Is it not possible to simply copy the files from the CD on the mac to the thumb drive? I know some installers won't work this way and NEED to be on the cd to work, but it may work this way also.
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Alvin Auerbach <[email protected]>wrote: > I purchased a MSI Wind U100-432US netbook, mainly for use as a jukebox > using iTunes. [It works great!] I've never had a Windows machine before, > having used Macs since they were a Lisa. > > There is a data DVD that came with the netbook, that I'd like to put into > the netbook. I tried using both Mac OS 10.5.6 Disk Utility and Toast 7 to > make a disk image compatible with Wind XP, but nothing I've done seems to > work. Can someone please tell me how to do this? > > The Help file in XP has nothing about disk images. Does this mean that > unlike the Mac, in which the OS makes, mounts, and reads disk images; that > XP has no native support for disk images, and external software must be > obtained? Could it be that the disk images that I made were okay but XP > didn't know what to do with them? > > BTW, I've been transferring files from the Mac to the netbook using a > Transcend 16 GB SDHC card [14.96 GB formatted]. It came with a reader, which > I use with the Mac, and the netbook has a built in reader. > > Thanks > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
