Can not Upgrade Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion due to Bootcamp

This is a long standing problem I had since I bought my Macbook Pro (a purchase now I deeply regret) almost two years ago.
I keep asking around every few months, to see if anyone came up with a good solution. I hope someone can help me this time
When I decided to buy my Macbook pro 10.6.8 with Snow Leopard, Apple said that the macbook would run smootly both in OSX and Windows due to bootcamp dual boot. I was quite happy about that,since my job requires me to use some Windows-only software and I was curious about apple products.
Unfortunately, they fail to mention (or maybe they did not foresee) that upgrading anything on both OSX or Windows would have been a true nightmare. Right off the bat I spent countless hours trying to upgrade my graphic card drivers in Windows. More problems arrived every time a new software/upgrade/driver/OS update was coming up. The final blow was the release of OSX Lion.
With a Bootcamp partition it is not possible to upgrade the OS from Snow Leopard to Lion or Mountain Lion. The reason is because a recovery system can't be created. The only solution I found so far would be:
1) Buy two separate external HD
2) Backup individually OSX and Windows data
3) Re-install OS leopard
4) Upgrade to Mountain Lion
5) Creat a bootcamp partition
6) re-install Windows
7) re-install one by one any software on both OS (Matlab, Ansys, Office .... etc ... etc ... etc... [6-8 hours])
8) Restore all data
9) Wait for next OS release, DO IT AGAIN
Forgive me , but this is absurd. I simply refuse of waste so much time and money
Did anyone have the same problem and found a more cleaver way to solve it?
Thanks!!!!

This was solved some time ago. See the following:
I saw a reference to an Apple bulletin on how to solve the problem if Lion rejects your install AND you have a BootCamp partition.
It seems the issue is that the space at the "bottom" of your available space when Lion installs it's partition is already occupied by BootCamp. The fix was to go into Disk Utility; Select your Hard Drive; Select Partition; Move the bottom of your main partition "up" a bit to create a space for Lion; close Disk Utility; Install Lion; once Lion is successfully installed, go back into Disk Partition and drag the bottom of your main partition back "down" to the bottom of the window.
You need to create a space about 2 GB in size.

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Auto Save is actually a very useful feature. If you are typing a paper in Pages and you haven't saved in a long time, and then your battery dies suddenly, your paper is saved. Before Auto Save, you would have lost all your progress.
Your BootCamp partition will not even be touched during the install of Mountain Lion. As long as you make sure to select your Mac OS partition during setup, nothing will happen to your Windows side and everything will still work fine.

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I have a 2011 Macbook Air 3,2 running Snow Leopard (10.6.8). My 128GB SSD hard drive is completely full, and I have ordered an upgrade from OWC which also comes with an optional external enclosure. I would like to do a clean install (to "upgrade") to Mountain Lion on the new drive. Can anyone confirm if the following sequence will work?
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The SD card can be used as a boot drive, if you manage to restore the image to the drive.. I tried to use an SD card in the built-in card reader, and for whatever reason could not get Disk Utility to restore the InstallESD.dmg image to the SD card directly when done throught the Air's reader. I had to use an SD card that had a built-in USB tab, and use USB. I did not try using an external SD adapter to the USB port to see if that would work.
Remember, you don't open the package by double clicking the installer, you Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu. In the folder that appears, open Contents, then open Shared Support; you’ll see a disk-image file called InstallESD.dmg.
Launch Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). Drag the InstallESD.dmg disk image into Disk Utility’s left-hand sidebar to the flash drive you want to restore the image to.
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Niel wrote:
Parallels will work with Mac OS X Server but not the client version of 10.6.8 or earlier.
(69744)
Snow Leopard client 10.6.8 (with Rosetta) running in Parallels 7 (or 8) in Lion:
[click on image to enlarge]
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
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So far, so good.. I click "OK" and it brings up the Terms & Conditions document. I check the box "I have read and agree…" and click the Agree button. This sends me right back to the ML purchase page, with the same alert described above popped down again.
I have only gone through this loop for 3 or 4 cycles, but I assume it is infinite.
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I tried out all kinds of suggestions (hard and soft resetting both the MBP and the TC, entering the password again, setting the TC up again) all to no avail. No backup is possible anymore.

Mr. Zooot wrote:
Time Machine can not complete the backup "Time Capsule"
The image of the backup volume "/Volumes/Data/Pauls MacBookPro.sparsebundle" is not accessable (Error -1).
I also can not delete the backup image on the time capsule since it is read-only.
Sounds like you got this message earlier:
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I have upgraded My leopard to Mountain lion 10.7 via snow leapeard. Now My itunes is not working properly nor I able to install google chrome successfully. Please help me in this occasion. I am facing following messages.

Hello Team,
I have upgraded My leopard to Mountain lion 10.7 via snow leapeard. Now My itunes is not working properly nor I able to install google chrome successfully. Please help me in this occasion.
Also, I am not being able to upgrade Mac OS X 10.7 to 10.7.4 or letest for lion.
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Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:      com.apple.iTunes
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Build Info:      iTunes-10702101~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [273]
Date/Time:       2012-10-22 23:33:07.226 +0200
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Interval Since Last Report:          4918 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           2
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http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4479
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4759
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The article below may be able to help you with this issue.
Click on the link below to see more details and screenshots.
I've quoted some helpful highlights for you:
OS X Mountain Lion: Zoom content on the screen
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If you chose Picture-in-picture zooming, a window appears near the mouse cursor with the magnified image. If you chose Fullscreen zooming, the entire screen displays the magnified image.
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