How the heck do I install windows on my eMac?

Okay, by the topic heading you all know I'm a serious newb when it comes to anything Mac-related, but I've been messing around in the PC environment for a long time. A friend donated this eMac so I can familiarize myself with how Macs operate, and although I have a few operational PCs, I'd like to install XP Pro on this machine to mess with windoze games using Mac graphic setup.
Everyone says 'bootcamp', but not being an Intel processor, bootcamp won't install, let alone do anything useful. It's a PowerPC G4, 1.25 GHz, with a gig of RAM, 80 gig HDD...USB 2.0 configuration.
Is there anything out there that will make it possible for me to pull this off, or can I grab an Intel processor for this unit? As noted before, I'm pretty much Mac illiterate thus far, so this seemed to be the place to expose myself to the ridicule that will no doubt follow my posting. That said, if anyone has any legitimate solutions, I thank you in advance.

Sorry CeeJay. Yer out of luck every whichway. An Intel chipset is a must have. We used to be able to run Windows v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y in emulation on a PPC equipped Mac like yours using a package called VirtualPC for Mac. As far as I know, Microsoft bought the technology and killed it.
If you really want to research this, there may still be signs of it at microsoft.com. Dig deep. I wish you luck. You are more likely to find VirtualPC for Windows. Why anyone would want to run a Windows emulator in Windows beats me hollow.
The technology is absolutely useless for the PC's 3D games but may be worthwhile for software which does not push performance.
As for installing an Intel CPU, you would need the entire Intel chipset. Absolutely not practical. It's a million times easier if you have access to an Intel Mac.

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Hello i have a problem with my MacBook Air they wiped out the operating system then installed windows 7 how do i re install the apple firmware

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Windows 8 - Windows could not cmplete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation

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Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI Lid'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:54:57 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:00 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:00 PM 1168 (0x0490)
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I got the drivers from here -
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/4372.latitude-6430u-windows-8-driver-cab.aspx
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2013-11-15 17:56:46, Error                 SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to enumerate PnP DRP files. Err = 0x5[gle=0x000003f0]
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2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error                 SYSPRP SysprepSession::Execute: Error in executing actions from C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ActionFiles\Specialize.xml; dwRet = 0x5
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Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows...

I have a G62-340US that had a hard drive crash. I installed a new hard drive and used the HP Restore Disks. The laptop will go through the boot process and Windows will give a message" Setting up system for first time use" or something to that affect. A diolog box then comes up and says "Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation." If I hit enter, I am caught in a loop. I can control-alt-del and kill audit.exe and bring up the system. However, everytime I reboot, I get the above error.
The system is running Win7 64 bit.
Any ideas on how to complete this installation and move forward?
Also, the HDD is 320 gb but the system is only recognizing 68 gb.
Thanks for your assistance!

Hi:
That happened to me too and I tried twice to get the disks to work and the failure occurred at the same place.
If you bought a new hard drive of at least the same size in GB as the old one, the disks should have worked.
There is no telling why they don't and many folks have issues with the recovery disks for one reason or another.
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Here's what you can do...
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Burn the ISO using the Burn ISO option on your DVD burning program and burn at the slowest possible speed your program will allow. This will create a bootable DVD.
Or use the Windows 7 USB/DVD installation tool to compile the ISO file you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB method of compilation.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
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Then go to the PC's support and driver page to install the drivers you need.
Link to the W7 ISO file downloads is below.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
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How the heck do i get more ring tones on my phone i purchase them and they go into my music but not ring tones any one no how i can put more on my ringtones plz n ty

how the heck do i get more ring tones on my phone i purchase them and they go into my music but not ring tones any one no how i can put more on my ringtones plz n ty

Make sure your own music files are saved in the proper folder (Digital sounds) whether in your memory card or the phone memory, the location should still be:
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You can move your songs through File Manager on your phone if they are in the wrong location (Options > Move to folder).
Hope that clarifies it for you.
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HOW THE HECK DO I USE SAFARI WITHOUT WI FI?????????????? PLEASE HELP ME !!!

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How the heck do I back up my hard drive?!

Sorry if this question gets asked every week, but I searched the "Tiger" forums and still can't figure this out.
I've owned an iMac since last August but haven't used it much, so I have no after-market software and very little data on it. Unfortunately, the little bit of data I have is every family photo we've taken since last August (on iPhoto) and given the fact that it's a PITA to sync those files with my wife's Dell, I really need to start backing up on a regular basis. In addition, the guys at the "Genius Bar" at my local Apple store tell me there's a defect in the hardware, and advise me to back up my computer before I give it to them to fix.
Before buying this Apple, I owned several Windows-based PCs. Windows had a utility that would back up the whole computer, and ordinary data backups were fast and easy. The "geniuses" tell me there's no such utility in my version of OS-X, and that I need to buy an external drive and install the third-party software that comes with the drive.
Okay, I'm sitting down, give it to me straight:
(1) What's the easiest way for me to back up all the data on my computer, and can I back it up onto one or more CDs? I find it hard to believe that Apple's OS doesn't have a utility that Windows has had for a decade or so, and that I need to buy more hardware and software after purchasing this iMac that costs about twice as much as a Dell with more speed and memory.
(2) Given that I'll never add software to this machine (other than NeoOffice), do I need to back up anything but data, ever? I have the CDs that came with my iMac, so do I need a bootable copy of my whole hard drive?
Regards,
John

BDAqua wrote:
It is a simple process, you just chose the wrong HD, the ones with the One-Button touch features, and/or require installing any Software to use are just not good, we just need a Simple Firewire drive to make it simple!
Yes, it's funny, I just had a couple of hours to think about the last questions I posted, and I realized that "KISS" is all I can handle. All I want (all I can handle, really) is a very simple process for backing up data, nothing more.
So it looks like I have two things I need to clarify: hardware and software.
As far as hardware goes, all I'm looking for is something that plugs into the computer like a "thumb drive," but that holds much more data and can transfer it much more quickly. Is that what you mean by a "Simple Firewire drive"? I've looked at the devices on the web page that you linked to, but I can't figure out what the heck they are. Do you remember the first time you looked under the hood of a car, maybe when you were seven or eight years old, and you had no idea what all those hoses and wires and metal things were? Well, that's what it's like for me when I look at that web page.
Now the software part. I used to own a Windows computer at home and still use one at work. I can move and copy files easily on those machines. And I've copied some files from this iMac to my wife's Windows computer via a thumb drive. No problem. But then I read the article at the link that Japamac posted, and I feel like I have no idea what to do.
If you actually read the from beginning to end, it doesn't tell you how to do what it recommends, which is to back up the entire <user> folder:
http://computing.fandm.edu/training/mac/backup.php
First it talks about backing up the entire <user> folder, but before the article describes how to do that, it skips ahead to a discussion of the limitations on the storage size of CD media and never gets back to telling the reader how to back up the entire <user> folder. Near the end of the article, in the middle of a discussion of how to back up onto an iPod, the article says to "locate and simply drag the data you want to backup from its parent location to the disc volume window." Two problems here: (1) what about backing up ALL the data in the <user> folder; and (2) how do I know that dragging will "copy" rather than "cut"? The last thing I want to do is cut the <user> folder off my hard drive and dump it somewhere else!
At this point, I can't believe people keep saying that Apple computers are more user-friendly than Windows computers. On Windows, this would be a piece of cake to do with the pull-down menus on the mouse: (1) select the <user> folder with one left-click of the mouse; (2) right-click to "copy;" (3) move the cursor to the storage drive; (4) left-click to select it; and (5) right-click to "paste." Done.
Please help. All I want to do is find a simple way to back up my data onto an external drive.
Regards,
John

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