When I decided to buy my MacBook I knew I was going to have to use Boot Camp to run some software for school, and the occasional game or two, I figured this process would be simple and straightforward, like most Mac software, but boy was I wrong. Upon opening the BootCamp partitioner every thing seemed normal, so I decided to partition the hard drive and give just 20 gigs to Windows XP, simple enough, eh? Well after 10 minutes of waiting, I got my first kernel panic - but wait, Macs don’t, crash right? So after rebooting I discovered that I lost 10 gigs on the Macintosh HD partition, so like any sane person I put in my OS X Leopard install disk and did a disk repair. Guess what? My ten gigs are back, but when trying to do BootCamp again I get the same kernel panic.

So how did I fix it?

Well I had to use the OS X Leopard install disk again and format the hard drive myself, which was very simple to do. After that I ran the BootCamp software; it recognized my partition and the install went fine, so I now have XP and Leopard running in perfect harmony.

Tags: Apple, Bootcamp, OS X, Windows XP