Windows xp pro installation looping

Hey i started bootcamp and use the windows xp pro on my macbook pro, everytime I tried to install it, it would restart and do the same thing over and over again. I finally figured out how to remove the disk from my macbook, but now my screens just black with a folder in the middle with a question mark on it. I put in my reinstallation disk of Mac OS X and now when it says select a destination to store it on... there is none! can someone help me from this point please i would appreciate it alot

HI and Welcome to Apple Discussions...
*"folder in the middle with a question mark on it."*
A flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac
Boot your Mac while holding down the Option key. That will prompt the Startup Manager window.
If that doesn't work, check the hard disk for errors.
Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger and later) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
While you have the Disk Utility window open, look at the bottom of the window where you see Capacity and Available. Make sure there is always 15% free disk space. Not enough disk space can cause directory corruption.
If you cannot boot from your install disk, try booting in Safe Mode
Carolyn

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I am trying to install Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on my new video system:
- I boot the PC with the install CD inserted
- I get
    . the installation screen
    . accept licence agreement
    . select on which disk I want to install windows
    . the copy to disk finishes
    . the next step is to reboot my system so that windows continues the install from disk.
   . however after the reboot, just after the systems POST, I just get a black screen and nothing happens.
I already removed all other disks and removed the raid card :
   So only the...
       - motherboard Asus P6T SE
       - CPU : Intel quad core 950 3.2Mhz
       - Corsair 12 GB
       - single WD 160GB disk ( for windows )
       - LG DVD player
       - Corsair PSU
       - ps2 keyboard
       - ps2 mouse
... remains attached
What is also strange is that there is no F6 during the install of Windows XP. Previously you could press F6 for additional drivers.
Now you can not. I tried to press F6 a couple of times but no additional options came on the screen.
I also allready preformated the disk : single partition and NTFS preformated with default 4kb cluster size.
Anybody an idea?

Thanks... above helped... when searching on that forum I found someting about changing SATA from IDE to AHCI.
So in the bios I changed ...
   > Storage Configuration > Change Configure SATA as IDE
... to ...
> Storage Configuration > Change Configure SATA as RAID
... and now it seems to work.
I used RAID instead of simple AHCI because I want to use raid0 (striping) for my paging disks.
So I will have a single disk for W7 Pro and use 2 disks for paging and cache.
My other 6 disks will later be used in raid3 on an areca controller.
Still working on my installation so I will leave this post open until windows 7 pro is installed / updated / configured.

Oracle9i Installation ON Windows XP Pro

Is Oracle9i Personal Edition Compatible with XP Pro?
I copied the the Oracle9i for XP (The link on the Oracle site does not say XP Pro .. just XP)
When I tried to install Oracle9i on my new PC with Windows XP Pro, I got the world famous blue screen and after that I could not reboot my PC. Windows XP Pro was reinstalled.
Any and all advice will be appreciated
<<< Ali >>>

Hi all
I have another problem about Oracle9i installation on windowsxp pro and wanna share your opinion. While I'm installing, dialog say "Loading product information" for a long time(it stay at 90% more than 9 hours!! while my computer still work). I try install Oracle9i on windows2003 server too but it have the same problem.
thanks

Java_es_05q1-windows-x86 install fails 1628: Failed to complete installation on windows xp pro sp2

Hi All,
I'm trying to install Java ES 2005Q1 on my windows xp pro sp2 notebook, but it always breaks with this error message: 1628: Failed to complete installation
I realized that the SUNJavaES.log always ends at line 151 which is 131077 characters long.
These are the last few characters of this line: ..." AD_MANUAL_ES_CONSOLE_HELP=D:\Sun\JES2005Q1\Server-Root\manua l\es\console\help\ AD_MANUAL_FR_ADMIN=D:\Sun\JES2005Q1\Server-Root\manual\fr\ad min\ AD_MANUAL_FR_ADMIN_HELP=D:\Sun\JES2005Q1\Serve "
I attached the last log file.
This line always breaks at the 131077th char independently of the content of it. I tried to skip some components of JES to see what will occur. The current content of this line obviously was different, but it has broken at the same point.
Thanks in advence for any help.

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Can you try and install in a location with less than 8 characters ?
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