twoodcc Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ok, i can't install xp or vista on my mac pro. i have 4 hard drives in it, and the one i want to use is in bay 3. when i go to install xp, it says to install on that partition, it needs to write some files to another hard drive that i have, but it can't. so then it just won't install. please help thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 any ideas? should i just use bootcamp to partition a different drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-295436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 ok now i'm having even more problems i put a second partion in the drive in bay 2. it still gave the same error: need to write startup files on another disk.... so i go back into Mac os x, erase the partition off of that hard drive, and it makes me restart. after restarting, it didn't give me back my 80GBs!!! what do i do? it says that my 279GB is now only 199GB!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-295776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 The way I do it is take a second hard drive and partition it with disk utility and use options MBR, boot the vista dvd and select the new partition you made... format it and install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-295889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 The way I do it is take a second hard drive and partition it with disk utility and use options MBR, boot the vista dvd and select the new partition you made... format it and install. so do you use bootcamp at all? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-295926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 after it restarts with the cd in there, it just goes straight back to the cd. if i use the alt, then pick the windows drive wtihout the cd in there, i get the grey folder with a question mark. and if i don't push alt, i get 'no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key' what is going on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-296288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 this is what is going on: i formatted the drive to MBR with disk utility. then i use bootcamp to make the drive ready for windows i startup with the xp disk. i use the xp disk to format the disk and copy the setup files then it has to restart when it comes back up, if i leave the xp disk in, it will boot the xp disk if i take the disk out, it will say 'no bootable drive, please insert one' if i hold down option, and then choose the windows drive (the only drive), it will give me the folder with the question mark. i hope all of this makes sense. i'm beginning to think that something might be wrong with my bootloader somewhere. what should i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-296408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 well i'm still not having any luck. i've tried Vista, and with no luck either. i'm about to give up i think Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41281-help-with-bootcamp-on-mac-pro/#findComment-296856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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