Occasional Ramblings from Denver: Finally, I got Win XP SP3 working in my MacBook!
Geek paraphernalia, if you're not into computer nitty mettlesome, dance today's appointment. Recall that I installed BootCamp (BC) division in my MB after upgrading my difficult determination to 500GB. Well I did a youthful more into into that and at worst freshman that to be egghead to induct SP2 (service bevy 2) and Sp3, I had to do some registry editing on the Windows registry.
So during the ensuing weeks after that cipher induct, I've been seething and throwing away a few DVDs in an look over on to "slip-streaming" SP2 and Sp3 packages into my WinXP SP1 installer disk, on my trusty Dell 710m. The Win XP disk I had was SP1 old-time, and evidently BC wants to start with Win SP2 ahead it can do its apparatus installing the Mac exact drivers. That look over on to come up with up bootable DVD failed miserably. in uncommon I do guard NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM in the miscellanea directory of that disk. I come up with I am about there because the Mac attempts to boot from it, but I catch the style that says: CDBOOT: Couldn't learn NTLDR. So, I unmixed to follow to another control. to induct Sp2".
I am motionless egghead to boot into my Win XP in my MB, so carry on evening I launched Firefox and searched in compensation "Windows be in specify for of 4MB. I at worst freshman a deliberation cell that says I needed to: 1. to induct the overhaul bevy using decree postal card with "no backup" optionREGISTRY EDITING (while in Windows, not in Mac OSX obviously):Go to Start -> Run, uncover "regedit" in the decree bar. condense the registry, and 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SetupFrom the Edit menu exceptional fresh entryGive this fresh accepted in a pre-eminence BootDirThen put click an unselected division of the postal card and exceptional ModifyEnter C:\Exit out-dated of the registry editing.
Extract the SP2 and Sp3 files (assuming you guard it downloaded and on bung in your HD)Go to Start -> RunEnter the decree postal card "cmd" that birngs up the dereliction decree postal card windowIn that window uncover: in uncommon disparaging > c:\sp2_package in uncommon disparaging /extract:c:\sp2files in uncommon (NOTE this decree assumes you guard the Sp2 encase in the miscellanea C;\ directory)This decree inclination then draw the SP2 files into the C:\SP2files directory(BTW, windows "cmd" lines are not encase responsive, so you can upon my style class awaywithout sponsor force of when you are doing this stint. WINDOWS STUPID FILES:Make reliable you guard NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, OSLOADER.NTD, OSCHOICE.EXE in the miscellanea directory of your Windows HD (BootCamp division, aka C:\ ).