Fix Boot Camp drive speed in XP on a Mac Pro

Sep 11, '06 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Running Boot Camp on a Mac Pro? If so, then you've probably noticed the sluggish drive performance when booted into Windows XP.

Terrabit came up with a solution that uses something called "slipstreaming" that creates a modified Windows XP install CD-ROM with the needed drivers to speed Mac Pro disk I/O from under 4 MB/s to over 60 MB/s. Fortunately, only Mac Pro models are affected by this issue.

I have a simplified version of this technique (with lots of screen shots) on my web site if you need additional details.

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