, do not format the partition with anything but the Windows installer. So only make the partition using BootCamp Assistant, and reboot to the media. Does that work? ie. press any key and it boots.
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18-12-2007, 04:45 PM
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I managed to install it by using a combination of the official XP disc and TinyXP. Now running TinyXP.
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