Boot Camp Problem:Where is that Boot Camp Assistant

I just finished installing window 7 64 bit and put the serial key. (I started up Window 7 for 1st time)(I was able to access both mac and windows)
But when i take a look in my window, i did not find the Boot Camp Assistant(Which is supposed to be in the taskbar)
Can anyone help me with this?
Problem:Can not find boot camp assisstant on the taskbar in Window 7(Which should be, since my friends has it) nor in the control panel.
I also cannot see the Mac Drive for some reason(I used my friend boot camp to referance this)

Bootcamp Assistant is what you used to create the Bootcamp partition. It will not show up in Windows. If you mean the Boocamp Control Panel, did you install the Windows Support software?
You should visit the Bootcamp Forum https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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3 yr old macbook pro boot up problems

Hi, I bought a 13” macbook pro 3 yrs ago.. Its running the latest version of Lion.
I have a boot up problem.
Initially the boot up sound will go off and get stuck on a white screen.
I’ve left it on for 30mins….it took me to a disk disk utility screen…
I’ve clicked on repair disk….after about 15mins
Its saids
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Invalid B-tree node size
The volume could not be verified completely
Then I restart….now… not only does it get suck on the white screen, but the boot up sound keeps repeating
Im currently living in Hong Kong, what should I do now, and if it requires repairs…how much would It cost.
Thanks,
WB

I don't know what happened. It is not a common occurrence. It can be caused by power outages, abnormal shutdowns, software glitches, etc.
I would think seriously about a backup strategy for the future:
Basic Backup
Get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
SuperDuper!
Synk Pro
Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete external drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.

64-bit Windows 7 on Boot Camp Problem

I recently got my new Macbook Pro, 15" with Intel i7 inside. I installed Windows 7 64-bit in it through Boot Camp right after I got it.
However, after installation, I found my Mac system takes far longer time to boot up than as before (Well, that "far longer" actually means around 20 seconds more than original). Some of my friends told me this could be handled if I totally remove the Windows partition and work on Mac only. However, I purchased lots of software in Windows, abandoning it would mean huge losses to me. Could anyone help me with this?
Besides, while running Windows 7, the OS seems to be quite unstable. First, the computer gets overheated easily; second, the system crashes quite frequently - not a blue screen, but instead, everything stops running and I could not even move my mouse, like what WinXP used to do. I actually just came back from Windows 7 from that problem -- I could only press and hold the power button to shut it down before I could do anything with my computer... So sad...
I'm running Boot Camp 3.1, so probably it's about updating the program.
Could anyone help me? I'd be so grateful for the help. Thank you

Thanks for your answering. I know Windows 7 could be stable, rock solid, for I've been using that OS on the laptop I once had before getting the new mac.
I'll try to search for some new updates for my hardware later and then try if things will be better.
Besides, I noticed that you're running Windows 7 and Mac OS X as well, do you also encounter problem of having the boot up time of Mac OS, too? I mean, it will stay longer at the point where the screen is white all over with the apple logo shown.
In addition, I also had some problems with switching between the two OS's. When I pressed the power button on the computer, I should also press and hold "option" until Boot Camp shows up the two OS's for me to select, right? However, this worked for me before, but recently, I found it really hard to do that: when I press and hold "option", the screen will keep white, and nothing will ever show up, unless I press the power button again to shut it down... Do you have any ideas about this kind of situation?

More boot camp problems new 5k imac 3 tera fusion drive

there seems to be problems with Yosemite and boot camp assistant
i'm cross posting this to the iMac forum but I spent hours online with apple tech today and none of the several foks I talked to there had even seen a 5k 27" yet and my call back from Cupertino and engineering is no till tomorrow so I thought I should post here too
MMy bto 5k shipped from China sunday night and arrived in Maine this morning.... Amazing when you think about it for a bto
iinstallation and set up we're going fine and I started up boot camp assistant to create a temp boot camp while I wait for my thunder bay 4 box to take the drives for my old Mac pro when boot camp will have a1 tera SSD all to itself....
so carved off a 700 gig boot camp partition which the assistant formatted fat I then plugged is the lighting to FW adapter in a LaCie 2 tera fw 800 drive to act as a bridge to my LaCie DVD burner which uses the old fw400 cables and inserted my new shrink wrap win 8.1 retail 64 DVD and up comes the win 8 install in very tiny type in a tiny window which got a bit of a laugh out of me.
And I go through it to the point of selecting that boot camp partition and then said it could not use a fat partition and I should reformat it from the win 8.1 installer which I did and then it said it could not use and unknown partition so I said great and booted back to 10-10 and the boot camp tool to put things back and it said it could not I then went to disk tools and it also said the 3tera fusion could not be either reformatted or put back to a single partition I was on with tech support where I went up through 4 levels of support due to the 5k bto which most had no knowledge of. We tried the optioncommand r to get to DT and the same problem as did going to reinstall from the net which after a 30 min down load could not reformat either it is now kicked to Cupertino with a call back tomorrow
( At this point all I want to do is put the computer back in the condition it was in when i started with a plain Yosemite on an unpartitioned 3 tera fusion... Then deal with boot camp when it can have its own drive)
am betting it will take a Unix comand line to reformat but be aware there may be boot camp issues with my configuration
and any help here will be great fully received

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         2.3 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         708.1 GB   disk1s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s5
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *2.4 TB     disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                 B413D0D6-817A-438A-B60A-CAE9B7AC4703
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 ABOOTCAMP               15.6 GB    disk3s1
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            IR3_CCSA_X64FRE_EN-... *4.1 GB     disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data Union                   500.1 GB   disk5s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Shimmo                  499.6 GB   disk5s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk5s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Orange                  500.1 GB   disk5s5
   6:                  Apple_HFS Newcastle               499.4 GB   disk5s6
Ls-iMac:~
and
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 1869B0B4-B850-413D-8726-41934602250B
|   =========================================================
|   Name:         Macintosh HD
|   Status:       Online
|   Size:         2412498640896 B (2.4 TB)
|   Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 7F622DCA-6D45-4940-BE17-893BB57CF948
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    0
|   |   Disk:     disk0s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 50B22A72-6463-4CEA-9189-C708884DF658
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    1
|   |   Disk:     disk1s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     2291509788672 B (2.3 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Logical Volume Family 9064DC1E-5E23-4887-9B99-46507C4A15AF
|       ----------------------------------------------------------
|       Encryption Status:       Unlocked
|       Encryption Type:         None
|       Conversion Status:       NoConversion
|       Conversion Direction:    -none-
|       Has Encrypted Extents:   No
|       Fully Secure:            No
|       Passphrase Required:     No
|       |
|       +-> Logical Volume B413D0D6-817A-438A-B60A-CAE9B7AC4703
|           ---------------------------------------------------
|           Disk:                  disk2
|           Status:                Online
|           Size (Total):          2407000178688 B (2.4 TB)
|           Conversion Progress:   -none-
|           Revertible:            No
|           LV Name:               Macintosh HD
|           Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
|           Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 510FD803-3431-4C23-9BAA-1D1CA0C0B065
    =========================================================
    Name:         Winboot
    Status:       Online
    Size:         708089155584 B (708.1 GB)
    Free Space:   707736829952 B (707.7 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 033CEB50-621B-474F-9AB0-D4FC410A9718
        Index:    0
        Disk:     disk1s4
        Status:   Online
        Size:     708089155584 B (708.1 GB)
Ls-iMac:~

How do I burn an .ISO from MSDN that Boot Camp will recognize?

Hello, I have a developers license that allows me to download the Windows 7 installers from the MSDN site in .ISO form. I can't seem to burn any of the installers to a disc that Boot Camp assistant will recognize as an installer DVD.
I have read and followed ALL of the solutions and still can not burn a recognizable disc. I have followed the IMGBURN instructions while in Parallels running Windows too.
Does anyone know how to create a compatible Boot Camp installer disc from the ISO's available on the MSDN network for Windows 7, preferably the 64-bit English Ultimate version?
I have tried the following instructions while in Windows 7 running in Parallels but they are either inaccurate or poorly written. If you have used these instructions with success, please translate into plain english because it just doesn't work in the VM I used.
1. Insert Windows Install disc into DVD drive
2. Using the build mode of imgburn, go to the advanced tab, then bootable disc and then select your DVD folder +--(saw that correction)+ in the extract boot image drop down list . Go ahead and extract the boot image and store it somewhere on your hard drive +(where is the extract button?)+
3. Go to the information tab and add your DVD drive as the source file
4. Options tab, check that file system is ISO9660 + IDF and UDF revision is 1.02 (should be anyway by default)
5. Go to Advanced tab, sub tab Restrictions and further sub tab ISO9660: Set Folder / File length to Level X and tick the four check boxes at the bottom (allow more than 8 directory levels, Allow more than 255 characters in path, Allow files without Extensions, Don’t Add ‘;1’ Version number to Files. (Note it’s this bit that actually solves the problem the rest is effectively just duplicating the existing disc)
6. Move to the bootable disc tab: Click the tick box to make the image bootable, emulation type to “none (custom)” and the browse and select the boot image you previously extracted from the windows disc. Finally set Sectors to load to 4.
7. Click the big create iso button to create the bootable iso. +(there is no big 'create' button, there is a build button though)+
8. And use that iso to burn a new install disc.
--THANKS, searching for the solution.

When I had boot issues with CDs, I would use BCD and create a bootable disc rather quickly. http://www.nu2.nu/bcd/ I can't verify that it works with Vista or Win 7, but you'd have to try it yourself. Very easy to use and hadn't failed me in the past.

Urgent Boot Camp Problem

On my dad's iMac computer I have downloaded the Windows 7 32 Bit Beta from the Microsoft website and successfully burned it to a disc. I then went to partition his HD which worked fine. After that, I was prompted to insert the install CD (it was the disc that I burned the Windows 7 files to) so I did. Shortly after, the error message: "no device drivers were found, make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and click OK".
Now, I'm puzzled what to do at this part. The guide I'm reading (http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/15/using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-you r-mac-the-complete-walkthrough/) contains nothing on what to do if this problem comes up, in fact it has no steps, or nothing even regarding this issue.
So, I'm confused, what do I do?
ALRIGHT: Now, apparently when I held down X st startup to boot into Mac, a screen comes up asking me what do I want to boot into, and it only says Windows [EMS Enabled] what's happened?!
Thanks in advance,
Keith

Thanks for the quick reply. Now, I wasn't given an option was to where to install it. Here's what happened:
1) I opened Boot Camp, and allocated 32 GB to Windows.
2) My dad's computer partitioned successfully with no problems at all.
3) I was prompted to put the installation disc in so I did, and click Start Install.
4) The computer then restarted, and automatically booted into Windows (it said loading Windows files) and then I was taken to a screen to choose my language and everything.
5) I left the options at default (it was set to English, US) and then I clicked next. Then I was taken to the screen were I received the device driver error message.
Bottom line, I was never given an option as to where to install Windows 7. Further more, other forums have said that it's been done quite successfully. Also, it was my understanding that Boot Camp does not yet support 64 bit operating systems, so I downloaded the 32 bit version.
So, I don't think I could have accidentally written it over the Mac OS X partition, as I was never even given the option to write it anywhere. The only reason I had to stop was because of the driver issue. Now I'd just like to know how to boot back up into OS X please, and if that's gone, how do I install OS X again?
I have the OS X install discs ready. He'll probably freak when I tell him his computer was gone (seeing as he was not able to back it up onto an external HD, he does not have one.)
Thanks so much for the help.

Boot Camp problem + General partitioning

First, the Boot Camp problem
I don't know exactly how to explain, but I kind of made the partition and restored them into one single startup disk, for several times. It was OK for the first few times, but then it required me to run Disk Utility (from startup) to repair the disk before I can partition. It happened for one time. But after that, it started to ask me to back up the hard disk, format it, and restore it, then try Boot Camp again. So, the ending of the story is I can never do boot camp again now because I wouldn't waste at least 70 quid for a hard disk large enough to back up solely because I need to run Boot Camp. Is there anybody here know why this is happening? And, eventually I think I'd have to buy an external drive and back up, format, restore, then run Boot Camp. But doesn't it sound dumb and familiar? This is exactly the ONE AND ONLY way to fix any problems in a PC. Aren't macs supposed to be far better than PCs? Why do we have to do what PC users have to painfully do? I hope somebody here can come up with a solution that doesn't involve "backup>format>restore".
Second, the partitioning,
I came up with an idea to solve the above problem. But I don't know whether it actually works, so I'm seeking for advice. I was hoping if I run Disk Utility from start up, make two partitions (or more) for the mac HD, one HD being the one holding all the data, and the remaining being empty. Then I can format the empty one (which seems rather redundant), and do the Boot Camp thing on this partition. However, there are two points I have doubts with. One, if I split my current single mac HD into multiples of partitions, will any or even all my data be lost? Because I can only specify how much to partition, I wouldn't have the chance to "tell" the computer to keep all existing data on one partition. Two, I know that Boot Camp can run on an external HD, so is it possiible to run on a different partition?

Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows XP.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & XP, 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

Boot Camp Problems: Disc Error?

Hi All,
I hope this is in the right forum, if not - I'm sorry!
Have just tried to install XP Pro using Boot Camp, on a 20Gb Partition. Boot Camp created the partition smoothly, and XP installed all of the set-up files onto the new partition.
When it come to restarting the machine however, I had the option of booting from disc again - after that option times out, I get a message "Disc read Error" or something along those lines.
I do have the option of restarting by hitting any key, however the system just freezes!
Does anyone have any solutions to this problem?
Also, should Flight Simulator 2004 run smoothly on Boot Camp running XP?
Your help is much appreciated!
Simon.

I just spent the weekend dealing with this.
Credit to this Austrian guy diagonalinho who posted this in a different thread. I had a little trouble understanding his instructions (looks like English is not his first language) so I am posting the summary that I wrote for another person having the same problem. Credit goes to diagonalinho though.
First, I think someone already mentioned that the reason you are having the problem is because Boot Camp Assistant formatted the XP partition as FAT32. It needs to be NTFS. Windows Setup is supposed to ask you how to format the new partition (see page 13 of the Boot Camp manual). If your experience is like mine, Windows Setup never asks that question. It simply goes from you selecting the C: drive (Boot Camp manual page 11) to the installation process (a blue screen yellow bar marking progress as things are copied to the partition).
Here is a link to the manual that I'm referring to if you don't have it already: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/BootCampInstall-Setup.pdf
I do not know why the format step is being skipped in some installs but not in all. Call it an "undocumented feature" (e.g., bug).
Here is how to fix it:
Boot Camp Assistant should have instructed you to insert the XP CD in the drive and then it will restart. This is what you want. After some time, you will get a blue screen with white text in the upper left hand corner that says "Windows Setup." On the bottom of the screen there will be some words telling you this and that is loading. Keep an eye on this. It will slowly list a bunch of things that it is loading. Toward the end, it will say something like "Starting Windows Setup." At this point, press and hold the F10 button. Keep holding it until you get a black screen with white text.
You are now in the Recovery Manager. You will be asked what volume you want. The only choice you should have is 1. This is your new Windows partition, it is not your Mac OS partition. YYou may safely type "1" (without quotes) and press return. Then, the prompt will look like this:
C:\WINDOWS\
At the prompt, you type "cd.." (without quotes) and press return, the prompt will now look like this:
C:\
Now, we are going to reformat your windows partition as NTFS. To do so, at the prompt type the following without quotation marks "format c: /fs:ntfs" When typed into the prompt, it will look like this (pay close attention to spacing)
C:\format c: /fs:ntfs
It will give you a warning and ask if you are sure. Type "y" and press return. It will take some time to format and you will see a percentage counter counting up from 1% to 100%. When it is done, you will be back at the C:\ prompt where you will just type "exit" and press return.
Now, Windows Setup should proceed normally.

Boot Camp problems with Windows 7, and a new Macbook Pro

When I try to install Windows 7, when the process is almost complete and Windows is finalizing all settings, the system reboots then gets stuck at the white/gray bootscreen, and then tries to boot from disk, only to repeat the bootscreen cycle indefinitely. How do I fix this? Thank you very much.

My MAC BOOK is 13 inch, first generation of unibody that I bought when it first came out last November, 2009. It seems that the latest boot camp 3.1 does not support windows7 64 bits on my mac book model. I followed Apple instruction to upgrade boot camp 3.0 when running XP 32 bits. And I then upgrade my XP 32 bits to 64 bit Windows 7. The upgrade/installation was successful but I encountered a lot of problems with the mouse and sound.
1. No sound with my new Windows 7 64 bits.
2. I managed to make Windows 7 64 bit recognize my apple mighty mouse. But the mouse does not funtion normal as expected. It does not work with swiping and scrolling.
3. I could not re-install boot camp 3.0 from windows.old nor from the Mac OS X installation disk. When I tried to run setup.exe from the MAC OS X snow leopard, I got the error "Boot camp x64 is unsupported for this model"
I am really disappointed that boot camp 3.1 is not universally supported for all mac book or mac book pro.
I need help to re-install boot camp for my Windows 7? I bought the upgrade through education upgrade program and I selected to get 64 bit version so I do not want to rollback the installation to 32 bit.
Please help.

Annoying Boot Camp problem

Hi there,
I've been a Mac user for a few years but unfortunately it looks as though I may have to install Windows on my MBP, at least temporarily.
So I ran Boot Camp for the first time. I have 65GB free on my hard drive, and want to create a 20GB partition for Windows.
I am getting the error 'Cannot move files' etc... it seems a well documented issue although all posts I seem to find are about a year or so old.
Are there any fixes for this problem, doing the suggested 'erase/restore' that Boot Camp is suggesting would most probably ruin my day. Yes I have all my files on recent backup, but working in graphics/multimedia.. the software suites I use are certainly not the quickest to install and I'd rather spend my afternoon in more creative ways to be honest.
It does seem ironic that every Mac I have had has been absolutely perfect, minor issues along the way but for the most part, excellent. The minute I put a Windows CD anywhere near it... the problems occur.
I appreciate any suggestions here.
Thanks

Have you tried running First Aid to repair? Could be that come file attributes are out of sync and causing this? A repair could remedy it.

Battle Field BC 2 Mac pro boot camp problem

Im very new to boot camp and al of that stuff.
I installed windows 7 on my mac pro, then i installed the snow leopard cd.
Then i installed BFBC2 and when i try to start it up it starts gathering info then one part of my screen goes white and the mouse starts loading then everything goes back to normal and it doesn't start.
I wonder if there is any drivers i have to install or something i forgot to do.
Please help me!

32-bit limits your RAM and with 1GB ATI 57x0 that does matter, but if you bought retail, you have both, though many just opt for System Builder which is half the price (and have SP1 now already).
Realtek Drivers
AMD_ATI Drivers Software

Boot Camp Problem. Won't recognize 10 gb free space. HELP!

I recently came to the conclusion that all pc games will only run well through boot camp. I've opend the app before and have played with it before but not acctualy run the whole thing with it. I open up the application and hit continue and select the windows support software download and hit continue. A small messsage pops up saying I don't have at least 10 gb free, even though I have 20 gb free. Please help!
Thanks

Free, contiguous, unfragmented, AND your OS X HFS+ needs 10-20%, 20GB of free space, left.
The minimum for XP may be 10GB, but the minimum for Windows 7, which is all that Boot Camp 4.0 Lion supports, is more like 48GB.
Upgrading to SP1 and all the other patches can require 9GB free temp space.
your page should be 4-8GB
hibernation file would be 4GB or whatever RAM you have installed
Windows cache can take 1-3GB
A 48GB partition is probably reasonable size - the minimum that Apple and MS list of 20GB is way too small and does cause nothing but trouble.
Apple Boot Camp Support
Boot Camp 4.0, OS X Lion: Frequently asked questions
create a Windows support software (drivers) CD or USB storage media

HT1461 after partitioning and hitting continue I get a message stating that boot camp stopped unexpectedly. Can not get passed this despite several attempts.

I am attempting to install Windows 7 and have launched Boot Camp. When I get to the screen that has me partitioning, when I submit continue I receive a message stating that Boot Camp has unexpectantly stopped. My options are to cancel, reopen, or report error. I have attempted this set-up several times without success. Any suggestions are most appreciated.

Windows will not boot from USB if the Mac has an internal optical drive. This is something that Microsoft implemented.

Problems installing Windows with Boot Camp

Hello,
i am having this strange issue with boot camp. i have my windows 7 install dvd and go through all the standard boot camp procedure's, but once its finished partitioning the disk and restarts it just opens up to the apple logo on a grey screen, no spining logo, no status bar, nothing! ive left it for 6 hours on this screen 2-3 times now and nothing is happening. when i turn off and on again it just goes to a black screen telling me to install a bootable device and press any key. BUT THE INSTAL DISC IS IN!!! its driving me insane!
windows was burned to a dvd using disc aid and the .iso copied over fine and was verified and everything. the machine im trying to get this to run on is a 15 mbp 2.66 i7. the optical drive has been replaced with a 120gb ssd and there is a 1tb internal sitting in the hdd bay. i dont know if that has any relavance to this issue? i boot osx 10.7 (mountain lion) off the ssd and am trying to boot camp my hdd, but that couldent cause issues could it?
ive had a look around the other disscussions and fourums for 4 days now and i think i have seen nearly every bootcamp related youtube video there is! AND IT STILL DOSENT WORK!
if any one has ANY idea or sugesstion on how i can rectify this issue it would be greatly appriceated.
thanks for your time!
Harry.

"You can't do both boot drive and storage drive on the same drive.
A boot drive requires (all data off first) it to be formatted GUID and OSX Extended Journaled, then OS X installed, then option key at boot to select that HD OS X boot drive, then BootCamp proceedure ran and install into the partition it creates on the HD."
THANKS AGAIN, i think im getting closer to a solution, i really dident think that simple old bootcamp could become so complicated!.
so i couldent (boot off the ssd as normal) and then create a seperate partition on the hdd of about 30gb, install osx on it, boot from that (with the optical bay back inside), create a thrid partition on the hdd via bootcamp then instal windows?
its just that erasing and reformating the hdd sounds a bit scary, its taken months of getting the permissions and fixing rouge ubd processes all right so everything works perfectly and seamlessly together with the ssd+hdd combo
"You can replace the data back into OS X on the HD and use that as extra storage, but your main use OS X user(s) needs to remain on the boot SSD.
To do this you need to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X boot partition of the SSD to the blank/empty of data HD, this will copy all the Users accounts accuratly so you can access them from the SSD.
As you can see here, I can access the same user folders of my cloned partition from the original partition, no "-" minus signs on the folders as I'm the exact same user.
I am currently booted into Macintosh HD and accessing my same named user folder on the clone on Macintosh HD 2.
So basically OS X on HD will become your new "Storage Drive"
this is pretty much exactly how im set up at the moment! with the user account and applications on the SSD and libarys like iphoto, itunes etc are on the HDD and i symlinked some others like the downloads off to the hdd aswell.
thanks for your help again, ive given you some more stars for your time!
Harry.

I can't boot from the windows cd with boot camp

I got Vista up and running via boot camp but now I have a problem that could cause some issues. How the **** do you boot from a windows cd with boot camp!?!? When I stick in the windows based CD (could be the vista install CD -after vista's been installed of course- or a Windows home server restore cd) and hold down the option key I chose to boot from the CD in the menu then the screen goes black as it should and then it says press any key to boot from cd or dvd..... It gives me 5 seconds to press a key and then it conintues to boot into Vista. The thing is when it asks me to press any key I press any and all keys on the keyboard and I get no response and it just boots into vista. This can be quite a problem, what if I need to restore vista via the install CD? I can't chose to boot from it cause everytime it asks me to none of my key presses register. So everytime I have a problem I won't be able to restore or even diagnose it, I'll just have to reinstall vista? I don't think I can even bring up the safe mode or anything like this. The keyboard won't work until I reach the password screen of Vista. I've also tried plugging in a USB keyboard to it and it still doesn't work. So basically I need to know how to make the keyboard work before Vista loads.

Ok, well I just tried booting from the windows cd and it seems that I lied to ya It seems that you can boot from it. Although I only took it to the point I was comfortable with. The boot resulted in it asking me to install windows and I didn't see any partitions listed or anything, so I chickened out (so to speak) not wanting to take the chance of my Leopard installation getting screwed up.
It's been a quite some time since I used the Vista boot disc and can't really remember how it went when I used it in conjunction with boot camp beta. Sorry can't give you anymore information.

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