unGraphic Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Well, i have two hard drive, a 250gb in Bay 1, and 200gb in Bay 3 (for airflow purposes). I run bootcamp, select Bay 3 to be used as the install drive, then run the install from disc. I get into the blue screen setup, i select drive C to install (Fat 32) and then i run into a problem: It tells me the installation process needs to write files to 'MBR disk 0 xx 0 xx o' (or something like that, but all the values are zero). This, i am assuming, is my OS X disk, the 250gb HD im using ONLY for OS X. How do i go about fixing this bollocks? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Cant you just swap drives around from bay 3 to 1 xp needts to write to the mbr which is usually on first drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unGraphic Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 would everything be back to norm if i swapped them back around to the original state AFTER? Im gonna try to use a different XP Install Disc, prolly a corporate. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 If after swapping bays you get windows installed you may need to use a boot manager as the windows drive should then be your booting drive and it probably wont see your osx drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unGraphic Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 Shouldnt boot camp resolve that, it is after all, a boot loader...?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 (edited) Yes quite true there m8 i never thought of bootcamp sorry its just ive never owned a mac so no too sure how they work in that respect but yes bootcamp should indeed sort out the booting Edited March 4, 2007 by curlyboy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unGraphic Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 (edited) Well, I did it. Everything works now with a corporate XP install disk. HOWEVER, one major pain in the ass problem. I have an IDE 320gb hard drive, which id very much like to use, but windows gives me 'disk error' and wont load if the IDE hard drive is installed. Otherwise, dual booting runs fine. I *could* use it as an external since I do have two spare external cases, but id rather not (speed issues). The external is used only for documents, PSD files mostly, and mp3s. I know PSD files would suffer if opened via USB (some are over 100mb) but would the difference be that much better from internal connection? Im wondering if theres any way to work around this problem, or if apple will fix it themselves. Also, would adding an additional SATA hard drive AFTER boot camp windows installation mess up the boot partitions? Thanks! Edited March 5, 2007 by unGraphic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44189-xp-pro-installation-problem/#findComment-316747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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