BootCamp driver won´t work on my MacBook. How can I extract it from DVD?

Question

Hi folks.
I´m new on BootCamp.
After installing Windows XP SPII, witch works fine for me, I tryed to install the BootCam drivers.
But: The Leopard DVD won´t start - like in the manual How can I extract the Drivers from the
Leopard DVD to copy them to the BootCam partition to install them manually?
Thank you al lot!

Answer 1

It is a known problem on Microsoft's end.
From their site:
"SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) cannot read DVD-RW disks that use the Universal Disk Format (UDF) 2.00 defect management system. When you view the DVD contents by using Windows Explorer, you see an empty... ...A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.
To resolve this problem, submit a request to Microsoft Online Customer Services to obtain the hotfix. To submit an online request to obtain the hotfix, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6294451"
I posted this in reply to another thread:
"It is a known Microsoft issue with UDF in some SP2 versions, and there is a hotfix for it.
search for this in Google:
"DVD-RW disks appear to be empty" hotfix
You can do it 3 ways:
1) If you run the Xp updater (which may take hours) and follow all the instructions, reboot and run the updater again... and again until all the updates are there, then you will get the fix.
2) Find , download and install just the hotfix... it may take some looking...
3) contact Microsoft from their site and get the hotfix from them. "