Bootcamp Windows upgrade question

Hello, I am currently running bootcamp on my mac using windows xp. I am looking to upgrade to windows 7. If i do this, can i just upgrade it directly from windows xp to 7 using the cd? or would i have to redo the entire bootcamp process. Thanks

no. It is unwise and unsafe and requires a hacked install.... at best.
Unless you only have 2GB RAM you also can't go to 64-bit from 32-bit OS which also requires a clean (format) install.
And W7 will need about 60GB to function and apply all the updates (slightly less, maybe, if you only had 2-3GB RAM) due to page and hibernation files.

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Hi everyone, i have a couple questions about upgrading the HD in my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 1012. Potentially I want to use bootcamp, but I need some answers before I make any decisions. So basically, I want to Bootcamp Windows so i can play PC games that I've owned since before the switch (I am an art major so I had to switch to Mac). I used Bootcamp before but I couldn't register my copy of Windows 8 because it was an upgrade version, so I removed it.
My first question would be if anyone knows how to get an upgrade version of Windows 8 to work? Im pretty sure I remember seeing that it didnt work, but that was a couple months ago. Maybe things have changed since?
I have no issue buying another copy of Windows 8 if need be. I only paid $15 to upgrade anyway so it's not a major loss. The last time I used Bootcamp though, i only partitioned like 25GBs to Windows, just because I didnt know how much I would actually need. I came to realize that that was not enough. I have a 500GB HD in my MacBook Pro right now, so I would like to upgrade to a 1TB to provide more space on both sides. I've searched for a few on Amazon and such. I need to know if the physical size of the HD matters because i noticed there was two different ones. I also need to know if I can use any HD or if only certain ones are compatible? I don't want an SSD either, it is too expensive for that capacity. Basically, if anyone can recommend an exact HD, one that would be compatible with my MBP or give me an idea of what would work and what won't?
Another question would be... im not extremely comfortable popping open my Mac. This is not something that I do, even though I have read that it is extremely easy. I wanted to look first if there were any places that provide this kind of service for a reasonably cheap cost? Apple themselves, or Best Buy, Office Max etc. I don't really have a preference as long as its cheap enough. If not, or it is too expensive then I will follow instructions to perform this myself, I do know how to read after all, but I would prefer to look for a 3rd party first. Also, does anyone know if this procedure voids any warranties or anything on my Mac?
Sorry for the length. Question overload, but if anyone can answer some or all of my question, I would appreciate it so much. Thanks everyone!

MathewMelo,
for any Mac that supports Boot Camp, no, you can’t use any upgrade version of Windows; you’ll need to use a full install version. For your 15-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, you can use a full install version of either 32-bit Windows 7 (with Boot Camp version 4), or 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 (with Boot Camp version 5).
For the size of a hard drive that will fit inside of your MacBook Pro, you’re looking for the 2.5-inch form factor. A hard drive that supports SATA III will ensure best performance with your model MacBook Pro. A 1 TB hard drive like the Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000.B (part number 0S03563) might fit your needs, and it has a three-year warranty. I haven’t used this particular model myself, but I’d used a different Travelstar disk in my old ThinkPad for many years, and it worked well for me.
As far as replacing the hard drive, I don’t know who offers the service cheaply in your area — you should call your local computer shops and ask them. It’s not difficult to do yourself, as long as you take care to discharge static electricity before touching anything inside of your MacBook Pro. The only unusual tool that you might need is a T6 Torx screwdriver; at least in my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro, the hard drive is held in place by four T6 Torx screws, and if your model is similar, then you’ll need the T6 screwdriver to remove these screws from your stock internal drive and put them into your new internal drive so that it will stay in place. Changing the hard drive yourself does not void the warranty, but if you damage anything else while changing the hard drive, your warranty specifically does not cover that damage. The hard drive is one of the easiest things to replace in the pre-Retina unibody MacBook Pro, so it isn’t difficult to avoid damaging other components during the transplant.

I have Windows XP Pro as my Bootcamp option under Snow Leopard. If I upgrade to Lion will I still be able to use this Bootcamp Windows XP operating system as I dont have Windows 7 yet

I have Windows XP Pro as my Bootcamp option under Snow Leopard which works very well indeed.
I would like to upgrade to Lion but am concerned re its lack of support for Bootcamp Windows XP
Can I upgrade to Lion and boot into my old Windows XP BootCamp partition as I do at present OR
must I buy Windows v7 and install under the new Bootcamp system.
Also what happens to my Snow Leopard Time Machines backups - can I see them under Lion?
Many thanks
Peter B.

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Bootcamp, Windows, and Parallels upgrades

Wow...lots of google hits, not much info on this combination of products. There are many hints on how to proceed with individual updates, but not much on how to approach a Loin/Parallels 6/Bootcamp/Windows XP transformation to Lion/Parallels 7/Bootcamp/Windows 7. Here's a few hints.
Make sure that your OSX software is up to date. Reconfigure your virtual machine to not share anything between Windows and OSX.
Start with the Windows Easy Transfer utility to save you XP settings. The Windows 7 install is going to wipe out your bootcamp-partition disk, so get over it. Drop those files on a USB drive (Fat Format). Also make sure that you have or can get install media for any Windows programs you need. To be safe, copy the entire "C" drive to the USB drive.
Let the Bootcamp assistant download and save the drivers for you to that USB drive. Don't let it delete/format the Windows partition or start the install (unless you need to change the size of the partition...then you're stuck with a double install).
Boot as a PC, and try to launch Setup for the upgrade from Windows. If that doesn't work, boot from the W7 install disk. This lets the W7 install see that you have an upgrade (assuming that you have the upgrade license and not a new install). Either way, the W7 install will format your windows partition (make sure you pick the right one). Don't forget to install the Bootcamp-created drivers as soon as the W7 install gives you control of the console.
The install runs, well, like a windows install. Don't enter the license key during the install, but wait for it to complete and run the Activate utility. If it works, great. If not, install again -- this time as an upgrade -- and let it take it's own sweet time again. Once the upgrade is complete, apply Windows updates until you get two successive reboots with no updates showing. You can also recover your settings (the Easy Transfer utility stuff) and install any windows software while you're in PC mode. It's a little quicker that way.
Now back to Mac land. Download and install (and pay for) Parallels 7. When the install completes, delete your original Virtual Machine and let Parallels create a new one. It takes a while for it to reconfigure Windows 7 -- and install the tools. But, when it's done, you're back to having a Windows-based PC as a nice helper app for Mac OS/X (as it should be). You might want to buy some more memory, though.

One additional tip ... don't activate windows until you're done with the Parallels setup. No biggie if you do, but you'll have to do it again after Parallels is done.

I upgraded to Lion and now my bootcamp/windows option is either gone or inaccessible....what happened? how do I fix it?

I downloaded and installed Lion, now there doesn't appear to be a bootcamp/windows option. I thought it would install on the Mac partition, and the program didn't ask anything...just went and did the installation. Is the Windows side gone, or is it just hiding?

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ISight on Bootcamp Windows 7 no longer working

After upgrading to Lion OS X, my iSight no longer works on Bootcamp Windows 7. It formerly worked under Snow Leopard's Bootcamp Win 7.

i would believe it might be the limiting of the number of programs during startup.
do a msconfig and configure it to startup only windows item only. See if this makes any diference
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Bootcamp Windows Installer won't boot properly on rBMP late 2013

I have been redirected to this community. I will repost the same question I asked in the mackbook pro community. I am new to Apple Support Communities, I hope this is okay for me to ask the question here again.
Here is my post in the other community: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5922375?tstart=0
I just bought my MBP Retina 13" Late 2013 last week. It came with Mavericks 10.9, and I have since updated it to 10.9.1.
I have installed Windows 7 64bit using Bootcamp, and ran into a situation, which I hope the experts here could give me a hand.
I used the first two options in Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) and sucessfully created a Bootcamp Windows Installer for Windows 7 64bit on a USB Thumb Drive (USB 3.0). Then I launched Boot Camp Assistant again, and selected the last option to install Windows 7 64 bit on the bootcamp partition, the installation went through successfully. Both Windows 7 and the bootcamp drivers are installed, and I am able to dual boot OS X and Windows properly.
However, if I try to launch Bootcamp Windows 7 USB Installer created using BCA as described in the above by holding down <option> key while rebooting, and select the USB device lableled as 'Windows', Windows 7 Installer starts (in BIOS boot mode, I believe) and then it freezes after it gets to the language selection screen, the mackbook no longer responds to either the trackpad or the keyboard.
In other words, this Windows 7 USB Installer boots properly when launched by BCA's third option. However, this USB Installer does not boot properly when launched by selecting 'Windows' after holding down <option> key while rebooting. What am I doing wrong here?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Joe

I did create a Recovery Disk from inside Windows 7 this weekend following your suggestion. Unfortunately, this has the same problem as the installer.
However, USB Installer I created for Windows 8.1 could boot properly both in BIOS boot mode or EFI boot mode. This Windows 8.1 USB Installer is created using the standard procedure for the BCA; the only difference from the Windows 7 USB Installer is that I used Windows 8.1 ISO instead of Windows 7 ISO.
With this Windows 8.1 USB Installer, I am able to access the BOOTCAMP partition and perform necessary operations to fix startup issues, and perform backup and restore using the native Windows tools for the BOOTCAMP partition. And no need to spend $30 on WinClone
Thanks for your help!
Joe

A Few Bootcamp Vista Installation Questions

Hello, Apple forums,
I am will be, hopefully within the next week, installing my new Vista Ultimate on my 15 inch aluminum MBP. I would like, if it is not a problem, a few questions answered before I proceed.
1. Is using Bootcamp the best way to install Windows? I know there are other options, and I have heard people have had technical problems with Bootcamp.
2. When I install Windows, is my MBP still under warranty?
3. When I install Windows, will it, in any way, affect my usage of OS 10?
4. Will I be able to install programs, such as Word, Norton, etc. onto Windows?
5. Will all of the physical functions, such as the Trackpad, iSight, and DVD port still function?
6. How do I switch between OS's, or for that manner, can I do it without restarting the MBP?
Thanks you for taking the time to answer. I am pretty sure I know the correct answers to most of these questions, but I just want to make sure.

Hi Mechafire,
back from work (for which I had to leave this morning...
3. When partitioning the harddisk for BootCamp Windows the space for the Windows partition is taken from the OSX partition, thus decreasing the size of it.
Usually this poses no problem for OSX, but OSX can become erratic when the amount of free space on its partition drops below 10% of the partition size.
That's what I meant with 'problem'
4. Personally I haven't had any problem with installing programs on BootCamp Windows.
However there seems to be some very specific programs (usually protected with hardware-dongles) that do not run perfectly.
In the past AutoCAD was such one, but I'm not sure if this is still so.
5. As said, I don't have a MBP so I don't have first-hand experiences with it.
When you look around the BootCamp Forum you will find some posts which mentions problems with the trackpad in Windows.
7. I use BootCamp as well as Parallels with Windows on my Mac and I can say that I never had any problem with them.
BootCamp is the way to go when you know you don't need OSX at the time, while Parallels (and the VM apps) are quite handy when you are in OSX and just want/need to run a Windows program since you don't have to reboot the Mac.
8. Right now Windows 7 is not supported by BootCamp and also is still in Beta.
At the time of release of Windows 7 there will be most likely a BootCamp update that supports Windows 7.
Nonetheless there are some people round here that are using the Public Beta of Windows 7 on their Macs right now with the Vista Drivers that are on the OSX Leopard DVD.
Personally I would say wait for Windows 7 if you can , otherwise Vista is the next best choice.
Regards
Stefan

I want to reset my bootcamp Windows 7 to factory setting. How would I do this without damaging or effecting my Mac data?

I want to reset my bootcamp Windows 7 to factory setting. How would I do this without damaging or effecting my Mac data?

If you want to erase the BootCamp Partition, you'd use the Bootcamp utility.
Then that part of the Mac's hard disk drive may be available for use in OS X.
{Or, if you want to install a clean Windows 7 in the same BootCamp partition
you'd use the BootCamp utility to erase/install Windows in the same location.
There is a BootCamp Support section in Apple Support online, and also there
is a fairly OK ASC discussions area specific to that purpose. }
But you may have to check to see if the partition map is correct for Mac OS X
after you've used Bootcamp utility to remove Windows and the partition map.
If you do not use the BootCamp utility to remove Windows, correctly or if a
different method to install Windows was used, you'd have to move your Mac
OS X system and applications off the computer to an external hard drive by
use of a clone utility (carbon copy cloner, or superduper, etc) then use the
OS X disk utility (from running clone, is easiest) to erase the computer's HD
and then correctly partition map and format the hard drive for Mac OS X.
At that point, the entire drive would be erased to reclaim any untouched
partitions from alternative Windows utilities that were used, or not used in
the time frame of proper opportunity.
I've had a few Macs that had been partitioned for Windows and found one
second hand MacBook to have more actual hard disk drive capacity than
the previous owner and the Mac HD info suggested on first glance. About
70% of the drive had been a Windows partition, but was invisible to OS X.
So that turned out to be a lucky find, it was like installing a larger HDD.
The wording of your question leaves a lot
of important information out of the picture.
Good luck!
edited

No sound in Bootcamp Windows 8.1

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Please help me, this is so frustrating.

I was thinking about upgrading my entry level MBP 13" late 2011 to the top of the line rMBP 15 late 2013 for gaming, I thought I could install Windows and run any game just fine without losing the OS X experience. I had no issues before with Bootcamp with Windows 8 x64 back when I had Lion. Now I'll just buy a Razer Blade and ditch Apple.
Sadly, once I installed 8.1 x64 on my current MBP with Mavericks, I've had every single possible issue with a laptop that according to Apple supports Windows 8.1, first I couldn't create an install usb drive without first burning the .iso file to a DVD, which was possible before Mavericks. I don't have a DVD with Windows 8.1, since I received the OS through dreamspark, so I come to think, what if I buy the rMBP that lacks a DVD drive? I found a way to get the option to create the install drive from a .iso file, attempted to install, then had an issue with the partition created by Bootcamp, Windows wouldn't let me install in that partition, nor I could erease it then use it with the tools of the install setup. So I went to disk utility, deleted the partition, and left that as free space, booted back to the setup, and finally installed Windows by creating an NTFS partition at the free space. After I installed Windows, and installed the drivers provided by Apple, I had no sound, the driver was not working, and spent 3 days actively looking for a solution online, tried a lot, none work. Finally uninstalled Windows 8.1, I'm using VM Ware now, but gaming is not the same on a virtual machine.
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Greetings all!
So I've had Bootcamp (windows 7 and snow leopard, 125gb of hard drive storage on each) on this MacBook Pro (late 2010) for over 2 years and I decided to upgrade to mountain lion.
As we all know that we can partition the disk under windows into smaller volumes, often labeled as C:, D:, E:, etc. my friend divided the hard drive storage for Windows into C: and G: when I first had windows 7 on my MacBook Pro 2 years ago.
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MacBook Pro bootcamp windows cant see FAT partition

I have 4 partitions on my SSD
- 1) MAC OS
- 2) SHARED ETC (MAC OS EXT)
- 3) SHARED WORK (FAT)
- 4) NTFS BOOTCAMP
I created two additional partitions (ETC, WORK) after I setup windows via bootcamp, also after I've done that I did a workaround to fix MBR because I wasn't able to boot Windows natively.
But for some reason when I am booting windows it is does not see ETC and WORK partitions! It should be able to see at least WORK(FAT) partition?
How do I fix that?
I want to be able to access WORK(FAT) partition from Windows and ETC(MAC OS EXT) partition as well, if it is possible

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Bootcamp Windows 7 to play LoL on MacBook pro

System requirement To play lol https://support.leagueoflegends.com/entries/234272-system-requirements
The following are the minimum and recommended system requirements for running League of Legends on a PC:
Minimum System Requirements:
2 GHz processor
1 GB RAM (Windows Vista and 7 users will want 2 GB of RAM or more)
2 GB available hard disk space
Shader version 2.0 capable video card
Support for DirectX v9.0c or better
Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. (Note: Mac OS and Linux are not currently supported.)
Recommended System Requirements
3 GHz processor
2 GB of RAM (Windows Vista and 7 users should use 4 GB of RAM or more.)
6 GB available hard disk space
GeForce 8800 or equivalent video card (Dedicated GPU with 512MB+ Video Memory(VRAM))
Support for DirectX v9.0c or better.
Windows XP with the latest service pack installed, Windows Vista with the latest service pack installed, or Windows 7 (As stated above: Mac OS and Linux are currently not supported.)
The latest update to .NET Framework from Microsoft
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2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
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4GB 1600MHz memory
500GB 5400-rpm hard drive1
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
Built-in battery (7 hours)2

If you're gonna do it via Bootcamp, dedicating the entire hardware to Windows while running the game and already have the Mac, don't see a problem.
If you're deciding whether to buy that Mac or not for this purpose, might want to get the 2.6GHz model instead. Twice the RAM, twice the VRAM and more disk space to set aside for the dedicated Bootcamp partition.

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