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Boot Camp - NTFS partition for Windows XP?
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Hello...
I used boot camp utility to repartition for Windows (used half my 250GB drive for Windows). I noticed at the start of the Windows install process that the partition boot camp created for Windows was FAT32. I'm hoping for NTFS. While in the Windows installer I deleted the FAT32 partition and formatted the now unformatted space NTFS.
At the first reboot I get an error about "...file is missing or corrupt <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll"
Any suggestions? Can Windows be NTFS with boot camp or am I stuck with FAT32?
(Last edited by opus_az; Jun 26, 2009 at 06:25 PM.
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Nevermind, I got it.
During the Windows install it showed the FAT32 partition that boot camp created. I shouldn't have deleted that partition.
Instead I needed to select the FAT32 partition, and then the Windows installer asks if I want to format it to NTFS, which I did successfully. (Actually, the Windows installer asked if I wanted to convert to NTFS or format as NTFS. I chose format.)
All's good now.
(Last edited by opus_az; Jun 26, 2009 at 06:24 PM.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Glad you got it sorted out without much drama. Messing with the partitions after BC has done its thing has a history of seriously borking Macs.
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Glenn -----
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Yeah, ran into a similar problem trying to install XP, except this XP disc didn't prompt to reformat the partition at all. It was unusable in BC as a result. This is a pretty widely reported problem. We went with Windows 7 RC instead, which handled everything fine.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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The wide variation in install scripts on XP discs is troubling. The "pre-install" OS used by the installer has so much flexibility that it could be a powerful tool, but most XP install discs look like they're just cobbled together to get a minimum functioning installer. Using a tool like n-Lite gives you considerable control over this installer OS's functions; there are a LOT of things you can do to customize the installation. But for some reason most OEM install discs don't even bother to use the most "commercially appealing" options like branding IE or providing support information in Device Manager...
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