Bootcamp Installation Shutdown Problem

I'm having a problem when installing Windows. After it is done doing the setup, my computer automatically shuts down. The first time I tried it I got to the formatting the disk part, but after re-partitioning the drive and doing it again, I can only get past the setup. It is also an OEM version of Windows, which I read on many discussions doesn't matter. If that's the case then what the **** is the problem!?

OEM versions work fine with Boot Camp provided it is not the CD that comes with a previously bought computer (DELL, Gateway Etc). These OEM CDs will also have validation issues.
One Question, which version of windows are you trying to install? If it is windows XP then is it the windows XPSP2 version on a single installation disk?
Axel F.

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hi all,
i just had a new imac and was trying to install a windows home premium OEM 64 bit on bootcamp. installation is going fine until the completion stage where your suppose to set up winodws for first use, all it did is become a blank/ black screen and nothing happens. i waited for a long time until i decided to install it one more try. no luck. i tried to remove the partition and partitioned it again on bootcamp and had another go at installation, still no joy. have anyone had similar problems? i just prefered to install a windows natively instead of using parallels. can someone help me please? i would really appreciate it.

I made the mistake when setting up bootcamp by not formatting the partition during the windows setup.
So you could make sure you have partition on the mac side, and then when setting up i the windows side formattig the partition space before files are copied.

Macbook Pro 2011, Swap SSID against Multidrive. Problems with Bootcamp Installation.

Hi guys,
Whilst waiting for the release of drivers for Bootcamp to update to Windows 8 I thought I just tell you about my expieriencw with an SSID Upgrade I just purchased from GRAVIS in Germany for my MBP 2011. 13 inch I7.
I had originally a 750 GB Drive in my MBP but as I am working wiht Photshop and a have to store a lot of Photos on my HD I was absolutly fond of an offer I found recently in the latest GRAVIS Germany Flyer. ( Gravis is one of the biggest Apple Retailer in Germany)
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Wow. Everything done, including clone of HD to SSID for 399 Euros.
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So far so good.
I picked up my Mackbook, rebuildet in the way discribed and wanted to install bootcamp at home.
Done it several times on my own, have never had a problem but this time I had no chance. The problem was that in the moment the Windows installation should start the mashine looks for the internal drive and goes into Notebook Nirvana and thats it. And there is no easy work around.
My husband ( software engineer) and me tried a whole evening without success. Took my Macbooc back the next morning to Gravis. They laughed...of course, they are experts and know better...ha..ha.... than they tried everything what I told them we tried the night before ourselfs and in the end after hours they swapped the HD against the Multidrive back , installed Bootcamp and Windows 7 and rebuild again.
Anyway, I had my Bootcamp back but I I was no way satisfied with this solution as I have to say I dont imagine ever time I want to reinstall my Bootcamp from now first driving to Gravis and get my Hardware swapped, install it and swapp it back. I was really disapinonted as I expect as a customer that a Apple retailer knows about problems which could occure when you swap hardware on a macbook and tells you about this problem BEFORE and of course have an aceptable solution for this problem or tell you not to do it when you have got or plan at any time a bootcamp installation on your mashine.
I was totaly frustrated and called the Apple support about it.
I just could not accept this because there are so many other devices wihtout an internal drive in the Apple produkt range that I was sure there must be another solution for this problem.
The guy in the hotline was very helpful, As expected he never heard about a problem like hits before but he went to the back office at once and talked the problem through.
He called me back about it a bit later. I did not try the solution which he sugested but I will do it next time. First at all he confirmed that its not possible for a Macbook Pro which gets delivered with an internal drive to install bootcamp from an external drive.
The Macbook Airs without internal drives getting delivered with a different version of bootcamp. As far as I undestood him you cant install this different Bootcampversion on your MBP.
This Bootcampversions have one more step in their installion routine and this is to create a bootable USB Stick within the installion from which than the MB starts when MY MBP was disappearing into the Nirvana because it could not find the internal drive.
The idea now is to go to an Apple shop with your Windows installation CD/ DVD, to ask a nice person there to allow you to use an MB Air and produce with this the bootable stick. And than go home and try it on your MBP.
Certainly not an easy solution and I dont even know if it would work but still better that rebuilding your Macbook for every new installion of Bootcamp.
Anybody ever tried this?
Maybe there are other possibilitie? Anybody found out something else?
Thought I let you know for the case anybody stumbles about the same problems after swapping his internal drive with a HD oder SSID.
Kind regards Kattinka

Hi guys,
Whilst waiting for the release of drivers for Bootcamp to update to Windows 8 I thought I just tell you about my expieriencw with an SSID Upgrade I just purchased from GRAVIS in Germany for my MBP 2011. 13 inch I7.
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They offered to swap `HD against a 50 GB SSID and built in the original HD in the Slot of the internal Multidrive. The Multidrive gets build in into a external case.
Wow. Everything done, including clone of HD to SSID for 399 Euros.
I called them on the phone, talked it through with them and took the Macbook there for the change.
The plan was that they do copy just the MAC OS Parition and I do a fresh Bootcamp Installation myself as I plned to update to Windows 8 anyway and for this I wanted to have a fresh Window 7 Intallation on Bootcamp.
So far so good.
I picked up my Mackbook, rebuildet in the way discribed and wanted to install bootcamp at home.
Done it several times on my own, have never had a problem but this time I had no chance. The problem was that in the moment the Windows installation should start the mashine looks for the internal drive and goes into Notebook Nirvana and thats it. And there is no easy work around.
My husband ( software engineer) and me tried a whole evening without success. Took my Macbooc back the next morning to Gravis. They laughed...of course, they are experts and know better...ha..ha.... than they tried everything what I told them we tried the night before ourselfs and in the end after hours they swapped the HD against the Multidrive back , installed Bootcamp and Windows 7 and rebuild again.
Anyway, I had my Bootcamp back but I I was no way satisfied with this solution as I have to say I dont imagine ever time I want to reinstall my Bootcamp from now first driving to Gravis and get my Hardware swapped, install it and swapp it back. I was really disapinonted as I expect as a customer that a Apple retailer knows about problems which could occure when you swap hardware on a macbook and tells you about this problem BEFORE and of course have an aceptable solution for this problem or tell you not to do it when you have got or plan at any time a bootcamp installation on your mashine.
I was totaly frustrated and called the Apple support about it.
I just could not accept this because there are so many other devices wihtout an internal drive in the Apple produkt range that I was sure there must be another solution for this problem.
The guy in the hotline was very helpful, As expected he never heard about a problem like hits before but he went to the back office at once and talked the problem through.
He called me back about it a bit later. I did not try the solution which he sugested but I will do it next time. First at all he confirmed that its not possible for a Macbook Pro which gets delivered with an internal drive to install bootcamp from an external drive.
The Macbook Airs without internal drives getting delivered with a different version of bootcamp. As far as I undestood him you cant install this different Bootcampversion on your MBP.
This Bootcampversions have one more step in their installion routine and this is to create a bootable USB Stick within the installion from which than the MB starts when MY MBP was disappearing into the Nirvana because it could not find the internal drive.
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Certainly not an easy solution and I dont even know if it would work but still better that rebuilding your Macbook for every new installion of Bootcamp.
Anybody ever tried this?
Maybe there are other possibilitie? Anybody found out something else?
Thought I let you know for the case anybody stumbles about the same problems after swapping his internal drive with a HD oder SSID.
Kind regards Kattinka

Bootcamp Installation Problem

Hi Guys,
Need some help here. I am totally struggling with my bootcamp installation. Here is what is going on, lets see if someone has had similar problems and can help me out.
I have a Macbook Pro 15´ late 2011. I just updated the computer, installed 16gb of RAM and a 240 GB SSD made by Crucial (http://www.crucial.com/store/ProductMarketing_m500.aspx). As usual update my old hard drive is installed where the DVD drive was and my new SSD where the original driva was. Mavericks is running smooth, huge difference when starting the computer or loading applications. The problem comes when I went out to install Bootcamp.
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So I decided to try with USB installation. Realized after a lot of research that the bootcamp assistant wont let you install by USB as you are supposed to use your optical drive. I made some research and found out that you could change some parameters under the bootcamp app so that the app lets you make all the USB installation. Tried this with W8 and Worked fine, but when installing windows tells me that the OS cant be installed under my SSD , some error regarding the drive.
Tried the same as the one before with W7 but this time my mac pro would not even recognized the drive where all the windows installation was mounted.
I have tried everything and I cannot get to a solution. Has someone had so much truble????
please!! any help will be gladly received.
best!
Fernando

The last poster who had this problem installed with a "too old" version of Windows and we spent a week on the problem before he mentioned it. Do you have Xp + SP2? If you do not have SP2 version you can stop right here. Make sure you install exactly to Apple's requirements and nothing can go wrong. Take a short-cut and you can potentially wreck even your OSX... Be safe: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1656
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/Boot_CampInstall-Setup.pdf

OSX Lion won't boot after Bootcamp installation interrupted

Hello, I started a Bootcamp installation on my OSX Lion Mac Pro. Once I realized that I could only use Windows 7, I had to hold off on the installation until I located my Windows 7 disk. I had set the Bootcamp partition size to 100 GB on a 500 GB Drive. Due to threatning weather, I shutdown the computer.
Now the OSX Lion does not boot! I have been reading much information on this topic to see about fixing the problem. I talked to Apple Support and so far it is still not working. I was able to boot using the recovery partition "Disk Utility -> First Aid -> Repair Disk". When I ran Repair Disk there were some errors reported and repaired, then OSX still not booting. I installed Lion on another drive using recovery and that works OK. I was hoping to install Lion on the original drive and still not disturb my data files like music, photos, etc. That volume with OSX is greyed out and does not mount. I am thinking that the GPT had been modified and since Windows was not installed on Bootcamp, there is no way to boot on the original drive /dev/disk2. I read about a backup GPT, so I am wondering if I can use the backup GPT to fix the boot problem.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
David

Thanks for the fast reply. Ill try this again. Did this the first time, but wouldn't boot again. I've since done a,fresh install of Lion, and it created the proper recovery partition. I didn't have this before, because I cloned my old drive, when I upgraded to an SSD drive. Didn't know about the recover partition. Ill try again, and see if I can get it to work.
Just need to figure out the driver situation, with my Nvidia Quadro Mac video. Not worth trying again, if I have to use default generic video drivers.

Partition corrupted after Bootcamp Installation aborted

Hello, I started a Bootcamp installation on my OSX Lion Mac Pro. Once I realized that I could only use Windows 7, I had to hold off on the installation until I located my Windows 7 disk. I had set the Bootcamp partition size to 100 GB on a 500 GB Drive. Due to threatning weather, I shutdown the computer.
Now the OSX Lion does not boot! I have been reading much information on this topic to see about fixing the problem. I talked to Apple Support and so far it is still not working. I was able to boot using the recovery partition "Disk Utility -> First Aid -> Repair Disk". When I ran Repair Disk there were some errors reported and repaired, then OSX still not booting. I installed Lion on another drive using recovery and that works OK. I was hoping to install Lion on the original drive and still not disturb my data files like music, photos, etc. The volume with my data is greyed out and does not mount. I think the partition is corrupted.
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Apple Hardware test result:
No problems found.
GDISK output:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Disk 0:: 1467339812 sectors, 699.7 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 000000D5-2857-0000-3E39-0000720B0000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1467339778
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 5089 sectors (2.5 MiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size      Code Name
1              40          409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
2          413696      977789151 466.0 GiB AF00 Macintosh HD
3      977789152      979058687 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD
4      979058688      1467338751 232.8 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP
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USB ports not working in Windows-7 on MacBook Pro Retina Late 2013 after Bootcamp installation

1) INSTALLATION
Using Bootcamp (v. 5.1.1, OS X Mavericks) in combination with an original Microsoft installation DVD disc using an external optical CD/DVD drive. Note, the installation is NOT from an ISO image. In the Bootcamp setup window only the lower two of the three setup options are clicked, namely a) to download Windows-7 drivers to a USB stick, and b) to partition the harddrive and then to install Windows.
2) PROBLEM
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3) CAUSE
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4) SOLUTION
Use a USB 2.0 stick and everything will work perfectly.
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1) Connect your external DVD drive to a USB port and insert the Windows installation disc
2) Start the Bootcamp utility
3) In Bootcamp, remove the failed Windows-7 installation and partition
4) In Bootcamp, redo the entire Bootcamp process, but this time using a USB 2.0 stick
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My MacBook Pro keyboard not working correctly after Win7 bootcamp installation.
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I was thinking of reverting back to the original factory 4GB then rebooting the entire computer. Any suggestions?
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Karim.Foad wrote:
Ok wow that's cleared a lot up ....I've been researching this for the last few days , and getting mixed views with some saying windows will count the virtual machine as a separate computer and they have all sorts if activation problems .But for the second activation , in parallels , the long digit phone activation should be sufficient ?? Because I really don't look forward to explaining everything to a Microsoft Representative
Over the phon haha!
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After partitioning and installation of Windows-XP, there are no Bootcamp utilities to go to the internet. I tried to update Bootcamp, but allways is the error that I should first install an older version of the program. Is there a solution for this problem?

The BootCamp Forum is here https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
However, dis you insert your OSX Install DVD (the one that came with your Mac) after the Windows installation ?
The needed BootCamp Drivers are on that disc and the installation usually starts automatically after inserting it while in Windows.
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Leopard (10.5 & 10.5.1) shutdown problems

I just got a brand new 20" iMac with Leopard. When I started it up I migrated user settings (but no applications) over from my 12" PowerBook G4 (in case that is relevant).
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as in my topic described I am looking to install
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TheMonark wrote:
I input that into mac terminal while running os? And then you'd like me to post the results on this discussion board?
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Enjoy the party!
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Sorry if I haven't made it clear:
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I've been having the very same problem. I believe cats.comm, in this thread - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10889210&#10889210 - may have the answer. Just scroll on down to the penultimate comment.
I successfully installed Windows on my iMac some time ago, but decided to create a clean partition after some messy game installations. When I installed Windows the first time, I didn't have any USB devices plugged into my iMac other than my keyboard and mouse. The second (and failed) attempt led me to research the problem. All throughout my second attempt I've had a printer, USB dock station and my iPhone dock all connected, which could have caused the problem.
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I want to have Windows 7 on my late 2013 Macbook Pro 13 to run applications not available on OSX. I need a small separate partition to store files for one of the applications that runs under Windows. On my older PC Windows machine I have C:\ that contains 98% of the data and a separate partition that acts as a separate drive (M:\) to store library files. This is a local copy of a server that I carry on my MBP, and doing this as I've done keeps the configuration files (that point to the server M:\) on my MBP consistent with desktop machines that actually point to a network shared drive (M:\). I just sync my small partition with the server every so often to keep my MBP functioning when I'm disconnected from the server. Now the problem. I can install Windows via bootcamp and that creates a C:\ (Windows partition) and gets Windows up and running. I have already learned the hard way about adjusting the partitions after bootcamp installation (I've rebuilt my Mac about 3 times ). I have been able to create the correct number of partitions by running the bootcamp assistant, creating the bootcamp partition, rebooting and <option> booting back to OSX, before installing Windows to add this 10GB partition (as FAT32) for my "M drive". Now after creating the "M drive" partition, I booted back into the Windows install disk (which has issues with USB drivers not functioning which I got past) and now I find out Windows will not install because it can't format the bootcamp partition since it will be a 5th primary partition and Windows 7 only supports 4 primary partitions on a drive. Is there a better way (without virtual OSs)?

Not possible. Boot Camp only works for two partitions - the OS X one and the Windows one. That's it. If you attempt to put a third partition on the drive, then Boot Camp is no longer able to manage the drive and you will lose the required boot loader for Windows. Getting things back to normal will then require repartitioning the drive back to one volume and reinstalling OS X from scratch.

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