HT5628 Can I still install Windows 7 via bootcamp without OSX Mount. Lion installation DVD

I've already got Windows 7 disc.

Yes. The Boot Camp Assistant can put the drivers onto a DVD or external drive; this is actually the only way to do it, as there are no Mac OS X 10.8 DVDs.
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Installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp with OS X Lion

Hi all,
I have just bought a new 21.5 inch iMac preinstalled with SL and have the Install DVD for 10.6.7.
I have recently upgraded to Lion OS X (eligible for free download due to recent purchase of the iMac), but now want to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp. As I understand it, I have to reinstall the drivers for Windows 7 to work, but I only have the DVD for SL, not Lion.
Can you advise on how to get around this? Can I save the drivers for Lion on a blank DVD - if so where do I find the files? If I'm right, I think I select 'Download the windows support software for this mac' option when I first go in to Bootcamp and have a blank DVD in the drive. Then I can use the DVD as if it were a Lion Install DVD - is this correct?
Think I also need a USB wired mouse as wireless is disabled when installing windows.
Thanks for your time

Sorry I didn't respond sooner....Hurricane Irene knocked out all our power
The initial install (at least for most of the reboots) does correctly reboot to Windows. However, towards the end of the Windows setup, where Windows is fully functional but is configuring itself, you may accidentally boot into OS X. Once you get Apple's Boot Camp drivers installed, you can set the target disk for a reboot, so that you don't need to hold down alt/option. In addition, you can also set the target disk in Lion via System_Preferences>System>Startup_Disk.
Unfortunately, the excellent boot manager rEFIt doesn't work with Lion (because of the hidden partition that Lion adds). Maybe they'll get it working soon, then you can use it and not worry about holding down alt all the time.

Help! Can I still install Windows Vista through Bootcamp?

I am currently running Lion 10.7.3 on my MacBook Pro.
When I purchased this laptop 2 years ago, Bootcamp allowed me to create a partition and install Windows Vista.   Then, over time I upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard and then Lion. Never really paid attention to the bootcamp . . upgrades that came along with the system upgrades until now.
I was having issues with my Windows Vista Partition, so I decided to use Bootcamp to remove the Windows partition (with the thought that I would just re-create it and start fresh). Easy right? Wrong.   Now, bootcamp won't allow me to install Vista. Only Windows 7. I don't want to run out and buy Windows 7 when I have a perfectly good (if you can call Vista good lol) copy of Windows . .    I only need it to run a thermal printer for UPS because it is not compatible with MAC.
IS there any way to get around this and install Vista on the partition instead of windows 7?   If so . . how?
My gosh I am actually wondering if it's cheaper to run out and buy a cheapo Acer computer for $250 . . then to deal with this headache.
Any suggestions?

Vista is not supported by Lion. There are no drivers.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4410

Can i install windows 7 via bootcamp (MB Air) while using remote disc? I put the windows 7 disk in my macbook pro drive, and connect to my brand new macbook air. In bootcamp i allocate the partition then i click install and bootcamp will not see the disk.

Can i install windows 7 via bootcamp (on my MB Air) while using remote disc? I put the windows 7 disk in my macbook pro drive, and connect to my brand new macbook air via remote disk. In bootcamp (on my air) i allocate the partition, then i click install, and bootcamp will not see the disk from my macbook pro's drive. How do i get the bootcamp assistant running on my MB air to automatically find the disk in my macbook pro with the ISO image of windows 7? The remote disk on my air can find the cd but bootcamp will not begin installing it. Anyway to do this without buying the damned usb drive?

I don't know first hand if you can use the Remote Disk option with Windows but as of 10.7.2 you can now use BCAssistant to make a bootable USB (thumb drive or external disk) W7 installer with the Boot Camp drivers installed also. Have you tried that yet?

Error installing windows xp via bootcamp

Hi guys,
I just bought my macbook pro yesterday and I tried to install windows xp via bootcamp and after the installing it says "setup is starting windows" and then an error saying "session3initializationfailed" came out.
I downloaded windows xp sp3 from my university and burn it into a disk.
Can anybody tell me what's going on or what did i do wrong?
Thanks

Greetings Appelonians
I am privileged to have attained a brand new Macbook Pro 2010. I am not completely new to Apple and have used 'boot camp' on my other iMac's have have owned previously. In the process of installing Windows XP on the new Macbook Pro, I came upon a few challenging errors, some I have solved, but others getting the best of me at them moment. I am going to run through my situation I am at the moment, starting with my initial challenge, the solutions I came up with and at last the cul de sac I am at the moment.
The family of errors all evolved with me trying to install Windows XP on my Mac
A) Windows on my Macbook
1) I used Boot Camp to create a 50gm partition for Windows XP.
2) I booted up with the WinXP Install CD (original)
3) Deleted the Boot Camp Partition, recreating it and formatted it as NTFS.
4) Rebooted and got my first error after choosing to have the Macbook reboot with the newly installed WinXP partition.
Error
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows_root>\System32\hal.dll
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
windows_root\System32\hal.dll missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
Error Fix
1) I used a Bootdisk created by BartPE and changed a line in the Boot.ini file. Apparently this issue is due to the fact that the Macbook Pro has a 200Mb partition, the Boot.ini refers incorrectly to the wrong partition when trying to complete the WinXP installation after rebooting.
2) I changed the line in the Boot.ini that refers to the partition as 3 to 2 (see bold below):
[quote][boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect [/quote]
3) This fixed the issue and Windows started after the reboot, remember still that my WinXP installation is still incompete.
B) Blue Screen of Death
1) During the WinXP run screen, my second error popped up as one of the dreaded [URL="http://justasktheitguy.com/software/blue-screen-unmountablebootvolume-stop-0x000000ed-0xaaaaaaaa0xbbbbbbbb0xcccccccc0xdddddddd/"]Blue Screen of Death[/URL], as found at the mentioned link.
2) It seems that this error is caused by a problem with an IDE cable or the BIOS in which case you just replace the cable or reload the fail-safe default settings in the BIOS. However, most of the time this error is caused by some sort of problem with the volume.
3) I booted again with my boot disk and ran 'chkdsk -r' and there after 'fixboot' to fix any errors regarding the volume of the HDD. (Fix can be found at the above mentioned 'Blue Screen of Death' link.)
4) Now I know that Mac does not use a BIOS but a EFI and this is where I am stuck.
All I need is to get WinXP installed properly on my New Macbook Pro. I had no trouble installing WinXP on my other iMacs and this has been the first time I had this issue. I do own a copy of Parallels, but I would like to run WinXP on a seperate partition with the option of either booting up with WinXP as well as using WinXP as Virtual Machine in Snow Leopard.
Hope some one out there can assist me, please.

Unable to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on MBP mid-2012

Posted here from my original, since the old one was basically in the wrong thread. https://discussions.apple.com/message/25097756#25097756
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Pro 13" with the 2.9ghz i7 configuration, 8gb ram, intel HD 4000, Crucial M4 256gb SSD, and the original 750gb hard drive that was included in the computer. I made the SSD my boot disk.
I've been trying to install Windows 7 via bootcamp for a few days now. The first time I tried it I walked away from the computer after it got to the "Copying files" part of the windows 7 installation so I wasn't able to see what went wrong. When I try to start the computer it goes to the blank DOS screen (or terminal, whatever you prefer to call it) with the flashing cursor for text but I cannot enter anything and it just sits there. So I figured something may have gone wrong with the installation and I tried to do it again.
I re-wiped my 8gb flash drive, redownloaded the boot camp support files, and again started the installation with windows 7. The first time I tried it I had to reformat the "BOOTCAMP" partition that it had created on my SSD because it wouldn't write to it as it was not formated in NTFS. I spared 60gb for the Windows boot. So after reformatting I went through with the installation again. Now I get to the screen where it asks me what username, etc. After I finish entering in my credentials it starts to say "preparing desktop" and then I hear a loud CLICK and the entire machine just reboots and takes me back to the blinking cursor. Is this a common problem when trying to install windows? Thanks!

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Installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp on Snow Leopard. No Disc Drive.

Hi all,
I have a White macbook late 2006 model. The superdrive in it has failed and I'm trying to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp. I downloaded an open source app called rEFit that allows me to boot to a usb drive. I created the boot camp partition using boot camp and I chose the Quit and Install Later option on boot camp. BTW I have Mac OSX 10.6.8 using Boot Camp 3.0.4. I restart and go to boot to the usb drive and it gives me the no bootable drive error. The usb drive was created as a bootable usb drive using a macbook air using an windows 7 iso in boot camp. Does anyone know anyway that I can get windows 7 installed on this macbook via bootcamp. Virtualization software (ie VMware Fusion, Parallels, etc) is not an option (CS 6 will slow the computer to a halt if I attempt to run it in virtual machine of windows). Any and all help will be appreciated.

Sorry I didn't respond sooner....Hurricane Irene knocked out all our power
The initial install (at least for most of the reboots) does correctly reboot to Windows. However, towards the end of the Windows setup, where Windows is fully functional but is configuring itself, you may accidentally boot into OS X. Once you get Apple's Boot Camp drivers installed, you can set the target disk for a reboot, so that you don't need to hold down alt/option. In addition, you can also set the target disk in Lion via System_Preferences>System>Startup_Disk.
Unfortunately, the excellent boot manager rEFIt doesn't work with Lion (because of the hidden partition that Lion adds). Maybe they'll get it working soon, then you can use it and not worry about holding down alt all the time.

Problem installing Windows 8 via Bootcamp on MacBook Pro 13 (late 2009).

Hello,
I've installed Windows 8 Pro on my MacBook Pro 13 (Late 2009) which does not support Windows 8. I've started installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp, then interupted the installation and pluged-in the Windows 8 Disk, and after formating the partition, I've installed Windows 8 64-Bit.
Here is the problem. The Windows works fine, BUT after restart when I hold 'Alt' and choose EFI Boot (Windows 8's partition), Windows 8 starts loading but then suddenly there is a white flash and it restarts again. So after shut down or restart I cannot boot it.
Do you think that this is because I do not have Bootcamp installed on the Windows 8?
I've downloaded the supported software for Windows 8, but when I click setup.exe, it is giving me the following error:
This version of Bootcamp is not intended for this computer model. I've been trying to install it for more than 78 hours, so I'll be extremely gratefull to whoever help me. Thank you in advance.
P.S. Mac OS X partition boots fine.

If it is really not possible, I get it. But there are plenty of people that are running Windows 8 on the same model, that is powerfull enough to run Win 8. I'm actually running it, but until shut down or restart . Can't I edit Info.plst file alternative for Windows 8 like I did to allow BootCamp to image burn my USB on my model? I mean my model is same as the next one. I can't see why the drivers for mid 2010, won''t work on mine...

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I recently decided to install windows Xp via BootCamp on my MacBook Pro and ran into a problem after the Blue screen asked me if i would like to install Windows XP now. It appears that my keyboard is unresponsive. What I'm asking for is help to either get the Windows Xp disc out and pretend this never happened or to finish the installation. Thanks in advance!

Having same problem, but I see this question was posted in August! Any progress made?

I made a mistake. i installed windows using boot camp without os x lion dvd. what should i do? help pls

i made a mistake. i installed windows using boot camp without os x lion dvd. what should i do? help pls
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There is no Lion DVD. Start Boot Camp Assistant and select the menu item to download the Windows Support Software.
Read and follow the Boot Camp Installation Guide. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

Installing Windows XP via Bootcamp 3.0

Hi everyone! Hope you can help me with this:
I was trying to install Windows XP Profesional with SP 3 included on my MBP 13" 2011 but after creating the partition Boot Camp warns me that it only support Windows 7 editions. Does this mean I can't install Windows XP via Boot Camp or that I just need to search the drivers on my own, assuming they aren't on my Mac DVD? I already have a Windows XP copy on a CD so I don't want to spend money on Win 7.
Regards,
Guido

XP is not supported on the newer Macbook Pros. See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4410
You could use a VM like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox to install XP SP3.

Why can't I install Windows 7 on Bootcamp?

I'm running OSx Mavricks 10.9.5. Every time I try to install Windows 7 on bootcamp, I get into the install part, and when it asks where I want to install it, I choose the bootcamp partition, then format it, and then it gives me this error message...
I get it every time i do try it, and I can't get past it any way. I've tried so many different things, but I always seem to get this message. Can someone please help me! Thanks!

You have too many partitions. Windows can't be any further back on the drive than the third partition, or it won't be bootable. It will install, but you won't be able to start up to it.
It also appears you have not set up the Boot Camp partition correctly. When the Mac restarts to the Windows DVD, the drive you would be installing to should be named "Boot Camp", not just a disk and partition designation.

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Hello All;
I'm new to Mac, Just purchased the MBP Mid 2012 non retina 2 months ago.. and upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2
I'd like to Install Winows 7 via BOOTCAMP and have extra 1 or 2 partitions (ExFAT) on the same drive for my personal data, any advise on how to do this properly... I tried in many different ways but always ended up hitting the wal..
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Won't work.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Can I install windows xp via bootcamp onto my macbook pro 15"? The XP in question is an "OEM" disk but it is NOT branded to any computer brand i.e Dell. Thanks.

Will XP be ok to use via bootcamp?
Does it matter if it's OEM?

Technically it's Lion Boot Camp Assistant doesn't support XP, it is after all 11 years old, and is a booger Microsoft is even trying to flick off with hardly much success.
http://www.itworld.com/windows/266924/clock-ticking-xp-time-start-os-migration
The hardware in question, almost invariably will run Windows XP OK. There might even be XP video drivers for this laptop, etc. but not the easy collection of drivers for XP specifically for this Macbook. The OP would have to track down the drivers manually. But it is possible to shrink the Mac HD volume, boot a Windows XP disk directly and have it format and install on the free space created. But it's a guess how much of a rabbit hole it is to track down XP specific drivers for this brand new hardware.
But that's the alternative to "Buy Windows 7". Of course, you can run XP in a Virtual Machine, on Lion, however.

HT5628 Can I still install Windows 7 via bootcamp without OSX Mount. Lion installation DVD

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