Macbook Pro Boot Camp not working

I try to get Boot Camp onto my Mac and I have tried so many tutorials and nothing seem to work.
First of all I have tried to use rEFIt and it wouldn't do any change,
I have tried to install it using the apple way, and I also tried to install it by enabling the usb way manually, as it was disabled for my Mac initially. No luck.
I have tried to run from an external CD/DVD drive and no luck, I even tried a HP version, and no luck. It does give me a black screen some times.
I have tried to install from USB memory, and it seems this one give me a grey screen or black screen, somewhat different every now and then between tries.
I found an guide which included VMWare Fusion to install the OS on the Bootcamp partition, and then continue install Windows when files were copied, however it requires me to repair the boot record (getting to this).
I tried to fully install Windows on the Bootcamp partition using the VMWare Fusion way and that worked fine, it is now located on my Bootcamp drive! However of course the windows boot records are broken.
So I would like to fix the boot record, however my keyboard isn't responding when windows partition give me the option to insert the CD/DVD although it is already inserted.
Further more I try to use an USB stick and it wouldn't help.
I also tried to boot from the CD, then it gives me the option to press any key to boot from CD/DVD, and starts adding dots ..... and when I click enter the dots stops but nothing happends.
So I figured there might be some messed up ground configurations, so I cleared the NVRAM and also eventually the SMC.
After no luck with this I figured I would try to remove rEFIt and successfully did that, and tried all the various combinations I could think of. Hoever no luck again. I feel like I am out of options. Apple created the USB stick from an ISO, it seems to be able to find it, but cannot launch it.
I really am stuck here, I need some advice on how to continue.
/Marcus

Well, it isn't that easy. My second SATA is no longer a SuperDrive, it is now a HDD, which is the HDD I want to have windows on. Do you know any good way of solving this?
I could place the SuperDrive back in and switch my other disk out to install it, and then switch it back. Is that even possible or will the boot records break again then?
Thanks

Similar Messages

  • I have a Serial Number which worked fine on my MacBook Pro but does not work on my desktop PC (Win 7).  What is the problem?

    I have a Serial Number which worked fine on my MacBook Pro but does not work on my desktop PC (Win 7).  What is the problem?

    You haven't identified the version so I can't tell if offering you contact options for Adobe Support will be of use to you.  But they will likely be your only hope of getting resolution unless you just happen to be using the wrong number as the serial number.
    For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
    Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )
    Phone support | Orders, returns exchanges
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/phone-support-orders.html

  • My macbook pro external speaker not working! help please

    My macbook pro external speaker not working! help please

    1. Applications > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup
        Audio Devices window
         Pllug in the speakers.
         Do they show up?
         Make sure that Mute is not enabled.
    2. Reset SMC.     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
        Choose the method for:
        "Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
    Best.

  • My macbook pro retina is not working camera after updating Mountain lion.

    My macbook pro retina is not working camera after updating Mountain lion.
    I have also updated to latest update 10.8.1. Still its the same.

    Reset SMC.  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
    Choose the method for:
    "Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

  • MacBook Pro Boot Camp Sound Audio Drivers Do Not Work with Miscrosoft Vista

    I installed Vista via Boot Camp on my new 15" i7 MacBook Pro. After full MS Vista patching and Apple Boot Camp driver installation, the sound/audio does not work.
    After some searching on the net, I've noticed that this is perhaps a widespread problem. Are there any solutions or an indication of when this will be fixed?

    When you mean no sound, do you get the volume slider but nothing comes out or do you not get the volume slider at all?
    Go to control panel, sound (you might need to switch to classic view to see the one im on about), then the "sounds" tab, there should be audio clips that you should be able to play, if the laptop has picked up the sound controller in it.
    If you cant play these (greyed out) then the driver isnt installed properly.
    There should be a update option in the boot camp program that is installed in your vista partition, run that, and if it fails you can try what is below.
    Try going into device manager, uninstall/remove the drivers under the heading "sound, game and audio controllers" reboot the machine and it should install them back in again.
    If it doesnt and asks for a disc, then they'll be on your max os x disc, but not sure you can install drivers individually this way. might have to reinstall the boot camp drivers from scratch.
    Ive had this proplem on PC's (not macs) with drivers from manufacturer of the machines not working after windows updates. Fixed by using drivers from the audio controller manufacturer. But dont think its the same issue you are having.

  • Help: Windows XP on MacBook Pro Boot Camp Partition via Target Disk Mode

    Firstly, let me lay out my situation. I have an old MacBook Pro (2,2) with a broken disk drive. It was dropped in its youth and can no longer read from or write to CDs or DVDs of any kind. I have just recently bought a new MacBook Pro to replace it (6,2) and am currently trying to convert the old computer into an XP machine through Boot Camp. I'd like to be able to do so without having to buy an external disk drive.
    After a clean install of OS X (10.6.3) onto the old machine, I successfully partition 85GB of space (although I previously attempted the same with a 32GB file system to no avail as well) for XP to be installed upon. Because I cannot boot my XP install disk directly from the broken disk drive, I then close Boot Camp Assistant and shut down the computer. I start it up in Target Disk Mode to be accessed from the new MacBook (6,2).
    Once the old MacBook is connected, I insert my XP install disk into the new MacBook (6,2) and boot from the disk. After allowing the XP (Professional) boot to load the install files, I arrow-key down to my 85GB partition (FAT32, named standard as "BOOTCAMP") on the old MacBook (2,2)'s hard drive and select it as the partition I would like to install to. This is where I am directed to a new boot window that tells me in a series of paragraphs that the XP installer cannot reach the selected partition for what seems to be a number of reasons. What it seems to be trying to say to me is that it cannot do a remote install of XP on a Target Disk Mode-connected machine, while not "knowing" that I am trying to do so. It's a similar message to the one that Boot Camp Assistant shows when one tries to create a Boot Camp partition on a machine that is being accessed via Target Disk Mode (Apple puts it much more clearly than Microsoft).
    I'd be perfectly content, albiet slightly vexed, to conclude here that it is not possible, shuttle over to the nearest Best Buy, and purchase an external disk drive if it weren't for one thing: I tried the same thing two weeks ago with Ubuntu 10.10 and it installed perfectly on the Boot Camp partition I had created then (I have since wiped all and installed OS X cleanly on the laptop).
    Here comes the point/questions:
    If the Ubuntu boot disk can access the partition, why can't the XP boot disk?
    Is there some way to convince the boot system that the drive is local, rather than being accessed via Target Disk Mode?
    Is there an easy solution that doesn't even require that, and will allow me to install to the disk over a firewire connection?
    If anyone's knowledgeable and/or brave enough to tackle this one, I'll be eternally grateful. Heck, I'll be grateful if anyone even attempts to tackle it.
    Thanks,
    -Alec Page

    Windows XP will only install from the optical drive. Target Disk Mode does not work with Windows volumes. Windows will not install from any external device.

  • Built-in iSight, MacBook Pro, Boot Camp, XP

    Though the Apple website suggests that Boot Camp has support for the built-in iSight, I cannot seem to get it to function in XP on my MacBook Pro. Following is a summary of my configuration. The built-in iSight works perfectly within OS-X.
    Here is my configuration summary...
    Hardware: MacBook Pro
    Software: Latest public release of OS-X, XP-Pro, and all patches for both.
    Firmware: Latest public release
    BootCamp: Latest public release, all drivers up to date
    Access : Admin on both OS's
    Using the Windows XP Device Manager, here is the status of the built-in iSight on my MacBook Pro.
    System Properties: Hardware: Device Manager: Imaging devices: Apple Built-in iSight - Unprogrammed: General: Device status:
    "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)"
    I've gone through uninstall / reinstall of the driver multiple times with no change in status.
    Has anybody gotten the built-in iSight on a MacBook Pro to function properly in XP?
    Thanks in advance, Randy
    Macbook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    Yes, the built-in iSight camera functions properly under Windows XP Pro on my 2.0 MHz MacBook computer. But the built-in iSight camera on my 1.83 GHz iMac does not function at all under Windows XP Pro.
    There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why it does or doesn't work, so I can't tell you what you can do to solve the problem. I spent several hours trying to get functionality back (at one time it worked) on my iMac but eventually gave up pending the next release of Boot Camp.
    Unless it's extremely important to you, you might be better off to wait for a fix from Apple.

  • MacBook Pro - Boot Camp 5 - Windows 7

    I have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 13", running Mac OS X 10.8.4, Via Boot Camp 5 I also have Windows 7 64Bit on it. Now re-did it several times to always run into the same issue which; sound is not working and more imprtantly right-click via Trackpad not working. Yes, I installed the drivers provided by Apple but to no avail.
    Anybody any ideas ?
    Thanks in advance!

    Hello,
    Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
    General requirements
       * Mac computer with an Intel processor
        * 1GB of memory (I say 4GB at least, more if you can afford it)
        * 5GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
        * DVD drive for installation
        * Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
        * Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
    Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?...
    http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
    It's been pulled from the online store, so you have to call Apple to buy it, last I heard, but quick, call before it's gone!
    Call Apple 1-800-MY-APPLE
    You have to get 10.6.8 first to go even higher to 10.7 or 10.8

  • MacBook Pro (Boot Camp) kernel panics, application crashes

    I'm currently using a mid-2012 15-inch MacBook Pro with Windows 7 Home Premium installed via Boot Camp. Most of my daily activities before last week were playing games on Steam (for both Mac and Windows), editing videos in iMovie (Mac), and browsing the internet on Google Chrome (both). However, starting last Thursday, September 20th, at random intervals, my programs kept crashing without any sort of heads-up or computer slowdown leading into them. This was occurring on Mac with Safari, Steam and iMovie, and on Windows with the newly installed Borderlands 2, Steam, and Skype. Not to mention, Google Chrome's Shockwave was crashing every 15 minutes or less, and the "Oh Snap!" error page popped up without me doing anything on the pages that crashed (both on Mac and Windows).
    To add to the problem, I was given my first blue screen after a string of application crashes last Thursday, and soon after upon switching to Mac, I received a kernel panic. From what my friends and I have researched, this has happened due to memory corruption, seeing as how the blue screen errors all had codes relating to that, like 0x0000003B and 0xc0000005. However, no matter what I've tried to fix this, be it cleaning the Windows Registry, using MemTest to see if the RAM caused this, running Disk Utility on Mac, running the Apple Hardware Test, or uninstalling/removing potential malware, nothing has seemed to work. Borderlands 2 keeps crashing at random intervals, Safari still quits while a YouTube video is still playing, and most annoyingly, I get kernel panics and blue screens while I'm talking to my friends on Skype.
    Another interesting problem is that I can't install a Mac OS X 10.7.5 update; it tells me the downloaded file was corrupted every time I try download it and it can't install as a result. I'm stuck on Mac OS X 10.7.4. Yet I'm able to install Windows updates without any problem whatsoever. Why is this?
    My question is, is it best to take this in for repair, or is there something else I can do to fix this that I haven't tried yet? I don't consider myself to be any good with the computers I use, so I have no idea if I should have seen/identified the error already.

    hi,
    panic.log says this:
    Tue Jun 13 10:39:25 2006
    panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0019CAEF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
    CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x88e9835e, CR3: 0x00d50000, CR4: 0x000006a0
    EAX: 0x87e9835e, EBX: 0xffffffff, ECX: 0xfffffec0, EDX: 0x00000056
    ESP: 0x88e9835e, EBP: 0x13b3bf44, ESI: 0x00d650f4, EDI: 0x00000056
    EFL: 0x00010086, EIP: 0x0019dd40, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x6de30010
    Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
    0x13b3bd94 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbeb8 0x13b3bdb8 0x131bbc 0x0)
    0x13b3bdd4 : 0x19caef (0x3c1340 0x1 0xe 0x3c10f8)
    0x13b3be84 : 0x197b53 (0x13b3be98 0x13b3bf44 0x19dd40 0x23de0048)
    0x13b3be90 : 0x19dd40 (0x23de0048 0x130010 0x10 0x6de30010)
    0x13b3bf44 : 0x199021 (0x0 0x0 0x6de8e24e 0x216)
    0x13b3bf64 : 0x135d78 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0)
    0x13b3bfd4 : 0x197a21 (0x0 0xffffffff 0x23a8278 0xffffffff) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar 7 16:55:45 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
    sorry, i am not really able to read and understand this. the panics dont seem to relate to airport. i am using airport the whole day and the first 8 days with my MBP were error-free, except the whine.

  • Audio in Windows 8 Boot Camp not working

    I have installed Widows 8 using boot camp. The audio was perfectly fine until recently, it is not working anymore even with my earphones (though it works if I connect to an external speaker using Bluetooth).

    Probably...but how come when I use Windows 8 from Mac OS, I still have to restart again so that it will work? But if my Macbook pro is opened using Windows 8 directly it has no problem (until a point where I'm not using the audio/speaker for a period of time when it will not work again).

  • Boot Camp not working after Mavericks update

    Hello, I'm new in the communitie. I have a 2011 17" MacBook Pro, I was using MacOS X 10.7 and boot camp with Windows 7. I have updated to Mavericks and after the update my boot camp no longer works. When I hold the option key "Windows" is not showing. Please I need help, at least I need to recover my data.
    Please some help!

    does it show as windows in disk utils in osx?
    personally I have gon from lion to mtn lion to Mavericks and never have it effect the windows partition in any way as it's read only for osx and non of the osx upgrades have changed the bootloader as far as I know

  • Blue tooth on win 7 boot camp not working.

    I'm running Win 7 ultimate on a mac book pro purchased a couple of months ago.
    after many different attempts and rough hours shouting to the heavens the hate i feel for this demonic device i managed to have to running Win.
    I can deal with extreme penalties of becoming an apple customer in terms of no HDD common access from both Os`s, keyboard and track pad non responses etc... i can figure out for the life of me why cant i make the blue tooth devices pair !? maybe i got spoiled using a dell notebook for many years and i'm used to things working for the way i want them to and its a different package i should have bought from apple (aside for care and shmare )
    Anybody feels like giving a hand here ?

    When you completely uninstall all video drivers Windows will fall back to a very basic (it's like it's 1995!) video driver. As the thread starter says 800x600 is the resolution.
    So this morning I did fully uninstall all drivers and got the 800x600 in the center of the screen and rebooted with the stretched 800x600. Once I logged in Windows did install a driver (ATI Mobility HD 4850 (Microsoft Corporation WDDM1.1)) I forget the version of it though. Anyway it was buggy (I think but it was not band-y ). So I ran the boot camp 3.1 update. When I rebooted everything looked great.
    My driver version though 8.641.1.0 (8/24/2009)! So now I'm older then 8.661 BUT no banding and no constant crashing. I did get the split screen issue where the top is on the bottom and the bottom is up top. This was at the login screen though and once I logged in my desk top was ok. My card is also identified as ATI Radeon HD 4850, I thought it was the mobility version though.
    And that was not as simple as I wrote.. There were MANY rollbacks and uninstalls and trying to manually pick the driver to install. Even got the black screen at one point and had to boot to command line to delete that ATI file. So maybe set aside an hour or two...
    STO played fine as well!
    Now to rock the boat and see if Windows wants to update me...
    Message was edited by: Jason Mcclary

  • Boot camp not working

    Hello,
    I'm trying to get windows 7 ultimate 64 on my mac book pro. However every time I try and run bootcamp it tells me I need to update, when I update it says everything is all good....
    I'm running Version 3.0.4 (322) of bootcamp
    Thanks

    Sry m8 but I've checked that way before I wrote my solution.
    Permissions disk checked - done! - didn't help
    Disk check - done! - didn't help
    PRAM reset - done! - didn't help
    Disk journaling - confirmed!
    Software update (from Apple menu or from System Preferences) - done! - didn't help
    Combo update (10.6.6) - done! - didn't help
    Everything what I have tried before was just wasting my time. And I have check your solution as well. Unfortunately with same result - Boot Camp Assistant is not working.
    In this case my workaround is only way to install Win7, Vista or Linuks on different partition. Not sure about WinXP, need to be checked.
    What's interesting, I contacted the Apple Care, and after lots emails and phones they got only one solution - send me new OS X SL installation disk.
    Message was edited by: TB@Doo

  • Brand new Macbook Pro Boot Camp boots to blinking cursor

    I have a brand new Macbook pro running Mountain Lion and Boot Camp 5.0. I have made the disk needed for drivers and support and stuff. Installation looks like it was successful. It gets up through making an account and setting up windows update stuff (never gets to the desktop). After that it says preparing desktop followed by logging out followed by shutting down. It then restarts over and over again to a black screen with a blinking cursor. Anyone have any ideas? I have seen stuff about booting to the win7 disk and selecting repair and then command line to repair the boot efi stuff but since it never has a successful boot it never has a build to repair to. I am frustrated after 7 different installs of windows and a lot of time wasted.

    I should add that I went as far as downloading a trial of parallels and imported by boot camp partition. It booted fine but when I tried to install the drivers and support files I got a message that said this version of boot camp is not meant for this hardware. I was thinking if it was hanging on something I could boot into it using parallels and fix it. No dice.

  • Macbook Pro Brightness Controls Not Working

    Ok, this is really weird. I have a Macbook Pro and after installing the new aluminum keyboard with the Keyboard 1.2 update my brightness controls in OSX no longer work. The weird part is if I go into Windows via Boot Camp my brightness controls (F1,F2) work fine. In Display Properties in OSX there is no brightness slider.
    Can anyone help? Thank you.

    "I just tried this. Go into System Preferences -> Display. Turn off Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes. Now move the Brightness slider right and left, left and right. Turn on Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes. When I changed it from far left to right then left again it was ok."
    Hey, thanks for the tip Neil. I was trying to figure out why my computer would dim and then get brighter. It would keep changing after every little thing i'd do. Honestly, it was freakin annoying.

Maybe you are looking for