Boot Camp via NetRestore to multiple Macs

Is it possible to multicast an image containing a Windows XP installed inside a Mac partition to multiple iMacs? I have a class where they'd like to demonstrate XP to students in digital media, but I'd rather not go around to 16 iMacs and Boot Camp them individually.

Hi,
maybe this can help you: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html
Good Luck
Stefan

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How can I install windows XP with Boot Camp 4.0.4 in Mac OS X 10.7.5?

You can't. Only Windows 7 is supported in that configuration.

Is there any way to clone a machine using boot camp running WinXP. The Mac side is running Snow Leopard. I want to clone a newly set up machine on to a number of machines in a student lab. I am wanting to clone both particians

Is there any way to clone a machine using boot camp running WinXP. The Mac side is running Snow Leopard. I want to clone a newly set up machine on to a number of machines in a student lab. I am wanting to clone both particians

AFAIK, there's no app that'll clone the Mac and PC volumes so you can restore them. System Image Utility.app or Deploy Studio for Mac and Ghost for PC are needed. See these for starters:
http://clc.its.psu.edu/Labs/Mac/Resources/blastimageconfig/
http://blog.macadmincorner.com/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/System-imaging/

OS 10.5 - Boot Camp - Windows won't read Mac Disc for Driver Install

Hello everyone.
I have been through half a dozen headaches and a dozen hours of time wasted on this problem. I've tried multiple windows discs untill finally I bought a brand new version of Windows XP Pro. I've followed all of the instructions in my printed boot camp manual and I continously run into one problem:
Once windows is installed completely and I am at the windows desktop and need to eject the windows disc and insert the leopard disc to install drivers, I do so and windows does not recognize the mac disc whatsoever. It says the drive is empty, it is 0kb of 0kb, I cannot explore the drive, I cannot do anything. If I open it it is blank. I cannot access the internet in any way on windows because there are no corresponding drivers.. so I am at a loss.
Can anyone please help me? What do I do? I really apologize if this question has been answered, but I could really use some help.

Hi Sotaris,
It's a little vague what you mean by the "leopard disk". Do you mean the disk of drivers Boot Camp burns, or the actual Leopard installation DVD?
What you're supposed to do is launch Boot Camp while booted to the Mac OS. One of the first things it does is create a CD of Windows drivers that XP will need for your Mac. So you must have a CD-R or CD-RW on hand.
After that, Windows XP is installed. When that's done, there will be a number of hardware components that XP naturally doesn't recognize. That's when you insert the driver disk Boot Camp creates. I may have listed the order of things a little bit off here, but the main point is it sounds like you're skipping, or missing the part to create the Windows driver disk and trying to put the Leopard DVD in the drive.

Installing boot camp in windows without the Mac OSX disc

Hello,
I'm pretty sure I've found the answer already, but it just seems really strange so I'm going to ask just to make sure.
1. I have installed Windows 7 64-bit Pro by starting with the boot camp assistant utility in MAC OS X.
2. Everything seem to work fine in windows except the wifi, touch pad, web cam and video drivers. The video drivers were installed via the manufactures provided drivers. The other drivers I was unable to find or update via the windows automatic search.
3. I looked through Apples website and found updates 3.1 and 3.2 of boot camp, but no non-update software.
It seems that I will need the OS X disc to install the 3.0 version of boot camp.
But surely, since all I am looking for is drivers these can be download without the disc that came with my laptop. I mean, if I can't do it any other way then so be it, but I'm not at home right now and I'm bored so...

Hope you went out and picked up 10.6.3 DVD for $29.
Now, when you are in Windows, copy it to disk so it is always there in the future, and back it up to flash card or something.
Sometimes you can find drivers but you need the motherboard set to enable the devices to begin with.

How do I set the Startup Disk to Boot Camp via ARD

All,
I typically use ARD and Set Startup Disk to image and reconfigure our lab computers (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2789) via a network image, namely DeployStudio. This works well. Now I want to be able to set it to a local disk to boot into Windows 7 which we have setup with Boot Camp. I get nothing but Failed responses. I am hoping it is a matter of what name or format I need to use.
I have tried:
BOOTCAMP
Windows
Windows on BOOTCAMP
None of these work. HELP!
These are iMac 21.5's running 10.6.8. ARD is 3.5.1. Same for clients.

have you considered using Send Unix Command to set boot Volume?
For instance if you have "Macintosh HD" and "Boot Camp". And you wanted to set the boot volume to "Boot Camp". You could try sending the unix command, as root:
bless -mount /Volumes/Boot\ Camp -setBoot
After setting this, if you reboot, the computer should boot to the Boot\ Camp volume. But One the computer boots to windows, getting them to boot back to the mac os x is going to be a whole other story.
FYI if your boot camp volume is labeled "Untitled" then you would send the unix command, as root, bless -mount /Volumes/Untitled -setBoot.

Installing XP on Boot Camp help for 1st Generation Mac Pro

hi all,
i am trying to make my way through the documentation so that i can get WINDOWS XP back on my first generation Mac Pro since i need to run some programs for work. the old drive that i had this information on was running Snow Leopard (I believe) but it has died.
i have a formatted Fat 32 drive in Bay 2 and i am running Lion on my OS drive in Bay 1 and i am hoping someone can point me to the correct URL for doing this.
my understanding is that i need to use Boot Camp 4 but there appears to be a number of different versions of 4 and i am also having a hard time remembering /how/ to do this. i guess i download the Boot Camp 4 version that i need to my OS drive in Bay 1 and i somehow install this on the drive in bay 2? then i insert the XP disk and it automatically installs itself on this drive?
do i have to do something special with drivers?
ALSO, is there anything to be careful about if i have a PARTITION on the drive in Bay 1 that contains a Boot Camp of Windows 7?
TIA

I would always have a wired connection, even if you generally want/need to use wireless.
I am not up on Airport or how to install.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1222
USB ethernet has never been a real option on Mac OS X.
Links to various troubleshooting articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
You can download most updates manually, very few that require using Software Update, so it is possible to download in Windows.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
I have been happy with Netgear modems, routers and switches, which Amazon is always happy to sell!
http://www.google.com/search?q=MacPro+AppleAirport
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/airportextreme2007-002/airportextreme2007-002.html
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jan07/013007.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=appleairportextreme
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AirCardMP/

Boot Camp 2.1 Vista 64 MAC BOOK

Hello
I just attempt to install Vista x64 on my MacBook, unfortunately unsuccessfully, first of all, when I purchased my MacBook back in the days I've had small problem even with Vista 32 bit, when after installation of Vista, it freezes all the way at the end and I even took to Apple store but their "Genies" refused helping me as he said this is "Microsoft" and you need to contact Microsoft not Apple for that, I'm on the other end think that this isn't Microsoft but whatever, the "workaround" here is to hit power button let it shutdown and then start it and it goes right into Windows as there is no problem... back to Boot Camp issue, after Windows is installed I went and download recent version of BootCamp 2.1 for Windows Vista 64 (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bootcampupdate21forwindowsvista64.html) yet, whenever I run it, it saying that it needs Administrative rights to run it, I click "Ok/Continue" to grant it, and after this nothing happens... I tried to install Boot Camp drivers that came on DVD with Leopard, they start installing vs 2.1 where they just don’t, yet during installation process, I get several errors that I have to hit "Ignore"... it' like Apple takes it after Microsoft whenever it comes to Windows stuff, THEY DON’T TEST DRIVERS AT ALL!
Anyone else had this issue? Or knows what to do with it?

My Mac is now running Vista 64-bit properly.
I had install BC 2.1 32-bit because I couldn't get 64-bit to run and I had used what was on the retail Leopard DVD.
I was going to uninstall BootCamp but I had just done Complete Backup, so I went ahead, and installed torrent, Apple update tried and failed to install 2.1 64-bit so I used the standalone installer and that went 100% which is a first, no errors. Has the BootCamp tray item, BC control panel, and when I turn on the UPS, it no longer auto boots. It waits for power button.
Leopard 10.5.0 DVDs sure look like they need to be updated, and why not put BC 2.01 or even 2.1 out in a full install? That would bypass needing Leopard. Weird. I've never used torrent before except for linux ISO and I held off as long as I could. I was also ready to throw in the towel, too!

Boot Camp issues in a new Mac Pro 6 core Westmere

I'm trying to install WinXP SP2 on a drive in bay three of my new Mac Pro (with four internal drives). The boot camp instructions state that a boot camp installation should be done only on a drive in the lowest available numbered bay and that I should remove all the drives in the lower numbered bays in order to do the install. If my OS X system and the boot camp utility are on the hard drive in bay 1 and I'm trying to do an install on a drive in bay 3, this presents a problem. Apple tech support suggested that I swap the drives in bay 1 and 3 prior to the install and then swap them back, which I did. This seemed to work. The startup disk control panel in OS X seems to have no trouble dealing with setting my startup disk to either Mac OS X (in bay 1) or Win XP (in bay 3) after the drives were swapped back. However, I have problems on the windows side. The boot camp control panel in Win XP lets me set Mac OS as the startup disk but I get a permanent black screen at startup requiring me to hold in the power button to shut off the computer and then restart it. Afterwards, I can't start up in OS X unless I hold the option key down at startup and manually pick OS X. I can then reset the startup disk to the OS X in the Mac OS startup disk control panel but this never works from inside XP.
Two questions that I would greatly appreciate answers for:
1. Do you need to install windows on a drive in the lowest available numbered hard drive bay in a Mac Pro?
2. Is the hard drive swap trick I did above confusing the boot camp control panel in XP so that it can't figure how to set Mac OS X (switched back to bay 1) as the startup disk? If the disk swap trick is causing the problem, is there another way to do a boot camp install on a drive that is not in the lowest numbered drive bay?
Thank you very much!
Steve

Support for IE6 is gone. IE9 is coming in beta in Sept. And yes, IE8 can run sites in compatibility mode.
My feeling is those apps that require an old and buggy browser like 6 should be headed for the trash.
XP Mode IS XP in hardware virtualization VM. You may want Windows 7 Pro, for XP Mode but also if you have two physical cpus.
Tech support has been known to give conflicting info on a question, or throw up their hands, and seem really like they need to use Windows first, rather than gain a rep for being clueless and unable to help customers.

Boot camp 2.1 with unibody Mac Book Pro is a mess

The boot camp 2.1 drivers (on the OS X disk) refused to install with various error messages. After weeks of going around with apple support, reinstalling windows repeatedly, it was decided to reformat reinstall Mac OS X, run apple update, then install boot camp (i.e. a from the factory clean system).
The problem has never been creating the partition or installing windows xp pro sp2. The problem is the Mac OS X driver disk not installing at all with windows error 2755, 2869.
After reinstalling Mac OS X, this time the apple driver disk produced 3 distinct errors, but the final dialog said the drivers did install successfully(progress?).
The errors, in chronological order, are:
1) Error dialog - the specified module could not be found. OK button, no error message to send to Microsoft. The driver disk continued...
2) Error dialog - MSIEXEC.EXE, with an error message to send to Microsoft. The driver disk continued...
3) Error dialog - Application executable file error, needs to close, with an error message to send to Microsoft. The driver disk continued...
Does anyone know what these mean? Did the drivers install completely or partially?
More importantly, what do I do now? I have not done anything with the Mac (its a boat anchor), waiting for more information. My choices are...
1) Ignore the error messages and assume everything is fine and start updating windows and loading mac/windows software to start using the computer. My fear is this will create an unstable computer and I will waste a lot of time installing software.
2) Use add/remove to remove apple's drivers and try reinstalling them. My fear is the drivers will simply not install at all(the original problem).
3) Is there another option?
Any guidance on what to do?
Thanks
bob

I saw exactly the same issues (Error 2869 and 2755) when attempting to install drivers from the OSX install disk after installing Windows XP Professional SP2.
I ran sfc /scannow and chkdisk. chkdisk identified many date problems. I corrected the date and time on my 15" MacBook Pro unibody, and re-ran chkdisk until there were no errors.
Mac drivers then installed with no issues.

Two Boot Camps installs on the same Mac Pro?

Is it possible to install two Boot Camps on two different internal drives on a Mac Pro? Can I rename the Boot Camps disks to, say, BOOTCAMPXP and BOOTCAMP7? Will this confuse the startup disk system preference in OS X or the Boot Camp control panel in XP and Windows 7?
I would really appreciate any help here.
Steve

Hi,
first: be sure to have/make a backup of what you have now.
second: have a look at the instructions here http://www.harbar.net/articles/mbptb.aspx
The order you need to do the installation/partition is this:
Mac OSX, Win XP (instead of Vista), W7 (instead of Windows 2008 server) (as used in the linked article).
Good luck
Stefan

I CANNOT USE BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT 4.1 ON MAC BOOK PRO 15 INCH

i installed windows xp using boot camp Boot Camp Assistant 4.0.1 version, which was on system along with macbook pro 15", quad core processor,
windows were also installed with the partitions, but after windows were installed, drivers were missing and wen i went back through options to open boot camp on mac os it boot camp was nt working, i deleted the partion where i installed windows xp, and then too boot camp options to make partion is nt showing, kindly guide to repair BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT, and also how can i upgrage my Os frm lion 10.7.3 to mountain loin.

Reinstall OSX using the online recovery.
Then use Boot Camp Assistant. One of the Boot Camp Assistant menu items is download the Windows Support Software (drivers). Make sure you follow the Boot Camp instructions.
Or, Reinstall OSX using the online recovery.
Then install a virtual machine like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox. Then install Windows in the virtual machine.
You can use either Boot Camp or a virtual machine to install Windows. Neither method requires any driver cds.

Preserving boot camp option after re-installing Mac OS X

I have a 1st gen Mac Pro with Vista installed on a second hard drive under boot camp. Recently for reasons that I can't find a solution to, my machine has become rather unstable with numerous crashes and lockups that never used to happen.
I want to do a clean reinstall of Mac OS, but I'm concerned that this will replace the boot sector on the main disk and might remove the option to boot into Vista, meaning the Microsoft OS will still be installed but I'll have no way of accessing it.
Has anyone reinstalled Mac OS and managed to keep the boot camp option? Does it get wiped out? If so, what I can I do to get it back. I don't really want to install Vista again as well.

If you are worred: pull 2nd drive out, backup both Vista and OS X.
If you are haviing trouble, run Disk Warrior regularly, and make some backup clones with SuperDuper.
As for OS X, Apple has some troubleshooting OS X articles, and lots of help in the OS X Leopard forums.
And no, this isn't the same as XP and dealing with boot.ini but you might at worst have to boot from Vista DVD once at worst.

Boot Camp Partition Missing after shrinking Mac Partition

Hello Chris I have a OSX 10.9.2 running all upgrades, Powerbook 2.3g i7 16 GB , Had a boot camp partition of 49 GB, running windows 7 all working fine.
Decided to bump the windows 7 to 100 GB. Used disk utility to decrease the mac partition to 401.6
Image of the way it is now.
The Gray part is what is from the apply done the original time.
After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.
NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB.
In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows.
Network does show up when holding down altOption Key
Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going
After I hit apply. I then restarted and tried to enter boot camp by holding down the altOption key as usual but only the OSX and the Recover partition where there No Windows.
NOTE: did the Windows 7 partition increase from 29 to the 49 GB before this same way and everything worked fine for over a month till i decided to double the partition to 100GB. 2. In the preferences the Mac Hd only shows up, no network or windows. 3. Network does show up when holding down altOption Key
Saw that you might be the best help I would like to talk to you and get your Genus going
I ran the Items below as you have asked in the past.
Last login: Fri Jun 27 15:02:59 on ttys000
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo gpt -r -v show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 784379648      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
784789288    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
786058824   95345080
881403904   95700992      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
977104896        131
977105027         32         Sec GPT table
977105059          1         Sec GPT header
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 784379648] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 784789288 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 881403904 -   95700992] Win95 FAT32L
Kens-MacBook-Pro:~ Ken$
What to do Next ?

Chris I just did what Loner T said
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
setpid 4
07
flag 4
write
I then restart and now I can see the windows partition after on restart and altOption down.
But it then gives a error can't find drive or something like that.

Boot Camp Vista-Partition lost in Mac-Partition

Hi everyone,
yesterday i reinstalled my leopard due to some issues. After this act i recovert my data using my Time Machine backup device.
Everything went well so far except one little nasty thing: the icon of my Vista-Partition (created with Boot Camp) was lost. And thats my problem. I can't see my Vista-Partition when i'm in Leopard. Even the Finder doesn't show me the partition.
The funny thing is, that i can boot into Vista without any problems using the Bootloader. When i'm using Vista, i still have access to the mac-partition. Nothing changed here after the reinstallation.
Would be nice, if anyone could help me bringing back the Vista-Access into my Leopard.

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restart from Windows 7 DVD - open command prompt (shift+F10) and delete all ATI Drivers.
2. Restart Windows 7 with default graphics drivers. Download ATI Desktop drivers, modify using ATI MobilityModder, install modified drivers.
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