Bootcamp assistant locks up during partitioning

I have tried running Boot Camp assistant twice now, and both times it has locked up during the partitioning process. After the first lock up I booted into the recovery disk and ran disk utility. I repaired the disk and repaired permissions on the disk to see if that would help. But it still locked up when it got to the partitioning part of Boot Camp assistant. I was wondering if any one had any advice on why this may be happening.

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Boot Camp Assistant Locking Up During Partitioning

I've rebuilt the drive using Diskwarrior (Drive Genius was suggested to defrag it in another thread, DW does the same thing) After rebuilding it, the program locked up still but at least it didn't leave the invisible partition I had to repair with Disk Utility.
I've tried many different sizes, 100GBs, 80GB and 60GBs, all locked up at the same point
I ran hardware test and got this error
4SNS/1/40000000 : TCOD-101.750
Googling the error code got no results, so I'm not sure if it's related or not
Any other ideas before a full wipe? I really want to play Witcher 2 :<
On that note, what qualifies as a bad hdd? I've had this computer for about a year, and a few months ago due to bootcamp not installing and the computer reporting errors Apple wiped my drive and it was fine.... for a few months and now I have issues again

'nuke the drive
punt
you have to backup, reformat the entire drive, and restore.
DW only builds a new directory, period.
There are some hidden GPT and EFI partitions that also have to be free of bad blocks and healthy, but only way to fix those is rebuild the drive via reformat, or in Apple-ese, ERASE. As in "WDxxxxxx" (not "My Computer" volume.

Bootcamp assistant doesn't give partition choice

I have a late 2013 iMac running Mavericks with a 512 GB SSD and an external USB had drive. When I run Bootcamp Assistant, it gives only the USB drive as an install location. I'd like to partition the SSD but I don't see how to do that.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

OK, got it all installed. I misread the instructions for Windows Support Software, thinking that USB was to be plugged in before Win install - not so. Also, Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool did not make a bootable USB that the Mac recognized. So the solution path for me, working with a windows ISO image was:
1. Use Daemon Tools to mount the Windows iso image file to allow Bootcamp to start
2. Use Bootcamp to make the bootable USB drive from the iso file.
3. Set up Bootcamp partition with Bootcamp Assistant.
4. Reboot to install Win7. Couldn't install on the Bootcamp partition, needed to reformat to NTFS.
5. Wireless Mouse/trackpad did not work during Win7 installation. I had to use keyboard only.
6. When Win7 installation was complete, tried to run Windows Support Software, which was needed for 64-bit versions of windows, according to DL1638. Did not run and reported not compatible with this Mac(!).
7. Windows 7 Ultimate now installed and up and running.
A curious observation on the Windows "experience index". This iMac has a PCIe connected SSD yet the disk performance reported by Windows came in at 5.9. All other indices were 7.8 - 7.9. (7.9 is the highest value.) I don't know whether this is a Win7 issue or what.
In any case, all appears to be up and running successfully. Thanks for your help and persistence.

Lock tables during partition exchange

Hi,
I want to do the following thing:
there are 9 partitioned tables (set A) and 9 non partitioned (set B).
There is a continuous dataflow into set A.And there is also a dependency between the nine flows within each transaction into set A (there is no dependency between different transactions.).
What I want is to exchange the nine partitions of set A with set B. This because I want to have a performance boost instead of copying the data from A into B.
I need to lock the tables of set A to make sure there is NO insertion of data into one of the tables of set A to avoid loss of dependency and thus loss of data.
I tried several things: lock tables, run autonomous transaction in which the exchange takes place, commit and unlock. But no success.
Who can help me to solve my problem: to lock all nine tables of set A and make sure the dependency remains consistent and no data gets lost?
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jurgen

Why you are bothering about LOCKing the table,
you can goahead and do the exchange the table,
since, its ongoing activity, exchanged partition will be there till you merge, drop it.
if you found some more rows after exchange, then you can insert same into that table, or make another table.
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Bootcamp Assistant vs. Bootcamp

What is the difference between Bootcamp Assistant and Bootcamp? :-?
Is it:
Bootcamp Assistant is used to partition the HD and aid in installing Windows?
Bootcamp is used during boot up to choose which OS to run after Windows has been installed using Bootcamp Assistant?
Other?
Thanks
-Mike

Soniq2 wrote:
What is the difference between Bootcamp Assistant and Bootcamp? :-?
Is it:
Bootcamp Assistant is used to partition the HD and aid in installing Windows?
Exactly correct
Bootcamp is used during boot up to choose which OS to run after Windows has been installed using Bootcamp Assistant?
Actually the term "BootCamp" is the generic descriptor for the entire Windows installed system.
There are the "BootCamp" drivers on the DVD and in the software update, but in essence, once the drive is partitioned, the only item that still used the term, "BootCamp" is the little Windows app located in the system tray on the lower right.
In theory, the HD could be partitioned with other software, formatted for windows and a 3rd party boot loader such as rEFIt could be used to select the Windows OS.
What Apple has done is to make the solution simple and they simply named it "BootCamp"
Many people think that they are running Windows under BootCamp, or even that they are running
"BootCamp" which, of course is completely incorrect.
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-Mike

When I installed Windows 7 with bootcamp, bootcamp was not on my partition

I got windows 7, I have done this before and after installing you normally get the bootcamp assistant on your windows partition so that you can do drivers and such, I didnt get bootcamp on the partition and now I'm lost...
If anyone knows what I did wrong please aid me,
I do not have a Mac OSX snowleopard installation CD because it is a bad CD that doesn't work
If anyone knows how to get bootcamp on the paritions Id greatly appreciate it,
Iv already tried to reinstall in and it didnt work either,
Thanks in advance!

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
first of: the BootCamp Assistant is a part of OSX and not on your WIndows partition.
The OSX DVD (either the one that came with your Mac or a retail-purchased one) is the only legal source of the BootCamp Drivers and the BootCamp Control Panel.
The updates Apple provides on their download site are updates-only and not suitable for a clean installation.
So, if your OSX DVD is bad (scratched or the like) get a new one from Apple or buy a retail Snow Leopard DVD for about 29 USD.
Regards
Stefan

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.
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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

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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
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Apple Boot Camp Support

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I just got a 27" 1TB brand new iMac three days ago. After copying over all my files from my previous computer (PC), installing some software packages and configured the Mac the way I want it, yesterday I wanted to partition 80GB out of remaining 330GB with bootcamp assistant to install Windows 7. After one hour it stopped with an error message that it wasn't able to move some files and I would need to re-format the HD and start again.
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