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Information from the Microsoft Web Site.

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB940763).

System requirements

Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.6 Update is installed on your computer. To verify that you have installed this update, select the Microsoft Component Plugin file in the Microsoft Office 2004/Office folder on your hard disk, and then on the File menu, click Get Info.

Additionally, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Jaguar) or a later version of Mac OS

Note:To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac.

More information

If you have technical questions or problems downloading or using this update, visit the Microsoft Support page at www.microsoft.com/mac/support to learn about the support options that are available to you.

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“This startup disk is not supported.”

I just learned that Boot Camp cannot be installed on a Mac with a partitioned hard disk.

The error message I got was:

I wasted close to an hour trying to troubleshoot this problem before I found the answer hidden away in the documentation. (Duh-uh.)

From the Troubleshooting section at the end of the Boot Camp Installation and Setup Guide:

In order to partition your disk and install Windows using Boot Camp Assistant, the disk must be a single partition, formatted as a Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) volume. If you have already partitioned your disk using Disk Utility or some other utility, you cannot use Boot Camp Assistant until you restore your disk to a single-partition Mac OS X volume.

Boot Camp Assistant works only with internal disks. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant to partition and install Windows on an external disk

(When in doubt, read the documentation.)

This really sucks for me. I only have one “test mule” computer and I can’t dedicate it to Leopard right now because I’m still writing articles about Tiger. To further complicate matters, I’d planned to install Parallels on the Tiger partition. (So yes, one computer would have four operating systems installed on it. It is a test mule, after all.)

Looks like Boot Camp will have to wait until the end of the writing process and the MacBook Pro’s hard disk will be formatted 100% Leopard sooner than I expected.