Windows XP or Window 7 installation problem through bootcamp

Hi,
I tried to install Window XP through boot camp and successfully made partition, boot the xp cd and copies all the windows installation files on NTFS drive. After restarting system for installation it gives error system32/hal.dll file not found. Can you help in that regard.
2nd Question: Can I Install Windows 7 without any problem on my MacBook Pro.
3rd Question: I have installed Paragon NTFS to access NTFS drive from Mac OS but it doesn't work. It does not show any NTFS partition. Any other solution in that regard?

my experience with the hal.dll had more to do with creating partitions. I have 2 HD in my computer and I wanted to partition the second drive (because it is huge) into 2 and put winxp on one and win7 on the other.
The end result is that, for whatever reason, you cannot partition the drive the windows is on, or you will get that error. I don't know why this is. I tried partition first via bootcamp, partitioning in the XP setup and partition afterward using a tool to partition HD. In every case, as soon as I had partitioned the drive, I would get the hal.dll error.
Windows 7.
32 bit should be just like 32bit vista. If you're asking about 64 bit, then its a little different. The windows 7 64bit isn't supported by apple, and if you have an older mac, it won't install at all. I did find a solution to one of the possible errors. If you are installing win7 64 bit and get the error "select cd-rom boot type" then look up my post on that issue here on the apple forums.

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Windows 8 installation problem using bootcamp!

Hi guys, I would really appreciate some help with this, I think I might of made a big mistake.
Ok so I bought windows 8 yesterday to run on my iMac through bootcamp.
I went through the instllation process and came to downloading the drivers (windows support software) but here is where I think i went wrong, when i was asked to burn the windows support software to a cd or save it on to an external drive I chose the option of saving onto a drive but I actually just ended up saving the software on to the main hard drive for my iMac.
I continued to install windows 8 but after installation as expected I'm having problems with the keyboard, mouse, Internet etc without any support software. I went to 'my computer' and the local hard drive only shows the part of drive of the that was particitianed for windows and can't seem to find any way of accessing the mac os x side of the hard drive. I cant even transfer to the mac os x from windows to figure out the problem from there.
Could any one please help with this?
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
After using Boot Camp, your computer will start always in Windows. To start in OS X, just hold the X key while your Mac is starting. If you want to start always in OS X, after starting in OS X, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk, and select the OS X partition.
By default, Windows can't read the filesystem that OS X uses for the partition, so that's why you can't access to the OS X partition. Also, you should have burnt the drivers onto a DVD or a USB drive.
As you have already downloaded the drivers, after starting in OS X, copy them to a USB drive or burn them into a DVD. Then, start in Windows and install them. Note that Windows 8 requires Boot Camp 5 drivers, that you can only get from Boot Camp Assistant if you are running OS X 10.8.3. If you want to be sure that you install the correct drivers, I recommend you to download again the Boot Camp 5 drivers from the Apple webpage > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638

Looking to run windows on my MBPro through Bootcamp or Parallels, but would like to use a downloaded Windows 7, is it possible to install without the Windows Disc?

Looking to run windows on my MBPro through Bootcamp or Parallels, but would like to use a downloaded Windows 7, is it possible to install without the Windows Disc?
Need to set up a workstation on my MBPro that will only run on Windows. Im willing to use Bootcamp or Parallels to see what works best. Need to get this set up this week to enable working from home on my MB - rural and hoping to buy Windows 7 online - am I able to get windows working through either bootcamp or Parallels without the actual Windows disc? Bootcamp set up guide calls for a disc.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
First, the answer to your question is yes, it IS possible to install Windows in Parallels without a disc, using an .iso image file.
Boot Camp since OS X 10.8 also installs Windows without a disc: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4889551?tstart=0
Parallels has complete documentation, series of forums, and a knowledgebase. You can also download the current release of Parallels 9 and try it for free for a few weeks before you decide to purchase it.
The Parallels Desktop for Mac product page: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
The Desktop for Mac forums: http://forum.parallels.com/forumdisplay.php?58-Parallels-Desktop-for-Mac
Documentation: http://www.parallels.com/support/desktop-virtualization/desktop/#c12970
The Knowledgebase for Desktop for Mac: http://kb.parallels.com
The primary difference between a Boot Camp installation and a Parallels installation is that in the Boot Camp installation, you're installing Windows into a separate partition on your internal mass storage device (hard drive or SSD) and then rebooting your Mac directly into Windows.
In Parallels, you're always running OS X on the Mac and Parallels is running a Windows virtual machine.
Not to get too technical here, but it is also possible for Parallels to run an installed Windows Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine. If you're evaluating system performance with a trial copy, that might be the way to go, because you only have to install Windows once on Boot Camp as a dual-boot system, then install Parallels Desktop and run the Boot Camp partition as the virtual machine.
There is a performance difference between the two, with the Boot Camp Windows installation being faster, but without the convenience of running both Mac and Windows applications simultaneously offered by Parallels. Sometimes that convenience outweighs a performance hit.
I can't give you more Mavericks and Parallels 9 specifics, because I'm currently running Windows 7 with Parallels 7 on OS X 10.8.5. Parallels 7 will not run on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
I've been using Parallels (to run a few old rarely-used WIndows applications with features that would require a steep learning curve and major expense to purchase and learn a similar Mac app) occasionally since Parallels 3 and Windows XP. With each new release of OS X, each new release of Parallels, and each new Windows release, there are ALWAYS 'early adopter' bugs that get worked out over time.
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Windows 7 Installation problem: "no drives were found, click to load driver..."

I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (U945-S4140) that came with windows 8. I am trying to install windows 7 enterprise 64 bit.
I have the installation file on a bootable USB stick. In order to boot from the USB, I have to go into the BIOS settings and change from UEFI to CSM boot mode. Then the computer will boot from the usb stick and the windows 7 installation begins to work fine.
However, I soon get an error message that "no drives were found. click to load driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation."
I cannot figure out how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

I have tried many solutions....Maybe I should provide more details on my options.
Through my university I am granted the rights & license to use a copy on windows enterprise. From them I obtained a valid product key and also downloaded an ISO install file. It seems as if this file was designed to be burned to a dvd. I used windows 7 usb/dvd tool to burn the ISO file to a DVD. No problem there. However, my new laptop does not have an optical drive. So, I borrowed an external one that plugs in via USB. Again, in order to get ANYTHING to happen, I need to boot the USB(dvd rive) in CSM mode. Even then, it doesn't work. (I'm sorry but I forget the specific error I got here.....there have been so many methods and so many errors today)
Now, with this DVD, I have had a little bit of progress if I click the setup.exe file while Windows 8 is running. It begins the Windows 7 setup program, and even sees the harddrive! It asks me what partition I want to install to, and I selected the only 1 (of 4) that it said was 'available' to write to. Then, it loaded the installation files, but when it went to automatically restart, it froze during the 'starting windows' screen just as the little colored circles appear, that eventually form the windows logo. Again, I think the problem here might have been that during the restart, it looked to the USB-DVD drive, which needs CSM mode to boot properly, but Windows 8 can only start in UEFI mode.
Any attempt to put this ISO file onto a USB stick have not worked well. I used Rufus and the only thing that slightly worked was burning the ISO to the USB stick with a 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI controller' with the 'FAT32' file system. When using this to boot, I did not have to change the BIOS to CSM mode. The screen for 'loading files' came up like the installer was going to work. However, the computer then froze during the 'Starting Windows' screen, however, this time the little circles actually were able to form the windows logo. But, at that point I was left with a pulsing windows logo and it was stuck. It did not even make it to the actual installer.
The situation I posted about originally is slightly different. Some tech guys at my department's electronic shop have a bootable USB stick with the windows 7 enterprise installation software already on it. I used that and was at least able to get a little bit into the windows 7 setup before it told me it cannot find a disk to install to (as in my original post).

Windows 7 Installation problem: "no drives were found, click to load driver to provide a mass storage driver..."

I just purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop (U945-S4140) that came with windows 8. I am trying to install windows 7 enterprise 64 bit.
I have the installation file on a bootable USB stick. In order to boot from the USB, I have to go into the BIOS settings and change from UEFI to CSM boot mode. Then the computer will boot from the usb stick and the windows 7 installation begins to work fine.
However, I soon get an error message that "no drives were found. click to load driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation."
I cannot figure out how to proceed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Hello Maxxpower33, thank you for your words.
I looked through the error logs that could be generated from the tool and found this one which may be what you experienced. Kindly let me know if this is what you got:
"Files copied successfully. However, we were unable to run bootsect to make the USB device bootable. If you need assistance with bootsect, please click the "Online Help" link above for more information."
Some further information is that I found this post where another user experienced the same error on a laptop, although the speculation mentioned in the post is that the user does not have a Windows store account under which he purchased the license for Windows
7 Home Premium, which is the flavor he was trying to get on the bootable drive. However, this does not seem to be a valid response due to the fact that the tool does not check Windows XAuthCert Servers for validation on licensing. So ignore that
portion of the post, but the 2nd post helps a bit by linking to another article, providing both below.
Forum Port With Same Error
Article with 4 methods to create
a bootable Windows 7 USB Drive
In that first post, further down, is another reply to a tool that I have not tested with. So please use caution on this one as I cannot find very much feedback other than on their own website, but sounds much like the first tool I mentioned in my first
post "Unetbootin", but this one is called Rufus, and two people did mention they had good success with this tool after having difficulties with the Windows utility.
Rufus
After all that is said and done, there is not 1 tool that will work for everyone all of the time on every environment. Why? I would like to know also...but speculate hardware/firmware/bios combinations could be the culprit. One of these
tools should work for you and it would be my recommendation to try them in this order (skipping what you've already tried):
1) Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
2) Unetbootin
3) Manually creating the partition and xcopy'ing the extracted ISO to it
4) Rufus
5) Borrow a PC with a DVD-R in it and burn the ISO to a disc and install from it. If your laptop does not have a DVD drive, an external drive can be purchased for roughly $25 or less. Or if you have an internal drive laying around, buy an enclosure
for about $15 and put the drive inside there and attach it to your laptop via USB or eSATA.
As always, my advice is nothing more than my opinion, which are like bungholes...everyone has one and they all stink! LOL!
John Fester

Windows XP installation problem

Hi, Im having problems installing XP through bootcamp, can anyone advise.
Have created a slipsteam Windows XP SP3 from my old Windows XP SP0 OEM CD from a old computer I once had, the process seems to have worked correctly and bootcamp accepts the CD as a windows disk.
I partition the hard disk, then insert my new windows XP cd and the mac restarts, then the windows blue install screen comes up and whirls away for 5 minutes, it gets to the scanning hard disk part and runs for a while, then the mac just resets and comes up with the incorrect disk screen.
Anyone know what the problem might be, have tried deleting the partition and trying again but get the same result.

I dont know what to do, but im havng a problem with my boot camp too, and you said that youve deleted the partion. well how do you delete a partion already made on bootcamp? cause im getting an eror message when trying to partion and when i googled this i saw ppl saying that it was because you need to delete the partion youve already created, which you said youve done. So how?
P.S Sorry I didn answer your question, but i thought u might be able to help me. Thanks.

Windows installation problem with Bootcamp

Since a few days I have a new iMac 21,5 (end 2013) Maverick latest version installed as I had on my "old iMac" I tried to instal Windows 8 or Windows 7.
Use the bootcamp and set the right size for my windows part, and download the drivers all goes well. After the iMac reboot comes up with the setup from Windows
ask the keyboard settings and than shows the partitions. Select partition 4:BOOTCAMP. Here starts the problem, I do not see the advance drive options, as also the "NEXT" button is not selectable. As I format the partion also "NEXT" button is not selectable. I am stuck here, please help :-)

I got stuck with the same error and spent a long time trying to work this out. It turns out that the issue is your USB3 stick. I'm not sure how it gets so far into the installation, but it seems that the USB3 drivers aren't available to the Windows installer.
Try again with a USB2-only drive and you should find that Windows will install fine.

After Windows re-installation = problems

After i reinstall windows i have these problems:
Any ideas? Waisting of time, cant work..

I would do a clean uninstall and then re-install: Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6

Macs don't show me created the partition for windows. And if through Bootcamp that says "No bootable device found" . Please HELP.

Shared disk (Tried 2 methods BootCamp and Disk Utility) to install windows, but the section is not shown, to be precise, when you turn the Mac while holding Alt key shows the partition for system restore and disk partition with OSX, and not created by me. If you try through Bootcamp that actually says "No bootable device". What could it be? I have a macbook pro 371ll/a, OSX 10.9.5 . Thanks for the reply.

Thank you! All established, but a new problem with Windows 7 partition. If you install Windows on a Mac, say you gave 30GB on widows, after installation you have 2GB from 30GB, while the size of the files in Windows is 18 GB, should be free 12 from 30. Hidden files on large amounts of no (100 MB all hidden files together). Know that there is a disk which reserves memory for the system, but I don't have, I look through the taskbar there is a disk with osx and bootcamp and all. What could it be, if you of course know.

How should I install/setup a single OS of windows 7 to run through bootcamp and parallels 7 on my new macbook pro?

I just bought a new macbook 8g ram and 750g harddrive and want to be able to run windows 7 through bootcamp and parallels. How do I setup that up and install a single version of windows (want to be able to utilize heavy programs - photoshop, 3D modeling CAD etc. - by installing them once and being able to use them through parallels 7 or bootcamp)? Please let me know of anything that may red flag by doing this and clear concise instructions of which to do first/ settings for bootcamp and parallels

BootCamp is directly booting your computer into Windows for full hardware access and performance, just like a PC. It's free from Apple.
https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Virtual machine software (paid) like Parallels and VMFusion both can take the Bootcamped Windows and make a copy for use in OS X in a window at the same time as using OS X, but less performance. It's usualyl easiler to use.
A free virtual machine option is VirtualBox, but it might not have all the bells and whistles of the payware options above, but works just fine.
We can't provide detailed installation instructions, it's too much, you will have to read Apple's instructions and the manual for your virtual machine software.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

Rs480 windows-sata installation problem

Hi all,
Whenever I try to install windows in my system I press the F6 button and loads the sil3112 sata driver. The first time I tried this worked(win xp with no sps) and I got to install windows. But after sometime I decided reinstall windows. This time when I tried to install windows(win xp with sp1) with the usual procedure like loading the sata driver through F6 method it didnt work. When I reach the partitioning blue screen and when I give prompt to format the drive or partition it windows say that “however the disk does not contain a windows compatible partition” and thus have to exit.
The same thing happened when I tried to install xp 64bit with sil drivers given in msi site.
Please do help me with this problem.
My mobo specs are given below.
<<< System Summary >>>
< Processor >
Model: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Speed: 1.79GHz
Model Number: 3000 (estimated)
Performance Rating: PR2687 (estimated)
Type: Standard
L2 On-board Cache: 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set,
64 byte line size
< Mainboard >
Bus(es): ISA X-Bus PCI USB FireWire/1394
MP Support: 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC: No
System BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
Mainboard: MS-7093
Total Memory: 447MB DDR-SDRAM
< Chipset 1 >
Model: Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) ???
(5950)
Front Side Bus Speed: 1x 199MHz (199MHz data rate)
< Chipset 2 >
Model: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 /
Opteron HyperTransport Technology
Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 995MHz (1990MHz data rate)
Total Memory: 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed: 2x 199MHz (398MHz data rate)
< Video System >
Monitor/Panel: Samsung Samtron 40Bn
Adapter: ATI RADEON Xpress 200 Series
< Physical Storage Devices >
Removable Drive: Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk: ST320413A (19GB)
Hard Disk: ST380817 AS SCSI Disk Device (75GB)
CD-ROM/DVD: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1622 (CD 40X Rd) (DVD 5X Rd)
< Peripherals >
Serial/Parallel Port(s): 1 COM / 1 LPT
USB Controller/Hub: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub: Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub: USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub: USB Root Hub
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub: VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Keyboard: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/
2 Keyboard
Mouse: PS/2 Compatible Mouse
< MultiMedia Device(s) >
Device: Realtek AC'97 Audio
< Network Services >
Adapter: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
<<< Mainboard Information >>>
< Mainboard >
Manufacturer: Micro-Star
MP Support: 1 CPU(s)
MPS Version: 1.40
Model: MS-7093
System BIOS: 05/13/2005-RS480-SB400-6A666M4DC-00
< System Memory Controller >
Location: Mainboard
Error Correction Capability: None
Number of Memory Slots: 4
Maximum Installable Memory: 2GB
Bank0/1 - A0: None None None None DIMM 512MB/64
Bank2/3 - A1: Empty
Bank4/5 - A2: Empty
Bank6/7 - A3: Empty
< Chipset 1 >
Model: Micro-Star International Co Ltd (MSI) ???
(5950)
Bus(es): ISA X-Bus PCI USB FireWire/1394
Front Side Bus Speed: 1x 199MHz (199MHz data rate)
In/Out Width: 16-bit / 16-bit
< Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Banks >
Power Save Mode: No
Fixed Hole Present: No
< Chipset 2 >
Model: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 /
Opteron HyperTransport Technology
Configuration
Bus(es): ISA X-Bus PCI USB FireWire/1394
Version: 1.02
Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 995MHz (1990MHz data rate)
Maximum FSB Speed / Max Memory:2x 1000MHz / 2x 200MHz
In/Out Width: 16-bit / 16-bit
IO Queue Depth: 4 request(s)
< Chipset 2 Hub Interface >
Type: HyperTransport
Version: 1.02
In/Out Width: 16-bit / 16-bit
Speed: 2x 995MHz (1990MHz data rate)
< Logical/Chipset 2 Memory Banks >
Bank 0: 512MB DDR-SDRAM 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Channels: 1
Speed: 2x 199MHz (398MHz data rate)
Multiplier: 1/9x
Width: 64-bit
Refresh Rate: 5.00µs
Power Save Mode: No
Fixed Hole Present: No
Notice 224: SMBIOS/DMI information may be inaccurate.
Tip 2511: Some memory slots are free so the memory can
be easily upgraded.
Warning 100: Large memory sizes should be made of
Registered/Buffered memory.
<<< CPU & BIOS Information >>>
<< Processor 1 >>
< Processor >
Model: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Speed: 1.79GHz
Model Number: 3000 (estimated)
Performance Rating: PR2687 (estimated)
Type: Standard
Package: FC µPGA939
Multiplier: 9/1x
Minimum/Maximum Multiplier: 9/1x / 9/1x
Generation: G8
Name: M1F Athlon 64 (K8 ClawHammer) 90nm ?GHz+ ?V
Revision/Stepping: 1F / 0 (108)
Stepping Mask: DH8-D0
Microcode: MU0FF041
Core Voltage Rating: 1.400V
Min/Max Core Voltage: 1.400V / 1.450V
Maximum Physical / Virtual Add:40-bit / 48-bit
Native Page Size: 4kB
< Co-Processor (FPU) >
Type: Built-in
Revision/Stepping: 1F / 0 (108)
< Processor Cache(s) >
Internal Data Cache: 64kB Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way set, 64
byte line size
Internal Instruction Cache: 64kB Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way set, 64
byte line size
L2 On-board Cache: 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set,
64 byte line size
L2 Cache Multiplier: 1/1x (1791MHz)
< Upgradeability >
Socket/Slot: Socket 939
Upgrade Interface: Unknown
Supported Speed(s): 3.00GHz+
< Processor Power Management >
Processor Throttling Enabled: Yes
Throttle Range: 34% - 100%
<<< PCI(e), AGP, CardBus Bus(es) Information >>>
<< Generic >>
<< Interface >>
< System Buses >
PCI 64-bit Bus(es): 1
PCI 66MHz Bus(es): 1
PCI Bus(es): 3
Interface Version: 2.20
< Interface Properties >
Config space access mechanism :Yes
Config space access mechanism :No
Cycle generation mechanism 1 s:No
Cycle generation mechanism 2 s:No
<<< Video System Information >>>
<< Video Adapter >>
<< Primary Display Driver (display) >>
< Video Adapter >
Model: ATI RADEON Xpress 200 Series
Chipset: ATI RADEON Xpress 200G Series (0x5954)
RAMDAC: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Video BIOS: BK-ATI VER008.020I.030.000
VGA Compatible: No
Total Memory: 64MB (64MB Video) (118MB System)
Texture Memory: 182MB
Supports DIME Texturing: Yes
< Video BIOS >
Date: 04/12/20
< Current Video Mode >
Mode: 1024x768 16M+ TrueColour (32-bit)
Current Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Virtual Desktop Size: 1024x768
< Video Driver >
Model: ati2mtag.sys
Version: 6.14.10.6490
Expected Windows Version: 4.00
Video Acceleration: Yes
Screen Saver Active: 60 minutes(s)
Screen Saver Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\logon.scr
Low Power Saving Active: No
Power Off Saving Active: No
<<< Sound Card Information >>>
<< Wave Input Devices (Recording) >>
<< Realtek AC97 Audio >>
< General Information >
Device Name: Realtek AC97 Audio
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Version: 5.10
Product ID: 101 / 1
With regards and concern,
Cherian

Quote from: Ui30 on 04-July-05, 19:41:11
Why not install like you did before, not using a slipstreamed version? It may do the trick!
Are you runnign single SATA? (I didn't find it in your summary, may looked over it ... maybe you can give your specs like in my signature )
i'll try you way.but its difficult to get a pure xp. i'll have to dig hard for that.
for ur 2nd question. i am not running a single sata. i have one sata 80gb and another 20 gb ide.is that a problem

Windows XP installation problems in SATA HDD

I am trying to install XP Pro from the CD on a new pc, as listed on the sig.
The computer at first started realtek boot agent, but didnt found any HDD, i found this forum and made some changes:
Pre-Raid Bios Tweaks
Standard Cmos Features
The only thing I change here is to enable "32bit transfer mode" whenever I connect new devices to the Intel IDE controller.
Note: Devices attached to the Promise controller and the Intel Raid(when it is enabled) will NOT appear in the standard Cmos page
Advanced Bios Features
Everything on defaults is usually fine except I always change the following for WinXP:
APIC ACPI SCI IRQ - Enabled
Boot Device select is also on this page and you'll be changing it after all the hardware is setup; more later.
Advanced Cipset Features
Confirm that the memory timing "by SPD" is enabled
PNP/PCI Configurations
Clear NVRam option I always set to "YES" before the first boot after making hardware changes. I'm not sure how important this is but I understand that's what you're supposed to do. I believe it forces the motherboard to detect hardware changes. It reverts to "NO" after the reboot.
PCI/IDE Busmaster set to "enabled" to speed things up outside of Windows.
Integrated Peripherals (Before Raid for most flexibilty)
Onboard Promise IDE - Disabled if you have nothing attached to IDE3 and Serial 3&4
ON-Chip IDE Configuration:
Native Mode (Supported by WinXP- Allows all devices connected to IDE 1&2 and Serial 1&2 to be detected)
SATA Only or PATA Only (select the one that you boot XP with)
Keep SATA Active - Yes (if option available)
Keep PATA Active - Yes (if option available)
PATA Channel selection - Both (if option available)
Configure SATA as Raid - No (if option available)
Leave other settings here at default
Note: Some older Bios versions may appear different than above
Frequency/Voltage Control
Dynamic Overclocking - Disabled
Performance Mode - Slow
Dram Frequency - Auto
Adjust CPU Bus - 201 (for "c" type cpu's)
DDR Voltage - 2.65 (minimum for Dual-Channel Mem stability)
AGP Voltage - 1.55
This is a thumbnail at 63% scale, click for full sized image.
Note: some features above may not appear with your Bios
Note: performance & overclocking features can be increased again AFTER the Raid array has been setup and is stable with Windows.
The above text was copy pasted from this forum.
With my hdd allready recognized i started windows xp configuration, kept on going, formatted using NTFS, win config the started copying files for installation, then
gets to a point that says 'This portion of setup has completed successfully, remove
any disks from the A:\ drive, computer will reboot in 15 seconds.'
so it reboots, and it goes through the cycle again.
It reads the CD, asks if I want to setup Windows XP, then this msg appears "there
is already a \windows directory on the C:\ drive, do you want to do a dual
boot, do you want to delete the contents of this folder and install windows there,
or do you want to install to a separate directory", and a link to the microsoft website for advice on dual booting.
It does this over and over and over again.I tried ejecting the XP CD ROM and restarting, but then it
starts up and says "Missng Operating System"
why the heck does XP insist on restarting, only to go through the exact same setup
steps again? What did i do wrong
Thanks in advance
Many thanks.
Really

Thx for the advice, unfortunatly it didnt work, following your advice i didnt touch any key, the following msg appeared"invalid system disk", but before that i had one error(ive been having this error everytime i tried to install this windows xp cd on this new mobo): i made full format(10-20m), the pc started copying files but it stopped at 2% in the gdi32.dll file, saying to check if i had my cd on the drive, retried it 10 times then i ignored it, the next file in line made the same error, i kept ignoring all files(98% left and with same problem) till 100% completion. Meanwhile, and after going by the full format again, got the same error on the gdi32.dll file, this time i retried it a couple times and quited config(F3),rebboted and made the process all over again, this time i didnt formatted, the config made a disk maintainance, forced me to reboot. Booting from cd for the third time, i kept existing format but this time config copied all windows config files till the end, rebooted, touched no keys, got the same feared msg again"Invalid system disk".
Only ideas i have are: bad cd rom drive? bad cd?
All advices are certainly welcome.

Windows 7 installation problem

Hi, I'm trying to install Windows 7 (specifically, it's windows 7 professional with service pack 1, 64-bit) on my mac (a 13-inch mid-2012 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.8.3) via Boot Camp, and I've run into a problem.
I had no issues when going through the BootCamp Assistant, have a USB drive with all the needed files and everything, and have partitioned my hard drive. The problem comes up when I get to the point of resetting my computer.
I get a black screen with the message "no bootable device - insert boot disc and press any key," even though the USB drive is sitting right in the slot and is being read by the computer. Pressing keys does nothing, naturally.
The issue isn't getting back to OSX like some other posts I've seen on similar topics, I can do that just fine by holding down the "alt" key on startup (incidentally, the USB drive shows up just fine in my list of available startup disks, so I know it's being read). I want to know how to find a workaround for this problem and continue with the installation.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Hello jaredm42
Sometimes it could be that other devices are plugged in when trying to install Windows Check to make sure nothing else is plugged in that could take power away from the USB drive and start the process again.
Boot Camp: Windows installation boots to black screen with blinking cursor
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4536
Regards,
-Norm G.

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