Sacrilege.
This is sacrilege:
This was a horrifying experience, made no less so by Boot Camp not partitioning my hard drive correctly the first time.
Note to future Boot Camp users: once Boot Camp reports that it has successfully partitioned your hard drive, and you’ve burned your Mac/Win drivers disk, REBOOT without installing Windows! If you don’t, you might have a difficult time installing.
My install hung repeatedly where you have a choice to install Windows (Enter), repair the Windows install (R), or Quit without installing (F3). It wouldn’t take keyboard input, and I had to power off and power on holding the Option key to select my boot drive.
I almost borked the entire computer.
I’m lucky I had another Mac nearby to access Apple Support on the web. I’m also fortunate that since I have a lot of experience loading operating systems and programs on computers, I resisted the urge to panic.
From this experience, I’d say that this is not for the faint of heart: Windows is a gut-wrenching install to begin with; I never liked installing that OS — in any version. Perhaps it’s a throwback to the early days when Windows wasn’t the most stable of products; today it still gives me the creeps.
All in all, however, now that I have finished and installed all the programs that I need to run on the platform and then played around with it a bit, I can say this:
The Macintosh runs Windows better than any Windows-based machine can.
Figures.
I’m so glad I switched.
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by Tom Anthony 25 Jul 2006 at 3:52 pm
How could you!!! The poor poor machine!!
Seriously though, nice tip about the reboot. I am yet to get an Intel Mac but when I do I am sure Boot Camp will be one of the first things I try. It will be nice having a Windows PC to hand for the odd occassions I need one on the move.