Boot Camp/Windows XP installation issues

[Perishingflames]

Hi,

You may remember that I had overwrote my HD last time I tried to install Windows using Boot Camp. Well, after reformatting it back using my Lacie Disk and restoring from a time machine backup, I am back to normal.

Well, now I decided to give it another shot, to see what I did wrong last time and if I could do it successfully this time. Little did I know..

I logged onto admin account, ran the assistant, partitioned using 10GB and then inserted the Windows disk and started the installation. To be sure it had actually paritioned my disk, I looked on desktop and there a disk called BOOTCAMP was. Good.

The computer restarted and after a little while of it loading files, the installer came up, and I went through the windows until I came to the one where I choose the drive I want to install Windows on. There was only one problem, the C:/ drive was my main HD! The boot camp drive was missing.

Fortunately, I had enough wit not to go by the installation guide this time, so I restarted and booted back into the Macintosh HD.

What the heck is up?

Pictures:
http://i8.tinypic.com/7yg82ah.jpg

http://i7.tinypic.com/6tun6t3.png

Video:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=71nb4fa&s=1

[DeltaMac]

One little discrepancy in your story at this point...
Your 10GB partition is showing in your .png as being MS-DOS (FAT32) format
The Boot Camp utility does not format the Windows partition, the Windows installer does. The Boot Camp utility just creates the partition, but doesn't format it, leaving you the choice of fat32 or NTFS at the start of the Windows install. How did you bypass that part? And, of course, there's the main difficulty that the Windows installer is not showing the second partition (or anything other than just something that the installer thinks is a partition formatted fat32 ? ? )
This all leaves me with doubts about your Windows install disk, as that's when your problems seem to develop, eh?
So, a couple of related questions that I haven't seen yet for your problem - - Does your Windows installer disk include Service Pack 2, and are you sure about that? Is that a MS original disk, or, are you using one of the interesting (broken) XP installers available to download from the 'net? Just trying to clarify, and not implying anything. I've personally had problems with a couple of download Win installs, and I avoid those now.

[Perishingflames]

I have a PC computer, and this is its 'reinstallation' disk. I am not sure if it's Service Pack 2..
I used it to install Windows with Q emulation, and it worked fine. Well, I guess there it had nothing about partitioning.

I guess I probably just need a new copy of Windows XP?

On eBay all I can find are these OEM copies, are those okay? Like this for example.

[DeltaMac]

No effing wonder!
That's it?
Probably the most important step in the install process, and everyone else failed to ask about that, assuming that you had a good Windows disk. Boot Camp requires a full install of WinXP, with service pack 2 or higher on the same disk(well, also Vista is 'good', too). A reinstall or update disk just won't do it. I'm guessing that your disk assumes certain things about your system, like only one partition on your hard drive, ignores anything else, and restores your Windows (wiping out that 'foreign' OS X partition in the process - and isn't that exactly what's been happening?)
Yes, you need a full install of Windows.....

[Perishingflames]

Okay, thanks