Boot camp assistant not working correctly...

I'm trying to install Windows 7 using boot camp and everything goes fine and dandy, it partitions and then shuts down and restarts and goes to the installing windows screen and freezes about a tenth of the way through. I'm wondering if it's the drive I'm using or if anyone has any suggestions? Being that I'm running on a Macbook Air, I just bought an LG GP10 external CD/DVD drive. I've tried plugging it in a number of different ways and so far no luck. By that I mean it's one of those drives that needs external power, but it gets the power from two USB drives. When I'm running on my Mac it works fine taking the power from one USB, but for some reason it starts to get weird when it goes to try and install Windows. I don't have two USB ports next to each other and the Y cable it comes with is very short, meant for two USBs next to each other. I also have a Belkin USB hub that I tried using a number of different ways but so far nothing is working... it's very frustrating and I'm just looking for any suggestions anyone might be able to offer. Is it possible power management is the problem? If you need more information or my description wasn't sufficient (I know it's confusing!) just ask, I'll be stalking this forum until I figure this out.

With the BCA 3.0 the Driver Download never worked except for MacBook Airs.
The Boot Driver version 3.0 are located on your OSX Snow Leopard Install DVD.
Boot into Windoes and insert that DVD. Usually the Driver Setup starts automatically.
After that you can use the downloaded Driver Packages 3.1 and 3.2 and install them while in Windows (these are .exe files - only executable in Windows).
Hope it helps
Stefan

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Ok, so I'm trying to dual boot my computer with Mountain Lion and Windows 8. I already have Mountain Lion downloaded, and I have the ISO file for Windows 8 (because I'm a collge student, and our college has a partnership with Microsoft). The problem I'm having is when I lanch Boot Camp Assistant, it takes me through a page or 2. Then it has 2 boxes as options to check ( 1. Download the latest Windows support software from Apple; 2. Install or remove Windows 7), but I can't select the 2nd option... When I select the first, I download the support software, and then it tells me to quit boot camp. So I do, and when I open it back up, it attempts to repeat the same actions.
What is going on?!?!?!?!

The ISO is on your hard drives.
download a free iso burning program for Mac (we used SimplyBurns Mac). That program runs you through the necessary steps to properly burn the iso file you need. After doing so, Bootcamp recognized the installation file and everything worked as it should.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3410900?start=45&tstart=0
SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media.
Features:
Emphasis on ease of use
Audio CD project, Data project (Filesystems: ISO9660, Joliet, HFS+, UDF) and Burn image mode
Erasing rewritable media
Persistence
http://simplyburns.en.softonic.com/mac
See this article on downloading the ISO:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/windows-7-iso-x86-and-x64-official-direct-download -links-ultimate-professional-and-home-premium/
(Make sure you choose the ISO that matches the version you bought).
Here's instructions on burning an ISO with Disk Utility:
http://lifehacker.com/251758/mac-tip--how-to-burn-an-iso-or-dmg-file-to-disc
And this thread on burning a Windows DVD in OSX:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2039118?start=0&tstart=0
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Hey, alright, I got this huge problem. I installed Windows Vista 32-Bit edition on Boot Camp 2.0. I installed the drivers on my Leopard CD. For some reason I can connect to the net on the Leopard side (which I am using right now) and I just can't get a connection on the Windows side. So remember I did install the drivers on the Leopard disc. Also, when I go to device support on Vista, the drivers have yellow triangles beside them. I tried to hook the ethernet cable up and it still won't have an internet connection. I do have the Macbook Pro Aluminum model (newest one) so can someone please help me and tell me what I am doing wrong? Maybe you can tell me a driver I can download to get this working? Thanks!

Boot Camp will not support Vista on newer iMacs, you will need to upgrade to Windows 7. Also as an FYI there is a Boot Camp forum, you can locate it by clicking Apple Support Communities and then in the search field type Boot Camp.
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Some how after an update, the Boot camp HD disapeared from the startup disk utility so I could not boot my Mackbook pro in Windows 7. Then I tried to uninstall Windows 7 using Boot camp assistant but with no luck. Finaly, I decided to erase the Bootcamp HD partition using the Disk utilities and then Enlarge my Mac HD.
Now, I am trying to install windows 7 again using the Boot camp assistant but I got this dioluge in teh pic attached. As you can see, i cannot select the second option which is install or remove windows 7.
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No, not now. Once you used Disk Utility to remove the Windows partition you prevented Boot Camp from managing the drive. You can either repartition the whole drive from scratch or you can purchase Paragon Camptune X 10 and see if it can't help put humpty-dumpty together again.

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Hello all,
Yesterday I got back from spring break and found out there was a new update to ML (10.8.3). After reading a bit, I found out that the new update supported Windows 8 via Bootcamp, so I uninstalled the old Windows 8 I ages ago via Boot Camp Assistant, and updated my OS to 10.8.3. Then, after attempting to install Windows 8 via Boot Camp Assistant, now it rejects my legit copy of Windows 8 Pro 64-bit, with a message saying, "Need 64-bit Windows 8"
A few months after Windows 8 came out, I read up an online guide to install Windows 8 without Apple's official support and it WORKED just fine. I just wanted to reinstall using the official support this time, and see what I get. Haha.
Please help me if you have a solution to this. (No way buying another copy of Windows 8)
Thanks.

Had this problem too, found a solution.
1) Download the 64bit Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx)
2) Go through the Boot Camp process, selecting the downloaded .iso as your image.
3) As soon as your computer restarts, hold the option key. Boot back into OSX.
4) Go through the boot camp process again, BUT only ticking the first two options (in other words, don't touch the partition) selecting your original Windows 8 copy as your image.
5) Reboot while pressing the option key, select the (in my case) USB.
6) Proceed as normal - worked for me.

Boot camp assistant not downloading windows support software

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I have the latest version of firmware.

Purchase Snow Leopard install disk.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Info regarding Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3648

Boot camp assistant not giving option to boot from windows partition drive

Hi, I am a recent convert to Mac OS (10.6.8) on my three year old Macbook. I have been using windows on boot camp since the beginning and have just shifted to OS as the windows was taking too much space and running quite slow (not to mention the viruses accumulating!). I am getting better at it now, only Excel being problematic adjusting to with the different and less convenient keyboard shortcut keys!
Whilst moving over to MacOS, I changed around the disk partitions using disk utility to free up and utilize some unused space. My Boot camp partition still exists untouched, but the boot camp assistant is not giving me the option to restart the computer using the C: drive (and enter windows). I also have saved data on windows that i want to transfer over to MacOS. Any suggestions please? all help/comments will be much appreciated! Thanks.

Here you go sir:
Last login: Mon Oct 20 09:28:01 on console
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            81.9 GB    disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 2          78.0 GB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         159.7 GB   disk0s4
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$ diskutil cs list
diskutil: did not recognize verb "cs"; type "diskutil" for a list
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$ diskutil cs list
diskutil: did not recognize verb "cs"; type "diskutil" for a list
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=320072933376; sectorsize=512; blocks=625142448
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 625142447
      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 159883832      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
160293472     262144
160555616 152331680      3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
312887296     262144
313149440 311992320      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
625141760        655
625142415         32         Sec GPT table
625142447          1         Sec GPT header
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 38913/255/63 [625142448 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 159883832] HFS+
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 160555616 - 152331680] HFS+
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 313149440 - 311992320] Win95 FAT32L
YanaalKhan:~ administrator$
Thank you for help. Let me know what you think.

Tried Everything - Boot Camp will NOT work!

Hello everyone, for about the past 7 days, I have tried installing boot camp on my macbook pro late 2011. My MBP Has an hdd in the optical drive bay, and a hybrid drive in the hdd bay. Recently, after the failure to install boot camp the first few times, I bought an enclosure for my optical drive. I have a copy of windows online in iso format, so everything should be working, but, it has not. I have tried using a bootable usb flash drive, with SEVERAL different ones, to no avail. I have made boot camp look as if I had a MBA, to no avail. I have burned a bootable iso to a blank cd, to no avail. NOTHING HAS WORKED. I have waited around 32 hours of work in 7 days to post onto this website, thinking I can do it myself, but I simply cannot. When I did the bootable usb drive method, I got a please insert the bootable disk, and then press any key. And then when I did the bootable blank dvd with a bootable iso on it, all my mbp would do is blink that cursor thingy on the black screen. EVERY single usb drive was taken out for the computer. The only things plugged in were my charger, and the external optical drive bay. Please help me with any useful info, as it would help me so much.
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If anyone has any other solutions to windows games played on a mac through steam, please tell me, It would mean a lot.
This has been a very frustarating adventure, and I really would love to get this resolved. Whoever gives the advice that ends up working, will get best answer. Thanks!

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HP Support Assistant not working correctly in Windows 8.1

I reinstalled HP Support Assistant for I thought there was a problem with it when I upgraded to Windows 8, but it seems that the problem still happening. The problem is that I can not get the Assistant to work as to going to get help with a live tech online, I have to call and give all the same information over again and go to another site to get them to connect to my PC. Is there a problem with the HP Support Assistant or what? My notebook is a HP Pavilion g7 Notebook, PC
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Hi,
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Boot Camp will not work after installing recovery disk

I purchased a refurbished Macbook Pro 2012. I went ahead and installed dual ssds and used the Mac OS X recovery disk from USB flash drive. I wanted to install WIndows 7 through bootcamp. Bootcamp will not start after selecting continue. I'm not sure if boot camp is corrupted or something I did wrong.

Well you'll need to see if that remote app has an update or if it is compatible with IOS 7.
since you didn't state which remote app your using.

I want to use Windows on my Mac, but Boot Camp doesn't work (Mac OS X 10.7.3)

Everyone knows that w/ Boot Camp you can use Windows on Mac, but I can't.

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I just installed leopard (clean install). When I start the boot camp assistant, I just get the error message that I need to upgrade the operating system..... anybody?

I have the same problem and i have searched EVERYWHERE for an answer to it. The only thing i know is that my firmware is not correct. It does not need to be updated it says but it clearly does if you ask me.
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I thought apple is user friendly. That is why I bought it. I do not have a use to download my boot camp assistant for a compatible to microsoft words, excel, powerpoint. They told me I have iWork's for all of this products but mine is not working.

To whom it may concern.
I bought an apple product which is MacBook Air about 7 mths. ago . Anyway I would like to download a compatible words, excel, powerpoint. they told me that I do not need it since IWORKS is all I needed. I tried my keynote , numbers does not worked. Somebody emailed me sending me this mumbo jumbo for it to work. Well, if I was a computer wiz, I probably will not be asking for help.
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How can I download the windows for mac, I know I have to start in utilities , boot camp assistant, then the usb problem. Please I need help, it is much needed for my job. Ipages does not saved anything, I mean nothing it just disappeared , and you do not have any idea how much I have the long hrs. I have put in.
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate this .

You can buy Microsoft Office for Mac, it includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Or you can download a free copy of LibreOffice which contains substitutes (good ones) for the Microsoft Office programs.
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What is the correct boot camp version to use with an early 2009 iMac 24 inch? Boot Camp assistant says software not currently available?

I have an early 2009 24 inch iMac. It is running mavericks. When I attempt to download using the boot camp assistant i get the message " software not currently available from server" So I went to the Boot Camp support website and there are about half a dozen versions of the boot camp download. None of them match my hardware. I tried the one closest, but when I went to run the setup in windows, it says my machine does not support x64. I have installed windows 7 home premium x64....It works, sort of. I cant get sound and my magic mouse behaves badly.
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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"
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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.
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How exactly do I do the latter since my own DVD reader right now is by remote disc on my iMac?
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Duplicate a CD-RW or DVD-RW
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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.
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Insert the CD or DVD disc in the optical drive, and select it in the list at the left.
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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.
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Click Save.
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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.
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