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#1 2009-03-10 10:24 pm
Moving XP to my New MacBook Help
I had XP installed on a BootCamp partition on my old macbook pro 2.16 core duo, and I downloaded WinClone to back up the XP data and all, but now I can't get my XP to work.
I clicked the BootCamp assistant and made another bootcamp partition and than had WinClone dump the XP to it. But the problem is when I went to boot up with my new MacBook Pros install dvd to install the new drivers I get a lovely message from Microsoft about having significant hardware changes blah blah reactivate my windows and it will not load itself past that point until you click Okay or Later.
The problem is I can't since the new trackpad and keyboard drivers haven't been auto installed yet! I tried plugging in an external mouse & keyboard but also no input. What can I do as a work around w/o having to reinstall XP?
MacBook Pro 17|2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo|4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3|320 HD @ 7200 RPM|NVIDIA GeForce 9600 M GT 512 MB
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#2 2009-03-11 4:40 pm
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Re: Moving XP to my New MacBook Help
You have to wait a couple minutes. I think.
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#4 2009-03-11 7:03 pm
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Re: Moving XP to my New MacBook Help
Aaron_R wrote:
thanks will try this
I know, it sounds silly, but it'll take a few minutes for Windows XP to install the appropriate keyboard/mouse drivers. If the Macbook Pro's trackpad/mouse don't work after a few minutes, shut down, plug in an external usb keyboard, and boot it up again. After a few minutes, that should work.
If that doesn't work, you can always try a repair install of Windows XP.
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#5 2009-03-11 7:29 pm
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Re: Moving XP to my New MacBook Help
And this is only one of the many reasons I LOOOOOOVVVVVVE Windows as opposed to Mac OS X.
I have a legal copy of Windows XP SP2 which I have installed multiple times, migrating from Virtual PC to VMWare Fusion. I have also had to reinstall because the system became borked. So that copy never installs cleanly, it always has to be re-verified and blessed by Microsoft minions, which is a grand pain in the patoooeee.
It is easier when working through a desktop though. I sympathize with your pain.
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#6 2009-03-12 12:09 am
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Re: Moving XP to my New MacBook Help
I don't suppose it would ever occur to you to, oh, I dunno... install it straight, something like that? Not virtualized?
"I copied everything to a thumb drive, expanded the .cab files to a virtual drive, copied to optical disc, then tried install it to Fusion via Virtual PC- and it had the utter nerve to not install one of my printer drivers properly. POS!! I'm goin' back to OSX."
Still sounds like less hassle than a number of iterations of Mac Halo. No wonder you won't take the MA3 challenge.
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