Have you been able to install Apple's BootCamp update for WinXP-32?
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From: Juan I. Cahis on 7 May 2008 11:08 PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!! The problem was that originally, in the Tiger Times (OSX 10.4), my BootCamp installation was in Spanish. Then, when I upgrade to Leopard (OSX 10.5.2), I upgraded to the US English edition, updating the Windows Boot Camp Utilities from the Install DVD (Boot Camp 2.0). But apparently, the installer never forgot that my original installation (Boot Camp 1.4) was in Spanish, and that was the reason that I couldn't update it to BootCamp 2.1 The solution was to use Regedit, search for all the occurrences in Windows Registry of "Boot Camp" (without the quotes, look at the only one space between the words "Boot" and "Camp"), and to change all the subkeys of the found key containing "Utilidades de Boot Camp" to "Boot Camp Utilities" and all the "Language" subkeys from 1034 to 1033 (Spanish to English codes). Please note that the Language subkeys are displayed in hexadecimal, so you should display them in decimal, do the change, and redisplay them in hexadecimal again. And after doing that for the whole registry, I rebooted and the installation ran OK. It is incredible how supposedly "Global" Companies as Apple and Microsoft do these kind of mistakes. Apple should have announced that the update was for an English Language installation only, and the installer should have issued a warning or error message describing the problem, instead to sleep for ever and ever. OldCSMAer <OldDog(a)NOSPAM.com> wrote: >In article <mi2h14t9mlsph1069si51bf3d34b80eiel(a)4ax.com>, > Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote: > >> Have you been able to install Apple's BootCamp update for WinXP-32? >> >> I have been unable to do it, the computer waits for ever after a short >> message of "Preparing Install". >> >> There are lot of messages in several forums complaining this problem, >> but have you succeeded with the installation? >> >> And this update is an Apple's prerequisite to install the just >> appeared Ms-WinXP Service Pack 3. >> >> Any hint? > >I think you have to install the latest BootCamp update first. You do >this while on the XP side of your Mac. It installs the files needed for >the new XP service pack. Thanks Juan I. Cahis Santiago de Chile (South America) Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it! |