Boot Camp won't install anything less than Windows 7 ?

My grandson tried to install windows vista on a new (late 2012 ) IMac but he says boot camp told him he could not install anything less than windows 7. Anyone else had this problem ?

It's not a problem; the Boot Camp Assistant is working as it's designed to. If desired, run Windows Vista inside a program such as VirtualBox instead.
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    I've had my mini along with others running XP for a few years and have even installed windows 7 rc version as a beta tester and never had a problem till today. I had reinstalled XP after the test version of win 7 expired everything was fine, that was about 4 months ago. today I was trying to install a 30 day windows 7 32 bit version and after I partioned and hit the install button it would shut off come back on and then shut off again with no way to get back up until I held down the mouse to eject the install disk, while doing a manual restart with the power button. I even tried to reinstall XP and had the same result. My question is , does this have anything to do with 64 bit versus 32 bit or is something else wrong? Did the lastest update change something? I was thinking I would reinstall the disk that came with it to get as it first came out and then try to install windows before updating. any ideas would be appreciated ,thanks

    It's not a problem; the Boot Camp Assistant is working as it's designed to. If desired, run Windows Vista inside a program such as VirtualBox instead.
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  • Boot Camp won't let me remove my windows partition, please help

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    Use the Disk Utility to delete it and resize the partition immediately above of it so it takes up the released space.
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  • Boot Camp - Won't Install Windows XP or VISTA - HELP!!!

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    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/BootCampInstall-Setup.pdf

  • Boot Camp won't install

    I have a MacBook with 2.0 ghz core 2 duo, 4gb memory, and a single partition 750 GB HD.
    I am trying to install windows XP professional.
    If I click on download windows support software, it stops at 3/4 done downloading and says "windows support software cannot be installed on this computer."
    If I click that I already have software on a disk, I try to partition my drive and it hangs. I have left it over night trying to partition and when I wake up it is still just hanging at boot camp is partitioning your HD. Please help me!!!

    Yes that would screw the cloning back to the HDD.
    Here are my thoughts on a very time consuming adventure to get a BootCamp XP with Lion.
    1  Erase the disk and install SL 10.6.
    2  Then create a BootCamp partition and install XP.
    3  Next Clone The Mac 10.6 partition to an external HDD.
    4  Then clone the BootCamp partition to another external HDD as a back up.
    5  Install Lion 10.7 on the External HDD containing the SL 10.6 clone.
    6  Reverse clone the Lion 10.7 HDD created in # 5 to the original Mac 10.6 HDD.
    You should now have on your Mac Internal HDD a partition with Lion 10.7 installed
    and another partition with BootCamp XP installed, plus Mac and Win backup clones.
    This method of cloning 10.6 to an external HDD and then installing Lion 10.7 followed
    by the reverse clone was suggested by the Hatter a few days after Lion was released.
    In my case I already had a external HDD clone of SL 10.6 so I just used steps 5&6 to upgrade to Lion 10.7 while keeping a Win Vista BootCamp installation with no partition table problems. I imagine there may be some future driver issues but presently all is good.
    Thanks for the good advice Hatter.

  • Boot Camp won't install windows support software

    I have a MacBook 2006 with 4 gb of memory and a 2.0 ghz core 2 duo processor. It has a 7200 RPM 750 GB HD with a single partition running a clean install of os x lion. I have been trying to install windows 7 since Lion came out. If I tell boot camp to download software, It is almost done when I get an error telling me that software can't be installed. If I choose not to download software, I try to partition my HD and I get another error that I can't remember because I haven't tried in a week. I will post pictures in a day or two, but until then, PLEASE HELP ME!!!

    From what I've read the "Download Update" option as you install Lion only works for some MBAirs and it's a hit or miss on all others. (mostly a miss).
    You might do a Search on the error you get as there are quite a few discussions on those problems.

  • Installing Win 7 on Boot Camp won't install to the hard drive

    Hey, I'm installing Windows 7 64-BIT onto my Mac,
    Steps I've taken, logged onto an administrator account, ran boot camp assistant, selected Hard Drive 2 (1TB, practically empty it is not my Mac OSX Boot Drive), selected "create second partition for windows", gave it 131GB clicked partition, I saw the BOOTCAMP hard drive show up on my desktop now.
    I inserted the Win764BIT dvd I made, BootCamp prompted for it, I clicked OK...
    It restarts, windows 7 setup loads, I get to the point where I selected the Boot Camp hard drive, and click Format, it finishes, I click Next, and it says:
    Windows is unable to install to the selected location: error 0x80300024, the partition I am installing to is: Disk 1: Partition 3 (although there is, Disk 0, and 2 other unknown partitions of 128MB for Disk 0, and then Disk 1 Partition 3, and 2 other unknown partitions of 128MB for Disk 1.
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    Message was edited by: Steelbom

    There should be a selection screen, and try #2. I think that is called EFI Boot. I can't, because of EFI32 1.1, and 64-bit Windows and Apple are looking for UEFI 2.x / EFI64.
    I had Windows Vista, and installed Windows 7 to another hard drive partition with the DVD written to disk (8GB) on another partition. Install off hard drive was fast, and never even boot from DVD.
    For people with trouble with the boot selection:
    http://sergiomcfly.blogspot.com/2008/04/select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing. html
    I tried to put together a 'journal/faq' of my own experience with 7100, which isn't perfect but has some tips and links.
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1866970&tstart=0
    About GPT -
    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT-on-x64.mspx
    If you really get stuck on the boot selector, this may help:
    http://jowie.com/blog/post/2008/02/24/Select-CD-ROM-Boot-Type-prompt-while-tryin g-to-boot-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx
    but you really shouldn't need that, your 2008 Mac Pro should do fine.

  • Boot Camp won't install on my mac

    Now I understand, Go to Applications, Utilities, Boot Camp. So I try and run boot camp assistant, Click I have the installation cd and hit continue.Then I go to the WIndow where it shows me how much Space you want for windows. And I click around 60 gigs. I hit Partition.Status: Partitioning Disc. BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT: THE DISC CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE REMOVED: Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.SO I go to disk utilitiy and click on my HD, Click on Partition. Format is MAC OS Extended ( Journaled ) Size 249 GB.  Now I am trying to partition the disc in disc utility under my Hard drive, Partition, Click how much room I want but still get an error:PARTITION FAILED. COULD NOT MODIFY PARTITION MAP BECAUSE FILE SYSTEM VERIFICATION FAILED...What am I doing wrong here? I Verified disk permissions and it went fine..but still I cant get boot camp to instal

    BAD message. common also. Misleading definitely.
    Zap PRAM
    Repair Permissions
    Verify the drive
    Safe Boot
    Try again.
    If that does not work boot in safe mode or DVD and then shrink the parittion by 70GB.
    Then take it back to full length.
    That should fix or get around it.
    Otherwise if those do not THEN you need to take your backup and boot from another device, erase and restore.
    I prefer Carbon Copy Cloner instead of TimeMachine.
    How to clone your system:
    http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
    http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner

  • Boot camp won't install xp (bank screen)

    Pleas can you help me. I've got a new 2.8 quad mac pro with a mac 17" display.
    When I use boot camp assistant, I can partition the disk (20G). When I put my xp sp2 disk in to load windows my computer does restart, I can here the disk working but I have a blank screen. Could it be something to do with my mac 17' display? Please can you someone help me

    Welcome to the Apple Forum:
    When you restart the computer (with Windows CD in the drive) Press and Hold the OPTION key until you see boot options. Choose the Boot From CD and see if the installation continues.
    Please click [HERE|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1424348&tstart=60] for more discussion on this topic.

  • HT3981 when i am preparing boot camp to be installed in win 7 it says "preparation failed"

    when i am preparing boot camp to be installed in win 7 it says "preparation failed"

    I dont have any access to the OSX Disc. Is there any way I can download just the Boot Camp Installer?
    Again, no. Boot Camp drivers are NOT available for download. They are only on the OSX disks. (Only the updates are downloadable, not the base Boot Camp drivers.) There is no other way.
    As I mentioned previously, you can borrow the disk from someone else. It doesn't have to be the same model, so long as it's Snow Leopard. (AFAIK, Boot Camp 3 drivers are only available on Snow Leopard disks.)
    Either you need to find your disks, borrow some one else's, or buy another copy of OSX...period.
    (Let me repeat: NO.)
    ...Windows 7 supposed to have the (wireless) driver already installed...
    You need the Boot Camp drivers.
    One major thing is that since installing Win 7 using BC, my Mac side has become significantly slower. Searching for anything now takes up to 1 min while it was instantaneous before. Opening new programs or new tabs in Safari also caused slight delay. Is this to be expected while having 2 OS?
    Boot Camp will not affect OSX, unless you are took up too much space for Windows and didn't leave much for OSX. You should have at least 10% free space on the OSX partition. Anything less can cause OSX to run slow. (Same for the Windows partition: have at least 10% free space.)

  • Boot camp does not install windows 7 -

    I have created a partition with bootcamp - on my 250GB SSD - and put the slider to 41 Gb; I have the USB with the drivers inserted and the windows 7 disk (dvd?) inserted. When the retort happens, the windows installer starts (from dvd).
    First of all I see the partition is 98 Gb - way too much, leaves almost no room for the soft are disk.
    Then the installation does not commence, the partition is MS-DOS (FAT) (I checked with disk utility) while the partition should be NTFS (as windows expects). I does not allow me to select this partition.
    What should I do?
    I have had a working partition before on my HD, now - after I upgraded my iMAC - I wanted to install bootcamp/windows on my SSD.
    -> I know that I can delete the partition using Boot Camp Assistant. Then I am clean all over again. I hope.

    When creating a partition, Bootcamp assistant wants to also to install windows. That does not work because the error is there that it expects an NTFS file - and I am not going to reformat the partition using windows :-(
    Yes. Terribly sorry about that. I forgot that Boot Camp automatically goes into a setup sequence and boots to the Windows installation DVD. I never use Boot Camp when I want to create a Windows partition since I can do the same thing manually the way I want the drive to be.
    NTFS isn't a file, it's a format. Like FAT32 or Mac OS Extended (HFS+). Boot Camp will always create a FAT32 partition (called an MS-DOS partition in Disk Utility). Once it boots to the Windows DVD on the restart, your first step is to format the drive you just created in Boot Camp as NTFS. Then continue on with the install.
    What I should have written above as step two was to manually create a new partition with Disk Utility and format it as MS-DOS. Then you could have made it any size you wanted and gone right into restoring your Windows 7 backup with WinClone. Again, while not making the least bit of difference the partition was FAT32 rather than NTFS. Restoring your Win 7 backup would have made it NTFS when done.
    Since most folks aren't all that handy doing things manually, or just plain don't know how, Apple tries to simplify the process with Boot Camp. But the only part of it you really need is to create the drivers flash drive or disk. After that you can do the whole thing yourself, which is what I do.
    Anyway, once you did create the new partition with Boot Camp, you could have stopped the entire process and booted back into OS X. Then restored the WinClone backup to the FAT32 partition. That would saved you the time watching Windows 7 install when you're just going to completely replace that install anyway.

  • Boot Camp won't partition, files cannot be moved.

    I'm sure this has come up more times than anyone can count. I've searched for answers but still haven't found the solution. Boot Camp won't partition because some files cannot be moved.
    I have defragmented my computer, it is all just one partition. I have 150+ GB of free space. I am only trying to partition 5 GB for windows, honestly that is more than i will need. The error of course tells me to back up my computer and reformat it. I have not done this yet because I believe it will be a last resort and will be unlikely to actually solve my problem. I'm sure there is at least 5 GB of continuous free space on my computer that could be partitioned. I am wondering what else i can do?
    Also, if it does come down to backing my computer up, is it possible to back it up to another macbook? I don't want to waste money on an external just because Boot Camp is being picky.

    First, way too many people choose too small, and I though 10GB was the smallest for XP, and often was not enough to allow updates, patches, page, hibernation and temp space, let alone games, apps etc.
    The only defrag I can think of that works are iDefrag and Drive Genius 2. But a backup + erase + restore is the best. Otherwise, your free space may still be fragmented or have files that prevent you, as is happening.
    5GB for Windows doesn't sound like more than needed, or even enough.
    External backup drives are never a waste. Even for just Mac OS.

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    Requirements for all Windows installations
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  • Boot Camp error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

    Hi!
    I am getting the error:
    "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Jounraled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
    I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".
    I tried to create a partition manually in disk utility but then the error message: "Partition failed with error message: Could not unmount disk."
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    Thanks.

    This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
    Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.
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    Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.
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    i have an iMac with mountain lion 10.8.3 with boot camp 5.0.2 .i installed windows 7 -64 bit with boot camp but the boot camp didn't install drivers for windows please guide me for trouble shooting .

    Kappy wrote:
    Boot Camp doesn't install the drivers. You have the drivers on a separate USB device if you followed directions. Once in Windows connect the USB drive with the driver software. It should startup automatically and install the drivers.
    You don't even need to do that. As downloading the drivers from within Boot Camp Assistant can be unreliable, it is better to get the package directly from here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
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