Critical Boot Camp info - run as admin user

FYI, the Boot Camp installer runs mostly fine as a "normal" user (ie, a user with no administrative powers). This is how I normally run OS X, because I'm a bit paranoid Entering an admin username/password when needed works fine for me most of the time.
Anyway, the Boot Camp setup program will prompt for an admin username, and happily burn the drivers disk and partition the hard drive. However, when it comes to start the installation, it will say that "No installer CD was found." I beat my head against the wall for 2 hours trying to make it work. I burned different copies of the disc, with different volume labels, deleting the $OEM$ directory, etc. Finally it occurred to me to try logging in as my admin user, and running the Boot Camp setup program from there. BOOM, it rebooted into Windows Setup using my original Windows disc. I almost fell out of my chair
So, basically, you need to actually be logged in as an admin user for the installer to work.
Aparently I'm the only one who doesn't normally run as an administrative user (I can't find any other posts about this problem)... I realize that doing so is fine, but to me it feels a little bit like running as root
Hope this helps someone.
MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz/2GB/100GB 7200RPM Mac OS X (10.4.6) iBook G4 12" 1Ghz/768MB/100GB 5400RPM

THANK YOU!!!
I was having the same problem, and thought it was because I was using an MSDN disc. It's bootable, but includes Home Professional and Tablet versions all on one disc, so I figured it had to do with the alternate volume label and/or directory structure.
Your post saved me many wasted hours.
MacBookPro 2.0GHz/2GB/100GB, iMac G5 20" Rev. B Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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I have the same machine with Vista running via Boot Camp and Fusion. Although the fan does run more frequently than when running Mac o/s, it certainly doesn't run "all the time" as you report.
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http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
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I will first apologize for what is going to be a fairly long post but would be grateful if you experts out there could help me out.
1. I just got a MAC after just getting using a PC after I was persuaded it would be an easier system to grapple with. I am trying to run a CD textbook that would usually autorun from my PC but is not running on my MAC. On a PC I would go to the Run function to make it run but I am not sure what to do in MAC. When I checked it out on "About this MAC" it said OS9 Drivers NO and S.M.A.R.T. status unsupported. What can I do as it is a major textbook of mine and I can't afford to buy another copy.
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You want to run a PC application, you need to use a VM like Fusion or Parallels and a copy of XP or Vista, which should be able to handle most office apps.
If you want to run Windows natively, you have to partition one of your drives and install Windows. That can be done without BootCamp in order to install Vista. No idea if XP will work.
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I'm considering installing Parallels on my MacBook Pro, which I already have partitioned with a drive running Windows using Boot Camp. What I need to know is, do I need to eliminate the partition with Boot Camp and if so, will I have to completely reinstall Windows and all my Windows software? I don't want to waste the partition that's dedicated to the virtual drive, rather I'd prefer to have the entire hard drive available to MAC. I really want to have parallels, as it's easier for me to be able to work on Windows and MAC applications at the same time, without having to stop-shut down-restart each time.

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Hello
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Alexander M wrote:
Thanks, but I've been doing that and I'm trying to find a way to transfer files from one account to the main account and I can't find where my shared folder is in the secondary account. I use Dropbox, but I only get 2 gb free.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10905
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I'm a Flash and mobile apps developer, and I recently came across very disturbing behavior, while running some of my work on MacBooks which are using boot camp.
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Best regards
Seba

Rae Jay wrote:
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Edit: forgot to add that this is the 36 bit version of Win7 I'm using. Or 34. I can't remember. It was less than 64. And I'm very sure that I had Boot Camp 3.0 and updated to 3.1
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I understand your post to mean that you used bootcamp to install XP and to install Windows 7. If my interpretation is correct, I may have found the reason for your difficulty.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986
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