Do i need to complete this only once or everytime?

[thebestguru333]

Windows XP Installation

Doing this when you have already installed XP will delete all data on your hard drive! If you have already have XP installed, scroll down to Partitioning.

 

 

1) Insert your XP disk as soon as your computer starts up.

2) Boot from the CD and follow instructions until you get to the Partition screen.

3) Delete the partitions already there. To delete a partition, highlight it with the arrow keys and press D, then L.

4) Select the unpartitioned space, then press C to create a new partition.

5) Now, think about how much space you need for both XP and OS X. It depends on your hard drive. I'd say you should have 20GB of space for your OS X partition AT LEAST, as the iLife applications etc. take up a fair bit of room.

6) Now, type the size in MB for your Windows install. Remember, 1024 MB is a gigabyte. If your hard drive is 80GB, leave 20GB for your mac. That gives you 60GB to work with on the PC side which is 61440 MB. So if you have an 80 GB drive, enter 61440.

7) Press enter.

9) Now, select that partition and press enter. Then choose NTFS (Quick).

10) Press enter and follow through all the setup steps.

11) Once Setup is completely finished and you have activated Windows, open a command prompt by clicking Run in the start menu and typing CMD.

12) Now type: diskpart and hit enter.

13). Then type: select disk 0 and hit enter (assuming this is the only hard drive in your machine).

14) Type: create partition primary id=af and hit enter (it should respond after a few seconds that it created the partition).

15) Type: exit and hit enter (this will exit diskpart).

16) Close the command prompt window.

Thanks to bluedragon1971 from InsanelyMac for the command prompt procedure!

 

Just finished the XP install? Skip the next section and go onwards to Burning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ran into the still looking for a root drive error... and have been attempting to fix that, now do i need to repeat this when i boot back into xp or does this step need to be completed only once?