Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Fix Windows XP on BootCamp Problems

Problem :

I was installing Windows XP on Boot Camp, so I did everything normally and I felt like I didn't add enough space for Windows, but it continued installing Windows. After a while it restarted the computer and I noticed that it looks like its loading the same thing over and over again. I've tried quitting it and it says it will reboot, but every time it reboots it brings me back to the opening screen. Help?!


Solution :
Hold down the 'Control' key while booting, and it'll let you select Mac OS X to boot up, that'll at least get you working again.

I can't say for sure what the issue is with the installation... if you gave it at least 10GB of space, that is enough to install Windows. Resizing is a huge pain, and it is really difficult for the Windows OS to read things from the Mac partition, so I'd recommend making the FAT32 partition (windows) much larger, and then putting all of your data onto it, since it will be accessible from both OSes.