Corrupt Textures (in Boot Camp)
I've owned my 20-inch iMac since late last year – and loved it. I use Boot Camp (with Windows XP Professional) to play video games on my iMac, which I cannot do (without third-party products such as Codeweavers'). However, I've experienced some stability issues.
The most prominent of these is texture corruption. For instance, in Half-Life 2: Episode One, I frequently (roughly every 30-40 minutes) notice a corrupted texture or effect (especially the flashlight); saving and reloading solves the issue temporarily. On occasion, I have actually had my Mac blue screen on me. This is not limited to that game; it's just a recent example.
My first suspect would be overheating, but I'm not really sure what to narrow the problem down to. I have the 20-inch Aluminum iMac (with the lower-end graphics card), and I've installed all of the Graphics, EFI, etc. updates that Apple has seen fit to distribute via Software Update.
Any tips?
In this threadhttps://discussions.apple.com/message/16605226#16605226there's a link to download the BootCamp 4.0 Driver package.
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gta 4 steam !If GTA IV believes the system is under specification even though the computer is powerful enough to run the game with higher settings, the following will fix this problem.
This will work if your problem looks like this: "resource usage 230/60" and you can't change any other setting
Just follow the steps:
Step 1: Create a text file named ‘commandline.txt’ (without the " ")
Step 2: Put the following statement inside it:
i5 users: -availablevidmem 18.0 (with the -)
i7 users: -availablevidmem 22.0 (with the -)
Step 3: Open the main GTAIV folder (C/ program files (86)/ rockstar games/ GTA IV) and copy the commandline.txt file into it.
Step 4: locate the file "GTAIV.exe" (in GTA main folder)
Right click the file and select Properties
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Boot Camp related hard drive corruption?
The other day, my OS X 10.5.1 partition completely crashed on me after several switched between it and the Boot Camp partition on my MBP (XP Pro SP2). I just happened to glance at my OS X partition using MacDrive and it told me that the partition was corrupt and unreadable. Confused, I tried to boot into OS X with no success, it just hung at the Apple screen. I had to completely erase the partition, reinstall Tiger, and upgrade again to Leopard. Has anyone else heard of this happening, or experienced it? Could it somehow be related to MacDrive? I had been moving stuff back and forth, and saving stuff to the OS X partition from the Windows partition. Is that part of the problem? I just don't want it to happen again! The Windows partition was unharmed, btw.
First off, thanks for your reply. Second, yes, MacDrive is compatible with my OS version, it's designed specifically for Boot Camp. I haven't been using Time Machine because it completely takes over the external and I need the drive that I have (besides my iPod) for classes at my university that use PCs, so that option's out. I had kinda slacked off recently about backing up files, but still almost everything was saved onto my iPod. Speaking of which, the reason I can't use my iPod for my class is because it involves recording audio using Pro Tools, and for some reason the iPod drive is too slow. Do iPods get fragmented, and should I periodically do a reformat of it? That would certainly free up my 320 GB external for Time Machine use.
As far as the DVD repair, how do you do that? I thought the only option was "erase and install" when going back to Tiger. Or do you mean bot from the Leopard DVD?
Sorry about the kind of rambling post, but I wanted to make sure to be specific. -
Windows corrupts itself, errors installing Boot Camp 2.0 & 2.1
Mac OS 10.5 is working just fine, however upon partitioning and installing Windows XP Pro w/ SP2, I have nothing but problems! Windows update will not work, cannot install Boot Camp 2.1 without errors (says files are corrupted, even though I have re-downloaded the file a dozen or so times). After a short while of rebooting and attempts to install updates, Windows corrupts itself; IE will not open, Windows explorer crashes regularly, and no installation files will open without errors. Safari for windows barely works. I have attempted formatting and reinstalling the system 4 times now, both FAT and NTFS, using different Mac OS X disks for boot camp software, but I get errors every time. It seems I cannot install anything without errors. Also, windows seems to degenerate, each time I boot up the computer windows gets progressively worse, more errors, more problems.
I have checked and all of my EFI and SMC software is up to date.
Everything is working just fine on my Macbook (different computer), which used the same procedure.
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Used "Remember" application to confirm memory is bad.
http://www.kelleycomputing.net:16080/rember/
Will contact Applecare regarding bad memory. -
Boot Camp Corrupted after 10.7.1 update
Win7 was running fine before I updated my 2011 mini from 10.7 to 10.7.1... now Lion doesn't even see the Boot Camp Partition as a bootable drive. So, it must be corrupted. Do I have to reinstall Windows for the 3rd time? Any solutions?
I figured it out! It was NOT the 10.7.1 update that killed Boot Camp! You know that one little thing you did and forgot about.... I loaded Paragon NTFS for Mac. Big Mistake. I went into System Prefs and disabled it. VOILA, Boot Camp majically shows up as a boot drive again. And Paragon says its Lion compatible, HA!
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Is my partition table corrupt? Why does Boot Camp hate me?
Hi folks
I have an iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010) (iMac11,3, with Boot ROM IM112.0057.B01).
I replaced the internal SuperDrive with an SSD, which is now my primary boot device:
iMac:/ michthom$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS SSD 248.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
iMac:/ michthom$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 488397167
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 484620800 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
485030440 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
486299976 2097159
488397135 32 Sec GPT table
488397167 1 Sec GPT header
So far so good.
I want to use the original internal HDD both to run Windows in Boot Camp mode, and to have a partition for my bulk data that doesn't need to be on the SSD.
I reformatted the HDD as a single HFS+ partition, GUID partition table.
I used BCA to create a Windows USB boot device from the Windows 8.1 media after following the hacking in this link.
When the iMac restarted after creating the 250Gb Windows partition on the internal HDD, I got the "no boot device" screen.
I restarted holding Option/Alt and booted from EFI Boot on the USB stick. Windows installer started, at least. Serial number accepted, on to picking a location.
The installation balked when I tried to select the BOOTCAMP partition, with the warning that the disk was formatted as MBR - eh? Why?
So, the current state of the internal HDD must be wrong somehow, but I don't see how to fix it (confidently) and would like someone to point me in the right direction (please!)
iMac:/ michthom$ diskutil list
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Internal 751.9 GB disk1s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 248.0 GB disk1s3
iMac:/ michthom$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk1
gpt show: disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk1: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
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 1468478336 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1468887976 263256
1469151232 484372480 3 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712 1423
1953525135 32 Sec GPT table
1953525167 1 Sec GPT header
gdisk has this to say:
iMac:/ michthom$ sudo gdisk /dev/disk1
Password:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): x
Expert command (? for help): o
Disk size is 1953525168 sectors (931.5 GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0x4F5BB38B
MBR partitions:
Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code
1 1 409639 primary 0xEE
2 409640 1468887975 primary 0xAF
3 1469151232 1953523711 primary 0x0B
Expert command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/disk1: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3E1D7EF9-F86E-4552-8F40-BE9754C3C73F
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 264685 sectors (129.2 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 1468887975 700.2 GiB AF00 Internal
3 1469151232 1953523711 231.0 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP
Any help / pointers gratefully accepted!
MikeThanks to Loner T and some more reading, I think I'm now sorted out.
I found that marking the first partition on the USB stick as Active made no difference - my only option was to boot from the "EFI boot" option at startup (when holding down the alt/option key).
So to get the Windows installer to behave, I used gdisk to write a new protective MBR before rebooting to the USB stick, as shown below.
With the protective MBR in place (rather than hybrid), the Windows installer was happy to reformat the chosen partition and the installation began.
I'll try to report back once all is installed and working, but once again I owe my sanity to the generosity and patience of strangers!
Mike
bash-3.2# gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): x
Expert command (? for help): o
<snipped>
Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code
1 1 409639 primary 0xEE
2 409640 1468887975 primary 0xAF
3 1469151232 1953523711 primary 0x0B
Expert command (? for help): p
<snipped>
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 1468887975 700.2 GiB AF00 Internal
3 1469151232 1953523711 231.0 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP
Expert command (? for help): v
No problems found. 264685 free sectors (129.2 MiB) available in 3
segments, the largest of which is 263256 (128.5 MiB) in size.
Expert command (? for help): x
<snipped>
n create a new protective MBR
<snipped>
Expert command (? for help): n
Expert command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
You should reboot or remove the drive.
The operation has completed successfully.
bash-3.2# gdisk /dev/disk0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): x
Expert command (? for help): o
Disk size is 1953525168 sectors (931.5 GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0x00000000
MBR partitions:
Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Code
1 1 1953525167 primary 0xEE
Expert command (? for help): p
<snipped>
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 409640 1468887975 700.2 GiB AF00 Internal
3 1469151232 1953523711 231.0 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP -
Boot Camp "Quit and install later" corrupted the BOOTCAMP partition
I just had my new iMac delivered.
The first things I did was to run Software Update to install 10.6.8, then I installed 10.7.1 Lion and ran Software Update again just to be sure I got everything up to date as it should be. After installing a couple of applications via App Store and the web I set about to create a Boot Camp partition for my Win7 needs. When the assistant was finished (a new partition created and drivers saved to a USB memory stick) and told me it was ready to install Windows, but I choose Quit and install later (and oh, what I now regret that choice) because my Windows DVD was nowhere to be found (I should have looked a little harder).
Then when I later found the Windows 7 install DVD I launched Boot Camp Assistant again, but lo and behold when it tells me that I need to reformat my partions and start over from scratch. Boot Camp Assistant refuses to let me install Windows because I choose Quit and install later.
I have tried the following things to solve the problems:
Repair permissions and repairing the disk.
Start with the bundled OSX DVD to run fsck -fy followed by Disk Utility.
Re-format the BOOTCAMP partition.
Boot from the Windows 7 DVD (which claims something along the lines that the partition does not support Windows installations).
Nothing works! Why? How do I solve this?The past and having used whatever. FWB HDToolkit, Silverlining, $10K worth of scsi means??
windows requires that the partition table and format (GUID) has full functional MBR that Windows and Mac can work with.
Ever heard of take your best guess and double it for how much space to allocate? or no matter how good your partitions will always need to be changed.
Apple (that pdf guide?) is quite clear about one thing, which I usually but not here, take with grain of salt, that Boot Camp Assistant is a one trick pony to do the job of setting aside unfragmented free space for Windows.
ie, you can't use FWB Toolkit of SoftRAID 4.0 (excellent though it is!). Though Paragon CampTune (the company is rare, supports Boot Camp etc) and can be used.
If you created it now, but then you had 10.7 and Boot Camp 4, I could possibly get my head to imagine there could be an issue. And that is because every OS version has new changed partition table changes, making for this old (65 and going) mainframer to re-initialize drives whenever there is a change.
You can clone your system, format, and restore nice and clean with SuperDuper in a Jiffy. So why bother now? can't see it.
I understand people wanting 3 or more partitions. Wanting Windows to boot off external drive. Or use GPT and UEFT (that may happpen as 3TB drives and is beginning to be supported, but so far Apple and EFI are closed, proprietary, and GPT booting and EFI go hand in hand) but extra partitions is just... wishful. -
I have a brand new imac 5k, with 4ghz i7, 295x GPU, 3.1TB fusion drive. Bought the machine so I could dual boot - I need windows for VR Dev work.
I've spent the last week and a half on tech support calls with Apple Senior Tech agents, and Microsoft agents as well, and today have been told that indeed this machine cannot run windows 8.1. Apparently Apple engineering knows about the issue, but says the problem is microsoft's. Ugh.
The latest iteration of the issue comes when installing 8.1 onto an external thunderbolt SSD (without even using boot camp) - I go through the EFI installer, convert the drive to GPT, format it as ntfs, but when I select the partition to install onto, the installer says it can't find the partition it just created. Smuh?
I've also tried the install through boot camp. This installation actually worked twice, but the install was unstable. After booting back into osX, then returning to Windows, the windows install went corrupt and couldn't be repaired. Subsequent attempts to install windows yielded a flurry of different errors, including "windows doesn't support GPT in this mode" or "the disk is locked, please unlock the disk" or "MBR must be converted to GPT" (where once I converted to GPT, the drive could no longer be found, despite the operation completing successfully.)
At any rate, it's a huge mess. I'd happily return the machine for a different config, but the company I bought it from will only swap it for a similar model -- so I've spent a pile on a machine that does not function as advertised; apple says "too bad, talk to Microsoft." Microsoft says "too bad, we've never seen this, this is an apple issue."
Has anyone out there gotten windows up and running on an iMac5k with fusion drive? If so, did you have to go through a crazy maze to make it work?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
MCMichael Conelly wrote:
After much gnashing of teeth, and a half dozen support calls, I'd all but given up. I finally seem to have solved this though - sort of - by installing windows 8.1 on boot camp on an older iMac, then cloning the bootcamp disk to an external thunderbolt drive via Winclone. That worked seamlessly, sticking to winclone's instructions, and I can boot via EFI to Windows 8.1 on the new iMac. So far so good.
I usually install W8.1 via EFI by using DU and a Free Space partition. The 3TB Fusion is first split into the underlying SSD/HDD physicals. OSX and Windows OSes are installed on SSD via EFI (no BCA). The OSX part and half the HDD are then used to create a new CS volume. The other HDD half becomes NTFS for non-Windows OS files. The Hybrid MBR method is completely unsatisfactory with the 3TB Fusion drive.
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I can't reinstall Windows 7/8 via Boot Camp
Hi all,
So, I've got an SSD + HD (in optical bay) drive combination in my Mid-2012 MBP. Originally, I had successfully installed Boot Camp onto my HD using Windows 8. Ran without problems. Then, I decided to remap the partitions on it, which messed up the boot record. So, since I didn't do any research, I decided it would be fine to just delete the Windows partition and try to start over.
I've reformatted my HD to a single partition, setup my flash drive via Boot Camp Assistant, and allowed Boot Camp Assistant to repartition my HD for Windows. However, now every time it boots into the Windows Installer, I get the following error.
'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'
This threw me completely off. How can I resolve this issue?
I've even tried to install Windows without the SSD plugged in. It won't give me the error then, but when the installer starts, it'll fail saying the installer is missing files or has corrupt files. This happens with both the flash drive and the DVD.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
wtcnbrwndo4uAfter a bit of searching, it appears that Boot Camp can only be installed properly with a single drive in the system. When I think about it, I'm pretty sure I installed Boot Camp before I got my SSD, which makes sense.
So, I think I figured it out. If anyone can confirm, let me know.
Thanks. -
Error 0x80070017 when installing Windows 7 via Boot Camp...
I've been trying hard to research this issue and haven't come across anything that has worked for me.
At work, we have an iMac (Early-2009) that we wish to install Windows 7 on. Previous user has left, so I reinstalled Snow Leopard (10.6) and used Disk Utility from the disc to reformat complete to GUID single partition Mac OS Extended (Journaled), which is pretty standard for Macs. Mac OS X installed and booted just fine. I updated completely to 10.6.8 and all other updates. Only installed Microsoft Office 2011 and Firefox.
So Boot Camp begins...
Found that the early-2009 model doesn't "support" Windows 7 64-bit, so we are fine going with 32-bit. The 32-bit Windows 7 disc has been used to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp on 2 Mac Mini's (one Intel Core Duo, the other one Intel Core 2 Duo) just a few days ago.
Opened Boot Camp Assistant, partitioned the 1TB drive equally, inserted the Windows 7 disc, and clicked Restart.
It boots from the Windows 7 disc, I go through the options, choose the BOOTCAMP partition and format it (I assume Windows 7 is choosing NTFS for me). Click next.
It copies the files instantly, but then "begins" to Expand the files. It remains at 0% for 5-10 minutes (I can hear the Windows 7 DVD spin down and spin up, but mostly spin down). That's when the error hits:
"Windows cannot copy files required for installation. The files may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070017"
I click Ok and cancel the install. Restart and boot back into Mac OS X. And here I am.
Important Notes:
I've tried multiple times with a 64-bit disc as well. I will likely go check out another 32-bit disc from our software department, but I know this disc works on other Macs.
This issue occurred a month back as well when we attempted to install Windows 7 via Boot Camp (so before the hard drive and OS were reformatted and reinstalled). I was hoping reformatting and reinstalling the Mac OS X would solve the issue.
The Superdrive appears to be working just fine.
I read somewhere that I need to use repair disk to fix it. Does anyone know if I can repair disk a NTFS partition? Or am I suppose to repair disk the parent drive itself? The place I read it wasn't specific AT ALL and the forum was closed and I couldn't find a way to get a hold of the person. It just said "Repair disk did the trick". People, if you find a solution to your own problem, POST the solution!
Thanks in advance!Yea, I saw that kb article. I verified we have the early 2009 iMac. It's an iMac 9,1 (3.06 24-inch, A1225).
As far as different hardware, I really don't think so, but I'll have to double check with my fellow employees. The specs all match up, but I'll see if anyone remembers having to replace hardware or send it into Apple.
I did think of trying an external DVD drive too, I'll see if I can scrounge one up. I'll post if it works or not.
The employee using the machine knows Windows, but is willing to learn the Mac OS X. Diversify your experiences I always say!
An added note to the Repair Disk "solution". Turns out you can't run Repair Disk on NTFS partitions or the parent hard drive that contains that partition, which makes since. I can only run Repair Disk on the HFS+ partition which did no good. (This is, of course, from booting up using a Mac OS X Install DVD).
Mac_Win, thanks for the suggestions! -
Expired Beta Boot Camp w/ disc consistency problems?
On a Mac mini, I can't get Windows XP version to start under Beta Boot Camp under Mac OS C 10.4.11. It continues to restart by checking the FAT 32 disc for consistency, then gets stuck. Is this because the Beta version expired or corruption of the windows partition?
I have a family pack upgrade for Leopard to upgrade, but I have some valuable files I can't lose.
What is the right sequence: upgrade Mac OS and Boot Camp, or try to fix partition first, or some other path? I was thinking of using my Macbook as an external hard drive to pull off files with a data recovery software first, but unsure of the sequence.
Any help would be highly appreciataed!I don't have the Leopard disc because a man updated it for me in the mac store when I brought my laptop in for repairs.
You need to get that disk to use Boot Camp. Mac OS X 10.4 disks don't contain the drivers.
So, I have this Mac OSX install disc.. do I just insert it? And then what? How do I go about installing windows after that? I'm a little confused about how to get to the drivers and what to do I'm just not sure.
Once you've partitioned the drive and installed Windows, start up the computer into Windows and insert the disk. The installer should automatically start.
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Hard Drive Full - After Reboot, Will Not Boot to Mac OS - Boot Camp OK Tho?
Hello all,
I having a severe issue with my 2007 Macbook Pro 2.33 w/10.6.xx (I believe I'm up to 10.6.2). Yesterday I was on the net in Firefox and got a message from the OS that my hard drive was full and that I had to kill some running apps to recover needed virtual memory. I killed everything but Firefox, finished my web-based game and shut down. The next time I attempted to start the computer, it would not go past the "gray screen with Apple logo and spinning wheel". In fact, if I hold the option key at startup, I can see my Windows Boot Camp partition, any bootable CD/DVD I might have in the drive and "EFI Boot" only. I cannot see Macintosh HD as option.
Here is a list of things I have done/tried:
1. The day before yesterday, Mac OS (10.6.xxx) informed me on my 2007 15" 2.33 MBP that it was out of HDD space and I needed to kill some apps to recover virtual memory.
2. I force killed everything but FF since I was in a game of Settlers on Asobrain at the time!
3. The computer ran fine for the rest of the session.
4. When I rebooted, all I could get was gray screen and spinning wheel.
5. I forced shut down, tried again, same thing.
6. I tried resetting PRAM with Ctrl-Cmd-P-R at startup, same thing.
7. I tried booting to safe mode. I got past login but it never loaded anything but the default background wallpaper. I shutdown.
8. I booted from the Snow Leopard DVD and ran disk verify, then disk repair but it could not be completed as the drive has been "corrupted".
9. At this point all I get upon startup now is Gray screen w/ Apple, then spinning wheel with progress bar that never goes anywhere then it shuts itself down.
10. When I start the computer in Target Disk Mode (TDM), only my Boot Camp partition will mount, not my Mac HD
11. *I do have boot camp installed, with XP Pro, and it will boot without a problem. In fact, I have HFSExplorer (a free utility f . or reading HFS volumes while in Windows) installed on the Windows side and I can see/browse folders on the Mac partition, so on the fact alone that I can boot to windows I know I don't have a HDD failure.
12. I have also tried booting to Single User mode which worked, I got the prompt. I tried using the "fsck -fy" command and it could not repair the volume.
13. I have tried creating an image of the Macintosh HD while in Disk Utility booted from the Mac Install DVD, but I get an "i/o error".
Please help! Any good suggestions, help, etc. is much appreciated! -KylerHello and welcome to the discussions. All OS X drives need to keep 10-15% free space. If you were operating with less that that capacity, it is quite possible that some files were overwritten. Thus corrupted. The only thing that I could suggest is to try to copy your drive to an external HD or another Mac (Space permitting) Then reinstall using the install disc. You will then have to physically copy files from the external to your new install.
How large was your HD and how much free space does it have? You can use the install disc and Disk Utility to find out.
Cheers,
Glynn -
As made clear in the title:
I'm trying to create a Windows partition using Boot Camp. An error comes up telling me that I need to reformat my current partition(s) into one single partition. However, it's already formatted in the correct format, and is already a single partition.
My computer recently had a kernel panic, which apparently the corruption was in the system and needed to be erased and re-installed. I have a complete back-up using an external hard drive, and I am definitely not willing to do another one of those to reformat a partition that is already singular. I restarted the computer after ejecting my back-up, and after turning off time machine (thinking that boot camp was recognizing it as a secondary partition), however the error still occurs.
Is there any way to get around this?diskutil list:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 749.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Windows7 *2.9 GB disk1
diskutil cs list:
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
mount:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1 on /Volumes/Windows7 (udf, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners)
From my very basic knowledge - it still looks as if there is only one partition (not including the windows 7 CD necessary to install the windows partition). -
Boot Camp Error Code: 0x80070570
Macbook Pro late 2013 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
This problem with installing windows through boot camp has had me frustrated to no ends the past few days.
I have an iso of window 7 home premium that for sure works because it worked when I installed window 7 on VMWare.
I created the bootable USB flash drive and downloaded the driver and installed windows (checked all three boxes when I started boot camp), and everything is fine until I get to the install windows screen. Copy files work but when it gets to expand files, I get this error message:
"Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupted or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570"
It says file may be corrupted or missing, but I have tried to burn the iso onto usb from boot camp and using window usb/dvd downloader tool to make the bootable usb flash drive. The iso file itself cannot be broken because it works on my virtual machine. I have also tried this with my windows 8.1 iso, which I also know for a fact works, and still gets the same error. Does the error come from burring the iso to the bootable USB flash drive? If thats the case, there is nothing that I know of to burn it better since I tried the build in boot camp one and the window usb/dvd tool.
This error is so annoying, and I been trying to install windows on my mac for the past few days to no avail.
Has anyone else found a fix for this problem?
It was much easier to install windows on the old macbook pro when it has an optical drive. Using the iso should be the same but I'm not sure why its not working, given my iso should be flawless.To: Timothy Miller (and anyone else who might have input)
I'm having a somewhat related but somewhat different problem to the one you responded to a couple months ago in this thread.
I am also trying to create a partition on my Mac using Boot Camp Assistant in order to install Windows, and am also encountering an error from Boot Camp Assistant saying that I cannot complete the partition as wished.
My error message is slightly different from the one mentioned above. I already checked the solution you mentioned (checking the "enable journaling" button, and it is greyed out, because my hard drive was already enabled for journaling.
The error message I get from Boot Camps goes as follows:
"Unable to partition your hard drive because some files cannot be moved. Back up your disk. Use the disk utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Then restore information to the disk and try using the Boot Camp assistant again."
What does it mean "some files cannot be moved"?
I tried doing as it says, backed up all my data on my external hard drive, and went to disk utility to try to follow the error message's directions, but I'm not sure how exactly I format (or should I say re-format) my hard drive? I see options for erase, partition, and restore, but not format. I am guessing I probably need to erase it and then restore it from scratch? But disk utility won't let me erase my hard drive. Everything's "greyed out" and unclickable.
By the way, my computer is a 3 year old, 80 GB MacBook with Leopard 10.5.6.
Thanks -
Problems with starting Windows after Boot Camp was installed on a Win-PC
Hi,
i have a very interesting problem for the MacComunity (haha -.-). The problem is: after I have installed Boot Camp from my Snow Leopard DVD on my Windows PC (not my iMac); I can not start the system. In the Boot Camp System where i can set the system to start with, there was only the Boot Camp System available (not Vista). However, the system installs some Vista-Updates and some Updates from Apple Software Update (iTunes 9.2, Quicktime 7, Safari 5, Airport 5, Boot Camp 3.1) on my PC.
Everything was all right but after I have restarted the System nothing happend. the System freezed when the boot-Screen (Intel Logo) appears. The Systemkeyboard was not detected. It only detects a n external apple Keyboard. There are some reactions when I press the keys, but the Monitory is frozen, anyway. What can I do?Sounds like a lesson in there: don't wait to put OS X on an external drive that is usually off line.
Rush to a store or on-line and get a UPS of the 1500VA sort (APC RS would be nice, or SMART UPS 1000VA).
The directory of the drives could be corrupt.
I have all my equipment, modem, routers, the works, but we had a bad storm and one port on the router/modem is out (the one I used, the modem seems to be okay) and I am worried that the UPS's line filter for DSL in is also 'compromised.'
Storms and power outages can wRECK or cuase havoc.
It sounds like you need to map out bad sectors maybe (zero all in Disk Utility) perhaps. The directory, volume blocks, or even journal file, got scrambled. However, because no test can find it means - to me - it could be the "non user partitions" rather than OS X partition etc. Hence, zero the drive or just reformat it in full.
Why have you not ever with these outages, just continued to live w/o one? I wouldn't just shutdown, I would unplug if a storm approaches.
PS: SMC Reset button is under drive bay #4. Give it a 5-10 seconds depress.
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