I use Windows PCs to check if my cross platform software, created on a Mac, works properly on Windows. Over the years, I have found myself upgrading OSes on the Windows side, and so I only have upgrade CDs for most versions of Windows. Thus, when it came time to install Windows XP Pro into
BootCamp on my MacBook, it got to the point where it wanted to see "an original qualifing disc." But of course, there was no way to eject the disc I was installing from. On a whim, I tried the following...
I restarted, but first hooked up an external drive, and put the old qualifying disc in it. Yep, sure enough ... the system found the original disc in the external, and skipped the step demanding that I eject and insert same. The Windows XP installation then went fine from that point.