Bootcamp not installed

OK, help. I installed Snow Leopard when it first came out and there is no Bootcamp on my iMac. I looked in the install disk and there is no option to install Bootcamp. I upgraded to Lion and still no Bootcamp. Where am I going wrong? What do I do to fix it?

rpduval wrote:
There are already a few threads about the download issue. Basically it says that there is nothing to download and I have to click OK. When I try to partition it says I need to move something and that my drive isn't journaled or some such (I'm not at home right now, can't check exact wording sorry).
For the second issue you need to clone your drive to an external and then put the clone back, you can also try booting from your OSX disk, running and running Repair Disk from Disk Utility.
The first problem requires patience, it works eventually.

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I have an Alu 24" imac running Snow Leopard and using Bootcamp 3.x
I had a previous Windows Xp bootcamp partition but it was getting a bit small and i felt a nice clean install would do it some good as well.
So i opened Bootcamp Assistant, deleted the old partition and ran a disk permission on my mac drive just to get the yin and yang all back together.
I created a new Bootcamp partition (Bootcamp icon appears on desktop, etc) made it 105gb and popped in my WinXp sp2 disk. I then hit Start Installation. My mac restarts, takes a while on the white screen ejects my disk and then loads my log in to mac os x. I tried again. Bootcamp, start install, it restarts, takes a while then ejects and takes me to the mac log in. So i restarted again and held down alt. Only the mac drive pops up, no other option to boot into even with the cd popped in.
Any ideas? It's the same cd i used for the first bootcamp partition i had, i've also tried my win7 cd that i used in parallels file and the same thing happens?
Thanks in advance,
Tara

I got mine to work
I'll tell you what i did in case it helps fix yours as well but i don't know if this is an actual solution or just worked for me but here goes.
I finally decided to create another version of the dvd i had which was an orginal win7 downloaded from my school's MSDN account.
I popped in the dvd which mac os x mounted fine and opened it up - bunch of files and folders as it's supposed to have.
I opened Disk Utilities, highlighted the dvd in the left side and hit create new image. When that was done my new image file name appeared on the left also, I clicked it then hit burn, put in a new blank cd and let it go. When that was done i ran the Bootcamp Assistant an hit start installation. It restarted and loaded up the WIN7 boot cd.
So i reckon i just needed to stroke my mac's ego a little. Yes, mac you did all the work, you even created the cd, good boy, now load it, yes well done
I hope that helps someone else, if not good luck on finding a solution that works for you to
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Bootcamp not installing

hello there , im apple user for several years , but just recently i bought a late2008 MBP , i've tryed to chek the bootcamp icon on UTILITIES , i run the app , and its saying , downloading windows support software, a progress bar spins , but after a few seconds a warning windows appear saying , download could not continue --- The Windows support software is not available (OK)
after that 2 option appear , download the windows support software for this MAC
or
i have mac os x installation disc that came with my mac or i have already downloaded the windows support software for this mac .
what do i need to do , i have the original windows 7 , but my original osx snow leopard , fell down from the 5 floor and its broken ... how can i solve this problem , i need windows on the machine (alltough im a bit anti windows) but several apps i need to music making are on windows , and i need to cross between OS to work . anyone can help ???
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Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP51.007E.B05
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Well, as has been said for months here, ever since 10.6.6, that 'feature' to download drivers has never once worked (works for MBAir to provide external DVD).
so just ignore it.
All the Apple tech articles, guide and more
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
When Windows is installed, then insert OS X DVD in Windows and run SETUP.exe - just as it spells out in black and white in the pdf Boot Camp Guide.

Problems Windows XP Pro SP2 installed on Bootcamp (not installing)

Hi
Every time i try to install Windows XP on my MBA (mac book air) i go through the process and always get stuck with this error message:
Set Up could not Read the CD you Inserted, or the the disc is not valid, is this cause by the fact we are using a USB disk drive on the MBA?
Full message here:
http://gallery.me.com/j1s#100045
what do i do ?

I think that the problem is either the optical drive or the disk.
The installation should work fine via a USB optical drive. It had worked flawlessly for me on my MB Air.
Get a new disk, and, if that fails, get a new optical drive.
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BootCamp made for Windows Vista would not install in WIndows 7

Hi,
I am trying to install Bootcamp drivers on Windows 7 with the Mac OS CD that came with my Intel-based iMac. The problem is that I bought my iMac when the latest Windows was Vista, and it would not install on Windows 7. The Bootcamp drivers for Windows 7 on Apple Support pages are "UPDATES" that require BootCamp 3.0 already installed in Windows. However, I cannot install BootCamp 3.0 in the first place, because it would be installed only on Vista. What should I do to have BootCamp installed on my Windows 7 so that I can set the default booting OS to be Mac OS again?

Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows.
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Boot Camp: Installation and Storage
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            417.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                81.8 GB    disk0s4
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   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      APPLE HDD ST500LM012 Media
   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)
   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)
   File System:              None
   Content (IOContent):      GUID_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
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I did the following
1) Using 10.9 recovery i initialized and created a single clean partition on the 1Tb SSD
2) I installed a clean copy of 10.9
3) Using migration assistant i transferred apps and documents from my previous SSD via a USB 3.0 adapter to the new SSD
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I've recently installed Bootcamp and WinXP Pro x32 on my new MacBook Unibody.
I got a very unpleaseant surprise...
The drivers for the wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, processor aid, chipset and isight are simply NOT installing. I'm getting the "new hardware found" notification every time I boot up, and when I try to upgrade the drivers of these "unknown devices" @ the Device Manager control panel, no adequate drivers are found. I've re-installed the bootcamp drivers that came with my MB like 10 times, with NO luck.
HELP!

I'm having a similar issue...
I don't have access to the Leopard CD, and I'm not paying Apple 12 bucks to ship me the CD I already own just because I left it in my dorm over interterm, but that's neither here nor there. The point is I installed XP, downloaded the drivers and installed them. The only appreciable difference after installing the drives from the installer I downloaded is that there is now the boot camp task bar icon. None of the other drivers got installed, though the installer listed them all and went smoothly.
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Did you download the Windows Support software when you used Bootcamp Assistant? Then did you install the Windows Support software from within Windows?
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I have a laptop that I use to do page layout. It took FOREVER to get my print output settings in quark, photoshop, etc just right.
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Jason:
The only way that I know to get the boot camp 2.0 drivers is from the Leopard Installation Disk. You indicated that you want to keep Tiger installed. You also indicated that you have the beta version of boot camp already running. You are in a good situation to update to 2.0 boot camp drivers.
The catch? You will still need the Leopard Installation Disk as you will need to insert that while booted in Windows to start and finish the update process. All of the necessary drivers are on the Leopard CD.
I have a Leopard Installation disk, then simply boot into Windows and get to the Windows desktop. Insert the Leopard installation disk and it will begin updating the drivers. You can leave the Tiger partition as is.
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lion installed.... i used bootcamp to install win 7 and screen went blank.waited hour then shut off comp
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and how can i get the disk out of the comp

To switch back to Lion, simply hold the option key when your mac starts. Then you can choose the disk/partition with OS X to boot from.
You could try a repair install of windows 7, do the above, but with the Windows 7 disc in the drive. Then boot from it and run the repair option.
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Hello Everyone, I have a MacBook older model with me.I am running 10.7.6 on that, I was trying to use BootCamp to install windows on my mac. Since BootCamp can only work on a single Volume, I partitioned my Hard Disk to one volume. Using BootCamp I

Hello Everyone,
I have a MacBook older model with me.I am running 10.7.6 on that, I was trying to use BootCamp to install windows on my mac. Since BootCamp can only work on a single Volume, I partitioned my Hard Disk to one volume.
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1)Development2)Backup3)BootCamp.
Next when I switched to Windows, It should the classic error, No Bootable device found, please insert a Bootable CD and press any key. When I tried to enter my Mac OS X install DVD and by pressing option key, it does not show me the proper Mac OS X development volume. It keeps going back to the No bootable device found message.
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Regards
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you can't add a partition in between - you put Windows to a new partition number.
GPT (GUID)
EFI
Mac HFS
Lion Recovery
Windows
And now you have two HFS
One partition and one Windows (plus Lion Recovery).
If you were to have more, it can't be before Windows for one thing.

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using bootcamp, was installing windows xp, at the select ntfs or fat format mistakenly selected "leave the current file system intact." How can that be changed to a correct choice. Mac side opens correctly. Windows shows disk error. and doesn't respond to press any key. When looking in the startup disk section, windows on boot camp can be seen, but not selected. (13"MacBook Pro 10.6.8)

Have a read here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1722 for solution.
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So basically, I have trying to install windows on my mbp using a usb drive. However bootcamp wont allow me to do so since I have a optical drive on the laptop. I have been searching for a long time and eventually came across this solution and I would like to share this so u guys dont have to google all over the place again .
The solutions given before by changing info.plist is correct except that now Bootcamp crashes everytime you change it in OSX 10.9.
Full solution:
1. Add your Boot Rom Version(from system info) under DARequiredROMVersions.
2. Add Model Identifier(from system info) under PreUSBBootSupportedModels
3. Delete "Pre" from "PreUSBBootSupportedModels", so you have "USBBootSupportedModels"
The first 3 steps are same as before and if its not clear you can easily google solutions with screenshots.
The next step is only for OSX 10.9, as it employs some kind of code signature to prevent you from changing info.plist and cause bootcamp to crash.
4. Open your terminal, use the following command
sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app
Sudo means using administrator privilege and u need to enter your mac password. And the command resigns the bootcamp application so that it runs with the new info.plist file and not crash.
5. Continue on with your installation....
Cheers.
P.S. back up info.plist before u change anything.

do you have multiple partitions on your USB stick? And what partition table does it use?
I have two windows installers. One is on a 4GB single partition fat32 formatted stick, and one is on a 5GB partitions of a 500GB USB HDD. On the USB HDD I have windows as second partition. First is OSX installer. I noticed that I can boot in BIOS mode with the 4GB USB stick, but not with the 500GB USB HDD.
So try a windows formatted USB stick with a single partition. See if that works.
Be carefull with google.. In the last few days I have been researching some bootcamp related things and there is waaaay more wrong information of people that tell others what they 'heard' than that there is right information of those who know how stuff works.
I am of the 2nd category btw. I only tell you what I know for sure. If an '06 macbook with ODD can boot of of USB into BIOS mode, then so should you.
Edit: The reason the Windows EFI installers says it found an MBR partition only is because by default the disk is in GPT mode with a 'protected' mbr so that non-gpt aware programs wont look and scream "free space! ".
In order for Bootcamp to install in legacy BIOS mode it converts this 'protective' MBR into a "hybrid" MBR. If you download the open source app "Gdisk", install it, and type "sudo gdisk /dev/disk0" in terminal you will see there is either a protective or hybrid MBR on the disk.
Formatting a disk to fat32 with any OSX tool (BC Utility or disk utility) will convert the protective MBR to Hybrid MBR.
Gdisk allows you to reset this to a protective MBR as described here: http://superuser.com/questions/508026/windows-detects-gpt-disk-as-mbr-in-efi-boo t
Hybrid MBR: Full Bootcamp compatibility. OSX knows whats up and decides everything. Windows installs in legacy BIOS mode on an MBR type disk.
Protective MBR: Bootcamp utility and OSX are not used since they would convert the disk to a hybrid MBR. This mode is compatible with booting in EFI mode. EFI compatible Windows versions (7 partially, 8 completely) will live alongside OS X, for the most without problems. And will install on a GPT type disk.
Hope to have helped you with this. Took me three full days of non-stop reading to figure this out.
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Edit 2: Make damned sure you have a backup of your system. Messing around with partition types and tables shouldnt hurt when you know what you're doing. But since I know this for three days, and you apparently havent found this yet, I think it's safe to say both of us aren't yet 100% sure of what we're doing .
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