Boot Camp Vista Install Problems

sailorfoley

Hey Everyone,

i am trying to install Vista via boot camp 1.2 beta. I created a partition, via boot camp and everything is great until the final step when boot camp asks you for the windows disc to start installation.

I got my Windows Vista home Premium (very fancy name) free from microsoft as i attended the vista launch at xmas. i think it's what's called an OEM edition as it comes in a paper CD cover with no box or manual or anything.

Anyways long story short when i click "Start installation" with the windows disc in the drive boot camp says "The installer CD can not be found". This i cant believe because finder has actually found the disc and mounted it. I can browse the disc and look at all the files. It seem boot camp has an issue with it.

Has anyone come across any issues with boot camp not recognizing Windows discs?

triple h

I am no expert and what i say here may not help

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but on youtube one day i was watching videos on vista ( to see what peope were saying about it) and one guy said he rushed out to buy it. It cost him a few hundred $'s, he was over the moon. When he tried to install it, he had, what i think, if memory serves me correctly, the same problem as you. After a while he noticed he had to reg. his copy, which as he said he bought, and pay a further $100 or something like that, extra. He was fit to kill microsoft cause he had to pay something extra which did not seem right seen as he bought a full copy.

this guy was an xp guy moving to vista, he was not a mac person, just in case you think i was talking about a mac bootcamp person.

sozbox

Is your copy of Vista the full version or an upgrade disk?
If it's an upgrade disk you won't be able to use it with BootCamp.

Rhodney

maybe your installer is not a bootable cd....or an upgrade maybe?

sailorfoley

Hey guys,

mine is a full version of vista as i managed to install in inside a virtual machine of parallels as a test. It's a pain that i cant install it onto the hard disk...grrrr
The parallels i have is a trial version - i dont want to have to pay for and use this on the few ocassions i need to use windows.

any further ideas? this has me stumped. i don't know what is up with it.

triple h

sailorfoley wrote:

Hey guys,

- i dont want to have to pay for and use this on the few ocassions i need to use windows.

I know what you mean, i was in the same boat a few months ago. But in the end i liked the way parallels worked so i bought it. I like parallels, its handy, i only use windows about 3 times a week and roughly 20 minutes each time. So i only spend about an hour a week in windows, sometimes less, maybe. But it just bugged me having to shut down to change from mac to windows or windows to mac, don't ask why, it just did.

sailorfoley

Hey all,

for anyone interested - this is how i came to solve this issue.

I went to a mates house to try and install with HIS vista disc and MY license key to see if that would help. Boot camp reported that it couldn't read HIS disc either(this is so weird because he has successfully installed vista on his mac).

Anyways so i restarted my mac and held down the 'C' key to boot from the DVD drive and got into the Windows installer that way with MY install disc. Vista install allowed to to select the partition created by boot camp and install.

So there you have it. Had to go the long way but didn't need to buy windows XP!! - bit weird how it couldn't read any vista disc.

Oh well!