10.6: How to install Win XP Pro Service Pack 3 in Boot Camp 3

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10.6: How to install Win XP Pro Service Pack 3 in Boot Camp 3
Authored by: asmeurer on Mon, Nov 2 2009 at 9:10AM PST

Because Boot Camp 3 mounts your Mac OS disk as a read-only disk in Windows, this is the first partition the system sees, and the SP3 install fails.

Wow. Good thing that it only mounts as read only. I can't imagine what kind of damage it would do if it were allowed to write to the volume.