Boot Camp

Reeves · Sat 19 Apr, 2008 14.26

This is really getting on my tits...

I've decided to give Bootcamp a go on my Macbook as I am doing alot of video editing, and I cannot find a trial of Final Cut and therefore will not buy it, and iMovie is pretty shite IMO. I use Adobe Premiere on my PC, so I've decided to stick Windows on my Mac and use it from there, amongst other uses. After trying it about 7 times, it's finally on. Now i'm trying to get the drivers onto it from the OS X disc...

First attempt, it wanted me to update Windows Installer. So I had to download it from my PC and put it on Bootcamp. Then it moans saying it can only install the drivers on XP SP2 or Windows Vista. I hate Vista and the only XPs I have are with SP1. I have Media Centre SP2 but this is pre-installed. With the lack of internet on my Bootcamped Windows, I had to search for a SP2 download on my PC and transfer it onto my Mac.

I tried to install it, but is now moaning that it requires "4 megabytes of space" for some "Uninstall$" file or something along the lines of that. I hav over 7gb of space on this partition and for some reason, it can't find 4mb of space... I thought Bootcamp was supposed to be helpful, not so bloody awkward...

Can anybody help me, please? Many thanks

Pete · Sat 19 Apr, 2008 14.38

it would probably be easiest to slipstream SP2 onto a CD and install from that.

Reeves · Sat 19 Apr, 2008 15.47

Thanks Hyma, i'll give it a go.

EDIT: Same message coming up... Sorry Hyma.

Reeves · Sat 19 Apr, 2008 22.26

Well it turns out that XP HAS to have SP2 already on the disc which I don't have. So I'm going to have to upgrade Vista onto the XP partition. However, the partition is about 10gb big and Vistra requires about 20gb.

I've made about 66gb free, so I've created a 32gb partition. All three goes, I got a message saying "Please restart your computer" which I'm assuming is the Mac's equivalent to the BSod. Not only do I have no partition, but it's nicked by 32gb, so that's gone missing.

Can somebody please help, this is driving me crazy...

Many thanks

pad · Mon 21 Apr, 2008 22.01

Oh that's very frustrating.

Can you not download SP2 on another computer (or your Mac partition) and launch the installer from a pen-drive or something? This link is a direct link to SP2.

I thought you had to have a Windows XP SP2 disc to get it to even work in the first place. I didn't think that you could upgrade to SP2, it had to be SP2 from the word go.

I'd also advise you take the free download of iMovie 06, which is a nice app, presuming your moanings about it were in reference to 08, which admittedly is a steaming pile of crap. They stripped it of all its features for the sake of a new interface which isn't that much nicer than the old one. The link is here: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html

If iMovie 06 does what you want, you could jack the whole Bootcamp thing in.

Lorns · Tue 22 Apr, 2008 18.50

Is it possible to install the xp sp2 disc from my previous laptop ( R.I.P) onto my Vista laptop? Will it be too complicated for me to do myself. I just can't get on with Vista. I'm saving my pennies to buy a mac but in the meantime i'd like to go back to XP.