mrchaotica Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I used Boot Camp to make a 20GB partition for Windows on my iMac. Disk Utility shows it correctly: Macintosh HD: disk0s2, 212GB new partition: disk0s3, 20.6GB but the Windows installer only sees 1 partition that doesn't seem to correspond to either of them: C: Partition1 [unknown] 131072MB (131071 free) I've tried using Boot Camp to go back to one partition and then doing it again, but it produces the same result (which shouldn't surprise me really, since this is a Mac!). I haven't tried partitioning with Disk Utility yet, because I've heard things about it not working correctly (if someone can clarify this for me, I'd be much obliged!). What should I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15615-windows-installer-sees-only-1-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 READ THE INSTRUCTIONS! you're suppose to select "C:" partition http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15615-windows-installer-sees-only-1-partition/#findComment-100360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantalaimon Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 jgrimes, do u know how to read?? he is saying he only sees one partition, which has the size of the complete HD ive heard of a lot of people with this problem (including me -.-) dont go on if it happens to u, will erase your entrie hd some people says its because of the cd, other coz the partition and many reasons ... ive only heard one person who fixed this, it was changing the partition from 20g to 25g and running disk utililty ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15615-windows-installer-sees-only-1-partition/#findComment-100749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgrimes80 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Whoops... my bad... Did you do all the updates(firmware + os)??? If so, here's what I'd do... Find a "buddy" with another Xp Sp2 Cd (maybe here's your problem?) and boot his to verify it as a computer problem... If that doesn't work, I'd sweep everything clean and try again... After that, I'd give up, I bet it's a Cd problem; esp if its not legit A friend of mine used disk utility to partition his mac mini to less than 5gs... If you want to try it; here's how we did it... first we copied xp from a PC w/ SP2 (C:) to a external drive (to save time) 1. boot via osx install cd 2. go to utilities -> disk utility 3. select the main HD 4. select the tab entitled "Partition" 5. select the drop-down titled "Current" 6. Select two or whatever 7. use your mouse to determine the size 8. Click on the partition(image) you want to install windows 9. There is another drop down for the format- it should currently read "Mac Os Extended (journaled)" ... select MS-DOS (note, this will yield Fat32 format) 10. select partition button, it takes a minute or so 11. install osx (to save time, we simply installed the essentials -select custom, uncheck everything but essentials) 12. boot osx- Update OS...firmware should already be updated if you did it already 13. open disk utility 14. highlight the sub HD for Windows -> at the top select "mount"... if it worked you should see two HD's on your desktop 15. copy windows from external HD to partition 16. Reboot and hold down option and viola... IF YOU WANT TO RUN THE INSTALL, YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TO SELECT MS-DOS, SIMPLY PARTITION THEN FOLLOW THE APPROPIATE STEPS...and ignore #13-16 and just pop in you XP install disk- reboot- hold down <option> - boot via CD-and see if it recognizes it... it may work, it may not it worked for him, they way he wanted it to so... I still think somewhere you messed up, be it an update, or the wrong kind of XP... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15615-windows-installer-sees-only-1-partition/#findComment-100875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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