Boot camp priority problem on start-up

Hi,
I am using late 2012 macbook pro with i7 2.9 Ghz. but not retina display. Operating system is 10.8.2.
I needed to use windows 7, so I decided to boot camp my macbook.
I am successful to install win7, everything works correctly.
But when I shut down or restart my macbook it is automatically opening with windows.
When I choose the start-up disk from system preferences, There is nothing to choose, empty.
So everytime I have to open my mac with pressing the option key, it makes me crazy.
I verify and repair both disks from disk utility, but nothing has changed.
Do you guys, any suggestions to give?
Thanks,

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Boot camp, trackpad problem with windows 8.1

Hello everyone,
I started to use windows 8.1 on my mac pro (13-inch, retina, late 2013)
The problem is that none of the trackpad gestures are working.
My keyboard lighting also does not work. My all drivers are installed and up to date.
How can I fix this problem?

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1. Control Panel -> Boot Camp -> Trackpad tab. Here is an example.
2. You have two different drivers.
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- It says Up to date and I've reinstalled the device to fix the problem, it did not work
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Boot camp upgrade problem from 3.0 to 3.1

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I have a macbook pro 2.66 dual duo with 4 gig of ram and OS X 10.6 latest update. I started Boot Agent and created the parition and then installed windows 7. That would be I think boot camp 3.0
After I boot into Windows 7, which it does work, I downloaded and tried to do the 3.1 upgrade, but I get a stupid error that 3.0 is not installed.
I did put in the OS X disk while in windows 7 and installed Boot Camp there too.
I get this error when I try to run the BootCamp3.132-bit.exe
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DynamicSig[24].Value=0a9e
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Hello guys !
I really need some help ! Im a totally amateur with mac and still pretty new to it and anyways and im pretty noob with these things, so dont go harsh on me.
So I have bootcamp, windows 7 installed in my macbook pro retina 15' and everything was good, untill I tried to resize the partition of the boot camp!!! I had only 4gb available on the windows so I wanted more space. I went to the disk utility and created some space for the windows by shrinking the mac's hard a bit and then switched to windows and tried to do it by a program called '' AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager'' and the machine restarted and everything seem to go well untill almost at the end of the installation the problem occured some kind of an error I dont remember anymore and then I restarted my computer and pressed the alt button and I had still there the windows option the available, but when I enter it nothing happens and then occurs text '' system operating file missing '' ??? So what can I do? Have I lost all of my files that were on windows 7? is there anyway to get them back and if so how? Please guys I really need help, I have very important files that I need ASAP !!! I might lose my job, if I will lose them, so please help me ! I havent done any back up to the windows? Is there anything I could do anymore to get the partition and the files back? I tried to repair the partition from disk utility, but this what happened :
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Please guys help me out ! what can I do? I tried to google something but really couldnt find anything,
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You have to install the drivers yourself with either a 10.6 install dvd or from a download choice when starting the Boot Camp installation.
After installing Windows, install Mac-specific drivers and other software for Windows using your Mac OS X installation disc.
The Mac OS X disc installs drivers to support Mac components, including AirPort, built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function keys on an Apple keyboard.
The Mac OS X disc also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item.
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If you can’t find the CD, DVD, or external disk with the support software you downloaded, open Boot Camp Assistant and download the software again.
You can quit the assistant after you save the software without creating a new partition.
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Please help with my Boot Camp/Windows problems

I need to install windows on to my iMac to continue a course I’m taking at uni. Sadly it’s been a nightmare so far.
I backed up all of my data and opened Boot Camp Assistant and tired to partition a section of my hard drive for windows. However it gave me an error each time I tired. After asking around I was told to buy idefrag and that should fix the problem - it didn’t. I was then told to format the hard disk and reinstall OSX. I did that and Boot Camp was now happy to partition my hard drive.
I insert a copy of legitimate copy of Windows 7 Professional (x64) and clicked the Install Windows button when Boot Camp prompted me to.
Windows installation menus open after a quick restart but quickly tells me it cant see any partitions/drives to install on.
I googled the problem read that the partition should be formatted to NTFS for windows seven to install and that OSX wont do that. I installed a free program called NTFS-3G and that formatted the partition to NTFS.
Windows now saw the drive and went through the installation process. After it has gone through its automated routine it restarts the Mac and takes me to a "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..."
I press Enter and it takes me back to the very first installation menu and restarts the whole thing until it has once again gone through its automated routine and restarted the Mac and told me to press any key.
This happened ever time. During the install I am presented with the options of "Installing Windows" or "repairing windows". When I tried the automatic repair it told me it could find no fault.
So I started again by deleting the partition from within OSX and making a new one and installing windows and restarting but this time remove the windows 7 disk.
All this did was boot the Mac up in OSX. I then restarted the Mac and held down the options key. This presented me with the choice of booting from the Mac HDD or the windows partition. I chose the windows partition and it takes me to a black screen with a flashing line/prompt and does nothing else.
I assumed Windows 7 might not like my Mac for some strange reason so brought a copy of Vista business with SP2 (x86).
I deleting the partition from within OSX and made a new one. I began installing Vista. It told me it could only install on NTFS formatted partitions/drives.
Once again I used NTFS-3G to formatted the partition to NTFS and relaunced vista.
It installed fine and restarted itself. Once again it took me back to the first installation screen just as windows 7 did. I tried restarting without the disk (hold options again) and it took me back to the black screen with the flashing line and sat there forever.
I restarted the Mac with the OSX 10.6.1 install disk in the drive and it booted up ignoring the disk. I launched the disk from desk top and looked through the install options hoping to find some drivers or extra installs for boot camp/windows. I couldn’t see anything.
I don’t know what else to try.
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Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac10,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.52f9

Re-read in the PDF guide in Boot Camp Assist where it tells you to format the "BOOTCAMP" FAT volume when in Windows.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
But I have really only one question:
Was this an electronic school download edition? they offer students Windows 7 Pro. If this was an electronic version from school, fine, but it has to be burned at *reduced 2x speed* or it won't work, and can have various (and different for everyone) problems, BUT: it is pretty well known and semi "documented."
You do NOT need NTFS driver. That is totally wrong.
Sorry you bought Vista, I used it but once Windows 7 went Beta and then RC I've used 7 and never looked back (what Vista should/could have been but was not, even with SP2).

Boot camp / partition problems, hard drive damaged?

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Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
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Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
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The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
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Ok, that seemed to work for part of the problem.
It repaired the disk but whenever I run boot camp it keeps throwing up that crash screen and i have to go through the process of repairing the disk again.
I've ran boot camp with no other programs running in the background or open and without disturbing it while it's allocating the partition and it still crashes.
Any ideas how to get it working?
Heres the crash report
Fri May 30 00:22:56 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0031D1B3): "hfs_lock: locking against myself!"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.3.13/bsd/hfs/hfs_cnode.c:986
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x3d2476d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x3d24770c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x3d247728 : 0x31d1b3 (0x483cc0 0x0 0x3d247758 0x1f0d72)
0x3d247758 : 0x31db5b (0x5399ae0 0x3 0x0 0x4384804)
0x3d247848 : 0x1f2e30 (0x3d247860 0x0 0x3d247888 0x1f4d49)
0x3d247888 : 0x1da8f0 (0xa1f25a0 0x4a09ca4 0x38ed58 0x0)
0x3d2478a8 : 0x1da95d (0xa1f25a0 0x0 0x246 0x49e1500)
0x3d2478c8 : 0x3346c6 (0xa1f25a0 0x68000 0x57bbee0 0x49e1500)
0x3d247bc8 : 0x334a22 (0x4a09ca4 0x17f7fff 0x3e616c 0x0)
0x3d247c58 : 0x32bc00 (0x4384804 0xf8000000 0x17 0x4a09ca4)
0x3d247cd8 : 0x1f5039 (0x3d247d08 0x0 0x3d247cf8 0x0)
0x3d247d38 : 0x1e7e0c (0x4381c70 0x80006802 0x3d247ee0 0x0)
0x3d247f78 : 0x3dbe77 (0x49e1500 0x4a09ba0 0x4a09be4 0xb0080d78)
0x3d247fc8 : 0x19f084 (0x46543a0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x46543a0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb0080d88
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DiskManagementTo
Mac OS version:
9C31
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)

After using VMware once, boot camp partition fails to start up

Start up repair also failed.
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Actually for me it worked perfectly under Vista Ultimate x64, and yes I do actually get an error it's error -2147467259 (unspecified error)
Compatibility mode does not work as the new "Hack Shield" prevents this....it thinks I wanna hack the game and just says maplestory will not start in compatibility mode.
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EDIT: Forgot to say, all the drivers work fine. What bugs me though is that it works in VMware..
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I recently received my Intel-based 20" iMac yesterday and this morning I set it up and transfered all of my files from my old Windows XP computer successfully. I then played around with the iLife suite and a few other programs and decided I should probably run Boot Camp and set up Windows for a few Windows-based programs I need and some games that are Windows only.
I started to look up Boot Camp on the Apple website, then realized iMacs that came with Leapord pre-installed should already have Boot Camp on them. I searched in Spotlight for "Boot camp" and found the "Boot Camp Assistant." I thought that was close enough, so I started the application up.
First, it told me I needed to partition my hard drive and create a space for Windows. I figured I would have only a few esential programs on it, so I opted for a partion of about 10-12 GB if I remember correctly. The installer then told me to insert my Windows disc and I then put in my Windows XP SP1 installation CD. It read it, shutdown, then booted back up into what I recognized as the Windows setup screen.
It went through the normal setup steps, until it got to a point where it asked what partition I should install Windows on. There was only one partition listed, so obviously I chose that one, but what was weird was the partition said it was over 100,000 MB, which is not the 10 GB I told it to partition. I got scared when it told me it would have to format the partition since it wasn't suitable for a Windows installation yet. I figured it wouldn't hurt to recheck the amount I partitioned, so I quit out of the Windows installer.
Next, my Mac restarted and went to the infamous white screen of death.
I have tried basically every single way to fix this.
I tried:
Alt - Option - PR (Reset the PRam) And waited for both 2, 3, 4, and 5 dings
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Option
Shift (Safe Mode)
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D
C
None of these worked. Sorry if my key abbreviations are off, by the way, because I'm writing this on a Windows laptop and I haven't gotten the keys down for Macs yet.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Apple call support is curretly closed, at least in my timezone. I'll probably try calling them tomorrow, but mostly I'm afraid of having to get a whole new harddrive and/or iMac. I haven't backed up my data anywhere yet (this is just my first day with the Mac) so if I lose the data, there goes upwards of a few thousand dollars in music and other data expenses.
Thanks in advance for ideas, I'll try anything you throw at me now, as long it doesn't void the warranty or involve formatting my hard drive. (Though if you know a way to format my hard drive AND save my data, that would be even better)

All the data that you transfered to the iMac should still be on the PC which originally contained the content. Transferring to the Mac is in reality only copying.
A Boot Camp Windows installation requires Windows SP2 only;
To use Boot Camp, you need:
1. An Intel-based Macintosh computer with a built-in or USB keyboard and a built-in trackpad or USB mouse.
2. Mac OS X 10.5 or later
3. The latest firmware updates available for your Intel-based Mac.
4. At least 10 GB of free space on your startup disk (single partition).
5. A full, single-disc version of Windows Vista, Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later. Boot Camp does not include Windows. You must provide your own properly licensed installation disc.
  Important: A Windows XP installation disc must include Service Pack 2 (SP2). You cannot install an earlier version of Windows and upgrade to Windows XP, nor install an earlier version of Windows XP and update it to SP2. 
6. Boot Camp Assistant (find it installed in /Applications/Utilities/ on Leopard).
Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & Windows, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forums are at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology. Here is a link;
Boot Camp: Installation and Storage

I've installed windows in boot camp, how do i start windows

I've Installed windows xp prof. with boot camp and now I'm not sure how to start windows.

A successfully install should have booted directly to windows. If not restart and hold down the option key and select the windows partition to boot from that.
Also make sure to insert your leopard disc to install all the drivers as well as the bootcamp utility to switch from one OS to the other.

Boot camp assistant problems: please help!

ok, so i was running boot camp assistant on my macbook pro (13 inch) and everything was going fine. But when it was partitioning a space for the windows portion it never showed the bootcamp partition icon to the right on my desktop. I didn't know this was a problem until I tried to install the windows on my computer and it would not work because apparently it does not have the ntfs format. I tried it again two more times, both with no applications running. Is there something I am doing wrong?

You should post in the Bootcamp forum where the Bootcamp gurus hang out.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
EDIT
Once again I am thwarted by my slow typing. Follow the advice of rkaufmann87
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Used Boot Camp, iMac doesn't start

Hello everyone!
I have got a iMac Core 2 Duo. I tried to install Windows XP with Boot Camp yesterday. When I went threw the installation steps, it asked me how much space I would like to put on the Windows partition. I left it as it was, 32gb. When I put in my Win XP disc, the computer restarted itself and started to install something (blue screen, white text at the down side). When I later would choose a partition to install Windows, there only was 1 partition, the Macintosh-one. I couldn't install on it, because it told me that the partition is damaged or has another file format. I pushed F3 and quit the windows-installation. When my computer restarted, there was only a white screen and nothing happend, OSX didnt load!
I have tried putting in the OSX install disc and restarting computer, nothing happened, still just a white monitor!! I cant do anything, even move the mouse! What should I do? Please help!
Vad ska jag göra?
iMac Core 2 Duo 20" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Not to be bearer of bad news, but you may need to contact Apple on this one. Some folks have reported this similar experience and needed a new hard drive.
Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows XP & Vista.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & XP & Vista, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forum is at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology.
Here is a link;
Forum: Boot Camp Public Beta
If there is a way out of this that you can accomplish at home those folks will be able to assist you with the information. Try searching that forum for folks with the same/similar issue.
Good luck!

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File a bug report with Apple.

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First I tried repairing with the Mac disk, then I tried different Real Tek drivers, then I tried uninstalled and reinstalling the game. None of that worked. Finally, I nuked the partition and did a clean install. The first thing I installed was BF2. Guess what. SAME EXACT PROBLEM. Audio cut out about 10 minutes in. In game VOIP was fine but all other audio was gone.
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What anti-virus solution are you running in Windows?
Users have experienced crashes and blue screens of death from Norton products. Norton has resolved these issues in their 2009 product line. I would only recommend Norton 2009 products, Kaspersky, and AVG for anti-virus solutions.
Have you formatted your Windows partition as NTFS, or has it been formatted as Fat 32?
Fat 32 will not handle file sizes of 3.5 GB or larger, and, overall, it seems to always cause issues.
Have you tried a SMC reset?
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