XP installation difficulty

[MarcelJ]

Hi,

Starting from a clean 250GB disk I installed OSX. Than resized it and created two 50GB partitions. I have rEFIt installed.

When I try to install XP on the last partition it always assigns drive letter D: to it. Somehow this doesn't work.

How can I make sure XP installs well on a C: drive assigned letter ?
Can I hide other partitions in rEFIt ?

regards,
Marcel

[MarcelJ]

solved it.

The problem seemed to be that I created two FAT32 partitions (later to be converted to NTFS). Making only the last partition as FAT32 solved it.

[MarcelJ]

Too early on that. Booting windows gives :

Disk error
Press any key to restart... (which doesn't work).

I'll give an older version of refit a try as I believe the current one to be a bit unstable. Sometimes I can boot from a partition, the next time I restart it will give me errors.

[MarcelJ]

Finally managed to get windows working. It turned out that a "convert to NTFS" doesn't do the same as a format.

I've been though a lot of hassle getting this installed. The basic thing comes down to creating only one partition that Windows recognizes so that it makes this C: after that, make sure to format it as NTFS (large partition).
In the end it sounds quite simple, but still I needed about 4 reinstalls of windows to get it done. Quite a waste of time, but than again I couln't blame the outdated windowsXP either I guess.