Bootcamp Assistant 3.0.4 fails to create drivers dvd

I installed Snow Leopard from usb, now i need to install also windows.
so i lunched the Bootcamp Assistant, it gives me the error:
impossible to continue the download
the windows supprt software is not available
Where can i find the Bootcamp 3.0 drivers?

When running Snow Leopard the Windows Support software is on the Snow Leopard install disk. There is no download. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf

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Hi, I've been trying for days to download Windows support software via Bootcamp assistant, but it always failed with message 'Can't install Windows Support Software because it is not currently available from the Software update server.' Any advice welcome

Hi,
I've been trying for days to download Windows support software via Bootcamp assistant but it always fails with message 'Can't install windows software because it is not currently available from the software update server.'
Anyone else had problems or success with this?
Thanks in advance.

9thdoc wrote:
I'm getting a similar but distinct error message in snow leopard: Download could not continue. "The windows support software is not available" and have no original snow leopard instal disc with me.
Your issue is completely different. You are running Snow Leopard. There is no download for Windows Support software for Snow Leopard, hence the error you see. Snow Leopard Windows Support software is on the Snow Leopard installation disk.
You need the Snow Leopard installation disk or a replacement for it.

Toast dvd under yosemite 10.10.2 fails to create a dvd for home player

I downloaded from iTunes Apps the application called Toast DVD two days back at a cost of $22.95 or so.
Immediately after installation, I burned a dvd from one of home videos. I set the options to NTSC as I am in Canada,
The DVD created does not work on my home dvd player; it also failed to play on my macbook.
My macbook pro 13 has Yosemite 10.10.2 installed.
I contacted the support staff at Corel for Toast DVD, The product shows a version 2.1.10800.
They have not responded completely to resolve the issue.
I'd appreciate any help.

It's always a good idea to buy good quality DVDs because lower quality discs often will have imperfections that increase playback errors. That said, it doesn't sound like the discs are the primary problem. Are you importing the movies or dragging into the menu button area (not drop zones)? What's the total length in time of your slideshows/movies? (under 60 min gets you max quality). It will take a long time to encode video depending on the speed of your processor.
Here are some general tips to increase the odds of successful burns:
Lots of memory helps; and you'll need 10-15 gigs of free space on your main hard drive for scratch space.
Buy good quality disks - I've seen recommendations for Maxell, Sony, Verbatim, TDK and a few others based on testing. I primarily use the first two and usually don't have trouble.
Give yourself lots of time.
Turn off your screen savers and energy savers; don't let your hard drive go to sleep.
Get your computer healthy and ready for some heavy lifting. (video work could be the hardest job your computer can do) I use MacJanitor (from VersionTracker.com) followed by Apple's DiskUtility's Repair Permissions.
Most of the time iDVD is working, it is encoding (compressing) your video to fit on the DVD. Create an image .img file (Save to Disc Image) and use Toast or Disk Utility to burn it to disk. Burn slower than the highest rated speed of your burner (eg. 1 or 2x on a 4x burner).
I keep my projects under 60 minutes (for highest resolution).
I import into iDVD rather than export from iMovie or iPhoto (fewer errors).
No other apps open.
Let it encode and burn while you go to bed; it can take awhile, esp. on older Macs.
If you use iDVD for burning the DVD (and don't make a disk image), don't quit iDVD even when the DVD is burned, until you've played the DVD in a regular player (it's much easier to burn another disk and check to see if the problem was a bad disk, than to go back through all that encoding again by quitting iDVD).
John

Bootcamp Assistant Stalls on restart after partitioning

Ok so i had some problems with my windows install and i wanted to update to Mountain Lion. I wiped my entire hard drive, deleted all the partitions, and started fresh with one partition. I got Mountain Lion installed perfectly. Heres where the problem starts. I started with editing the plist to make bootcamp allow USB install. (im running an Imac 2007). The Superdrive only works when it wants to and its easier just to not use it at all. I then opened bootcamp assistant and checked all three boxes (created usb disk, download support drivers, and install windows 7). I used my handy .iso of my win7 x64 disk and bootcamp created my usb disk, downloaded the support drivers then asked me how big to make my partition. i choose the size and clicked continue. Bootcamp partitioned my drive just fine and then restarted. And then my computer sticks at the apple logo (with no spinning wheel). i let it sit over night and no difference. so i just powered off and when i powered on i get the *no boot disk -- insert bootable disk and press any key*. The USB flash drive is in the computer but its not showing up after a restart and holding alt. i can boot into OS X just fine but not get windows to install. The bootcamp partition shows up on my OSX desktop with no files. Also the USB disk shows up named WININSTALL with the install files and support drivers on it.
Any help would be appreciated.

Is your external DVD drive an Apple drive, or a third party drive? I Not all third party drives provide full boot support in their hardware, so that could be the cause of your problem. Since you have a MacBook Air, it should support booting from a USB stick with your Windows installer on it. You might try that.

Bootcamp Assistant fails - manually installing support software not an option

Bootcamp Assistant fails when it gets to the downloading support software stage.
I've seen other messages here saying there's a workaround that means manually downloading and installiing the support software. This doesn't work for me as the option to NOT automatically download and install the software is greyed out in Bootcamp Assistant. Why is that? Can I change it? If not are there other workarounds?

Thank so much for your response. In reply I should say that erasing the Macintosh HD partition (using the disk utility application - Photo Below) and re-installing the OS X wasn't any help.
I also would like to clarify my understanding of your first paragraph, if you suggested that the issue could be related to my superdrive? Also would like to ask for further instruction on creating a thumb drive .
In the end I would like to thank you for your advice on the required partition size for windows installation.

BootCamp won't load on first boot from USB created by Bootcamp Assistant

So I have created a bootable USB via the Bootcamp Assistant with the support files etc, formated a paritition to run off of. I also have tried formating through disk utility to no avail.
I have tried things like using a USB drive, using an external, un plugging all external devices from my mac while running the set up, and nothing I have found online so far has seemed to work.
Where the problem is, when I boot from the external drive or USB created by bootcamp assistant, it will literally just freeze on the first screen where I select the language and that stuff, not even a USB keyboard or mouse will help.
I have managed to get past that before, but then It wont let me format my hard drive correctly to install it
Any ideas?

Please post in the Boot Camp forum, thats where you will find the MS Windows and Boot Camp gurus. Note also it's Boot Camp, and not Bootcamp which is something you do when you enter the military.

Bootcamp fails to create windows 7 startup disk

Bootcamp version 5, running on Mountain Lion, keeps failing on creating the Windows 7 Startup disk. I'm using a 8gb USB drive and it formats it without any problems. The process will carry on until around 50% of copying installation files and then fails.
I've tried 2 different USB Flash drives and I've check the ISO image for Windows 7.
Can anyone help me with a solution? Or why this is happening.
Thanks

Visit the Boot Camp forum https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp.
The Windows Support software download servers are notoriously slow. Try again and be patient. When you say it formats ok, it should be FAT format.
Your issue is addressed in the Boot Camp forum.

Bootcamp Assistant: "'Create Windows 7 Install Disk Option' Missing" Fix Problem

Firstly, sorry if this is in the incorrect fourm area, it's related with the Mountain Lion OSx software, so I posted here.
I am Running OSX 10.8.3
I'm trying to install bootcamp with a .ISO and a USB Drive. You need to make a Windows 7 install disk, and Bootcamp Assistant can do that for you, but the option isn't showing up.
I am running OSX 10.8.3 M-Lion
The link below shows how to fix the issue......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD4kgJQ-r0c
I did everything as it says, until the 2:20 mark in the video, where he tells you to go to the USBSupportedModels and copy the first string that follows....
I couldn't find it,however,I found a similar one, shown below. I beleive it's the thing that I need to duplicate, but the strings, shown below, are considerably different.
<key>PreUSBBootSupportedModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7,1</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro8,3</string>
                    <string>MacPro5,1</string>
                    <string>Macmini4,1</string>
                    <string>iMac12,2</string>
If you look in the Top comments section, there are people, running the same OSX as mine (10.8.3) saying that it's not working, with 2 people rating it up. There is a reply saying that it does work. However, I know if somthing is messed up, the Assistant would be rendered unusable, a risk i am hesitating to take. I Googled everywhere, but all I'm finding is the same fix for USBSupported over and over again.
Has anyone found a correct or know of a fix for this? OR should I just go ahead and do as the video says?
Thanks!

Don't modify that file because anyway it won't work. The reason is that Apple has determined the Macs that support the Windows installation from a USB drive by their firmware. It means that if you modify that file you will be able to create a Windows 7 USB drive, but if you try to install Windows, your computer will show up a black screen in the next startup telling you that it hasn't found any bootable device.
You can edit that file if you want, but it's not sure that the option will show up in Boot Camp Assistant, and you won't be able to install Windows through a USB drive because the firmware of your computer doesn't support this

Bootcamp 5 fails to create installation USB drive

Bootcamp version 5, running on Mountain Lion, keeps failing on creating the Windows 7 Startup disk. I'm using a 8gb USB drive and it formats it without any problems. The process will carry on until around 50% of copying installation files and then fails.
I've tried 2 different USB Flash drives and I've check the ISO image for Windows 7.
Can anyone help me with a solution? Or why this is happening.
Thanks

It means you must have windows in a file instead of a disk and the file's extension is ".iso". For Example: WIN7INST.iso. .ISO files are the windows counterpart of Mac's .dmg files. How do you create a windows .iso files? I perfectly don't know but surely there's a program such as Disk Utility that can rip a Windows installer CD/DVD into a file with the .iso extension.
Back to you question: you need Windows in an .iso file format instead than a CD/DVD.
By the way... I'm not going to suggest you to do what I'm going to say because I'm not sure it always work but I sometimes rip a Windows CD/DVD with Disk Utility in "master" format (no compression) with .cdr extension. Then i just change the .cdr in .iso and it works in windows.
Why using a .ISO on a USB drive instead a CD/DVD? Becaus installation may be faster or in case you don't have a Superdrive, either internal or external, but necessary for installing Windows in BootCamp. From a generic CD/DVD reader, Windows installer will not start on a Mac, at least on my... dead late 2011 MacBook Pro.
Cheers
Simon

BootCamp Assistant Error : Your bootable USB drive could not be created. "An error occurred while formatting the disk."

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate .iso file saved onto a "Mac OS Extended (Journal)" formatted USB flash drive. I am trying to install it with BootCamp Assistant and I keep getting the error message : Your bootable USB drive could not be created. "An error occurred while formatting the disk."
I have previously installed Windows 7 on my Mac (and it worked flawlessly - same .iso file), but I uninstalled it because I didn't partition enough space on my hard drive. I have used several flash drive to try and install and none have worked.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.

The Boot Camp forum is located here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
The Boot Camp Guides are located here: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Bootcamp assistant fails to launch

Bootcamp assistant fails to launch. Tells me I need to update my firmware. But I have already upgraded the firmware! Trying to run the SMC firmware updater again does not let me proceed because... the mac is already updated!
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A FileMaker Pro-based runtime accounting solution installs but unexpectedly quits the nanosecond after I double-click to open it.
Photos keep disappearing from the iPhoto libary. After successful importing, blank placeholders appear instead of the imported photos after relaunching iPhoto.
This MacBook Pro has been an unmitigated disaster thus far...

You are making the risky assumption the firmware was not properly installed. How can one not install the firmware correctly? I simply responded to the software update notice, downloaded the firmware, and installed it. The process was almost automatic. How can there possibly be any user error involved?
I believe I installed the firmware properly. If I try to install the firmware again, I get a message that the MacBook Pro is already updated with the correct firmware. In spite of this, Bootcamp keeps telling me I need to update the firmware, refusing to launch, hence the frustration.
This is not actually mine, but a friend's computer. I doubt AppleCare is valid for a computer purchased in Greece, but we'll try contacting the local distributor. It is a 900 number...

No boot disk after creating a USB bootable device with Bootcamp Assistant.

Hi people, i was trying to install windows on my Mac Pro 4,1. I had to modify the Info.plist in Bootcamp Assistant to be able to make a bootable usb, after choosing and creating the bootable usb my mac rebooted and after i got into a black screen saying "no bootable device"...i tried Win7 and Win8.1 on 2 different USB sticks without any luck. Any ideas? Thank you!

Disregard this message. I give up.

The guide to bootcamp assistant states that bootcamp can only be installed on a drive with a single partition. New Macs with Lion preinstalled have two partitions - the second is a recovery partition. How do I install Bootcamp?

Late in August 2011 I took delivery of a new 27" iMac with Lion preinstalled. I need to run Windows as well. Following Apple's written suggestion, I printed off the then current 12 pages of the document "Bootcamp Installation & Setup Guide" which clearly stated that the hard drive you were going to install on had to have on it, before install, a maximum of one partition. Using finder and disk utility I determined that there was only one partition. Unbeknownst to me, there was (is) an additional hidden (from those two pieces of software) partition on the disk. As of machines delivered new with Lion preinstalled, Apple has begun to include a "recovery partition". In that partition there is a copy of the software necessary to reinstall Lion via a download from the Apple App Store. Not knowing the partition was there, I cranked up "Bootcamp Assistant" which nicely offered to repartition my hard drive creating a "Bootcamp Partition" in addition to the existing. I told it how big to make each and hit the do it button, subsequently destroying my operating system. Oh, it very nicely told me, after the damage was done, how many partitions were REALLY on the disk and that I could not install Bootcamp cause there were too many partitions.
Luckily the the Recovery Partition, which at that point I knew existed, was not harmed and after doing some research on another compter, I used it to once again download Lion from the App Store and reinstall. So, I have recovered but am still stuck with the problem: how do I install Bootcamp in this new environment?

First you need to seriously back up your Mac.
A clone is an exact duplicate of your existing Mac HDD. Merely copying and pasting a drive will not make a bootable backup. In case of problems you can boot from an Ext HDD clone and use the utilities to repair, reformat, or clone the Ext HDD back to the internal Mac HDD. While Time machine back ups are easy you can not boot from it. The best thing to have for any kind of problem is a bootable clone backup on an external drive. Some even have two external backup drives in case one fails. There are two good apps for cloning named SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner.
In dealing with the recovery partition a simple approach is to clone the Mac partition to an external disk then re-partition the Mac to a single partition (GUID partition table) . Then clone the external disk clone back to the Mac. You will now have only one Partition and Boot Camp assistant sould not object.
Some have recommended getting rid of the recovery partition while others have advised not to do this. If you have the Lion USB Thumb Drive you do not need a recovery partition so can discard it without concern. There is another way to get rid of the recovery partition if you decide to do it but first be sure to have a backup of your Mac ( I know I sound like a nagging mom but many dead computers have been saved by this simple precaution).
Use Disk Utility.
1) Make the Recovery visible in Disk Utility by using a program like Secrets:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27025/secrets or MacPilot:http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php (15 day free trial).
2) Highlite the Recovery partition and Control click it and select Mount the partition.
3) With the Recovery partition highlited, erase the partition, you'll get an error message, ignore it.
4) Now highlite the top identity of the hard drive and select the partition tab.
5) Highlite the Recovery partition and press the minus sign.
6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply.

Problems with Bootcamp Assistant: no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

Hello Guys,
I got a problem setting up Windows 7 on my recently bought 13" MacBook Pro (2,3Ghz Core i5).
I used the bootcamp assistent to create a partition of 50GB on my Mac, everything is fine until now. I insert the Windows 7 disk and follow the instructions. But when I restart in spite of starting the installation of Windows 7, a black screen appears with a note saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". To exit this screen I then have to restart my Computer again, holding down the alt-key. In the following window I can just chose my Mac-Harddrive to boot from, the partition is not shown.
I used the software actualization tool to update to version 10.6.7 which is the most recent one i think.
The Windows 7 CD I use is actually a burned one. My University is a member of the msdn academic alliance and therefore offers me to download microsoft software for my work. I stress out that this is absolutly legal, I will only be allowed to use the software unitl I finished my studyings.
So as I said, I downloaded the Version of Windows 7 Professional with Service Pack 1 (x64) on my computer and then burned on a DVD. I want to add, that the file I downloaded turned out to be an iso file. At first, I just burned this file on a DVD but since it turned out that i got the above mentioned message, I burned a second DVD with the actual files of the iso (with foldernames like autorun.inf, boot, bootmgr, bootmgr.efi, efi, setup.exe, sources support, and upgrade)
I dont know if these details are of any relevance, but i guess it may be useful since I believe that the burning thing could cause the problems.
I have already browsed the Forum for quite some time now, but I didnt find a case with the exact same problem that I have, so I decided to rather ask you for help now instead of killing my brain like I did before (and I dont really have a clue neither of Macbooks nor of Windows-Computers, its always try and error for me)
I hope somebody can come up with some helpful ideas or a solution.
If you need further details on my system or anything, please feel free to ask
Thank you very much,
David

The Windows 7 CD I use is actually a burned one. My University is a member of the msdn academic alliance and therefore offers me to download microsoft software for my work. I stress out that this is absolutly legal, I will only be allowed to use the software unitl I finished my studyings.
Apple Disk Utility won't do a proper job and won't work (and it varies, some can start the install but fails later) Has to be burned at 2X Reduced Burn Speed
Also check the support articles for bootcamp
Apple Boot Camp Support

Bootcamp Assistant: Downloading Windows support software... STUCK.

I've been trying for 2 days to get Bootcamp Assistant to run on my iMac 5K, and every time I've tried I get to "Downloading Windows support software..." and it just stalls. I even left it over night in hopes maybe it would advance some how, but nothing at all, just stuck at maybe 10%,
Anybody else get past this? I see tons of people having installed Bootcamp already, how the **** did you manage it when you can't get appropriate drivers or software?

Wireless or wired doesn't matter (have tried both).
I've got a 150mbit down connection, which I've routinely run speed tests and other things since setting up the machine. So I'm going to assume the connection isn't the issue.
Here's a dump of everything from the Console. Any of it make sense?
10/23/14 2:41:32.782 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[2185]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
10/23/14 2:47:51.372 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.CoreLocationAgent[2202]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.CoreLocation.agent
10/23/14 2:49:39.614 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.CoreLocationAgent[2211]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.CoreLocation.agent
10/23/14 2:50:46.828 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.CoreLocationAgent[2222]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.CoreLocation.agent
10/23/14 2:54:10.970 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[2245]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
10/23/14 2:55:17.882 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Failed to connect (quitItem) outlet from (DAWindowController) to (NSMenuItem): missing setter or instance variable
10/23/14 2:55:17.999 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:17.999 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:18.035 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:18.035 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:19.426 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:19.426 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 2:55:30.449 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: -[DAWindowController softwareUpdateDidBegin:]
10/23/14 3:04:10.507 AM mds[32]: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7f80b4022000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:0 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Recovery HD
10/23/14 3:08:00.482 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.quicklook[2306]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook
10/23/14 3:35:00.062 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bsd.dirhelper[2325]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.bsd.dirhelper
10/23/14 8:08:59.239 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: -[__NSDictionaryM UTF8String]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6080000476e0
10/23/14 8:09:00.162 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 2 is not SATA or PCI.
10/23/14 8:09:00.162 AM Boot Camp Assistant[2256]: Disk 3 is not SATA or PCI.

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