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Since Mac Intel came out, the best way to have the best of both world of Windows and Mac OS X on Apple machines is through using Boot Camp, that many find it confusing the first time use. Mostly, because the lack of drivers software that Windows needs, so it will be able to talk with the Mac hardware. However, many finds the error message: “Disk Error” Now what?

It can happen that during installation of Windows appears the message “Press any key to boot from CD. Disk Error. Press any key to restart “. We are thus forced to resume the installation from the beginning. In a note published recently by Apple describes how to prevent the error.

The Windows installation includes an initial phase in which the drivers are loaded on the essential destination volume and then the machine reboots and Windows performs a miniboot by volume and then upload all the remaining from the installation CD. And ‘here that, not infrequently, there is before the problem.

The solution isn’t too difficult to follow, there are only a few small steps that’s all.

First, you must restart from your Mac OS X. If this does not happen automatically, you must hold down the Alt key and then the icons appear in the volumes containing the different OS (if more than one), including Mac OS X.

Second, Selected the icon for OS X and launch Boot Camp Assistant (in the Utilities folder) and you proceed with the elimination of the previously created partition for Windows. You close and reopen the new Boot Camp Assistant and it recreates the partition you want Windows to proceeding with the directions to install it.

When a CD of Windows, when we are on the screen to choose the partition on which to install it (usually is called “Bootcamp”), it is imperative to select the format the same format in FAT32. Therefore be avoided formatting to NTFS ol’opzione “Leave the current file system intact”.

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I have just sold my beloved iMac G4 17″ for a second hand powerbook g4 1 Ghz. What can i say i have to work on the road, i would look like a nut case to carry an iMac around with me everywhere. What i didn’t realize is that, the powerbook i just bought has no Superdrive. But i thought it would be ok, since i also have a PC with DVD writer at home. Until i faced the dmg file issue which Windows doesn’t recognize at all. I can’t use Nero or anything. Basically, in the PC world, dmg file doesn’t exist. So, i googled around and i am glad i did. And the solution is the software called Transmac.

With Transmac for Windows, dmg file can be read & burn like on a Mac using Disk Utility. Transmac let you mount dmg file, expand then burn dmg file to DVD, CD and DL DVD (before you can burn you need to expand compressed dmg file first). I have to say that at first i didn’t think it would work at all. Not just working but it is also very easy to use as well, it even works with Bootable Mac DVD like Leopard DVD. You can download a 15 days trial version of Transmac here. After you try it, i am sure you will want to buy it. Transmac was surely a great spend for me in a long time.

Note: I started this post just to tell people that they can write CD/DVD from an dmg image file on Windows PC but the easiest way is to use a Windows software called Transmac. Consequently, this post automatically turned into a software review post instead, i might as well tell you the specification of the Transmac for Windows. Well, thanks for reading.

System Requirements:

Any version of Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2008 or 2003.

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