Clean win7 bootcamp on MBPr

Here are my notes from clean install win7 to macbook pro retina 10.8
for only $99 purchased Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) (OEM) http://bit.ly/RD26mM
using another computer with dvd drive, insert win7 installer disc and using disc utility create a new image with settings cd/dvd, uncompressed. This will create an image on the desktop with the extension ".cdr". Change that to ".iso" and leave on desktop.
insert an 8+ gig flash drive. Using 10.8 run bootcamp and select all 3 options and bootcamp will use that iso image and create a win7 installer on the flash drive. If will take a while and then it fails repeatedly when trying to locate the bootcamp drivers from the apple server. This is a known problem. If you hit "next" after the error message it finishes the win7 install to the flash drive but without the drivers.
After researching this problem, I found the drivers for this mbpr can be downloaded from here http://tinyurl.com/9259b94 The apple server is so slow I usedhttp://www.igetter.net/ to download the "BootCampESD.pkg" 940 meg file...thanks Nikhilr! Double click the package to install on the mac side. Then I used the app "Find File" to locate "WindowsSupport.dmg" mount this and copy all the files to a folder you make on the flash drive "Boot Camp" The folder can be any name but these files must go in a folder so as not to disturb the win7 install files on the flash drive.
Now run bootcamp assistant again and select the bottom choice of install win7, it will then allow you to partition the bootcamp ...I used 38gigs. Then is will reboot to the flash drive and go through the long install process. You will have to choose the partition to install win7 to and then click advancd to format this partition to ntfs. Bootcamp formats by default to fat32 so it must be changed. Eventually you will enter the serial number of the win7.
After win7 is installed then mount flash drive and install the drivers in the Boot Camp folder. Then restart and all should work.

Welcome to the forum!
With the X60 generation (as well as R60/T60/Z61) 3GB RAM limit is caused by hardware and not just software.
In order to be able to install a 64-bit OS, you must have a Core 2 Duo processor - vast majority of X60s units has a simple Core Duo.
In other words, even if it's possible for you to run a 64-bit OS, it's not worth it due to the aforementioned limitation.
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
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Here's the output of all the commands that Loner recommends to all first:
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                128.0 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         42.1 GB    disk0s5
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk1s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data FATDISK                 1.5 TB     disk1s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS BootCampFiles           1.5 TB     disk1s3
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 156250000] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 156659640 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 157929472 - 249999360] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 156250000      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
156659640    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
157929176        296
157929472 249999360      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
407928832       2048
407930880   82302976      5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$
Jeremys-MacBook-Pro:~ illogix$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS    .....|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 d0 69 09 |........?.....i.|
00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff 7f ce 13 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 11 5a 0a e6 9d 0a e6 3a |.........Z.....:|
00000050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 68 c0 07 |.....3.....|.h..|
00000060 1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16 0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e |..hf......f.>..N|
00000070 54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb |TFSu..A..U..r...|
00000080 55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00 75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec |U.u.....u.......|
00000090 18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16 0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13 |.h...H..........|
000000a0 9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72 e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3 |.....X.r.;...u..|
000000b0 0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e 5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8 |........Z3... +.|
000000c0 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8 |f...............|
000000d0 4b 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d |K.+.w......f#.u-|
000000e0 66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75 24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16 |f..TCPAu$....r..|
000000f0 68 07 bb 16 68 52 11 16 68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66 |h...hR..h..fSfSf|
00000100 55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66 61 0e 07 cd 1a 33 c0 bf |U...h..fa....3..|
00000110 0a 13 b9 f6 0c fc f3 aa e9 fe 01 90 90 66 60 1e |.............f`.|
00000120 06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06 1c 00 1e 66 68 00 00 00 |.f...f.....fh...|
00000130 00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 16 0e |.fP.Sh..h...B...|
00000140 00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66 59 5b 5a 66 59 66 59 1f |.......fY[ZfYfY.|
00000150 0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff |....f...........|
00000160 0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66 61 c3 a1 f6 01 e8 09 00 |...u...fa.......|
00000170 a1 fa 01 e8 03 00 f4 eb fd 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 |............<.t.|
00000180 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64 69 |............A di|
00000190 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f 63 |sk read error oc|
000001a0 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 0d 0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 |curred...BOOTMGR|
000001b0 20 69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d | is compressed..|
000001c0 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b |.Press Ctrl+Alt+|
000001d0 44 65 6c 20 74 6f 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a |Del to restart..|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 8a 01 a7 01 bf 01 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
I have test disk installed, what command would be useful for me to start with? Thanks so much, I know you guys are so busy with your own Bootcamp issues but I've been reading for a couple days and can't seem to find my exact issue.

Ok so I ran TestDisk :
Disk /dev/rdisk0 - 251 GB / 233 GiB - 490234752 sectors (RO)
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
1 P EFI System                    40     409639     409600 [EFI system partition]
2 P Mac HFS                   409640 156659639 156250000 [Customer]
3 P Mac Boot               156659640 157929175    1269536 [Recovery HD]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 255 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Error: size boot_sector 332300288 > partition 249999360
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
4 P MS Data                157929472 407928831 249999360 [WINDOWS 7]
4 P MS Data                157929472 407928831 249999360 [WINDOWS 7]
No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs or XFS marker
5 P MS Data                407930880 490233855   82302976 [WINDOWS 8]
5 P MS Data                407930880 490233855   82302976 [WINDOWS 8]
I did a deep scan for about 4hrs and got a long list of results. Here's some of what came back...
D Mac HFS                  1155769 157405768 156250000
D Mac HFS                  1156202 157406201 156250000
D Mac HFS                  1156451 157406450 156250000
D Mac HFS                 42964772   42975011      10240
D Mac HFS                 42975008   42985247      10240
D MS Data                 84855546   91492902    6637357 [^F0 ~K^K^Z ڬ^RΚ]
D MS Data                 84855547   91492903    6637357 [^F0 ~K^K^Z ڬ^RΚ]
D MS Data                 98634056 100731208    2097153 [NO NAME]
D MS Data                 98634057 119116868   20482812 [NO NAME]
D Mac HFS                109659108 109660131       1024
D Mac HFS                109660128 109661151       1024
D Mac HFS                109660132 109661155       1024
Those "MS Data" entries did not display any files inside. But the following did...
D Mac HFS                112213740 112214763       1024
D Mac HFS                112213744 112214767       1024
D Mac HFS                112214216 112215239       1024
D Mac HFS                112215236 112216259       1024
D Mac HFS                156659640 157929175    1269536
>P MS Data                157929472 490229759 332300288
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-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1028.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1031.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     10134 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1033.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1036.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1040.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0       118 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1041.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.1042.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.2052.txt
-r--r--r--     0     0     17734 7-Nov-2007 07:00 eula.3082.txt
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-r--r--r--     0     0    855040 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.exe
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-r--r--r--     0     0     95248 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1031.dll
-r--r--r--     0     0     90128 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1033.dll
-r--r--r--     0     0     96272 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1036.dll
-r--r--r--     0     0     94224 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1040.dll
-r--r--r--     0     0     80400 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1041.dll
-r--r--r--     0     0     78864 7-Nov-2007 07:44 install.res.1042.dll
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P.p.s. in disk utility it cannot be mounted, is referred to as disk0s4, and is greyed out

I see two things. First, notice this fourth line from your GPT. It says ~73GB of disk space is not allocated to any partition, it's free space. Why?
40          409600       1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640      742851896    2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
743261536   1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
744531072   153633664
898164736   78608384     4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
The good news is that partition 4 for Windows in the GPT and MBR have the same start - end sectors. However in the MBR no partition is marked bootable. One must be bootable and it's customary for Apple to mark the Windows partition bootable. I strongly suspect this is why Windows is not a boot option, and it's rather easy to fix.
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 898164736 -   78608384] Win95 FAT32L
My suggestion is that you reclaim the missing free space before you proceed with MBR repair, but missing ~73GB of space isn't hurting anything. Try the following and report back:
diskutil list /dev/disk0
diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0 limits
Again both are read-only commands and do not alter the disk information in any way.

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Create a new Network Location: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5289
Reboot the router
Also take a look at this link and the links within the article for other ideas. They mainly reference Lion, but still seem to be relevant to Mountain Lion and possibly Mavericks:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/06/lion-wi-fi-problems-solution-mac/?utm_source=feed burner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29&utm_conte n t=FaceBook
...and this link:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/30/resolving-stubborn-wi-fi-connection-problems-in-m ac-os-x/

Clean Win7 install on X60s

I'd like to do a clean install of Win 7 on my X60s. I'd like to use th 64-bit version, but to do that I apparently need to upgrade the bios (I'm now using 32-bit XP). I do not have an ultrabase cd drive so according to the Lenovo website I can't use the bootable CD bios update. Does anyone know how I can upgrade the bios to 64-bit and install Win7 following that? I have an external usb drive that I thought could be used. Do I have to stick with 32-bit? I was hoping to get access to an extra GB of ram by going to 64-bit.
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Welcome to the forum!
With the X60 generation (as well as R60/T60/Z61) 3GB RAM limit is caused by hardware and not just software.
In order to be able to install a 64-bit OS, you must have a Core 2 Duo processor - vast majority of X60s units has a simple Core Duo.
In other words, even if it's possible for you to run a 64-bit OS, it's not worth it due to the aforementioned limitation.
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Lion to Win7 (bootcamp) Sharing just Stopped

I have all my music on my macbook pro running lion (the newest version).
On my Mac Pro which I run in bootcamp, all of sudden, my shared library no longer shows. I have the newest version of iTunes on the bootcamp side of the Mac Pro as well. It worked fine for ever, but now it just stopped showing up. The only thing I can think of that changed was updating Lion to 10.7.5 (on the computer that is hosting the music).
On the Lion side of my Mac Pro, sharing works fine, which leads me to believe it is a setting in Win7 or something. I checked my firewall in Windows7 and there is a rule to allow itunes so I am unsure what the issue could be.
Any help would be appreciated!

UPDATE
Ok so I think it is somehow related to my Mac Pro (Bootcamped in Win7 64bit).
If I switch from my Local Area Connection for my Wireless connection, homesharing works.
So using wireless I can home share, but using a wired connection it does not. Both the Local Area Connection and the Wireless had the same exact settings (IPv6 etc...).
Screenshot: http://tinyurl.com/9qvwh2w
Really I am just curious why this is the case. I do prefer a wired connection so I am hoping to get to the bottom of this.

Clean Win7 installation in infinite cycle

I am attempting to downgrade from Win8 to Win7 Ultimate 64bit.   I have installed a new SSD and disconnected my old Win 8 drive. The clean installation process started normally but eventually hung on the "Completing Installation".  I
am running i7 and 6GB of RAM, so I assumed it was hung for good after nearly 2 hours and no apparent progress or DVD spin. I hard rebooted as a last resort.  Maybe it was premature .. I don't know. The computer now boots to Win7 with
empty desktop except for a single model dialog that states something like "Installation is incomplete. Please click the OK button and the computer will reboot to complete the installation".   The subsequent reboot ends exactly like
the first.   When I boot from the DVD installation, it loads to a blank desktop (only background) and no ability to do anything. I must hard reboot at this point too.
At this point, I am just looking for a way to fix this or wipe the drive and start anew.   I can't seem to figure out how to do either.   I am not a BIOS and boot disk guy, so if you are kind enough to help, would you please provide detailed
instructions. Please don't tell me to boot to DISKPART and expect me to understand :-)).
Thank you.

Hi,
Can you confirm you have set boot from DVD as the first priority in BIOS?
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