Dear friends, do you have any experience installing Windows SP3 for
XP-Pro on a Mac BootCamp partition?

I access this partition through BootCamp and also through VMWare
Fusion without any problem up to now. My installation is fully updated
from the updates from Microsoft (including those post SP3), Apple
(including BootCamp 2.1 for Windows) and VMWare (1.2), but before
installing SP3, I would want to read some experiences from you.

Any hint?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

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Juan I. Cahis wrote:

I updated the drivers with the Boot Camp 2.1 update and then all went quite
well. I used Windows Update to do the upgrade. I am running XP Pro SP3 on
a MacBook Pro (core duo edition).

"Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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Dear friends, do you have any experience installing Windows SP3 for
XP-Pro on a Mac BootCamp partition?

I access this partition through BootCamp and also through VMWare
Fusion without any problem up to now. My installation is fully updated
from the updates from Microsoft (including those post SP3), Apple
(including BootCamp 2.1 for Windows) and VMWare (1.2), but before
installing SP3, I would want to read some experiences from you.

Any hint?


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Dear Colin & friends, I tried it, through Windows Update, and I
received the message that the upgrade failed with error 0x8020000E.
Doing a search in Microsoft site with this error number, I got
KB936929, but frankly, I don't see any relationship between this
article and SP3. KB936929 is related to a failed .NET 3.0
installation.

If I send to you the file "SETUPAPI.LOG", could it be helpful to solve
my problem?

Any hint?

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:03:01 -0400, Juan I. Cahis
<jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

Sure, here are a few hints:

1) You do NOT "access this partition through BootCamp Assistant". You
DID "create the partition" using BootCamp Assistant.

2) There is no such thing as "BootCamp 2.1 for Windows", since
BootCamp is NOT a Windows application. It is a purely-OSX
application, and will NOT run on Windows in ANY WAY. It is properly
called "BootCamp Assistant 2.1 for OS X". It "lives" on your OS X
system partition, works under your OS X operating system, and adds
nothing to Windows, other than the ability to cold-boot immediately
into OS X from within Windows, and even that part is a Windows
application, not an OS X application.)

Ergo, it is simply not a Windows application, and as such, is NEVER
running while in Windows.

3) When running Windows on such a partition on your Mac, once the OSX
bootloader hands the machine off to Windows, OS X is NOT IN MEMORY
anymore. This means that OS X is NO LONGER RUNNING ON THAT MACHINE,
as long as Window has control of it.

4) Once Windows is installed and running on your Apple, OS X and
BootCamp Assistant have absolutely NOTHING to do with what you are
doing while in Windows.

5) Apple DOES provide the "Macintosh Drivers for Microsoft Windows"
along with BootCamp Assistant (the drivers are now on a separate
Windows-only area on the Leopard Install Disk #1), which enable
Microsoft Windows to communicate with the Apple hardware.

Again, this has absolutely nothing to do with BootCamp Assistant. They
are WINDOWS device drivers, NOT OS X drivers. NO OSX application can
ever run under a Windows OS. The code bases are completely
mutually-exclusive. ONLY ONE OS at a time can run. Either OS X is
running, or Windows is running, but NEVER BOTH.

6) If one desires, Boot Camp Assistant is not required to run Windows
as the primary OS on your Apple PC anyway. Neither is OS X required.
One may wipe his Mac drive ENTIRELY, and Windows will STILL install
and run on it, WITHOUT the presence of either BootCamp or OS X on the
HD.

This is possible because Apple has added a BIOS-emulation section into
its EFI hardware chip, which allows almost ANY Intel-based OS to boot
on an Apple Intel PC with or without OS X installed.

In fact, NO PARTof OS X is required in order to install and run
Microsoft Windows on an Apple Intel-based PC.

The Mac's internal drive may be fully partitioned, from start to
finish, using Windows tools included with the Windows Installation
media. NO OS X tools are necessary to do this. OS X doesn't have to
be installed on the machine at all. ALL that is required off of the
OS X disk are the Macintosh Drivers for Windows. To access those once
Windows is installed, just stick the Leopard installation disk #1 into
the drive, and let the installer run.

PLEASE, try to do what Steve Jobs tells you to do, and "Think
differently", OK?


Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the original newsgroup and thread.
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On Thu, 22 May 2008 16:04:50 -0400, Juan I. Cahis
<jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

Actually, Juan, KB936929 refers to the SERVICE PACK ITSELF.
You probably got a bad download of the service pack. I wouldn't
attempt to install it from within Windows Update without a fast
broadband connection. Using a dialup or slower broadband connection
is out of the question if you want a successfull update.

If I am not mistaken, you may purchase a disk containing the Service
Pack 3 code for "shipping and handling" (usually about $10US-$15US).

Also, ask yourself this question:
Did you attempt to install the Service Pack on an installation of XP
which did NOT contain at least Service Pack 1 installed? If so, that
was your problem, and you must install at least Service Pack 1 (SP2
would be better) first before attempting to update to Service Pack 3.
Service Pack 3 will NOT install on an RTM version of Windows.

My best hint is to find correct information. Once you have that, you
can do it yourself with little or no trouble.

There is nothing to forgive, since your English is just fine (in fact,
it's better than most who post here, and who use English as their
first language.)


Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the original newsgroup and thread.
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Dear Donald & friends:

Donald L McDaniel <orthocross@gmail.com> wrote:

I solved the problem analyzing SETUPAPI.LOG. According it, Windows
Update downloaded the Update with some errors without mentioning it,
so I downloaded the full Service Pack 3 (300+ MB), closed my Internet
connection, closed all my applications, including the Antivirus, and I
installed the SP3, in Windows Normal mode, without any problem.

As I mentioned earlier, I had previously updated to the latest level
my Windows XP Pro SP2, VMWare Fusion, and all the drives that Apple
provides to a BootCamp installed MsWindows.


Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!