[bootcamp] anyway around the expired day?

**Parastie** · 06-22-2008 07:17 PM

I decided to do a full reinstall of OS X 10.4 on my Macbook Pro since I've been running the same install for nearly 2 years and things were starting to run slow and there were odd glitches.

Anyway, like a moron I forgot that Bootcamp expired for 10.4 and wiped out my windows drive thinking i could just reinstall it. I had the 1.4 release of bootcamp backed up, though i think i had 1.1 installed. Anyone know how to get around this expiration? Maybe an older version of bootcamp will work?

**f41qu3** · 06-23-2008 01:36 PM

BootCamp don't work ever. If need use this, move to 10.5

**Parastie** · 06-25-2008 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by f41qu3

BootCamp don't work ever. If need use this, move to 10.5

Thanks, but I found away around the 'deactivation'. All you need to do is install bootcamp (I used 1.4) and it will install without a problem. Once installed, change the date on your computer. I changed from 23 June 2008 to 23 June 2007. Bootcamp ran without a problem and let me install Windows. Once everything was installed, I changed the date back. Bootcamp will complain if I try to run it now, but I can always just change the date back.

Hope this helps anyone who needs it.

Former Bender · 06-25-2008 02:32 PM

Well, BootCamp is nothing more than a noob-proof app to setup a partition in FAT32 or NTFS and Install Windows on it.

It won't accept to work if you have more than 1 partition.
Especially, if you have manually setup your partition scheme with Disk Utility at the beginning of the OS X Installation process.

If you already have an empty partition on any hard disk (internal or external), you just need to boot on Windows Install Disk and install it on the partition you want.
Then install the Windows Drivers (included in BootCamp).

The ability to boot on Windows in given by the built-in Apple EFI in Intel Mac, BootCamp has nothing to do with it.

**jjesurun** · 08-03-2008 08:51 PM

Hi, i have a similar question, i have a pc with F9 on it, and i just downloaded the tiger DVD, how do i setup the partition to install tiger and not erase F9, so i can have both on the pc?????