Trying to install windows 7 to no avail.
Im trying to install a new copy of windows 7 from an OEM version I bought online to a new hard drive also bought online.
the hard drive is a crucial m500 SSD and my computer is a asus G74sx running everything the same as it was out of the box. I don't know what system specs to list I have tried everything I know to change the boot priority but nothing happens when I have the
disk in the tray. I just get an error that says reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device. do I have to download drivers first? if so how?
Hi,
For your situation, it would be better to contact ASUS Phone support, they would be more helpful to teach you how to install Windows 7 at their computers.
Thanks for your understanding.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support
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You don't need to download the Windows support software, because in Snow Leopard, they are only available as a download for the Late 2010 MacBook Air.
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Apple only supports Windows on certain hardware.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Apple provides their framework for Windows to run on a Mac, a piece of software called a Hybrid MBR that bridges the gap between how Windows reads the drive partition table (MBR) and EFI/GUID partition table that Mac's use.
It doesn't mean Windows can't run on your Mac, a third party solution called rEFIt will also bridge the gap and allow booting of more that just Windows, Linux as well for a triple booting computer.
Your hardware has to meet the other requirements the second and third operating system needs as as being able to install drivers that will work for your hardware, especially the fans or they will run loud and fast by default.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
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Trying to install Windows on a partition of second internal HD
Hello,
As the title mentions, I'm trying to install Windows on my iMac 11,1 in which I've swapped out the Superdrive for a SSD.
My current setup is with 10.8 boot drive + recovery partition on the SSD and an HFS+ data partition on the second drive (HDD).
What I would like is for the SSD to contain the same partitions, but for the HDD to also include a bootable Windows partition.
Two problems with this:
1. The computer won't boot from a USB drive so I can't make a proper installer (out of the legal Windows 7 .iso I have).
The two ways around this I have read about (and tried) are to use virtualization to convince the installer it's running from a CD and not an .iso and to put the install files on a separate bootable partition of the internal drive. I managed to use Parallels 8 to install Windows 7 to a second partition on the HDD (though it couldn't make some writes due to security issues), but couldn't make it bootable. I tried making a hybrid MBR (using gdisk) on the HDD before installing Windows 7 to the partition, which made it bootable, but Windows got stuck before it loaded. This leads into problem #2.
2. The HDD doesn't know how to boot itself. My suspician is that the bootloader and/or BIOS emulation code (I don't really understand how this works) doesn't exist on the HDD. I have no idea how to fix this issue.
Any help would be appreciated in getting this to work. I'm familiar with the command line, so don't be afraid I'm going to wimp out if you ask me to use it.My understanding of how Bootcamp works is it creates a hybrid MBR that uses GPT in each section.
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Here's the output from fdisk:
~ # sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 0 0 2 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 461055999] <Unknown ID>
*2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 461056000 - 39061504] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
~ # sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
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Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 1953525167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 500118191
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 460383864 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
460793504 262496
461056000 39061504 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
500117504 655
500118159 32 Sec GPT table
500118191 1 Sec GPT header
~ # sudo gpt -r -vv show disk1
Password:
gpt show: disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk1: 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
And diskutil:
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/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Jane 235.7 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data 20.0 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS JaneHDD 999.3 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
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I didn't have any problem with XP installation in boot camp, used a 32 GB partition (thats the max for FAT32) and used fat32 so I could access windows files with mac programs. -
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