Boot Camp related failure

While trying to install Windows, I had some strange problems related to the partitioning. (a link to my last post detailing my problems is below) Today I backed up my harddrive and reinstalled OS X. Nothing changed in the Windows installer. And so I chose the only option available, and formatted the HD from the installer. It didn't work out, and now I cannot boot into anything. If I insert my Windows disk and hold down the option key, I can see where I should select it, but cannot. The eject key appears to be working, but the mouse and keyboard are otherwise inactive (I grabbed another computer and tried using Target-disk mode, but all that appeared was a grey screen). When I inserted the Leopard install CD, nothing appeared.
I believe that I didn't use a correct version of Windows, as detailed here (I requested the CD from work, as they wanted me to have Windows for the occasional Application, but I now think that the CD they gave me was a site license or an academic license): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306580
I will call Apple support tomorrow (it's already closed for the nighe), but I was wondering if anyone here knew how to fix it.
Old problem: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1590267&tstart=0
Thanks!

http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp_Update_2_1_for_Windows_Vista32
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1845
Do you have 10.5.5 DVD or later? you may not need 2.1, and it was a two step update, first to update Apple Software Update itself to 2.x, then to update other components.
Some programs like iTunes, Safari 4 beta and others include an Apple Software Update (and cannot be not installed, it gets installed regardless of choosing not to).
Some problems can be related to default language settings.

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Boot Camp Update failure

Hello good people, hopefully someone can help.
Issue: Boot Camp Update 2.1 failing to install.
I recently did an erase and install on my MacBook. I have run through the steps provided by the installation guide (http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/). I then went to the Apple Software Update program within Windows Vista Ultimate (32bit), selected Boot Camp Update and selected Install 1 item. I then selected Boot Camp Update Download Only from the Tools drop down menu. I then opened the Open Downloaded Updates Folder...selected the downloaded file and selected Apply. that procedure produced a system restart. Restared and tried again, same result.
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http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp_Update_2_1_for_Windows_Vista32
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1845
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Solution to Boot Camp partition failure due to: "some files can't be moved"

I have had problems getting boot camp to partition my drive, reporting that
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can't be moved." Solutions offered involve either backing up your entire drive and restoring it (SuperDuper), or defragging with commercial software (iDefrag).
This solution does not require a spare external drive, nor commercial software.
1) Using Disk Utility, shrink your main drive by the desired windows partition size. Click the Physical Drive, select the Partition tab, and resize the main partition by dragging the corner of the graphical partition representation. Click apply. This operation may take a long time, because it moves all the files at the end of the drive to other places on the drive.
Even though you now have free space at the end of the drive, Boot Camp Assistant will not use it (it wants to resize your main partition).
2) Now use Disk Utility to expand the main drive to fill the entire disk. This effectively reverses the change you made in step 1, but no files are using the space at the end of the drive anymore. Click Apply. This should go faster than step 1. Close Disk Utility.
3) Using Boot Camp Assistant, create the Windows partition. Choose a partition size no larger than the amount you shrunk your main partition in step 1. Your Windows partition will finally be created.
Works for me. If it works for you, please spread the word.

Chris Thielen wrote:
I have had problems getting boot camp to partition my drive, reporting that
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can't be moved." Solutions offered involve either backing up your entire drive and restoring it (SuperDuper), or defragging with commercial software (iDefrag).
This solution does not require a spare external drive, nor commercial software.
1) Using Disk Utility, shrink your main drive by the desired windows partition size. Click the Physical Drive, select the Partition tab, and resize the main partition by dragging the corner of the graphical partition representation. Click apply. This operation may take a long time, because it moves all the files at the end of the drive to other places on the drive.
Even though you now have free space at the end of the drive, Boot Camp Assistant will not use it (it wants to resize your main partition).
2) Now use Disk Utility to expand the main drive to fill the entire disk. This effectively reverses the change you made in step 1, but no files are using the space at the end of the drive anymore. Click Apply. This should go faster than step 1. Close Disk Utility.
3) Using Boot Camp Assistant, create the Windows partition. Choose a partition size no larger than the amount you shrunk your main partition in step 1. Your Windows partition will finally be created.
Works for me. If it works for you, please spread the word.
That's an excellent idea; but even though Leopard DU does claim that you can do what you did without losing anything, stuff happens, and I would never do what you did without a full backup. If you are running TM, that's enough. But repartitioning a drive without a backup is dangerous.

Windows 7 boot camp install failure

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1) I attempted to boot directly from the Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit cd, and all the screen said was "Boot:" and it wouldn't take any input from the keyboard, numbers or letters.
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Reminder, this is a 2006 Mac Pro. If I had a steady job maybe I'd upgrade to a 2008 Mac Pro, but there's not many IT jobs in northern Indiana.
Maybe I'll try installing Boot Camp again in a couple of days.

Formatting/file storage advice needed (Boot camp related)

Here's my situation: I'm about to install Boot Camp so I can run a couple of audio editors in Windows xp. The stuff I'm going to edit is - at the moment - on my Mac HD (i.e. in HFS+).
Here's what I planned to do: make an NTFS partition big enough to comfortably accommodate the XP and the software, run Mac Drive (or something similar) to access the wave files I have on my Mac HD and when I'm finished editing, save them on the Mac HD again. Does this sound plausible? Will I run into any problems? Or should I make the NTFS partition big enough to host the wave files I'm going to be editing? This doesn't really appeal to me, but I'm open to suggestions... I appreciate any tips you may have.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
Here's my situation: I'm about to install Boot Camp so I can run a couple of audio editors in Windows xp. The stuff I'm going to edit is - at the moment - on my Mac HD (i.e. in HFS+).
Here's what I planned to do: make an NTFS partition big enough to comfortably accommodate the XP and the software, run Mac Drive (or something similar) to access the wave files I have on my Mac HD and when I'm finished editing, save them on the Mac HD again. Does this sound plausible? Will I run into any problems?
Sounds resonable to me. Using MacDrive in XP to read and write files on a HFS+ partition usually pose no problem.
A second possibility and/or addition (and one I would prefer) is to use an external harddisk formatted with FAT32 file system for transfer of files and maybe also for backup of your files.
But keep in mind that FAT32 has a built-in single-file size limitation of 4GB.
If timing is critical and/or you are doing real-time editing it might be advisable to have the audio files on your Windows NTFS partition while working on them.
Regards
Stefan

Boot Camp Related Question - Somewhat

Hello there. I just made this account forum-usable, so I hope I posted this in the right place.
I just purchased a MacBook, the new aluminum unibody 2.4 Ghz model, and upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB. However, I was just wondering about Boot Camp. When my computer arrives (I ordered it online), I plan to install Windows XP, simply so that I can play Windows-based games on it, for they are cheaper and more common. When I do play a game, or any application on Windows XP, would I be correct that the game will use the processors and video card present in the Leopard operating system? For example, I want to play the game Neverwinter Nights 2, and as it requires so much memory, it will recognize my upgraded memory, correct? Please tell me if this is a bit confusing; I apologize in advance if it is.
Thanks.

When I do play a game, or any application on Windows XP, would I be correct that the game will use the processors and video card present in the Leopard operating system?
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Need help please! boot camp related

Im in desperate need of help.
Heres the story:
I partioned my drive to 100 gb windows (xp home), with about 131 gb for Leopard.
I followed the prompts during the installation, until i got to the screen listing the available drives for installing windows. The only drive that came up was the 131 gb one, which was the Leopard-dedicated section with all of my data on it.
I restarted the computer several times to no avail. I still just had the 131gb option come up. I did click on the 131 gb drive option (out of desperation i guess) but when prompter to install, i quit the application.
After restarting the laptop several more times and trying again, i took out the xp cd having given up on the whole thing. Upon doing so, a blank white screen came up, which after about 10 seconds turned into a dark screen with a white flashing line at the top left hand corner.I tried restarting and waiting but nothing worked.
Ive browsed some other forums and found out that by holding the 'opyion' key at start up you can switch between drives. When i tried this, it only gave me one drive to choose from, which was labelled 'windows'. I clicked on it and got the same white then dark with flashing line screens.
In serious need of help, if ive lost all of the data on that leopard drive im royally screwed.
Hopefully that was comprehendable, any help will be appreciated greatly.
Message was edited by: seb123

I had exactly the same problem a few weeks ago (with a XP Pro SP2), and as you did, and being as desperate as you were, I also clicked on the 131 drive option. The result was : start-up drivers were broken, so the machine had to go back to Apple care center and I got it back three weeks later. All my data were lost, they even had to change the hard drive. Strange thing was I didn't have to pay anything for that (whereas I did recognize that this was my fault for I selected a wrong partition). So I guess Apple is now experiencing some problems with Bootcamp… Anyway you shall never select any other partition as the one wich is named "Bootcamp". Otherwise you can overwrite all your OS X soft and this can be some sort of nightmare. Sorry. When I got back my iMac I tried again (with 70 GO for Windows that time) and the same things happened ; but this time as I saw only one partition I just quit the whole thing (F3 key) and got back to OS X, and re-opened Bootcamp to get back to a single Mac OS partition. No problem… but no Windows. I think we'd better wait for further info from Apple. Perhaps we can also try with 32 Go partition and FAT format and see what happens then (I think I will try this). Or buy a Vista and see what happens (NTFS format required but automatic, so it seems to be easier).
Did you try to install XP or Vista ?
Good luck
Regards.
And have a look on this forum, unless you already did it :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1199436&tstart=0
I must admit I don't really understand what they say about freeDOS, but this must be read…

A direct link from the Leopard category to Boot Camp category

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=235
would be nice if it linked directly to:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
in its header. We get many Boot Camp related questions in Leopard, and not everyone using Leopard uses Boot Camp.

Thank you, the Hatter.
This link in iLounge was very helpful.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/

Why my boot camp cannot partition.

It has "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." popup. Help me please.

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Please let me know if that helped

Boot Camp Cannot Partition

I have issues.
So here we go...
My main issue here is I cannot partion my system with Boot Camp Assistant. As far as I can tell I've followed every step correctly to this point.
Everything is updated
I had Microsoft send me a new, full version of Windows 8 Disk to use
I purchased a new 32gb thumbdrive and formatted it correctly
I downloaded the all the Windows Support Updates to the Flash Drive
So far I can't get past this error:
For some reason I only have two options for the size of the partition:
or
I'm using this thumbdrive:
And this is the current state of my iMac and Storage:
I only need Windows to run a single program so I really don't need anything but the minimum here...
Any ideas on what the heck is going on?
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Windows without Boot Camp or virtualizers on external HD?

If I install Windows on an external HD, can I boot up in Windows by simply choosing the external HD (or its Windows system) as the starup disk (not talking about dual booting) without Boot Camp or other software?
I'm aware of and considering virtualizing software like Parallels as well; just considering options for infrequent Windows use.
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Robbie:
You do some of the most interesting things LOL.
Your 2 icons in the system tray are probably linked to each of the boot camp folders on Drive C as you noted.
Try the following:
1. Rename each boot camp folder ONE AT A TIME and do not delete yet.
2. Reboot after renaming one of the them (boot camp old or something).
3. See how it affects Windows
4. Rename the other one as old and previous one to what it was
5. See how that works on windows
6. After the above steps you should know which Boot Camp folder affects the operation of Windows and should be able to decide which one to delete.
Also, you could easily disable one of the instances of loading by disabling one of the them in the startup section of windows. How do you get there?
1. Go to START and choose RUN
2. Type MSCONFIG and hit ENTER
3. From the window that opens up choose the STARTUP tab
4. You will see a list of items with check marks besides them which are being loaded at startup.
5. You will see several boot camp related instances.
6. Uncheck items that you don't want to load at startup
7. Reboot and see how it affects windows.
Robbie, a lot of trial and error to determine which are the right files but worth the time.
Axel F.

IMac Drive Failures and Boot Camp - large install experience and question

We have a large 24" iMac install, purchased in August of '08, 49 machines spread across 6 offices. All run Windows Vista in Boot Camp as their primary (and mostly sole) operating mode - I will be happy to explain why after we get this cleared up, but that is not the point of this question.
We have had 11 hard drive failures, a rate of over 22% in one year. No machine has failed twice. The equipment was purchased in different groups so a bad lot is unlikely. I am aware that there is an HD failure issue with the iMac's but this seems to be extreme. Personally I've been building apples and pc's since my first apple kit, have a mac plus in a box somewhere, and am fond of these machines (as is the staff) but I've never seen a failure rate like this.
It has been suggested that it is the use of Boot Camp that is causing these failures. While I have seen viruses over the years that can lead to hardware failure I've never seen validated (or even simply non-malignant) software have the same effect.
Any thoughts on this? Could BC be the cause? Is this failure rate unusual? Have folks heard of similar cases? Thanks.

no one has any thoughts on this?

I had to replace my iMac due to hard drive and Logicboard failure, so I want to reinstall Windows 7 on a Boot Camp partition. Will there be a problem reactivating Windows 7 Home Premium?

I had to replace my iMac due to HDD and Logicboard failure, so I want to reinstall Windows 7 on Boot Camp partition. Will there be a problem reactivating Windows 7 Home Premium?

Hi,
should be no problem.
Best case is you can activate online via Internet.
Worst case is you have to call Microsoft and explain that it is the same computer after a mainboard failure.
Regards
Stefan

Built-in iSight trouble, think it's Boot Camp/Firmware related.

Lately my iSight has been having issues. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Until recently I didn't couldn't figure out what might be causing it but I now have ideas.
First, symptoms. When I attempt to use my iSight with either iChat or Quicktime, the window which would normally display what my camera sees is black. If I use PhotoBooth it is green. Normally I'd attribute this to another application using my cam but nothing is and I'm not getting a warning about it.
If I reset my MacBook Pro's SMC and restart it sometimes gets it to start working again. Though what seems to be the deal is restarting a few times is a sure way to make it behave.
Now, I run both Parallels and Boot Camp on my laptop and I thought one of those might be the issue. Once I had the cam working again in iChat, Quicktime and PhotoBooth I started up Parallels, fiddled a bit and shut it off then started up iChat. No problems, so I shut it down and booted up into Windows via Boot Camp, fiddled some more and restarted into OS X. After opening iChat I noticed the cam wasn't working once more.
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Boot ROM ver.: MBP22.00A5.B00
SMC ver.: 1.12f5
...And I have...
Boot ROM ver.: MBP22.00A5.B01
SMC ver.: 1.12f5
...And if the first one is the latest firmware, why does mine appear to be the next version? If I'm backwards on how the numbering should go why isn't anything coming up with software update? Further more, what confused me is I found this SMC firmware update for my MacBook Pro that will put me to SMC firmware version 1.12f10, which also seems to be a later version than listed.
So what I want to know is what should the latest version of firmware for my machine be, where can I get it and, most importantly, is this what is causing the problems with Boot Camp and my iSight?

I've been looking around the web for a while now trying to figure out what the problem is and I now have new symptoms to report.
When I boot up in Safe Mode and try to open Photo Booth it says another program is using my iSight. Now, I know that's not true because I just started up OS X and I haven't started any other programs... I had also just reset my SMC so I don't see how anything is carrying over.
So what I'm now wondering is whether or not there is a way to find out exactly what is using my iSight at any given time? Either via some app (preferred) or if someone has a Terminal script I can copy and paste that will tell me. I can always just flat-out format my computer and try that but I'd rather not since that would take me a little bit to reinstall and update all my apps again. I know that's the final step to try before I bring it to Apple for them to check it out but I don't want to go that far yet.

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