Macbook Pro won't read windows OS disk?

Upgraded my MBP to a 500gig HD, Imaged the old to the new with carbon copy clone, everything work fine on Mac side, but when I try to reinstall windows VIA bootcamp it won't recognize the windows disk. Like it won't recognize the windows OS disk at all (no matter when I put it in). It's an OEM disk 32 bit vista or 7 (i have 2). The disks work in other machines and my MBP can see them from an external disk drive, but then bootcamp won't install them... I get a screen that goes from the apple, to a folder, to a circle with a line through it... The laptop read the Mac OS disk fine, other dvds, and cds fine. Any takers???

Hi,
first: put your XP 64-bit CD as far away from your Mac as you can. Apples BootCamp does not support it
Second: I assume corectly that these are Retail or SystemBuilder XP discs, not some Recovery CDs or manufacturere-branded ones, right ?
Third: insert the 32-bit XP CD while in OSX and check with the Finder if it can be read there (checking for the 'usual' folders on it: i386, Support, etc and files: winip51.sp2 etc.).
Fourth: some people round here have successfully used a 'standard' DVD/CD-cleaner disc with their Macs.
Fifth: try making a 1:1-copy of your XP disc. You can use SimplyBurns in OSX for this.
Regards
Stefan

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Hi,
first: put your XP 64-bit CD as far away from your Mac as you can. Apples BootCamp does not support it
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Regards
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Macbook Pro won't read SOME commercial DVD's

I found some people with similar issues, but no one with my exact problem, so I thought I would post it here.
I have a MacBook Pro that I got in November of 2007. Recently I noticed my drive stopped playing certain discs. I did some test and determined that it will play/write pretty much anything you throw at it except for some commercial DVD's. I actually brought it to the apple store and foolisly grabbed some dvd's at random, assuming that NONE would work. The one's I brought mounted just fine. Since I couldn't replicate the issue, I couldn't get much help. He said to try logging into a different user, I guess to determine if there was an issue with my Library. I tried that, it does the same thing regardless of the user.
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