[itgal85]

I installed Boot Camp on my new intel mac and then created a partition as shown to install my XP onto. I then followed the instructions but stopped short when I got to the product key part as I couldn't find it! As a school teacher, I am allowed to install the software from school onto my home computer so got a different copy of XP from there and put it into the computer. I then booted off the disk (I think this is where I made my BIG mistake) and then installed XP - it asked me which partition I wanted to install onto and only showed ONE partition (which was C). As this was the name of the partition that I was told to use when I was originally putting on XP, I selected it. It then wrote over it but kept looping back into restarting and installing again. I started up the computer again holding down the option key and there were NO startup disks to choose from. That's when I realised I had managed to overwrite my Mac startup disk. After stressing out for awhile, I got my work computer out and went hunting on the web for information. I then found info about using Disk Utility to revert the computer back to one partition but OSX still wouldn't install on this new volume. I then tried to erase the disk in order to get it to revert back to GUID partition scheme but it still kept it as a Apple HFS scheme (there was no option button to choose GUID). I am now officially out of ideas.

[dimmer]

Gotta love beta software! So now you have your disk formatted as a single HFS+ volume with Mac OS X on it? Or do you have a fail before that? If that is where you, you should be able to use BootCamp again, split the drive, and try your XP install again --- is you can stand that much fun.

[Philip J. Fry]

To make the hard disk GUID, you have to choose the partition tab in Disk Utility and choose it from there. Although if it's the only hard drive in the computer, you shouldn't have to do that as I don't recall doing that when I first got my machine and wiped it clean...