Boot Camp Assistant for Windows XP

I want to put windows XP on a partition of my hard drive, the problem is, after I run Boot Camp Assistant, the program tells me to inster a Windows 7 Home of Professional into the computer. Unfortuantly, I only have XP, and the program does not recongize it when i put it in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Apple has removed support for XP and Vista with the OSX Lion BootCamp.
Therefor the BootCamp Assistant (BCA) refuses to install Windows if it detects a non-Windows 7 DVD/CD.
What might/should work is to use the BCA to the point where it asks to 'Install' or to 'Close & Install later' after the BCA has created the BootCamp partition.
At this point close the BCA and check if the BootCamp partition was created.
When all looks OK, insert your XP CD and reboot your Mac while holding down the Alt/Option-key until the Boot Selection Screen.
Choose to boot from the XP CD (the icon looks like a generic disc).
After hopefully the XP installation went well insert your OSX Snow Leopard Install DVD to install the BootCamp Drivers from it.
Later updates (versions 3.1 and 3.2) can be downloaded from here http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/ either in Windows or if wanted in OSX and then put on an USB-Stick.
Making a second OSX partition on the harddisk to install Snow Leopard would render the BCA useless, since it can only work on a harddisk with one OSX volume on it.
As a last resort if the above does not work you can consider using VirtualBox and install/use XP with it in a virtualized environment.
And if you want to try the above: have/make a backup of your OSX before attempting !!!
Hope it helps
Stefan

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I am getting the error:
"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".
I tried to create a partition manually in disk utility but then the error message: "Partition failed with error message: Could not unmount disk."
Can anyone help me? It's driving me crazy.
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This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.
Then partition.
Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.
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nikasv wrote:
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
That's essentially what Solving Boot Camp partition creation problems says. What is your question?

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Nick Px360 wrote:
Are they essential or can I run windows 7 on my Macbook Pro without the bootcamp drives
Only if you don't mind a Windows system lacking most features and thus beaing nearly unuseable.
Applying the appropriate drivers for hardware support is a must for all operating systems.
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Step 3 listed in the instructions for setting up Boot Camp is to Install the Boot Camp drivers for Windows. At this point Windows recognizes my Mac Install disk 1. I get the following message: "the installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured. To retry these operations at a later time, please run the installer again." I am not sure if I needed to do something to install the Service Pack 2? My firmware is at MP31.006C.B02 and 1.25f4. When I checked for the latest firmware, it returned a message that it was not necessary.
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Boot Camp Installer completed. The install encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured. To retry these operations at a later time, please run the installer again. Click "finish" to exit installer. I am running a brand new full retail version of windows xp service pack 2. Applecare will not help blaming Microsoft and of course Microsoft is blaming Apple. What a bunch of useless crap!! Can anyone help??

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i'v got the latest macbook pro 13" and it dose not come with the lion os disk so how do i get the boot camp drivers for windows 7 without an os disk

Page 5, step 2, #2, 2nd bullet.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.7.pdf

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Regarding my query, the following are attached:
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Hi David,
while you are in Windows and have the Leopard DVD inserted, can you access the content of it using the Windows Explorer ?
or maybe this hint on MacOSXHints can help you access the Windows Content of your Leopard DVD while in OSX http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080708145453136
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Stefan

I thought apple is user friendly. That is why I bought it. I do not have a use to download my boot camp assistant for a compatible to microsoft words, excel, powerpoint. They told me I have iWork's for all of this products but mine is not working.

To whom it may concern.
I bought an apple product which is MacBook Air about 7 mths. ago . Anyway I would like to download a compatible words, excel, powerpoint. they told me that I do not need it since IWORKS is all I needed. I tried my keynote , numbers does not worked. Somebody emailed me sending me this mumbo jumbo for it to work. Well, if I was a computer wiz, I probably will not be asking for help.
I followed the tutorials for windows for mac, followed every instructions, hold and behold another problem. I have to have a usb, when I bought this at Best Buy, I asked them what do I need , they said that I do not need anything else because it is all in there. So to make a long story short. I am just so frustrated .
How can I download the windows for mac, I know I have to start in utilities , boot camp assistant, then the usb problem. Please I need help, it is much needed for my job. Ipages does not saved anything, I mean nothing it just disappeared , and you do not have any idea how much I have the long hrs. I have put in.
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate this .

You can buy Microsoft Office for Mac, it includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Or you can download a free copy of LibreOffice which contains substitutes (good ones) for the Microsoft Office programs.
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Hello...
I just installed win7 on my Mac Mini with Boot Camp Assistant, but after installing and making the setup, I was not able to install the drivers from my SL DVD. Windows 7 can't read the disc and I cannot find the program to install my drivers even if I tried to look in the contents of my DVD in win7.
I actually don't know, if I should drag in my install DVD that came with my Mini, because when I bought it, the "Tiger" was released and I have only the SL install disc 1 "burned" from my friend.
I would really appreciate if somebody would help me.
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I'm sorry to take up your time guys - as I wrote earlier I'm not that technical and new to all of this - I was promised that I could do everything the mac way in the windows environment if I bought Parallels Desktop 7 - I only did this as my company is installing af new CRM system that is only supported in Windows - now I have installed everything and find out that the MAC keyboard shortcuts and layout is not working at all in i.e. Outlook etc. and I've totally forgotten how the Windows shortcuts etc. is working - Parallels asked me to go to Apple for help and here I am
You write that "if you believe it's correct do it" - but I don't believe anything else than what I'm told - I'm not going to install anything if I don't know how to do and whether it's correct - I wont have the nerve to do that.
If at least could get a list or someting on how to use my Magic Trackpad in the windows environment I would be happy - then I would just have to switch between how to use it on both sides.
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I have a late 2009 27" iMac, to which i clean installed the Yosemite OS (been updating the OS since Snow leopard that came with). I had Widows 7 installed since i bought it, but now whit this clean update the Boot Camp Assistant shows the option to "Install or remove Windows 7 or later version" grayed out and I'm unable to select it at all.
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Second: When I clean install the OS I partitioned the disk into 3 parts, (system, Windows, and Projects) and that may conflict whit Boot Camp Assistant somehow?
Please Help Me

Anubis87 wrote:
Second: When I clean install the OS I partitioned the disk into 3 parts, (system, Windows, and Projects) and that may conflict whit Boot Camp Assistant somehow?
Please post the output of the following commands.
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
The last two commands will prompt for your password. These are run from OSX Terminal.
Your current disk layout is unsupported. The standard layout is EFI/ESP, OSX, Recovery HD, Windows. Every software upgrade is a problem waiting to happen in your current configuration. Snow Leopard (without a Recovery HD) is the last OS which can support an additional 'shared' partition. Once Recovery HD came into the picture, this ability was lost.

Boot camp assistant download windows drivers does not finish

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the Windows Support Drivers. I need it to properly load the devices in my Windows 7 OS. When I used Boot
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Hey NamelessSquid, you should be able to get it to work but as pcockrell said it's not officially supported.
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Found the solution just download and unpack onto an external and run the setup.exe and everything should be fine
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15911260#15911260

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Every thing works well on windows 8 install using boot camp. Even all drivers available for windows 7 work and let windows 8 function all the way. I only got struck on track pad as this is only important thing which gave away and never worked. On using wireless mouse or USB mouse one can have alternative to track pad. Fail to understand why Apple is making an issue by not releasing drivers for its crack pad which enable the machine to work in windows mode. Every time one use windows curses apple for this intentional blockage. May be Apple devices a way that people must remember them once any one uses boot camp. If Apple is so hostile to Microsoft why allow even boot camp?

Ramesh Mehta wrote:
Every thing works well on windows 8 install using boot camp. Even all drivers available for windows 7 work and let windows 8 function all the way.
Really?
I only got struck on track pad as this is only important thing which gave away and never worked.
OK, everything did not work "all the way" then.

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Apple do not pre-announce releases, nobody here can answer as to when.

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