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LuKreme | 14 Aug 04:44
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BootCamp install issues


A friend of mine bought Age of Conan awhile back and they finally  
enabled the 'refer a friend' free passes, so I was going to give it a  
look see.

I fired up Boot Camp Assisistant, created a 45GB partition on on of my  
drives, and then rebooted with my windows disk in.

The Bootcamp partition shows up as a C: drive named BOOTCAMP, but when  
I select it, I get some gibberish from the windows installer about how  
it needs to write boot drivers to the disk but it can't for some reason.

I've tried to make a BC partition on my boot drive, but that always  
fails because "some files could not be moved".

Any ideas?  My wintendo machine crashes at the mere thought of running  
AoC (it needs the 8800 in my MacPro, really it does).

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John Musbach | 14 Aug 04:52

Re: BootCamp install issues

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM, LuKreme <kremels@...> wrote:
> I've tried to make a BC partition on my boot drive, but that always fails
> because "some files could not be moved".
>
> Any ideas?  My wintendo machine crashes at the mere thought of running AoC
> (it needs the 8800 in my MacPro, really it does).

Using the XP setup interface, try deleting the boot camp partition and
then select what has now become designated as free space and see if
Setup will partition that. The boot camp partition isn't AFAICT
anything special, it's just a preformatted NTFS partition that can
just as easily be made in the XP Setup interface from
unformatted/unpartitioned space.

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Matt Penna | 14 Aug 05:00

Re: BootCamp install issues

On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:52 PM, John Musbach wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM, LuKreme <kremels@...> wrote:
>> I've tried to make a BC partition on my boot drive, but that always  
>> fails
>> because "some files could not be moved".
>>
>
> Using the XP setup interface, try deleting the boot camp partition and
> then select what has now become designated as free space and see if
> Setup will partition that.

As an additional data point, I have never had the Windows XP installer  
work properly with the pre-made Boot Camp partitions in my Mac Pro.  
I've installed XP several times on this system, and every time, I have  
needed to delete and re-create the partition manually within the  
Windows installer (every time hoping I don't break something).

Hope that works for you.

	Matt
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LuKreme | 14 Aug 05:14
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Re: BootCamp install issues

On 13-Aug-2008, at 21:00, Matt Penna wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:52 PM, John Musbach wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM, LuKreme <kremels@...> wrote:
>>> I've tried to make a BC partition on my boot drive, but that  
>>> always fails
>>> because "some files could not be moved".
>>>
>> Using the XP setup interface, try deleting the boot camp partition  
>> and
>> then select what has now become designated as free space and see if
>> Setup will partition that.
>
> As an additional data point, I have never had the Windows XP  
> installer work properly with the pre-made Boot Camp partitions in my  
> Mac Pro. I've installed XP several times on this system, and every  
> time, I have needed to delete and re-create the partition manually  
> within the Windows installer (every time hoping I don't break  
> something).

OK, I'll give it a whirl.

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LuKreme | 15 Aug 17:12
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Re: BootCamp install issues

On 13-Aug-2008, at 21:14, LuKreme wrote:
> On 13-Aug-2008, at 21:00, Matt Penna wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:52 PM, John Musbach wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM, LuKreme <kremels@...> wrote:
>>>> I've tried to make a BC partition on my boot drive, but that  
>>>> always fails
>>>> because "some files could not be moved".
>>>>
>>> Using the XP setup interface, try deleting the boot camp partition  
>>> and
>>> then select what has now become designated as free space and see if
>>> Setup will partition that.
>>
>> As an additional data point, I have never had the Windows XP  
>> installer work properly with the pre-made Boot Camp partitions in  
>> my Mac Pro. I've installed XP several times on this system, and  
>> every time, I have needed to delete and re-create the partition  
>> manually within the Windows installer (every time hoping I don't  
>> break something).
>
> OK, I'll give it a whirl.

OK, finally had a chance to try this.  Despite erasing the "c:"  
partition inside the windows installer and having it create a new  
partition, I still got the same message about needing to install stuff  
and there not being a Windows partition on that disk.

Any other ideas?

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Karl Kuehn | 15 Aug 17:31

Re: BootCamp install issues

On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> OK, finally had a chance to try this.  Despite erasing the "c:"  
> partition inside the windows installer and having it create a new  
> partition, I still got the same message about needing to install  
> stuff and there not being a Windows partition on that disk.
>
> Any other ideas?

	On a blue-sky guess: is your WIndows partition the third user-visible  
partition? If you count the EFI System Partition it has to be the last  
entry in the BIOS Partition Map (regular partition... extended ones  
are a very complicated discussion). So if you do a 'diskutil list' is  
MUST look like one of these:

( 1 partition version - not really supported by Apple)
/dev/disk0
	#:		TYPE NAME
	0:		GUID_partition_scheme
	1:		EFI
	2:		Microsoft Basic Data		<------ Windows lives Here

( 2 partition version)
/dev/disk0
	#:		TYPE NAME
	0:		GUID_partition_scheme
	1:		EFI
	2:		Apple_HFS
	3:		Microsoft Basic Data		<------ Windows lives Here
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LuKreme | 15 Aug 18:45
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Re: BootCamp install issues


On 15-Aug-2008, at 09:31, Karl Kuehn wrote:

> On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>
>> OK, finally had a chance to try this.  Despite erasing the "c:"  
>> partition inside the windows installer and having it create a new  
>> partition, I still got the same message about needing to install  
>> stuff and there not being a Windows partition on that disk.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>
> 	On a blue-sky guess: is your WIndows partition the third user- 
> visible partition? If you count the EFI System Partition it has to  
> be the last entry in the BIOS Partition Map (regular partition...  
> extended ones are a very complicated discussion). So if you do a  
> 'diskutil list' is MUST look like one of these:

Well, it now looks like this:

/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE        
IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *372.6 Gi    
disk4
   1:                        EFI                         200.0 Mi    
disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         372.3 Gi    
disk4s2
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