Boot Camp / Parallels Installation

Purchased 2nd IMAC a few weeks ago. Apple staff per request transferred files, etc from previous mac to new. Also created partition and installed Parallels and Win 7. I can only access Windows from my login account. None of other user accts can access. This a completely different install than on previous IMAC. It seems a virtual copy of the OS is in my Documents folder under Finder view.
I contacted store where purchased - which is out of state; contacted national tech support and even took the Mac to a store 2 hours away from my home- no one can seem to assist or correct. I cannot readily tell by looking in Finder if the disk was partitioned. I really need my Mac..any suggestions on next steps?
This is my 1st disappointment with Apple......always great customer service but this stinks..no one stepping up to plate.

Sometimes what you learn doing things yourself is worth the time and effort. I wouldn't want someone else doing the installs.
It sounds like Windows is on its own partition and can dual-boot natively as well as run under OS X.
Anyone should be able to that way. But, if they have just VM in your account - easy to know and find out if there is a large 20GB -ish sized image then it isn't using Boot Camp + Parallels.
I would be asking and looking in Parallels (also).
http://forum.parallels.com/forumdisplay.php?&f=58

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Transfer boot camp, parallels, windows to internal drive

My 2011 MBP crashed for the 4th time (bad graphics chips), so I was given a new MBP. They nicely kept the old machine and transferred the HD info over to the new one.
However, they did not transfer any of the boot camp/windows/parallels stuff. I had a $5500 CAD program in there. and lots of files.
Fortunately, I have been doing bootable backups using SuperDuper, so I have an external HD with all the stuff on it. The backup is several weeks old, however, and I don't want to erase the new stuff.
My question is how can I transfer the boot camp partition intact from the external drive to the internal drive?

Cosman wrote:
My 2011 MBP crashed for the 4th time (bad graphics chips), so I was given a new MBP. They nicely kept the old machine and transferred the HD info over to the new one.
However, they did not transfer any of the boot camp/windows/parallels stuff. I had a $5500 CAD program in there. and lots of files.
Fortunately, I have been doing bootable backups using SuperDuper, so I have an external HD with all the stuff on it. The backup is several weeks old, however, and I don't want to erase the new stuff.
My question is how can I transfer the boot camp partition intact from the external drive to the internal drive?
It seems to me probable that on your original HD you must have had a Bootcamp Partition, and that you had Parallels installed and set up to use the Bootcamp partition. Apple did not move your Bootcamp to your new HD so it does not have a Bootcamp partition at all, so when you launch Parallels it can't find an operating system. Unfortunately, as CSound1 says, SuperDuper does not backup Bootcamp partitions so your external HD will not have a backup of your Bootcamp on it. Bootcamp partitions need a completely separate method (Winclone is the best) to back up or transfer to a new HD.
Unless you backed up the Bootcamp Partition some other way, I am afraid you have probably lost everything Windows.
The only remote possibility is that you did actually have a separate Parallels installation which was not using the Bootcamp partition. If this is the case the Parallels Virtual Machine will be on your new hard drive and will be a substantial size compared to one which is simply pointing to a Bootcamp Partition. Parallels VMs are usually installed in username/Documents/Parallels/ but could be somewhere else in your user directory.
If you recover from this situation have a look at Winclone as the best way to backup your Bootcamp Windows partition. Personally I gave up on Bootcamp a few years ago because of the problems of backing up restoring Bootcamp partitions, but that was before Winclone was as good as it is now. A pure Parallels set up is much easier to manage and is fully backed up by Superduper. Parallels is much faster than most Bootcamp devotees realise, and plenty adequate for all except extreme gaming (IMHO).
Another thing to think about in the future is to establish a discipline of testing your backups from time to time.

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.

AutoCAD LT - Boot Camp - Parallels/Fusion

I need to run AutoCAD on a new iMac 21.5" purchased this week, and am wondering how best to accomplish this?
Is AutoCAD processor-intensive to the point that Boot Camp would be the preferred method, or would Fusion or Parallels work fine, without too much of a performance hit?
I will probably hold off on this until Apple releases their Boot Camp drivers for Windows 7. I would rather not install an obsolete OS like XP or Vista now that Windows 7 is out...but think it might be wise to wait for the Boot Camp in case that's the best way to go.
There will be some other work-related apps running on the Windows side...but I don't think it's going to be needed on a daily basis...more like 2-3 times a week.
Any advice on which way to go (Boot Camp or Parallels/Fusion)...and, also, is it recommended I go with 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows 7?
Advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have AutoCad installed on the Mac, both in Parallels and in Boot Camp. The installation works best in Boot Camp for me and feels as good as on a PC. In fact it seems to run faster on the Mac. I also have 4GB of Ram installed, and it seems fine. Will have to give it a speed test some time just to find out. I have it installed as 32 bit and see no problems. Depending how intense your design is you probably won't need any more memory, wich is one of the big reasons for using a 64 bit. Also I would actualy install your AutoCad on a friends windows 7 and make sure it runs well. I have heard from friends they had several problems with it. Don't know the reasons for it............Art

Boot Camp - Parallels - Windows 7 - 32bit - 64bit

Hi. First off, and not looking for sympathy - just a little background of myself: I have recently recovered from two bouts of high dose chemo and a stem cell transplant. My memory and brain...processing speed, for lack of correct word or two, is no where near what it used to be. I need things to be explained just a tad bit more thorough.
I have an iMac 27" 3.4GHz i7 - 8GB Ram - 2GB Radeon HD 6970 - 1TB HD and use FCPX for a lot of editing. I will, in the near future, need to use some Windows programming/software. Ok, now my questions:
1) Do I even need Parallels 7, which I just bought today, to use Windows 7 or is Boot Camp the way to go? (And I can get my $50 back.)
2) I have Norton's via COMCAST. I never assume, so, will I need to load my own Norton's with Windows 7 or will COMCAST internet connection, using Norton's, be acceptable protection?
3) ...I forgot...
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Jason

1.) Depends on your usage of Windows and on the programs you want use with Windows.
BootCamp is the better solution for hardware-demanding Windows programs in the field of gaming and/or §d-rendering/movie-editing since it uses the native (real) hardware of your Mac.
Downfall of BootCamp is that you have to reboot your Mac to switch from OSX to Windows and back.
Parallels biggest asset is the ability to run Windows alongside OSX. Downfall is that hatdware-demanding programs are running slower.
2.) I am not familiar with the Comcast Norton, but when running Windows you must have a decent Anti-Virus solution for it.
3.) when it comes back, ask...
Get well soon
Stefan

Boot Camp Update Installation Sequence for Windows Vista ?

Hello,
how is the installation order for Boot Camp 3.0 ? Shall I install it after the Windows Vista installation or after the Service Pack 1 or 2 because Boot Camp 2.2 need Service Pack 2. If I look in the Boot Camp 3.0 manuals, there aren't any details about Service Pack 1 or 2.
I thank you indeed for the help.
Greets

No idea ?

Boot Camp 4 - Installer disc not recognised

Hi All,
I am trying to create a Windows 7 partition on my Macbook Pro (late 2009) running OSX Lion 10.7.2 with Boot Camp 4.
Clicking on "Install" button to create the partition and install Windows with the disc in the drive gives an "The windows installer disc could not be found" error. The disc is a downloaded Windows 7 installer disc image, unpacked so it looks exactly like a standard Windows install disc with all files (i.e not a single ISO or image file).
Could the content of the disc be an issue, as to why the Mac cannot read the disc? I have read in another support thread that the solution to this is to burn an Windows 7 ISO as an image (DMG?), so would keeping an ISO file on the disc work?

miguel.loff,
Your instructions were so helpful! I was struggling with this for a few days. I tried multiple times to burn the .iso file onto the DVD and this was the only method that worked. Bootcamp Assistant replied with "installer disc could not be found" for all other attempts. If you are downloading Windows 7 from the internet (from your school or something), then DEFINITELY USE THIS METHOD BECAUSE IT WORKS.
Heres exactly what I did to get Windows 7 running on my Mac:
A. Download Windows 7 file; if file is an ".img" change it to an ".iso"
B. Follow burning method from "miguel.loff" YOU MUST USE A DVD not a CD
1) Insert blank CD
2) Open Disk Utility (Applications>Disk Utility)
3) From the File menu, choose Open Disk Image and select the .iso that you want to burn
4) In the list of volumes (at the left of the window), you will now see an item representing the .iso file. Select it.
5) Click on the burn button and you're done.
C. Open Bootcamp Installer on your mac and follow instructions. Download Windows 7 support software to an external hard drive. THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MUST BE FORMATTED TO MS-DOS(FAT) (idk what that means but its easy to do.) In order to preserve the mac portion of your external HD, create a Windows partition for you your external hard drive [MS-DOS(FAT) ] in the same disc utility used to burn the DVD
D. Insert Windows 7 Disc; Partiton your computer's HD, and then Windows installion will begin

Boot camp, parallels, or vmware?

I'm looking at buying a mac this fall for school. I'll be studying engineering and running some fairly heavy software for programming and 3D modeling. I'm also interested in running Windows somehow, but I don't have much of an idea as to how to do that. I've heard that boot camp, VMware, and Parallels would all be capable somehow. I know that with boot camp I could only run one or the other. In order to access files in one operating system that I saved in the other, would I have to use external storage somehow to transfer it? Also, would it be easier at that point to just go with VMware or Parallels instead? Or would they significantly slow down my laptop?

momorauls,
with Boot Camp, you’d have read-only access to the other operating system’s partition — NTFS read-only under OS X, HFS+ read-only under Windows.
Whether a virtualizer would be easier than Boot Camp or not depends on what you’d like to do. The advantage of a virtualizer is simultaneous access to both operating systems; the disadvantages are that some portion of your RAM would be exclusively dedicated to the virtualizer, and that the guest OS would be somewhat slower than if it were in a Boot Camp partition. If your Windows programs are demanding on the hardware (e.g. GPU-heavy games), then that would make the slowdown even more noticeable.

Boot Camp, Parallels or Both?

I recently ordered a MacBook Air with the following configuration:
1.3GHz Intel Dual-Core Core i5 (Turbo Boost 2.6GHz)
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB Flash Storage
Intel HD Graphics 5000
I need to install Windows because I have to run an application for work called Delmia Quest. It's a 3D simulator of an industrial environment for production and manufacturing. I also need to install Microsoft Visio and Bizagi Process Modeler, and those will be all the programs I'll need to run on Windows. After reading some forum topics about the best way to install Windows on Mac I became confused. My preferable option would be Parallels because this way I could run both OS at the same time. However, I'm concerned the graphics won´t display well on Parallels with the 3D simulator as I've read on some forum topics, despite having plenty of RAM.
What would be the best option for this scenario? Will Parallels be enough or should I install Boot Camp or even Boot Camp and then run it by Parallels?

Given that one program is a 3D modeler I'd be concerned about using it in Parallels too. Microsoft can be a real PITA about Windows activation but the phrase "Apple computer" tends to work magic if/when you have to call about too many activations. I'd install Windows in BootCamp due to the 3D software and once the Windows and software are configured I'd install Parallels and see how the programs run in Parallels. If nothing else that lets you run the one program at its best while giving you the option of having both the Mac and Windows available some of the time when that software isn't being used.

Boot Camp Driver installation crashes every time

Struggled all day to getting Windows installed. Attempted Vista at first, kept failing. Finally managed to get XP installed. Inserted Leopard to install Bootcamp Drivers and it always fails at Apple Keyboard. I hit "Finish Installation" to conitnue and then it always ends up freezing somewhere further down the road or once I got a blue screen memory dump type error.
I'm using a brand new hard disk with Leopard freshly installed and a MacPro (dual 3GHz) so it's a fairly clean, new setup. It just isn't working. Expect absolutely no answers to solve this problem, just logging for the record that it's not working and I'm finished banging my head against a wall with it... it's not yet ready for "primetime" if it has this many problems even on a clean new system like mine.

Tell Me About it!!!! Boot Camp 1.4 is definitely better than 2.0!!!!
I have format my Mac pro for like the whole wk. and boot camp drivers juz keep crashing my laptop upon restart. So far have not found a fail safe method to install vista. Pls help if any1 has found a solution; so far i have tried as administrator account:
1. Install Vista Ultimate --> Install Boot Camp drivers --> Restart (FAIL)
2. Install Vista Ultimate --> Install Boot Camp drivers --> Update Vista --> Restart (FAIL)
3. Install Vista Ultimate --> Update Vista --> Install Boot Camp Drivers --> Restart (FAIL)
The only way i have found possible to not crash vista is not never ever restart after installing boot camp drivers even if boot camp ask u to; I mean never ever ever...and forget about adjusting brightness in vista ever tooo; vista would hang...and u would get the problem again and agian juz like barney.
If anyone out there can save...Pls do...Much appreciated

My Boot Camp, Parallels and Adobe quest.

I've been a pc user since 1983! For now my desktop will still be a windows pc, but since deciding to get my first laptop I wanted to dive into the Apple waters and bought a MacBook Pro. My main apps are Adobe Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4. Without doing the full research I knew I could run both in OS X and Windows so I got the MBP. I also got a free copy of Parallels, since that seemed promising, with the Mac. Only after doing the initial MBP setup did I fully research everything.
I found out Adobe will let me run in only OS X OR Windows not both. Since I'm not going Mac Pro for awhile that forces me to run LR2 & CS4 in Windows on my MBP. Since this might be done on week to month trips with the laptop my thought is to install Boot Camp with just my photo apps and 50% more space in a Boot Camp partition and run them that way. My data will be on Quad interface drives that I plan on accessing through ec34 eSATA card. I'll install Parallels perhaps, but don't plan on letting it touch my BC partition. I'll use the OS X with Paragon NTFS for all other non photo related work, i.e. stuff I do not also do concurently. Does that seem the optimum approach?
If the MBP turns out as well as Apple says I'll plan for a long term software/hardware transition to an iCore7 based Mac Pro in the future with my Mac Book Pro heling smooth the transition.

Nobody's answered in a year -- giving up.

Boot Camp XP Installation **** -- Any Useful Comments Appreciated

I've spent *three days* trying to get an NTFS install of XP SP2 on to my Mac Pro.
I'm going to pains-takingly list what I've done, in the hope that someone might see where I'm going wrong.
First off, I did not use Boot Camp to partition the disk (sse below).
The basic problem is that when I use Boot Camp to partition the disk, after copying the files, the options for reformatting the BOOTCAMP partition as NTFS / FAT32 / Leave Intact are never presented.
The install just goes straight to copying files (to the un-bootable FAT32 partition created by Boot Camp). Result? "Disk Error" on re-boot after copying files.
So far, the only way I've got around this is by using Lily Bolero's suggestion in *this thread*
This worked for me, but you'll only get a max. 32 GB FAT32 partition, no NTFS.
The obvious route for me to take would be to pre-format the partitions as NTFS bootable before installing XP.
So, I got a copy of *Paramount NTFS 6.5*. This allows the formatting of NTFS disks from within Disk Utility and read-write from MacOS X. It's a lot of money for a little utility, but I'm at the end of my tether (The free MacFUSE / NTFS-3g combo. didn't work for me).
Using Disk Utility.app, I created a 64GB NTFS partition on one of my 320GB disks and Set it to Master Boot Record (Windows bootable). The rest I left as HFS+.
Win XP installation proceeds fine, I see my 64GB NTFS partition, I select it, then this odd message occurs:
+"Windows needs to copy some set-up files to the disk at disk0 9555600MB, but this disk does not contain any partitions that Windows can recognize. Please create a partition..."+ (or somesuch).
That's my OS X documents disk, 1 partition HFS+ formatted, in Bay 1. So, I decide to comply, and make a small NTFS (MBR) partition on that disk. Reinstall windows, select my 64GB NTFS (MBR) partition. Files are copied...progress as normal...Windows is restarting...
"Disk Error. Press any key to restart..." But I've made the partition bootable!
I've had a look at the small partition that I created on disk0, and it contains four files: boot.ini, bootsect.dos, NTDETECT.COM and ntdlr.
Something tells me that boot.ini should be on the same disk as my Windows install... why would the installer create another partition, on another disk?
Any pointers gratefully received...

<Edited by Moderator>
it gets worse.
I've realized that Windows expects to be installed on HD 0 (the master drive), hence the odd error message about needing to write files...
However, I tried this -- first by creating an NTFS partition on drive 0 -- installation went as planned, but when it restarted I got the 'Press any key to boot from the CD....' and it just hung there. It didn't go on to start up from the Windows installation.
However, I did now have a Windows partition with all the installed files on it... so I set that to be the startup drive. All it produced was a blinking white cursor.
So, I tried partitioning with Boot Camp, (In case those odd 200MB & 128MB partitions that it creates were doing some magic) and then set the partition created by Boot Camp to be NTFS.
Exactly the same result.

Boot Camp + Parallels 5

I just installed Windows 7 in boot camp, everything worked well there, but when I boot into OS X the Boot Camp drive is not even visible, and I would like to use it with Parallels. I try to go into Disk Utility and mount it but it doesn't mount either. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Have you seen this thread...maybe something there:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10273760&#10273760
Do a search as well if you have time, as there have been other similar threads recently.

Windows, Boot Camp & Parallels. Are 2 activations needed?

If I want to be able to choose to either boot directly into XP or instead use XP in a Parallels window, should I install XP first (using Boot Camp) and then install Parallels, which will likely ask for the XP activation key? I have a brand new XP sp2 disc so I should have two activation chances.
If I install and activate XP in Parallels, so I need to set up a Boot Cam partition first?
Ia there is no way to accomplish this using only one activation key?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Click here for information. These were found by searching Google, not the Apple Discussions; in the second case, the search query 'VMware "Boot Camp" activation' was used.
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Boot Camp: Windows installation never begins -- Error message: No boot disk

Ran Boot Camp:
-Partitioned HD for Windows
-Put my Windows XP Professional disk in (yes, it is an original, genuine, and completely separate [not bundled] disk...is it SP2? I dunno...it says 2002? Anyway, I don't know if that's the problem)
-The Mac starts to reboot, but...
-It EJECTS the Windows disk
-Then says in dos-looking font, something like: No boot disk attached, insert disk and press any key when ready.
-I press a whole lotta keys. I put all kinds of discs in there. Nothing works.
Already checked boot camp manual and help -- said to try to re-partition. Did that. Nada.
Any help?

jsml wrote:
Ran Boot Camp:
-Partitioned HD for Windows
-Put my Windows XP Professional disk in (yes, it is an original, genuine, and completely separate [not bundled] disk...is it SP2? I dunno...it says 2002?
From the MS website:
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Release Date: August 25, 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389
I suspect you do not have the SP2 version if your disk is from 2002.
That would be the problem.

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