How do I expand Windows after already installing Boot Camp

How do I expand my Windows after already installing Boot Camp?  I'm almost out of space.

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  • HT5628 When I install Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro(13-inch,Early2011),the Super DVD Drive doesn't appear in Windows 8 and installing Boot Camp 5 drivers doesn't solve my problem,what can I do?

    When I install Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro(13-inch,Early2011),the Super DVD Drive doesn't appear in Windows 8 and installing Boot Camp 5 drivers doesn't solve my problem,what can I do?

    Go into your system preferences and click the startup disk icon then select your Mac HD. 

  • I installed windows 8 before installing Boot Camp 5(currently have  4) with 32 bit version win 8.  Anything I can do now to upgrade to Boot Camp 5?. .

    I installed Windows 8-32 bit before installing Boot Camp 5 (currently have 4). Is there anything I can do now to install Boot Camp 5 then re-install Windows with the 64 bit version?
    I am hoping that I do not need to delete the partition and start all over.

    Boot Camp 5 drivers can only be installed in 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 versions, so first you have to install a 64-bit Windows 8 version.
    Note that Microsoft doesn't support upgrades from a 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit version, so you have to do a clean install, losing your applications, but you can keep your data, stored in "Windows.old", a folder at the root level of your Windows volume. Insert your Windows 8 DVD, hold the C key while your computer is starting and install Windows in the Windows partition.
    After installing Windows 8, install the Windows support software for 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 versions

  • How to update Boot Camp drivers when you already install Boot Camp?

    The last time i install Windows 7 (Boot Camp) and drivers on my Mac was a bit long time ago, and i realise that there is some new drivers available for mine, so how can i update my Boot Camp drivers, please help me, and thanks!!!

    I have MacBook Pro Retina w/Lion (of course), installed Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using Boot Camp procedures and files that were issued June 14.  My BootCamp Assistant says it's 4.0.4.
    My question is:  how do I know when the Windows Support files (drivers) are updated by Apple?  I would have expected an update by now, but I just went into Boot Camp Assistant on Lion, re-downloaded the drivers, and I *think* they are all dated June 14th still.  (looked in WindowsSupport folder which is where it said it downloaded them)
    There doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to get notified if there are new drivers or not.
    My expectation was that I could run *something* either on the Windows or OS X side, and it would *tell me* that drivers needed updating, or at least say "you are running version X".
    It can't be that I have to re-download the drivers and check the dates on all the files every time I'm curious if there's updates available.  Can it?
    The files seem to be on some mysterious Apple server and the only thing I can do to that server is ask to download the support files.  No query, no "is an update available", ... ???
    It's not even clear to me that the Windows Support files have a version number. 

  • How many licenses for Windows 7 via both Boot Camp and either VMware Fusion or Parallels on the same MacBook?

    This concerns a white MacBook running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
    If I install Windows 7 on my MacBook with Boot Camp, and then use either VMware Fusion or Parallels to access that Boot Camp partition, will I need to buy two Windows licenses from Microsoft?
    I had not anticipated this, but when calling VMware and Parallels to check out the tech support services of the two companies, the person at VMware mentioned that I would need two licenses.  When I called Parallels, I then asked the person at that company whether two Windows licenses would be needed.  That person told me that only one license would be necessary.
    I then called Microsoft.  The representative there told me that my question could not be answered by Microsoft because that company does not provide support for users installing Windows on Apple computers.
    After that, I called Apple.  The Apple representative was not familiar with this type of issue.  She mentioned the possibility that the VMware Fusion and Parallels products might be different, and that that might be why using the former would involve two licenses and using the latter would involve only one license.
    Has anyone had experience with installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp, and then accessing that Windows 7 installation from VMware Fusion or Parallels?  If so, did you have to buy two Windows licenses?

    One license. You may have to re-register Windows online when you start it up in Parallels because Windows sees that it is now running on new hardware (virtualized) and thinks it has been installed on a new computer. If the online re-registration does not work, just call the registration number and go through the automated registration process. Once re-registered then use Windows from Parallels. If you are also installing MS Office in Windows you will need to go through the same process again for registering Office.
    The process is automated, simple, and free. You have made the process more complicated than it is by calling Apple, Parallels, and Microsoft when there is an automated MS registration number to call.

  • "Ghostly Partition" after un-installing Boot Camp

    I used Boot Camp Assistant to delete the Boot Camp partition in which I had Window 7. I did it after re-installing Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine in Parallels. Although Boot Camp Assistant erased the partition, it couldn't return the Mac HD to a single full-size drive ---If fact, it couldn't finish the job; it got stuck, so I had to force quit---. Now my Mac HD size is equal to the physical HDD capacity less the size of the partition in which Boot Camp was. In Drive Utilities, a rectangle shows in grey the area used by Mac HDD, which is considerably lower than the full rectangle. The differece is in white. I seems like a "ghostly partition".  Any advise?

    Thanks Mende1, Probably I misread the chart, but definetively my Mac HD size has shrunk after unistalling Boot Camp. Here is the image I mentioned in my first post:

  • Blue screen of death after installing Boot Camp on Windows 7

    Hello and thanks for the help!
    Brnad new user to Boot Camp here. After a new install of Windows 7, I install Boot Camp but then when rebooting Windows I get the blue screen of death. When letting Windows attempt a repair, it fails and I am forced to Recover Windows 7 to a state before I installed Boot Camp.
    Help!?

    Solution for this problem is simple. You have to apply Mac Book Air SMC Update 1.7 which you can do from Mac OS X with Software Update or you can download required update manually from Apple support site. If you don't use BootCamp and have installed Windows without it, you will have to boot Mac OS X from external drive just to apply required update. After you applied SMC update, you can boot to Windows and apply BootCamp update 3.2 and 3.3.
    There is a known problem with Mac Book Air EFI Update 2.3, which you won't be able to apply and it will show in Software Update every time you check for updates. There is no solution for it yet.
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  • Installing Windows 7 Professional via Boot Camp Assistant on late 2013 iMac 27"

    So here I am with a brand new 27" iMac bought on Nov 3.  Machine is top of the line w/ 3.5GHz quad-core intel i7Core, 4GB Video Card, 3TB Fusion Drive and right out the box on first start up and first update, I install Windows 7 via Boot Camp.  Best install of all time, right on through no problems whatsoever and I'm thinking - Problems? what problems! HA! ... well a week later Windows 7 crashes from my own bone-headed mistakes and i go to reinstall windows thinking oh i'll be down for maybe 2 hrs? but it'll fix my problem.  No way.. 1 week and an exchange-for-another-identical-imac-from-store later plus $300+ dollars in tech services Here I am with no resolution to this problem of installing Windows 7 via boot camp.  I just absoultely couldn't get past the stinkin' step of "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing partition... yadda yadda yadda" 
    UNTIL NOW - 9:07AM on 11/19/13 I have SOLVED the problem.  Read from here down to get my instructions (with Pictures of course!!)
    Before you even start this is VERY IMPORTANT.  Things will go to all **** if you don't.
    USB ports.  On the back of my iMac, there are 4 of them.  From Left to Right (you have to acknowledge this or things will never work), place your Super Drive (CD/DVD Drive) in the Left slot.  Next, place your USB Mouse in the 2nd from Left slot.  Finally, place your USB/Flash Drive in the 3rd Slot (it will be 2nd from the Right).  See Fig1.
    FIG.1
    Now you go to Boot Camp Assistant, start it up, and check off the SECOND option:
    "Download the latest Windows software from Apple".  See Fig2.
    FIG 2
    Let the download do its thing and when its done, Boot Camp will advance to the partitioning screen.  Allocate the space you want for the Windows 7 Partition and hit "Install".
    CRUCIAL:  Immediately after hitting "Install", Boot Camp will pop up a message stating that the USB/Flash drive currently inserted providing Windows Software drivers brings a functionality issue and Boot Camp will disable the drive to continue.  This has to happen in order to avoid the dreaded "A new setup partition or existing partition cannot be located" message that comes during the Windows 7 Install when picking your partition.  I am convinced that this pop up only occurs when you have your DVD drive, Mouse, and USB/Flash drives inserted into their appropriate slots.
    After you accept Boot Camp's disabling of the USB drive, install is pretty standard there on out.  Boot Camp will create the partition, the computer will reboot and begin its Windows 7 install via your CD/DVD drive.  Also want to note that I used a wireless keyboard during the entrie intallation process.  I had a wired keyboard installed in my numerous attempt this past week b/c I had read in so many forums a wired keyboard was better for this install - well NOT IN THIS CASE.  In fact the added USB ports that come with the wired keyboard only confused things for me even further. 
    I am happy to say that Windows 7 has installed successfully on my iMac, and I've reached its appropriate updates as well.  Now onto 3DS Max 2014 install. 

    You can't do what you want with GUI utilities, which will only allow a total of 4 partitions due to the limitation of MBR needed to support Windows. Those four partitions: EFI System (hidden), Mac OS, Recovery HD (hidden), Windows. So with Lion, you only get two visible partitions if you're going to use Windows with BootCamp. You can't make anymore with the included graphical tools.
    If you need more partitions you'll need to use something like GPT fdisk (gdisk) to create the partitions in the GPT first. Then add the Windows partition only to the MBR and flag it as bootable. gdisk can be googled and downloaded for Mac OS X off sourceforge. It is not a GUI tool.
    You should read this:
    http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
    And this:
    http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html

  • Can I install Boot Camp 5 from Win 8?

    I have a late 2011 Mac Pro tower running Windows 8 and Boot Camp 4. I have had Windows 8 ever since it came out, that means that I upgraded to Windows 8 with the last version of Boot Camp 4 (with no issues BTW). Now there is Boot Camp 5,  and I want to upgrade my Mac Pro to Boot Camp 5, but the installer of version 5 tells me that I need Windows 7 to install Boot Camp 5. I already have installed Windows 8.
    How can I upgrade to Boot Camp 5 from Windows 8 in my Mac Pro without going back to Win 7 or by formatting my drive?
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks!!!

    Thank youn for the reply...
    This is what I get when I try to install from the USB drive...

  • Installing boot camp on a second drive

    Hi All,
    First let me apologize for this long-winded post and also for my lack of basic knowledge when it comes to mac computer skills.
    I would like to install windows 7 on a brand new 500gb drive in a brand new mac pro.
    I was reading through the installation & setup up guide for boot camp and was stonewalled on page 6 it says;
    “If your computer has more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp.”
    Ok that makes sense but if I remove the first drive how do I install boot camp since the first drive contains boot camp on it?
    The next question I have is; Can I make the whole 500gb drive one partition that will have boot camp, windows 7 and all the windows files on it or does it have to have just boot camp and windows 7?
    Thanks
    Mike

    Shutdown - pull OS X drive(s) - continue with install.
    You'll have to change to NTFS when you get to where to install.
    At that point you can even format or partition.
    As for the Assistant, well, some install Windows 7 on a drive without it (that can't be done with XP) and just leave one drive and boot from Win 7 DVD.
    "that will have boot camp...."
    There IS NO "boot camp." The assistant modified the partition table to include a standard MBR for booting Windows. And that would be on the #2 500GB.
    Until you install the Apple setup.exe drivers and services after Windows is installed from your OS X DVD, there is nothing in or on Windows that is faintly about boot camp. Unfortunate term. It also gets to become a control panel in Windows to change the default startup OS (why not call it Apple OS Switcher / Apple Startup Disk).
    There will be AppleTimeServices and AppleOSSwitcher services along with HAL and device drivers to enable them in Device Manager.
    As for lowered numbered and first drive bay, they must think Mac Pro owners are locked into and only boot from drive bay #1. and that Assistant is a very limited not very smart partitioning tool is true.
    So run Assistant but instead of restarting with the DVD and install, just shutdown. Pull all the other drives but 500GB. Then boot off the DVD.

  • Install Boot Camp on 3rd drive (3TB)?

    I just installed a new 3TB drive in my early 2008 Mac Pro, which is runing ML.  I would like to use Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on a 300 GB partition on that new drive and to have it bootable.  I would like to retain the rest of the drive for use in OS X.  Is this possible?
    Also, it says the following in the "...problems creating a partition" section of Boot Camp Installation manual:
    If you have a Mac Pro with more than one internal disk and you want to install Boot Camp on a disk that isn’t in the first hard drive bay, remove the drives in the lower- numbered bays. You can reinstall the drives after you install Boot Camp
    Given that Boot Camp Assistant is running in OS X & OS X is on the 1st drive, then at what point would I remove the 1st & 2nd drives?
    Thanks,
    Bev in TX

    Okay, after rereading a number of messages in this forum, I think that I finally understand what is going on.  Namely, if I want to install MS Windows 7 on a drive other than #1, then I would:
    Temporarily remove all other drives.
    Install MS Windows 7 using the installation media (DVD).
    Install Boot Camp drivers that were previously saved on a USB flash drive or DVD.
    Shut down Windows.
    Reinsert the other drives.
    I have an older 300 GB data drive (#2), which I could:
    Move the data from this drive to the new 3TB drive.
    Install Windows as above.
    Is this correct?
    Thanks,
    Bev in TX

  • How do I protect my FileVault partition from Boot Camp?

    I have an iMac running OS X Yosemite and Boot Camp with Windows 8.1. The OS X partition is protected with FileVault, but when I boot into Windows (rEFInd Boot Manager), I can access my Yosemite partition from Windows, without entering a password at any point, other than the login for my Windows user. I encrypted my OS X partition with FileVault after I installed Boot Camp and Windows, maybe this is why?
    I want to make sure my OS X partition is protected in case of theft. Right now believe I that I would be able to boot the iMac with Active@ Boot Disk (or similiar), reset my Windows-passwod and access the OS X partition that way around.
    Can anyone explain why I am able to access my FileVault-protection OS X partition from Windows?
    Can I solve this without installing BitLocker on the Windows partition? I only use it for gaming, so it doesn't contain anything of importance.

    Hey Loner
    I think you might have misunderstood my problem. I am able to boot into both OS X and Windows without any problems. I can read the OS X partition from Windows without any problems as well. My issue is, that I’d think that the OS X partition should NOT be visible from Windows, as it is FV encrypted.
    Here is the asked information:
    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  490234751] <Unknown ID>
    2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused 
    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
          start       size  index  contents
              0          1         PMBR
              1          1         Pri GPT header
              2         32         Pri GPT table
             34          6        
             40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
         409640  351563960      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      351973600    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      353243136  136990720      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
      490233856        863        
      490234719         32         Sec GPT table
      490234751          1         Sec GPT header

  • Can't Install Boot Camp Software on WinXp SP2

    Here's what I have done thus far:
    1. Partition HD such that windows has its own 30 gig partition.
    2. Install FAT32 Windows XP SP2 on the new 30 gig partition.
    3. Insert MacOSX disk that came with my brand new Mac Mini as to install Boot Camp and drivers.
    4. Installation begins but soon fails. The error message reads "Installation encountered an error" and goes on to state there may be a "problem with the package"
    5. I have tried deleting this partition, creating a new one, and installing XP once again, but, still, I cannot find any luck. I even tried using my old Mac Mini OSX disk (which isn't that old -- 10.6.2) to install Boot Camp and the drivers, and still no luck.
    One thing that I noticed was that when I am in my Mac OSX partition and I check the version of Boot Camp, it states 3.0.2; however, when in Windows attempting to install Boot Camp it displays version 3.1. Now, when I used my older Mac OSX install disk (10.6.2), the Boot Camp version attempting to install was 3.0.
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    Hi and welcome to Discussions,
    first of to clear up the confusion.
    Apples BootCamp consists of two part: an OSX part which is the BootCamp Assistant and a Windows part which are the Drivers.
    These two parts can have different version numbers.
    The latest version of the BootCamp Assistant is indeed 3.0.2 and the lastest version of the Driver package is 3.1 (or later with the Mid 2010 released Macs).
    The problem and the error messages you receive make me believe that somwhow the optical disc drive in your Mac has problems reading the Windows part (where the Drivers are) of your OSX DVD.
    If you have access to a WIndows PC you might wanna insert the OSX DVD there and copy the full content of it onto an USB-Memory-Stcik.
    Back at your Mac insert that Stick while in Windows and copy the full content back onto your WIndows partition (C:) preferably into a new folder in the root directory (c:\Download for example).
    Regards
    Stefan

  • Do I need to install boot camp on Windows 7 as well as on Lion? I already installed it some years ago on Leopard when installing Windows Vista on my Macbook Pro. But now after installing Windows 7, many things in windows doesn't work (sound etc.)

    Do I need to install boot camp on Windows 7 as well as on Lion? I already installed it some years ago on Leopard when installing Windows Vista on my Macbook Pro. But now after installing Windows 7, many things in windows doesn't work (sound etc.). I made a clean installation because I needed to go from 32 bit to 64 bit.
    Or should I just update bootcamp in Lion? (cause when I search for "boot camp" in Windows 7 there's no result)

    Installation Guide
    Instructions for all features and settings.
    Boot Camp 4.0 FAQ Get answers to commonly asked Boot Camp questions.
    Windows 7 FAQ Answers to commonly asked Windows 7 questions.
    Apple Boot Camp Support
    Lion's Boot Camp Assistant 4.x should have downloaded Apple drivers as part of also partitioning.
    You need Apple drivers. And you then need to add on your own audio driver.
    You can run Assistant at any time to download and save a set of drivers.

  • How to create extra partitions for windows 7 after installing boot camp

    hello
    i am pretty new at imac so bare with me and i really need help.
    IMAC
    OS X version  10.9.5  ( i think its os X mavericks ??)
    iMac 21. inch  , Late 2013
    iMac model identifier  iMac 14,1
    i installed boot camp windows 7  and it works perfectly, after i tried to create two partition using disk utility  for windows 7 (ms-dos) format because i really want to separate my files on other partition instead of everything on Boot Camp drive.  after i restart choosing windows OS i cannot go back to windows 7.
    i hold option on the keyboard but does not show window 7 so i went back to Apple ox s , found my boot camp hd on the desktop with files in it.  checked boot camp assistance showing 
    " The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows. "
    i read alot of article about but i don't seem to understand much about
    i understand alot of people created these kind of topics
    please if someone can help me solve this problem again
    i only want an apple os ,  boot camp for windows 7  and 2 extra partitions for storage  ,  my hard drive is 1TB
    thank you

    Last login: Mon Feb 16 16:11:46 on console
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil list
    /dev/disk0
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4
    /dev/disk1
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk1
       1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.0 GB     disk1s1
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ diskutil cs list
    No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
    Password:
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
           start        size  index  contents
               0           1         PMBR
               1           1         Pri GPT header
               2          32         Pri GPT table
              34           6        
              40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
          409640  1951845952      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      1952255592     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
      1953525128           7        
      1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
      1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
    YLFs-iMac:~ ylf$
    Also i do not have boot camp installed yet because like i said, it messed up my boot camp after i created the partition thats why i removed boot camp, right now i only have APPLE OS

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