Installing bootcamp
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- ********
After I install Windows, it does nothing. When I reboot, it just goes straight to OSX. Any particular steps I am missing?
- ribit0
Did you hold down Option, or choose in Startup Disk?
- ********0
Yah I tried that, no go.
- ********0
Actually that happened to me but luckly this is my Air which I dont have any files. Reinstalled whip clean 3 times
- brains0
What do you need windows for anyway?
- ********0
Gf wants xp on the MacBook air
- brains0
GF should just use the Mac OS, or set her up with Virtual Box or something, I hates teh bootcampz.
- MrT0
I've been thinking of putting Bootcamp ... this suggests it be a bad idea. Aaaargh.
- ********0
boot camp works great, i have used it for years with out a single problem.
some obvious questions:
1. Are you sure you let windows completely install?
2. Are you sure you are holding down the alt/option key from the beginning during start up?
3. Are you sure you installed a valid copy of windows, and not a cracked, hacked, or o.e.m. copy?
4. Are you sure windows can even be installed on a macbook air with its virtual/remote disk?
- akoni0
Use VMWare Fusion
- while better than PL, do not do this, virtualization in all it;s present forms sucks hard.NONEIS
- never had an issue, and yes better than parallelsakoni
- Parallels is fine for lots of stuff. You should have used Virtual PC in the 90s...ribit
- dear god, I remember virtual PC... I used to try and play Age of Empires with itismith
- oh man, yeah virtual pc was a nightmare.airey
- ********0
I got it working but the screen resolution is stretched... hmm
- install the windows device drivers on the macos install disk?kingsteven
- Yah I think did. Doesnt it do that auto when you are doing it?********
- It isn't letting you select the native resolution in Display > Settings, or what exactly?ribit
- It's just set at 800x600 or 1024 so it doesn't adjust to widescreen********
- ********0
So how do I copy device drivers?
- ********0
Hmmm no Internet etc when on windows side
- ********0
Bah I realized that you had to run osx DVD when in windows mode to install stuff
- airey0
bootcamp's great but you're meant to install it to a separate hard drive. if you're not doing this then you can expect problems.
also, the notes on how to install it correctly are only a few pages. is it so difficult to read the these things instead of bitching and moaning that it doesn't work correctly when you haven't read what working correctly is?
- windows only installs on internal drives so this is BS********
- windows only installs on internal drives so this is BS
- ********0
^ bitching and moaning about bitching and moaning really doesnt help when you provided no help, does it?
- read the note. download the installation guide and read. the words are small so you'll be fine.airey
- airey0
ok, here's the 'led by the nose' help.
already installed and something fucked up? someone else may have done the same incredibly:
http://discussions.apple.com/cat…the basic steps to install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/artic…installation guide:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en…general info:
http://www.apple.com/support/boo…the most basic thing you could have done first:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=install+boo…as mentioned above, these are very simple notes and if you read these first you 'should' have run into no problems. 99% of the 'bootcamp sucks / doesn't work / ruined my life stole my wife' threads started here and on apple's forums are from people that didn't take 5 whole minutes to learn something new and kind of important.
- ********0
"bootcamp's great but you're meant to install it to a separate hard drive. if you're not doing this then you can expect problems."
Nah this is nonsense, in fact its very awkward to get it to install on anything but the internal drive because windows is a pain about installing on external drives so you kinda need to trick it.If you are going to try installing bootcamp then do it as soon as you have got the machine or just after wiping it (it doesn't like disk fragmentation at all really), don't try and install it on a machine you have been using for a while unless you have a backup of all your data.
Can't recommend VMWare Fusion enough though.
- mg330
Glad to see this thread. My girlfriend also wants to possibly have XP on her new Macbook, simply because Microsoft Outlook Web Mail does not correctly show subfolders in Safari or Firefox.
Anyone log into work email in Outlook through the web and have a problem like this?