Can't install Boot Camp - Mountain Lion

I had previously installed Windows XP running under Parallels. When I updated to Mountain Lion I uninstalled Parallels. I decided to just run XP in Boot Camp, as I need it only once in awhile. I downloaded Boot Camp 3.2 which says it's compatable with XP. When I try to download the Windows Support Software to install XP, it will not load. It says that it is not available on the server. Is there a solution for this? Thanks!!!

It takes awhile, but this seems to work…
Make sure you have:
* Wired USB Keyboard & Mouse
* Snow Leopard CD
* WinXP CD
* 16GB Thumb Drive
* Everything on your system backed up... just in case
* Lots of time set aside
In the unlikely event of a water landing, make sure you have backed up your system prior to attempting this!*
Connect your wired USB keyboard & mouse and Install SL to the thumb drive (This part is like watching paint dry.) then reboot your Mac. Hold down the option key right when you hear the boot chime and select the thumb drive as your boot device. Once SL boots up, you can then use the boot camp assistant to create the BC partition and begin WinXP installation. Note: the WinXP installer will tell you it doesn't recognize any of the partitions and will ask you if you want to delete & repartition as MBR... DO NOT REPARTITION WITH THE XP INSTALLER. If you do, the XP loader will get confused on where your windows installation is. Select the Boot Camp partition and format NTFS**.
After install make sure you run the BC driver setup so all your devices will play nicely. You might also need to run apple software update to get the last supported XP drivers (which I believe is BC v3.2) as well as download/install the latest video drivers directly from nvidia or amd/radeon. Once everything is up to date, you should be able enable bluetooth to setup/use your wireless keyboard and mouse.
Another thing to note: the BC icon in the windows control panel works like a champ, however the one in Mountain Lion does not acknolegde you have boot camp installed... so to get to your XP partition you have to hold down the option key on boot and select it by hand... or you probably could install a boot manager.
Did I leave anything out? Oh....Good luck!!
* Back everything up before attempting the rest of these steps.
** Again... everything should have been backed up waaay before you get to this step.

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Ok, the story, I will try to make it short:
-Got my Imac a month ago. Installed Boot Camp Vista Home Premium 64 Bit. No problem. Ran smooth.
-Later I got VMWare fusion and decided to check it out. Didn't like to to much, but now I can't install Boot Camp.
-When using Boot Camp assistent, it creates my partition(which 200 GB) Fat32! The problem is, when it wants to boot to install. It ejects the Vista installation DVD! No matter what I do.
-*If I hold down the ALT key(option button) during start up*, it will show a grey screen with two options(The Macintosh HD and the Windows Partition). Selecting the Windows partition gives a black screen with an error; *"non-system disk press any key to reboot"* Only problem is that the keyboard was dead or frozen so had to crash the machine.
-Pressing D on start up to enable the *Apple Hardware Test* showed no problems.
-Pressing Alt + Cmd(command) + P + R to *delete the NVRam and PRAM*, did not have any effect. I think I did it right though, because there came a second start up sound.
-Pressing S + Cmd(command) on start up to run *User Single Mode*, with the command; "/sbin/fsck -fy" did not reveal any problems either, except for a weird long messege that kept coming up, and which interupted the line I was writing on several times. The messege was as follows: +":/root# AppleUSBEHCI[0x6e8t000]:: Found a Transaction Past the completion deadline on bus Oxfd, timing out!(Addr: 6EP:4)"+
*Ran a program called Partition Inspector;*
* Report for internal hard disk *
+Current GPT partition table:+
+# Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)+
+2 409640 1531068455 Mac OS X HFS++
+3 1531330600 1953525127 Basic Data+
+Current MBR partition table:+
+# A Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective+
+2 409640 1531068455 af Mac OS X HFS++
+3 * 1531330600 1953525127 0c FAT32 (LBA)+
+MBR contents:+
+Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable+
+Partition at LBA 40:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)+
+Partition at LBA 409640:+
+Boot Code: None+
+File System: HFS Extended (HFS)
+Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS++
+Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS++
+Partition at LBA 1531330600:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data+
+Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 0c FAT32 (LBA), active+
I don't know what any of this means, but I suspect the Boot Camp partition is the last one. I wonder what "Boot Code: None(Non-system disk message" means!?
*When running diskutil:*
*diskutil list*
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUIDpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 729.9 Gi disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 201.3 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDiskpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk1
1: WindowsFAT32 My Book 931.3 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FRMCxFREDADVD *3.5 Gi disk2
*And when I searched on the boot camp disc specificaly:*
Device Identifier: disk0s3
Device Node: /dev/disk0s3
Part Of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: Untitled
Volume Name: BOOTCAMP
Mount Point: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
Partition Type: Microsoft Basic Data
Bootable: Is bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Total Size: 201.3 Gi (216110792704 B) (422091392 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 201.3 Gi (216109285376 B) (422088448 512-byte blocks)
Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
Whole: No
Internal: Yes
Other things I tried:
-Tried going into Startup disk, to force Vista to install from boot up, but it ejected upon startup anyway.
-Tried rebooting while holding down "C" to force a startup from a CD/DVD. Vista installation DVD still ejected.
-Tried reinstalling Leopard with the Leopard Installation Disc 01, but it also ejecred upon rebooting to install! < This lead me to believe that it's my Superdrive that is messed up, but it plays DVD Movies just fine, and I even just now just burned the Vista installation DVD to my desktop in a .dmg file. So I am not sure if that is it!
-I tried taking a different Windows Vista DVD(Windows Vista 32 Bit Home Premium) to see if it could install from that. It could not, and ejected upon startup like the Leopard and 64 Bit Home Premium Vista Installation DVD!
I am new to Mac, but I am desperate after getting boot camp to work again. I have litterly been trying to figure this out for days, and I can't get it to work. I tried to call Apple but they couldn't help me.:( I could really use your help. I just want it to work.
And speaking of working, I haven't been to work for two days, because I have been home trying to figure this out. It's critical that I get boot camp working. So please, mates, can't you help me.
I simply don't know what to do:(
Cry
-Oil Pedestal

Does [this firmware update|http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/imacefifir mwareupdate13.html] apply to your machine? If so, putting it on may fix the boot from DVD problem.

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I have 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate running on HD#2 on a Mac Pro 2,1 system (2006). I've installed the Boot Camp 2.0 drivers after I installed Windows, I forget why I needed them, maybe for an old Apple keyboard.
Anyway, I can't install Boot Camp 3.0 from the Snow Leopard DVD - the installation runs to completion, but generates various error messages, one of which says that Boot Camp 3.0 64-bit can't be installed on this system.
I really need 3.1 now because my Magic Mouse won't work, and I can't sync Mobile Me.
Is there a fix or a workaround to upgrade Boot Camp on this system? Should I use Windows Uninstall to get rid of Boot Camp 2.0 first?
If it matters, Windows 7 is the upgrade version from Vista Ultimate.

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Click on "Downloads", (underneath the big hard drive icon), scroll down a bit and there is a link for "Boot Camp:Upgrading to Windows 7" and another link for Version 3.1 which you need for 64 bit to work right after 10.6.4(?). I would just try downloading the Boot Camp 64bit 3.1 file and try that first if you already have Window's 64 bit installed.
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Here's another link that is all over the place on which machines and which Windows works and what doesn't...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846
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Can I install Boot Camp on an external disk? How do I go about doing this? I have an Apple external super drive and I have two USB ports on my computer.
Can I install the mac operating system on the external disk including the Applications and then install Boot Camp as per usual? How would I get the Windows 7 program to install on the external disk using the superdrive that I have?

BootCamp will only install on an internal disk.
If you are wiling to do some work, do some Google searches, use third party tools, and make your own custom Windows install disc, then you might be able to get what you want, but there is no guarantee that it will work on your specific hardware.
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Hallo,
ich habe mal eine Frage: Kann ich, wenn ich Snow Leopard (10.6.8) habe, per Boot Camp Mountain Lion istallieren?
Danke

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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57387846-263/will-your-mac-run-mountain-lio n/

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I find I have to use Windows to administer a Network Solutions
hosted and built website. They claim to support Mac OS but
there are issues and they tell me that Internet Explorer is the
more reliable browser to use. So I'm wondering if I should
replace my primary drive with a new one and install Boot
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Tom

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Thanks!!!

Thank youn for the reply...
This is what I get when I try to install from the USB drive...

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