Can't find boot camp 3.1

I have an iMac with boot camp 3.0 its saying in order to install windows 7 I need boot camp 3.1 but all the boot camp 3.1 updates say in requirements i need windows XP. I have no windows programs. Do I need to buy windows XP first just to update to boot camp 3.1?

Of course, they are of no use until you have Windows running, AND you have to have installed BC 3.0.
You don't even really need Mac OS to install and run Windows 7 on a Mac. You do need those 3.x drivers though to support motherboard and hardware devices and drivers once 7 is finished installing and current.
Go back and re-read the guide in Boot Camp Assistant or from here:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
look for the pdf file to download and you can print it out or just read, has a lot in there. And step #1: backup first.

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So the DVD you inserted is the iMac install Disc 1? When I type in the "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/" nothing happens.... I see you are using an earlier OS 10.4.
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I'm having a lot of problems installing windows 7 on my mac. I've got the boot camp but it says I need to get boot camp 3.1. Right now I have some 2 version. I've looked all around and I can only find book camp 3.1 exe - what good is an exe file on a mac? I installed windows 7 but it restarted and said push any key to continue, I did that and nothing happened.

Not. IF you upgrade from Vista there is an error for ANY computer, PCs as well:
Boot Camp: "0x80070005" appears when upgrading from Vista to Windows 7
That is what that link refers to which is an additional problem that happens 70-80% into the install.
And at the bottom it refers back to the "black screen issue":
Additional Information
When installing Windows 7 on an iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) using Boot Camp, a black screen may appear. This can happen because the Windows 7 installer does not include the necessary graphics or Bluetooth drivers for your Mac. See iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) displays a black screen during installation of Windows 7 using Boot Camp for more information.
There is a problem as well for clean custom install too.
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Hi everyone!
I bought my MacBook in November and, until now, have had no occasion to use Boot Camp.
I went to search for it today and cannot find it anywhere on my MacBook and do now know where to find it either on my hard drive, MacOSX CD, or online for download.
How do I get BootCamp? Wasn't it supposed to be included on my new MacBook??
Thanks!

Hi,
I had the same trouble when boot-camping a friend's macbook. couldn't find it on any of the disks, but but it is actually there. what you must do is insert the OS X install disk 1, and then go to this web page : http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33420 ,download the little helper program, install it, and bob's your uncle... it will find BootCamp on your install disk and install it. Bootcamp can then be found in your Applications/Utilities folder
hope it works for you as it did for me!

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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
if your signature is still correct (Powerbook !) than you can't find the BootCamp Assistant on it.
The BCA is only installed (and useable) on Intel-Macs, not on PPC-Macs like your Powerbook.
Sorry
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Can't find Boot Camp on updated MacBook

Hi all,
I bought a new black MacBook today - the updated model. Either I'm crazy or Boot Camp is not installed. It's not in the Utilities folder, Spotlight can't find it, and it's nowhere to be found on Apple's website.
I looked on the CDs to see if I could install it separately, but it's not listed as a bundled app, and I don't want to launch the MacOS X restore app on a new computer.
Could someone please check their system and confirm if it's there or not?
Thanks.

Here are the results.
I copied Boot Camp 2.0 from my retail install of Leopard that was in the Utilities folder.
It ran fine on the new Macbook
2.0 does not create a CD, like the 1.4 beta Boot Camp did.
The Windows drivers ARE on the Macbook Disk 1 CD.
It's a good idea to read the Boot Camp instructions
The Windows partition has to be formatted from the XP install CD.
To eject the XP CD before the Boot Camp drivers are installed, plug in a USB mouse or
1 Eject the Windows installation disc.
a Go to My Computer.
b Select the optical drive (D:).
c Click “Eject this disk” in the System Tasks list.
In XP's Device Manager, there were no devices without drivers (no red or yellow circles).
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I have Windows on here but I can not find Boot Camp l me at 229-300-8915 I need someone that I can talk to, so i can understan how to do boot camp 4.0 for windows installment

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P.S I don't understand the instruction on this please help me somone
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It is difficult to understand your issue from your discription. I have three suggestions.
1. Visit the Boot Camp forum. You posted in the Mac Book Pro forum about your Boot Camp issue. The Boot Camp gurus hang out in the Boot Camp form. https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
2. Read the Boot Camp installation guide. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
3. Do not post personal information such as phone numbers in public forums.

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Did you repartition the drive? Or are you referring to the application, Boot Camp Assistant?

VMware can't find Boot Camp

I recently reinstalled Leopard on my MBP. I erased the Macintosh HD partition in the process, installed Leopard from DVD, pull my stuff from TM backup and everything was back to normal. Except when I try and launch Windows with VMware Fusion there is the Boot Camp partition in the list of virtual machine, but when I click on it to run it, it says it the Boot Camp Partition.vmdk has been moved and it wants me to locate it. When I try and launch Windows with Boot Camp itself during the computer startup it works just fine. Any help?

Hi,
have a look here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/190011
Hope it helps
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I can't find boot camp to access windows xp.

When restarting my mac and I press the options key, the windows drive is no longer there. I fear my son somehow erased it. How do I find it and/or restore it?

Startup Manager Option
Startup keys Intel Macs
and you can try zap PRAM
Apple Support Safari
Safari Windows
Safari
Lion OS X Communities
You can uninstall extenstions, turn off plug-ins.
On Windows you need to use some form of reliable malware prevention but nothing can stop human error.
and you might want to give your son a standard, non-admin account for Windows and Mac OS

After updating windows 8, I can't find boot camp.

Now how can i restart iMac for Mac os?

Startup Manager Option
Startup keys Intel Macs
and you can try zap PRAM
Apple Support Safari
Safari Windows
Safari
Lion OS X Communities
You can uninstall extenstions, turn off plug-ins.
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Something appears to have not installed correctly when the "updates" were installed. Can you tell me which updates did you installed before the issues began? Was Windows already working normally prior to the updates? By the way, which version of windows did you install?
Meanwhile see if you can do the following:
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Close the menu again and you are done.
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Can't install boot camp(Am in desperate need of help!!!)

Ok, the story, I will try to make it short:
-Got my Imac a month ago. Installed Boot Camp Vista Home Premium 64 Bit. No problem. Ran smooth.
-Later I got VMWare fusion and decided to check it out. Didn't like to to much, but now I can't install Boot Camp.
-When using Boot Camp assistent, it creates my partition(which 200 GB) Fat32! The problem is, when it wants to boot to install. It ejects the Vista installation DVD! No matter what I do.
-*If I hold down the ALT key(option button) during start up*, it will show a grey screen with two options(The Macintosh HD and the Windows Partition). Selecting the Windows partition gives a black screen with an error; *"non-system disk press any key to reboot"* Only problem is that the keyboard was dead or frozen so had to crash the machine.
-Pressing D on start up to enable the *Apple Hardware Test* showed no problems.
-Pressing Alt + Cmd(command) + P + R to *delete the NVRam and PRAM*, did not have any effect. I think I did it right though, because there came a second start up sound.
-Pressing S + Cmd(command) on start up to run *User Single Mode*, with the command; "/sbin/fsck -fy" did not reveal any problems either, except for a weird long messege that kept coming up, and which interupted the line I was writing on several times. The messege was as follows: +":/root# AppleUSBEHCI[0x6e8t000]:: Found a Transaction Past the completion deadline on bus Oxfd, timing out!(Addr: 6EP:4)"+
*Ran a program called Partition Inspector;*
* Report for internal hard disk *
+Current GPT partition table:+
+# Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)+
+2 409640 1531068455 Mac OS X HFS++
+3 1531330600 1953525127 Basic Data+
+Current MBR partition table:+
+# A Start LBA End LBA Type+
+1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective+
+2 409640 1531068455 af Mac OS X HFS++
+3 * 1531330600 1953525127 0c FAT32 (LBA)+
+MBR contents:+
+Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable+
+Partition at LBA 40:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)+
+Partition at LBA 409640:+
+Boot Code: None+
+File System: HFS Extended (HFS)
+Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS++
+Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS++
+Partition at LBA 1531330600:+
+Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)+
+File System: FAT32+
+Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data+
+Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 0c FAT32 (LBA), active+
I don't know what any of this means, but I suspect the Boot Camp partition is the last one. I wonder what "Boot Code: None(Non-system disk message" means!?
*When running diskutil:*
*diskutil list*
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUIDpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 729.9 Gi disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 201.3 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDiskpartitionscheme *931.5 Gi disk1
1: WindowsFAT32 My Book 931.3 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FRMCxFREDADVD *3.5 Gi disk2
*And when I searched on the boot camp disc specificaly:*
Device Identifier: disk0s3
Device Node: /dev/disk0s3
Part Of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: Untitled
Volume Name: BOOTCAMP
Mount Point: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
File System: MS-DOS FAT32
Partition Type: Microsoft Basic Data
Bootable: Is bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified
Total Size: 201.3 Gi (216110792704 B) (422091392 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 201.3 Gi (216109285376 B) (422088448 512-byte blocks)
Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
Whole: No
Internal: Yes
Other things I tried:
-Tried going into Startup disk, to force Vista to install from boot up, but it ejected upon startup anyway.
-Tried rebooting while holding down "C" to force a startup from a CD/DVD. Vista installation DVD still ejected.
-Tried reinstalling Leopard with the Leopard Installation Disc 01, but it also ejecred upon rebooting to install! < This lead me to believe that it's my Superdrive that is messed up, but it plays DVD Movies just fine, and I even just now just burned the Vista installation DVD to my desktop in a .dmg file. So I am not sure if that is it!
-I tried taking a different Windows Vista DVD(Windows Vista 32 Bit Home Premium) to see if it could install from that. It could not, and ejected upon startup like the Leopard and 64 Bit Home Premium Vista Installation DVD!
I am new to Mac, but I am desperate after getting boot camp to work again. I have litterly been trying to figure this out for days, and I can't get it to work. I tried to call Apple but they couldn't help me.:( I could really use your help. I just want it to work.
And speaking of working, I haven't been to work for two days, because I have been home trying to figure this out. It's critical that I get boot camp working. So please, mates, can't you help me.
I simply don't know what to do:(
Cry
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After upgrading to Lion can't get Boot Camp to work! Just get "startup dusk cannot be portioned or restored to a single partition"?

After upgrading to Lion can't get Boot Camp to work! Just get "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition". Anytone?

This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
Is it so hard to follow through? you were to have backup already, clones are best, then erase/format and restore.
Then partition.
Some have been able to use Disk Utility booted from OS X DVD or another drive, and repair the drive.
You have to use Boot Camp Assistant (99.9% anyway) to create and achieve a proper Windows Master Boot Record partition.

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