"back up disc could not be found"

my time machine is saying "backup disc could not be found" any suggestions?

apparently I needed to upgrade the time capsule software. duh!

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Time Machine not backing up - Backup disc could not be found

Time Machine has not backed up since April 2 because the backup disc could not be found. It was working prior to this. I cannot restore from prior backups - Restore button is greyed out. Time Capsule is not connected in AirPort Utility.

Installed Dr. Cleaner 3/29 and Memory Clean 3/29 - both were updates.
That.....is the problem. Time Machine does not like "cleaners", "optimizers", "keepers".....anything like that. Your Mac does not need these types of applications since they generally do more harm than good.
Anti-virus applications will drive Time Machine crazy as well.
My advice would be to remove this type of software from your Mac according to the software manufacturer's instructions.
Then power cycle the entire network.
If the Time Capsule disk comes back into view, you should run a Verify Disk operation as soon as possible. Your backups may now likely be corrupted, and if that is the case, Time Machine will not be able to back up until you erase the Time Capsule disk and try to start over again with a new backup.

"The installer disc could not be found." What the...?

"The installer disc could not be found. Insert your Windows installer disc and wait a few seconds for the disc to be recognized."
Trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate. I have a Mid-2011 27" iMac, maxed out Core i7, RAM, and video, updated OS X Lion (11B26), and SSD. I created a partition via Boot Camp Assistant, downloaded drivers/whatnot via BC Asst. As far as I know, there is nothing wrong with the machine.
Purchased W7U through Parallels, they sent me the disc, started up BC Asst, and I get the above error message.
I can clearly see the disc in Finder. What's the deal?
(I roped myself into Parallels before I realized I didn't need it for what I wanted to do.)

Ask the people that sent or you bought Windows from.
There are extra steps if you have multiple disk drives like SSD and 2nd.
Windows sees OS X and GPT on another drive and won't install but you don't get that far.
Most people want Windows as a guest OS rather than have to dual boot though.
Go back to FAQ, Install, Guide http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp

Boot Camp Assistant "Windows 7 Installer disc could not be found"

I'm attempting to Boot Camp a partition on my MacBook Pro Retina (13", early 2013) and it's not working. I purchased a Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit DVD and i'm accessing it through the optical drive on my desktop iMac. So far so good; MBP shows the disc on its desktop through remote disc sharing. The USB drive with downloaded Windows drivers is in place.
However, Boot Camp Assistant won't recognize the Windows 7 DVD, even though it's right on the desktop (remotely). There is a dialog box and it says "Installer disc could not be found .. wait a few seconds"
And that's it. Nothing further happens.
Help! I hate Windows! Why am I doing this??

Lightwave wrote:
Thank you! I bought Windows 7 on a physical DVD (it's the Home Premium 64bit disc). Hope that was the right thing to do?
Yes.
So let me get this straight. I can either use this DVD directly on a superdrive plugged in to MBP, or else burn a copy to the USB stick.
MBP will not install from an external SuperDrive due to Windows installer limitations, because it has no driver for the SuperDrive.
How exactly do I do the latter since my own DVD reader right now is by remote disc on my iMac?
Create an ISO using the following procedure on the iMac and then copy it over the network to the MBP or create an ISO by attaching the SuperDrive to the MBP. Use Bootcamp Assistant to point to this ISO when creating the USB for installation.
From Disk Utility 12.x: Duplicate a disk, CD, or DVD
Step 7 will give you an ISO, that you can then copy to the MBP.
Duplicate a CD-RW or DVD-RW
Disk Utility can’t create usable copies of discs with an incompatible format or discs that are copy-protected. (These include most commercial movie DVDs and audio CDs and some software and data discs.) To copy music from an audio CD to another CD, use iTunes, not Disk Utility.
To burn a disc, you need an optical drive in your computer or connected directly to your computer. You can’t burn a disc using a remote optical drive.
Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in Launchpad.
Insert the CD or DVD disc in the optical drive, and select it in the list at the left.
Choose File > New > “Disk Image from [disc name].”
Type a name for the disk image.
Choose an option from the Image Format pop-up menu.
Choose “compressed” to create a smaller disk image.
Choose “read-only” to create a disk image that’s quicker to create and open.
Click Save.
After Disk Utility creates the disk image, eject the original CD or DVD.
Select the disk image in the list at the left, and choose Images > Burn.
When the Burn Disc dialog appears, insert a blank CD or DVD, and then click Burn.
You can continue using the disk image to create as many duplicate discs as you need.

The installer disc could not be found bootcamp mountain lion

Hi,
Got a small problem when i'm trying to install Windows 7 (Downloaded from MSDN) Dual boot is giving me an error message 'the installer disc could not be found bootcamp mountain lion'
I burned two DVD-r's
1.
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2.
http://cl.ly/image/093C2V2b1N07
Both of the disc's are not working in DUALBOOT
System info:
Macbook PRO 13'' - late 2011
2.4 Ghz Intel Core i5
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported, you must use Windows 7 Home or Professional. You must also burn the DVD at the lowest possible speed.

The installer disc could not be found? MacBook Pro - BootCamp

I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS X Lion 10.7.4. I receive the "installer disc could not be found" error in my Boot Camp Assistant (ver. 4.0.3) after I have selected the "Download the latest Windows support software from Apple" and "Install Windows 7" tasks, and selected the "Burn a copy to CD or DVD" option in the process of installing Windows on my Mac. Everything goes smoothly, including the burning onto a disc apparently, until I get to the part where I am told to select the amount of space to partition and press the "Install" button below with the disc in. I do this, but after a minute of nothing happening once I've pressed "Install", I receive the "installer disc could not be found" error. I have no idea what to do, still being somewhat new to my MacBook Pro, as well as having followed all the of the instructions. Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Also, I've already tried burning at the slowest speed (2x) and have tried both CDs and DVDs.

It's not so much the Windows OS as it is what Mac OS your using to in stall Windows on.
As of Lion and Mountain Lion (10.7 and 10.8) you can only use Windows 7 (until Windows 8 comes out and Apple updates the Boot Camp drivers for it) because Boot Camp only has drivers for W7 and is not backward compatible to XP.
W7 and XP is kinda like OS-9 and OS-10, two major differences.
Boot Camp is just a series of Windows drivers Apple makes for compatibilities reasons for the hardware Apple uses.
Basically if your computer came with 10.7 installed _brand new_ your stuck with W7 and BCamp v4.0. If you have any other previous Apple OS then you can use the v3.0 version of Boot Camp and W-XP.
Depending on when the computer was made it may be able to use XP, say, if you bought a computer a week after Lion came out but they hadn't upgraded the computer hardware yet you can usually use the previous MacOS and Windows version if compatible. So you will still have the "old" hardware. Any new Mac OS that comes out will be installed on any computers sold after that time.
Also, some people have had some success installing XP on newer machines if you do a Yahoo/Google search on the internet, depending on what machine you have you. It may take quite a bit of work tho. if you really need XP still, Windows 7 Pro does have an XP emulator as part of it (similar to Rosetta for OS9?)
Hope this helps....

Problem installing windows - 'The installer disc could not be found'

Hello everyone,
I'd successfully partitioned my hard drive and am now trying to install windows. When I click on 'start installation' in boot camp assistant, there is a delay of 20 seconds and then a message, saying that 'the installer disc could not be found'. This is despite the windows CD showing up in the finder.
I've tried re-booting, re-starting boot camp and removing the CD, to no avail. For what it's worth I've also tried a friends windows CD just in case it is my one causing the problem.
Any tips?
Thanks in advance.
Rob

I had the same issue with the installer disc not being found by boot camp, I tried multiple times with no luck, tried several windows vista home basic discs and made sure they were bootable, still no luck, finally I got the trial version of parallels, installed windows that way and it worked, the interesting thing is that afterwards, I left the CD I was using in the dvd drive, shut down the computer, next time I started the laptop, it wanted to boot up with the windows installation dvd I left in the drive, I cancelled, started mac os then ran boot camp and it worked fine.
Sounds to me like software issues from apple... I hope you find the solution, all this was very frustrating...

Problem - the drop down box says . . . The installer disc could not be found.

On my MacBook with Lion, I am attempting to create a partition and then install Windows XP Professional with service pk 2. I have successfully downloaded the Windows support from Apple to my extenal flash drive with MS-DOS (FAT32) format. However, when I go to the next step - Create a Partition for Windows - and insert the XP disk and click Install after the icon is shown on my desktop, I get a dropdown that says . . . The installer disc could not be found. Help!

Do you have a bootable Windows installer disc? If you are using Boot Camp 4.0 with your Lion system, you can only install Windows Vista or Win7, but not XP.

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boot camp 4.0 getting error the installer disc could not be found.

See if Windows 8 RP x64 works as an experiment.
Usually slowest burn speed will.
I am assuming that smething changed but there are I presume a number of other people who have, and folks with new MacBook Air too.

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I cant install win7 on my Macbook Pro.
((((The installer disc could not be found.))))

andrewmchugh wrote:
What?!? That has got to be the most useless post on here.
All op needs to do is make a bootable USB thumb drive.
on mac http://blog.nightlionsecurity.com/guides/2011/07/burn-iso-to-bootable-usb-flash- drive-in-mac-osx-terminal-via-command-line-diskutil/
on windows its easier you can just download the microsoft iso tool or use pendrive linux to create the bootable usb from the iso (downloaded from msdnaa)
Your comment is uncalled for. And you give the wrong info on installiing Win 7 on a Macbook Pro in a Boot Camp Partition.
It can only be installed from a DVD drive installed internally in the system. Apple has limited the installation of Windows 7 from only that drive. Can't install from USB thumb or DVD drive connected by USB port.
Thanks, BUT.

Boot Camp "The installer disc could not be found"

Hi,
So i'm attempting to load win7 onto my MAC. Thus far i have downloaded the .iso image off MSDN (throught my university, for all intents and purposes should be as legitimate as an off the shelf copy) and burned it to DVD as a bootable disc image. however for some reason when using Boot Camp im told "The installer disc could not be found"
There is data on the disc however when i go into the disc via finder it appears empty (no icons)... even though it is not (get info > xyzMB used)...
I know most people use parallels etc but if anyone has successfully accomplished a win7 install and knows where im going wrong it would be greatly appreciated... thanks

andrewmchugh wrote:
What?!? That has got to be the most useless post on here.
All op needs to do is make a bootable USB thumb drive.
on mac http://blog.nightlionsecurity.com/guides/2011/07/burn-iso-to-bootable-usb-flash- drive-in-mac-osx-terminal-via-command-line-diskutil/
on windows its easier you can just download the microsoft iso tool or use pendrive linux to create the bootable usb from the iso (downloaded from msdnaa)
Your comment is uncalled for. And you give the wrong info on installiing Win 7 on a Macbook Pro in a Boot Camp Partition.
It can only be installed from a DVD drive installed internally in the system. Apple has limited the installation of Windows 7 from only that drive. Can't install from USB thumb or DVD drive connected by USB port.
Thanks, BUT.

"The installer disc could not be found" Bootcamp

Hello
For the past 5 months I've been wanting to use windows for gaming perpouses. So I've finaly resorted to bootcamp. So far I've
Opened bootcamp
Burned a copy of a Windows 7 Ultamate .iso on a DVD
Inserted it
and waited for th "magic" to happen.
Unfortunatly, Bootcamp doesn't recognize the disc I have in. Any fix?
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NOTE IM RUNNING A MACBOOK PRO LATE 2011 OSX LION!!!!

I am facing same problem that "The installer disc could not be found". Although I installed the window on very same mac book pro but this time encountering the problem. Please could someone there to help me out to fix this problem.

Installer disc could not be found.

Running MacBook Pro, early 2011, OS X 10.9.1.
Trying to install Win 7 Pro on Boot Camp.
Ran Boot Camp Assistant. Keeps telling me "the installer disc could not be found", even though I've made a DVD from a Win 7 ISO I had. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hey Guys,
I believe this is a problem with creating a Bootable CD/DVD from the Mac. Try the following.
1. Insert the DVD/CD
2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top)
3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1
4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save
5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file
6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.
Also you check the link http://www.index-site.com/bootcd.html for "How to create a bootable CD in Mac OS X FAQ?".
Hope that helps.
Regards and Good Luck.
Message was edited by: clarifying the CD/DVD mentioned during creation of the .cdr file is the .iso download from website. Mount the .iso image first and then go ahead with the steps.

Installer Disc Could Not Be Found (Windows 7)

Hey guys,
I want to use Windows 7 on my macbook pro however when I try to install windows 7 it says 'installer disc could not be found'.
I have tried the 64Bit and 32Bit RC versions downloaded from the Windows 7 site.
Then I took the contents of the stuff inside the .iso file and then put it on the disc. Meaning I did not put the .iso file on the disc, what I did was take the stuff such as setup.exe and then burn them on to the disc. I also updated the computer, I just bought the MacBook Pro last week and I know the DVD drive is working because I have played DVD's on them. I also see the DVD logo on the desktop. I named the DVD 'Windows 7'. I also tried installing by holding the option/alt key on startup, however it does not show the disc and only shows Macintosh HD. I have also re-partitioned the drive and yet no success.
HELP PLS!

Hey Guys,
I believe this is a problem with creating a Bootable CD/DVD from the Mac. Try the following.
1. Insert the DVD/CD
2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top)
3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1
4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save
5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file
6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.
Also you check the link http://www.index-site.com/bootcd.html for "How to create a bootable CD in Mac OS X FAQ?".
Hope that helps.
Regards and Good Luck.
Message was edited by: clarifying the CD/DVD mentioned during creation of the .cdr file is the .iso download from website. Mount the .iso image first and then go ahead with the steps.

Installer Disc Could Not Be Found - XP Performance

I'm trying to burn a copy of XP Performance on to my mac. I know for a fact that it works, so that's not really an issue. I used disc utility to make the .iso a disc image, burned the disc image, and it won't work. Restarted the comp with the disc in, that didn't work. Restarted while holding down the c key, that didn't work. What's the problem?

Hey Guys,
I believe this is a problem with creating a Bootable CD/DVD from the Mac. Try the following.
1. Insert the DVD/CD
2. Open Disk Utility, and select the DVD/CD from the left side list (select the DVD/CD icon on top)
3. from the DU File menu select New | Disk Image from Disk 1
4. Choose to format the disk image as DVD/CD Master, name the disk image and click Save
5. When the .cdr file is finished select it with mouse and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info and check the box to lock the file
6. Choose the .cdr file from the left side list, click Burn, and insert a new, blank DVD or CD.
Also you check the link http://www.index-site.com/bootcd.html for "How to create a bootable CD in Mac OS X FAQ?".
Hope that helps.
Regards and Good Luck.
Message was edited by: clarifying the CD/DVD mentioned during creation of the .cdr file is the .iso download from website. Mount the .iso image first and then go ahead with the steps.

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