A Windows expert's step-by-step instructions for installing XP on a Mac!!!!
APRIL 14, 2006 The Boot Camp installation process is straightforward, but there are some details, factors and decision points you should be fully aware of before you take the plunge. Assuming that your Mac and copy of Windows XP meet the system requirements, that you steer clear of a couple of gotchas, and that you read these tips, you’ll wind up with a Mac that has two well-adjusted and useful personalities (see [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا]). It may take longer to read about the installation process than to complete most of its steps. The most time-consuming part is the lengthy time required by Windows XP’s installation routine. On my 2-GHz Coe Duo MacBook Pro with 1GB RAM and a 5,400-rpm, 120GB hard drive, Windows XP Pro’s installation took more than 90 minutes -- nearly twice as long as the average time needed for a Windows XP clean installation. (Some other testers have reported 45-minute XP installation times, though.) The good news is that’s not at all a harbinger of XP’s performance on your Mac. When all is said and done, Windows XP runs very quickly on Intel-based Macs. Basic Training for Boot Camp
There are several prerequisites for using Boot Camp to install Windows XP successfully on your Mac. You may find one or more of them to be deal breakers, so read carefully:
You need an Intel-based Mac. Apple sells three MacBook Pro models, two iMac models, and two Mac Mini models that sport Intel CPUs. Prices range from $600 to over $3,000. Boot Camp does not work on PowerPC-based Macs.
Your keyboard and mouse must be connected via USB or integrated in your Mac. Boot Camp does not currently support wirelessly connected input devices.
Your Mac hard drive must have at least 10GB of free disk space, and if you intend to install several Windows applications and regularly use Windows XP, allocating 20GB or more to the Windows XP partition would be a good idea. Note: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 requires almost 4GB of hard drive space to start.
Before running Boot Camp, you must upgrade your Mac to OS X Tiger 10.4.6, which was made freely available recently to all Tiger owners. Open the Apple menu and choose Software Update to initiate the process.
Before running Boot Camp, you must upgrade your Mac’s firmware to the latest version. At this writing, the most recent update was posted on April 5 and was offered specifically to support Boot Camp. To download the update for your Mac, visit the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا].Updating your Mac’s firmware is an easy process. This Apple support document, [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا], provides excellent detail on the procedure, which takes only a few minutes.
You need a blank, recordable CD or DVD, which will be used by Boot Camp to create a Windows XP drivers disc for your Mac.
Lastly, a valid, unused “full install” version of Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2 is required.
Regarding the valid Windows XP C Windows XP uses product activation to prevent software pirating, and Microsoft’s end-user license agreement is based on the notion of one copy of Windows XP per machine, not one copy per person. So once a copy of Windows XP has been installed and activated on any given PC, you will not be able to install that same copy on a second machine without receiving permission from Microsoft via telephone. Without that permission, your Windows installation will lock you out.
Note: You also can’t use the less expensive “upgrade” version of Windows XP. Windows Upgrade discs always validate ownership of a previous version of Windows. This is completely invisible to you if you have a previous version of Windows installed on the computer you’re upgrading. That clearly isn’t the case with your Mac, though. When you’re clean-installing from a Windows Upgrade disc, the installation process asks you to insert the retail CD for your previous copy of Windows as proof of ownership. Unfortunately, Boot Camp will not let you eject your Windows XP Service Pack 2 disc until installation is complete. For that reason, you are forced to buy the “full install” version.
Apple also made the decision to require a Windows XP CD with the latest version of XP, which includes Service Pack 2 (SP2), for Boot Camp. That’s a questionable decision, given that Microsoft freely offers an online upgrade of SP2 and a solid process for downloading and installing it. Bottom line: Even if you have a valid, unused, full-install Windows XP CD that was issued before Service Pack 2, you will be forced to buy a new CD to comply with this requirement. (It’s possible that Apple made this decision because it is relying on the SP2 driver pack.)
Street pricing on Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 is in the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا]. Street pricing on Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 ranges from [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا]. Those prices are based on information from PriceGrabber.com.
To get started with Boot Camp, begin by downloading the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا]. The 17-page PDF does an excellent job of detailing the entire process, so be sure to print the document and read it before proceeding further. You also need to [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا] the 83MB Boot Camp installer. Caveats and Warnings
Before you install Boot Camp, there are some caveats and potential pitfalls you should know about. Boot Camp is beta software. Apple does not offer support for it, and you use it at your own risk. In my tests, though, it is very stable. What’s more, it comes with a built-in uninstall routine that removes Windows XP and returns your hard disk to a single full partition.
Boot Camp expects to find an unpartitioned hard disk on your Mac. In other words, the entire hard disk must appear as a single drive on your Mac. If you have previously partitioned your disk into two or more drives, you should use Apple’s Disk Utility (found in the Applications/Utilities folder in Finder) to return your Mac drive to its original state. But don’t use Disk Utility or similar third-party utilities to create your Windows XP partition in advance of running Boot Camp.
During the Windows XP installation process, Windows will ask you which partition to install Windows to. Be sure to select “C:”. Failure to do so could result in the deletion of your entire Mac partition, including OS X and all your Mac applications and data. For more detailed information, please review this detailed [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا]. Boot Camp, Step by Step
Now that you’re forearmed with the knowledge you need to make it through Boot Camp, follow the steps in Apple’s Boot Camp Beta Installation Guide. In a nutshell, you open the Boot Camp download and follow the onscreen instructions. The program will install into your Mac’s Applications/Utilities folder.
Boot Camp Assistant’s first step is to burn the Windows driver CD for your Mac, which goes just as expected. I used an inexpensive 700MB CD-R, and the drivers for the MacBook Pro I tested with required under 85MB on the disc.
The second step is partitioning your hard drive, adding a logical drive for Windows XP. Although Boot Camp will let you create a Windows XP partition as small as 5GB — and that’s even the default size — don’t do it for anything but a temporary test of Boot Camp. A permanent Windows XP installation needs 10GB minimum, and more disk space would be smarter if you’ve got it to spare. I created a 31GB partition for Windows XP, which still left me 65GB of free disk space on my Mac partition.
The Windows XP installation routine takes over for the third step of the process. After you insert your Windows XP SP2 full-install CD and setup finishes initializing, you’ll be asked to select your Windows partition. As I said earlier, the only right answer to the question is “C:”.
The next screen asks whether to format the Windows partition with Microsoft’s FAT32 or NTFS file system. NTFS is the more reliable, more secure file system, but so long as your Windows partition is less than 32GB in size, I recommend you choose FAT32. My reasoning is this: While the Mac can read and write to FAT32 volumes, it can only read NTFS volumes. In a dual-boot environment, it’s better if at least one of the operating systems is able to read and write to the other. That can be useful in the event of system trouble. If your Windows partition is larger than 32GB, you have to use NTFS because FAT32 doesn’t support partitions that large. With a 31GB Windows partition, I went with FAT32.
Formatting the drive takes a few minutes, and once that’s done, Windows setup begins to work with the main part of installation.
With the Windows installation completed, your Mac will reboot to the new Windows XP installation. The fourth and last Boot Camp step is to install the Mac drivers for Windows using the CD you burned. When you insert the CD, Windows’ AutoRun feature should begin the driver-installation process automatically. If not, you can open My Computer, open your Mac’s CD/DVD drive, and double-click the file named “Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe.” You’ll see dialogs asking whether you should allow unsigned drivers to be installed; Just say yes. Sometimes these Windows come up under other Windows, so if the process halts unexpectedly, poke around. On the MacBook Pro, at one point an installation wizard asks whether to allow it to search the Internet for drivers. It will find the driver locally, so choose This Time Only (what I selected) or No.
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Mission Accomplished
After the drivers are installed, Windows XP reboots, and when it comes back up the video will be properly configured, as well as the audio, 802.11 wireless, Ethernet networking and Bluetooth. Apple includes a Windows system tray slider control for screen brightness, a nice touch since the MacBook Pro keys for raising and lowering brightness don’t work under XP. Apple also had to create support for its keyboard Eject button (since the SuperDrive doesn’t have an eject button). And there’s an Apple-created Windows Control Panel called Startup Disk (like the Apple System Preference pane) that let’s you select which operating system to restart to.
A quick glance at the Windows Device Manager tool (the easiest way to check for improperly configured hardware in Windows) shows that there are three devices that don’t have drivers installed, and there’s an issue with one of the USB HID drivers. According to Apple, the following hardware doesn’t work in XP with Boot Camp: the built-in iSight camera found on the iMac and MacBook Pro models; the MacBook Pro’s ambient light sensor and hard drive sudden motion sensor; the Apple Remote Control; Apple’s optional USB Modem; and Apple’s wireless keyboard and mouse add-ons.
The biggest weakness of Apple’s hardware support for Windows XP, however, may be the lack of an Apple driver for the MacBook Pro’s built-in TrackPad. As a result, Windows falls back to a generic Microsoft touchpad driver. The two-finger vertical and horizontal scrolling feature doesn’t work, you can’t optionally tap the TrackPad to select or open, and you can’t Ctrl-Click to get a “right-click” action. (The best work-around for right-click is to hold down the Option (Alt) key and double-click.) Finally, I was unable to find a combination of the generic Windows mouse-pointer acceleration settings that made the TrackPad usable in XP. I hope Apple will add a custom Windows driver for the MacBook Pro’s TrackPad to future versions of Boot Camp.
There’s also a small issue concerning the system clock. Each time I boot into Windows XP, it shows the right minutes, but it’s four hours ahead of the correct time. The problem is caused by the fact that Windows and Mac PCs handle system time a bit differently. Theoretically, Windows should be able to correct the problem automatically by connecting to a time server to get the correct local time. But because Windows XP does this on a once-a-week basis, with no user-controlled option for changing it to, say, each time the system boots, the only apparent option Boot Camp users have is to open Windows’ Date and Time Control Panel, click the Internet Time tab, and click the Update Now button. Or just update the time manually. There is a way via a Registry hack to force Windows XP to check an Internet time source more frequently than once a week. Microsoft offers an article in its Knowledgebase that explains how to make the change.
Despite my detailed itemization of Boot Camp Beta’s few blemishes, its overall functionality is excellent, as is the user experience. Once you understand the decisions Apple made, Boot Camp is very easy to install. Windows XP runs very fast with this solution, and I expect Boot Camp to drive sales of Intel-based Macs. If you try Boot Camp, and have suggestions for Apple on how to make it better, you send the company feedback via [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابطللتسجيل اضغط هنا].
A Windows expert's step-by-step instructions for installing XP on a Mac!!!!
The Boot Camp installation process is straightforward, but there are some details, factors and decision points you should be fully aware of before you take the plunge. Assuming that your Mac and copy of Windows XP meet the system requirements, that you steer clear of a couple of gotchas, and that you read these tips, you’ll wind up with a Mac that has two well-adjusted and useful personalities (see [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل للمشاهدة الرابط
Windows XP uses product activation to prevent software pirating, and Microsoft’s end-user license agreement is based on the notion of one copy of Windows XP per machine, not one copy per person. So once a copy of Windows XP has been installed and activated on any given PC, you will not be able to install that same copy on a second machine without receiving permission from Microsoft via telephone. Without that permission, your Windows installation will lock you out. 
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