All my devices were installed perfectly fine. Once all is done, run the driver CD to install all the drivers. System will boot a few times and will automatically start windows as needed. In the windows installation prompts, choose the last partition marked by C: and do a complete format using NTFS. After the partition is ready, use bootcamp to continue with windows installation.ĩ. Feel free to choose as big a partition as you want (ignore the FAT32 restriction). Using bootcamp again, partition the drive for windowsħ. Restore the partition to a single volumeĦ. Create a driver CD if you dont have one alreadyĥ. Fire off Bootcamp 1.2 (thats what I have)Ĥ. Set your date to June 2006 (to be on the safe side and thats what worked for me)ģ. The easiest and recommended solution was:Ģ. There are a gazillion posts about this error message but there is no way to fix this easily when using bootcamp on a Mac. Please re-install a copy of the above file.' 'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Everything did go smoothly till my system rebooted and got stuck at the following error: Next, the installation started and it seemed like everything will go smoothly. I selected the last partition marked (windows) and did a quick format on it. I followed the Windows XP fresh install procedure till I reached a point when I had to select the partition where I wanted to install. Please note that all data in my windows partition was backed up before I started doing anything else. 1.3 and 1.4 will probably expire.Īnyway, not sure whether my Bootcamp will work or not, I booted my Macbook using a Windows XP Pro SP2 bootable disc. I think Bootcamp 1.2 will work in either case and it may not expire. If you want to create a backup cd of drivers, simply set the date to June 2006 using OS X set time and date and you should be fine.ģ. If you have windows already running, the expiration of Bootcamp will not harm anything.Ģ. After all the research, this is my learning on expirations:ġ. I searched everywhere on the web but did not find a topic for 're-installation' of windows - all topics seemed to be around first time installation of windows on Macbook with Bootcamp.ĭuring the process, I figured that Bootcamp Beta also had expiration dates. I tried my level bets to remove all the offending dlls and registry entries but in the end felt it would be a good idea to re-install windows as it had been almost a year since windows were first installed. 2 days ago my Macbook's (2 GHz, black with 3 GB RAM and 120GB HDD) WIndows installation was struck by spyware.

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