Before upgrading to 10.7 regarding Boot Camp issues

I'm running a mid2010 MBP i7, with a Win-7 Boot Camp (BC) partition.
I'd seen that there have been issues with people losing their Boot Camp partition. As in the Lion install would not recognised the BC partition and the drive headers for BC were lost.
I've had prior issues with trying to restore a Boot Camp partition from my Win-7 b/up disk. Effectively, I was unable to restore from b/up and lost my data.
Has this issue been resolved? Yes I do make frequent b/ups of my Mac partition using Time Machine and the native Win-7 b/up software.
Given the choice between losing my data again. to losing my MobileMe account. C-ya Bye Apple!

10.7.2 is Lion, right? If it is, join the club. Lots of people ranting about the same things you've mentioned...
Sly

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Mavericks upgrade from Snow Leopard broke boot camp. Help!

Since Apple made the newest version of OS X free, I decided to upgrade my 2010 MacBookPro from Snow Leopard. The installation seemed to go fine, but after the installation, I can't boot into my Bootcamp / Windows partition. From what I have read so far, others have experienced this issue upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion because the recovery partition apparently messes up something fragile between the MBR (Master Boot Record) and the GPT (GUID Partition Table). I'm not sure if that's what's going wrong here or not.
When I attempt to repair /dev/disk0s4 via the GUI Disk Utility, I get the following details:
Verify and Repair volume “disk0s4”
Checking file system** /dev/disk0s4
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 6e0020
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Here's a screen shot:
http://imgur.com/6XLYMOM
Well, I can't mount the partition to copy off my files, and I just want to be able to go back to using my windows partition normally. So I started Googling and found several different threads, but so far I'm a few hours into trying to get my system back, without a clue as to what the right fix is.
Upgrading the OS on one partition of a HDD shouldn't completely break another partition. Is my case just a freak accident, or is this a serious flaw in the upgrade process? Sifting through 250GB of data (1/2 my laptop drive) is going to take some of these tools a while... I'm not a happy customer today.
Aside from spending upwards of 12 hours reinstalling Windows and the dozens of other applications and data files from backups and recovering all the files that I can, does anyone know of any tools that can recover the lost partition should I find it? I'm going to leave testdisk running over the disk while I sleep to try and find filesystems.

I had Windows 7 64-bit installed, but the version is irrelevant. The problem here is that *something* Apple's installer did damaged my working computer. The fact that it damaged others as well and apparently hasn't been fixed since the release of Mountain Lion is very disappointing. Boot camp is a supported Apple product, and we pay a premium for Apple's computers so we should expect better than for an upgrade to blithely destroy our data and tools leaving us to spend days restoring. That's no upgrade. It's a minefield. I'm happy if some good comes from my sharing and it helps others make better decisions than to trust the installer not to screw up their week. Make sure you back up your whole disk image before installing. The upgrade is only free if your time is worthless.
I'm still looking for an easy fix to this problem. The disk scanning software I'm running now is taking a long time to search through the 500GB HDD for information. I fear that the addition of the recovery partition wiped out my NTFS partition's file system entirely. It's inevitable that I haven't backed up all my stuff and that I have lost some amount of data in addition to my time.

Upgrading MBP HD with a boot camp partition

Hi all,
I'm upgrading the HD in my late-2006 MBP. It currently has a Boot Camp partition running WinXP and between the two partitions, I've run out of room. I've upgraded Mac HDs before and know about Carbon Copy Cloner, but I am not sure how to migrate both partitions. Is there a software tool that will clone both partitions at once? If not, how do I go about doing this?
Thanks in advance,
Wardoggie

I don't know if I want to go the virtualization route.
Both VMware Fusion and Parallels offer a free 30-day trial, in case you want to check it out, and VirtualBox is free.
Thanks for leaving feedback in Apple Discussions by marking a "helpful" post.
Good luck.
cornelius

Can't run windows install/upgrade within windows installed on boot camp

I have an issue which seems to be something related to the new version of boot camp. I have installed Win7 on my mac, but my disc is special which requires it to be used as an upgrade. I am able to install it on a formatted partition but can't activate it until I run windows 7 setup again within windows and "Upgrade" itself. I cannot run windows setup within boot camp win7. I get the message: "Windows was unable to create a required installation folder. Error code: 0x80070005"
The reason I say "new" version of boot camp is because I found old solutions to this problem where you just have to uninstall the boot camp stuff from Windows, but you can no longer do that it seems.
Does anyone have a clue as to how I can get around this and do the upgrade?

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Originally posted by NovJoe
I think you'll need to check your HDD in another system to make sure that there isn't another lost clusters or bad sectors within the HDD.
Even though it worked fine with the old motherboard setup? Before I tried installing windows 98 and ME, it would automatically run scandisk and it didn't report any errors.

HT5639 Do I need to uninstall boot camp 4 before I install and update to boot camp 5. I already have windows 8 pro with boot camp 4 installed. Do I need to unistall boot camp 4 or not necessary?

I already have windows 8 pro with boot camp 4 installed on my macair book 11". I have searched the entire articles on how to upgrade boot camp 4 to boot camp 5 but have found no answer as to my question: Do you have to uninstall boot camp 4 drivers before you install boot camp 5? I am not sure if it is ok to install boot camp 5 directly without uninstalling boot camp 4 because there might be driver version conflict. So I have not installed boot camp 5. Is it ok to install boot camp 5 withoust uninstalling boot camp 4? Your answers will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You don't have to uninstall Boot Camp 4 drivers before installing Boot Camp 5 drivers. Boot Camp 5 drivers will simply overwrite Boot Camp 4 drivers, so you don't have to uninstall old drivers before installing new ones and making that process easier

Can I upgrade to Mountain Lion with Boot Camp windows 7?

Can I upgrade my mac book pro to Mountain Lion when I have Boot Camp Windows 7?

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
You can upgrade to Mountain Lion without any problem, but I recommend you to make a backup before upgrading. Also, after upgrading OS X, I recommend you to download the most recent Boot Camp drivers on Boot Camp Assistant and install the drivers on Windows

Upgrade from Tiger to Leopard: Boot Camp Question

I am considering upgrading from 10.4.11 to Leopard. I am using (still) the Boot Camp Beta program and have a considerable amount of data stored in my WIN partition. The Apple web site has this to say:
+Already running Boot Camp? Even easier.+
+If you’re already working with Boot Camp Beta, you’re practically finished before you start. All you need is some new drivers. To install them, simply start up your Mac in Windows and update the drivers from the Leopard DVD.+
Am I to understand from this that I can upgrade to Leopard without having to wipe clean my HD first? I can keep the partition intact with all the data on both the Mac and Win sides? If this is true, then I am REALLY going to consider this upgrade? All along I felt that I would lose everything on the HD and have to reinstall it all. At this point I do not want to do that.
I am looking for feedback from folks in my situation who have upgraded and/or Apple techs that know folks who have done this.
Furthermore, once the switch was made, would I then have some control over the resizing of the partition?

Hi NoBite;
While I agree with William as far he went with his answer, I think there is a bit more to this then what he said. While it is true that only the Erase & Install will wipe out all the data, the other methods can wipe the data if the wrong thing such as a power failure happens at the wrong time. Hence the reason I alway suggest having a bootable clone before any major undertaken with you system.
Allan

Upgraded to 10.8, no boot camp partitions?

I neglected do follow-through with one of the cardinal rules when upgrading. I didn't backup my Windows 7 partition. The Mountain Lion upgrade went fine, but when I try to dual-boot into Windows, I only see a "Recovery" partition. The disk still looks like has the old Windows partition, but I can't see it in the options. Is there a new boot camp download someplace? I couldn't find it.

Did you happen to find anything out on this? I did the same thing... eek.

I just downloaded bootcamp 3.1 to upgrade from 3.0. I am using Snow Leopard. is there anything special I have to do run the upgrade version when I open Boot Camp Assistant?? Thank you

Hi everyone
I am running Snow Leopard on my early 2006 MBP. I just downloaded Boot Camp 3.1 so I can upgrade 3.0. Is there anything special I need to do to "install" 3.1 so that when I run Boot Camp Assistant it uses 3.1 instead of 3.0? Thank You.

The Boot Camp 3.1 drivers you downloaded have to be installed in Windows after running Boot Camp Assistant. That update does not apply to Boot Camp Assistant, and as you are using Mac OS X 10.6.8, you are using the most recent Boot Camp Assistant version for Snow Leopard.
Once you have installed Windows with Boot Camp, insert the Snow Leopard DVD in Windows and install the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers. Then, install the Boot Camp 3.1 drivers

Boot Camp Issue

Hello everyone.
I have this issue where I am trying to install Windows on my Mac but every time, after about 45 minutes or partitioning I get this message:
"Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
I have 2 issues:
1)I don't know how to back up the disc and...
2)I don't have an extra hard drive to back it up to.
Here's the real kicker. It is already formatted as a "single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume" and here is the picture of my issue:
http://img10.imageshack.us/i/picture1lf.png/
I have tried using Boot Camp once before and it worked just perfectly, but I had to back out in the middle of the process of installing Windows, but I reopened Boot Camp and erased that partition, so it should be perfect.
Thank you all for help. This has been driving me crazy. xD

When I was in the Windows world I had seen this type
of problem with some cd's before. So I just decided
to try it in this case.
Well, I'm very, very grateful. You saved my bacon. I delivered the MacBook Pro on time today because of your tip. Very much obliged.
I also installed MacAffee's Virus package (2006) and struggled to get it upgraded until I finally realized that my Airport Base station and Express units needed an upgrade. After I upgraded and rebooted all of them, my the MacBook Pro was able to join the wireless network just fine.
Do you have any recommendations for a great cloning utility for the PC partition? I'm assuming that my fave, SuperDuper! will not make a FAT32 partition and then clone that drive, so I'm wondering what to do. On the PC side I believe they call this making a "disk image" that one can restore a system with. What's your experience with this kind of thing? I really loathe incremental back-ups that one cannot boot with, and I'm wondering how best to support this computer in the future. I went to PC World and liked the program: Acronis True Image 9.0 Home I'm going to try it out.
The last thing I'm curious about is what the best way to protect the Mac side of the computer from PC viruses and worms. I'm not really up to date on that. Can a PC virus wreck havoc to files on the Mac side if I've used the FAT32 formatting? I thought that would be beneficial format because it would allow me to move files (at least) from the Mac side to the PC side.
Any other good threads I should be following here?
Thanks again for your help, Bill. If I could give you another blue dot next to your name (for ranking) I would.
cheers,
Mick
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Windows 7 with Boot Camp issues

Hi,
I have a Macbook early 2008 model, with 10.5, which apparently has boot camp 2.0 installed on it. Despite this, I managed to install Windows 7 64-bit on it, without issue, until I tried to install all the bootcamp drivers for stuff like the trackpad and the function buttons. It turns out that the only way to get the drivers for 64-bit windows 7 is by updating to bootcamp 3.1, which you can't do if you have 2.0 (not totally sure about that), because the OS X cd which should install the drivers, doesnt work for windows 7 64-bit. As far as I can see, you can't download the drivers from apple without the cd, and to use the downloads you do have, I would need bootcamp 3.1, which would require purchasing snow leaopard, and completely reinstalling my entire system (which would be an enormous pain). Is there any way around this? Can I download the drivers independently? The only thing I need to be honest is two-finger right clicking, because I don't use windows much, and that is pretty essential...
Thanks in advance,
Pete

Hi Pete,
you can buy Snow Leopard for about USD 29 but you don't have to install OSX Snow Leopard in order to install the updated BootCamp Drivers from it.
Since the BootCamp Drivers are on a seperate 'partition' on the OSX DVD (better said the OSX DVD is an OSX/Windows-hybrid disc) you can just install the BootCamp Drivers from it.
Regards
Stefan

Maverick boot camp issues

Hello,
I am relatively new to Apple Products and I have a Mac Book Pro and I recently upgraded it from OX X 10.8.6 and I am now running OS X 10.9.1.
I had been using Boot Camp and running Windows 7. No issues.
When the Mavericks update was completed, everything was running fine on the Apple side, but my boot camp partician and ability to use boot camp is gone.
I now have a 55 GB particioned as disk 04.
When I used the boot camp utility my computer was partioned in a 650/100 GB split.
I am not sure how to proceed at this point.
Is there a way to recover my Win 7paticianed portion, or am I out of luck and I need to start all over. What is this disk 04 I am seeing on disk utitility? Can I erase it or should I?
thanks for any help that can be offered.

I am deeply sorry if anyone was offended. I did not mean yell at anyone. I just wanted to state the most important paragraph as summary. When I have to yell at someone, I put all the text in capitals and bold and also with exclamation mark at the end. But anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Finally, I solved the problem by returning to the old system leopard.

Boot camp issues

I realize that this may not be the forum for this, but I don't know where else to post. I was one of the onmac.net early adopters. I just got everything up and running a couple days ago. Then I get this little jem from apple this morning. Well, the install seemed to go very well. After installing the 10.4.6 update, the firmware update, and boot camp, I installed XP SP2. Well, before I installed the apple provided drivers, everything was working great, much better than the onmac.net solution. After installing the drivers however is a different story.
I think the culprit is the video driver, but the minute that I boot into windows, the computer locks and restarts. I tried uninstalling the drivers, but that didn't work, so I'm reinstalling one more time.
I am wondering if there are any other adventurous people out there who have tried and failed, or tried and succeeded with boot camp.
For what it's worth it's a mini core duo, with a viewsonic lcd @ 1440x900.
Also, I can't get into the os selector menu (wireless keyboard)...
Thanks in advance for any advise,
Berndt

There is now a Boot Camp Public Beta forum. I would search or post in there.
-Doug

Boot Camp Issues like crazy. Maybe some one can help?

Hello,
I own a MBP late 2010. I also own a copy of windows 7 ultimate. I had it installed and it worked fine for over a year. I had to reformate my system last week. So I decided to start fresh and just completely re-format my drive. Well, I made the partition useing boot camp and that worked just fine. Boot camp restarted and gave me the error saying that it was missing dvd drivers. Well, this is odd to me because ive used this same exact disk before for the same exact thing on the same exact computer. THe disk isn't messed up or scratched. I read that it means i downloaded a curroupt copy. Which can't be the case because it is a legit copy from microsoft.
So I then preceded to delete the partition and start over. Now boot camp will not partition my drives. Why? Why must this software be so stupid? What am I missing here. Why/ What is causeing this?

It wasn't an ISO, it was the actual DVD of windows 7 ultimate. I didn't add any drives to my system. It is a stock unit, no changes made.
So, I guess my question is did something change about a bootcamp update that would possibly make it not work again? I did a fresh install of OSX Snow Leapoard. It is currently updated to 10.6.8. I also waited till the macbook pro was completely updated before i attempted my Boot Camp Installation.
So my system specs are
MBP late 2010 (stock everything)
OSX 10.6.8
boot camp 3.0.4
and a pysical copy of Win7 Ultimate(64bit).
I'd like to re-add that this all worked properly in the past. I did a system reformat and this is what happened when i tried to put windows back afterwards.

Bootable Time Machine with Lion 10.7.2 - Boot Camp issues.

Hey all,
I have done as I was told and updated Lion as the updates have appeared. Now, it seems, I have a bootable Time Machine drive where before, I have not been able to boot from the Time Machine drive (never installed a System folder, etc.).
The problem here is that when I try to use Boot Camp and still have my Time Machine drive installed, (I see the drive when holding the option key to select boot drive), Boot camp gets "stuck" not knowing how to boot unless I disconnect the Time Machine drive. It appears that Windows thinks that it has two boot drives and doesn't know what to do, until the Time Machine drive is pulled.
Anyone else, or is this just me?
And when did Lion install the bootable folder on Time Machine??
Thanks

owngoal wrote:
You say your "backups still turn up corrupted now and then" - how do you know? Is it only when you try to access them that you will know this?
Sometimes a backup will fail, sometimes you can't access them, sometimes you'll get this message:
See #C13 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details.
And by this stage is it too late to recover anything?
Sometimes. Sometimes they can be repaired by Disk Utility. Sometimes only a heavy-duty 3rd-party disk repair app like DiskWarrior ($100) can fix them. Sometimes nothing can. Sometimes you can restore some individual items, sometimes not. Sometimes you can do a full system restore from some backups, other times not.
does it help that I am using a Gigabit WIRED connection between iMac - 10/100/1000 switch - Airport Extreme Base Station?
Probably -- you won't have WIFI interference.
But if you have an iMac, why not just connect the external HD directly to your Mac? That's much faster and more reliable (and supported).
You'd need to erase the disk in that case, since Time Machine won't bother with a sparse bundle at all on a direct backup. Just format the disk as GUID, with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and let 'er rip!

Before upgrading to 10.7 regarding Boot Camp issues

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