Help Mac/Unix Gurus - Boot Camp

1. I created my BC partition for Vista x64.
2. Installed Vista x64 150g NTFS - Boots ok.
3. Under MAC Os 10.5.x - Vista x64/x86 Partition is shown as MS-Dos and Does not mount as read only.
4. Installed Paragon's MAC OS Ntfs - works.
Now my main question, like fstab is to unix, where can i find the equivalent file MAC's unix enviroment that will allow me edit the option for that partition from MS-Dos to NTFS hence allow MAC NTFS to get that disk mounted?
Sean.

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I forgot to back-up my information (pictures, excel documents) on MAC before installing boot camp and Windows. I am mid-way through the process, at the point where I need to install the drivers. Will i be able to retrieve my documents on MAC or not?

I forgot to back-up my information (pictures, excel documents) on MAC before installing boot camp and Windows. I am mid-way through the process, at the point where I need to install the drivers. Will i be able to retrieve my documents on MAC and finalizing the Windows 7 installation (for the 1st time) or not?
I am worried that may lose my information... Appreciate any feedback! Note: already half-way in the process of installing!

Yes, IF you picked the right partition, as in the Boot Camp partition. If everything is done right you should be able to boot into the Mac side.
If you already booted into Windows and are at the point of installing the Boot Camp Drivers your already done installing Windows! Yea! All you need to do is just install the drivers and everything should work normal.
The Windows partition and the Mac partition are seen as two different HD's now as far as the computer knows.
You can use the Boot Camp control panel in Windows to boot into the Mac side and the Startup Disk in System Preferences on the Mac to switch to Windows. If you can't then press and hold down the Option key untill you get the boot screen.

I have put Windows 8 on my Mac pro, in boot camp, no I am unable to load drivers

I have put Windows 8 on my Mac pro, in boot camp, no I am unable to load drivers to get it working as it should. I have tryed Winows 7 Con, in setup.

Did you download the drivers to a FAT32 formatted USB drive per the instructions?

Mac book pro / boot camp "answers" for dummies

I followed the Installation and Setup Guide word for word...there were just a few words missing that really made it difficult, caused much frustration and almost had a mbp fly out a car window. I am a dummy!
Always print off the Guide and read it first, I read it as I went along and that was a mistake.
Step 1: Updating Firmware
My MBP arrives June 19 and already had the firmware updates. I did need to update OSX to 10.4.7.
Step 2: Download Boot Camp
Visit http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Click download. (here is where the installation guide failed to mention some key instructions) Before you can "Burn a Macintosh CD" you must follow the next few steps.
a.) Agree to terms
b.) Select the Macintosh HD
c.) When its done downloading double-click the package icon on your desktop
d.) Put in your blank recordable cd, go into your HD, Applications, Utilites folder, double-click the boot-camp icon.
e.)This is where the installation guide picks up the rest of the instructions. A screen comes up that allows you to burn a macintosh driver cd. Follow the instructions in the guide.
Step 3: Creating a partition
In the guide they don't mention FAT or NTFS formats until after you create the partition. That was dumb! (if you read all the instructions first, instead of following along you would have partitioned differently)
a.) FAT-Provides better compatibility, but must be 32 GB or smaller...now you tell me!
Step 3 continued: Selecting the Windows partition
Here they scare the crap out of you by telling you not to do anything other than select the C drive.
a.) The first screen that comes up is the Windows XP Professional Setup, looks like the one in the Guide but without an option to select C:Partition3. Your only option was to "Install". My jaw dropped..now what??
b.) Click install, the next screen gives you the options. (boy, I was lucky)
c.) Remember what I said about the size of your partition and FAT vs NTFS
Step 4: Installing Macintosh Drivers
They mention here that there "may be" hidden windows that you must respond to or nothing will happen, THERE ARE GOING TO BE AT LEAST 3 HIDDEN WINDOWS....just be aware of that so your not sitting like a dummy waiting for stuff to happen
The rest of the Guide is pretty word for word and easy to follow. Good Luck, hope this saves you some of the frustration I experienced, boy, do I feel dumb!
Simple things you may need to know...
1. "Right-click" by holding the control (ctrl) key and click the mouse at the same time.
2. Select operating system by holding option key at start-up
3. Back up your domain files if use iweb or else you will lose it all....talking from experience here!
Good Luck

Very nice write up.Should help more than a few dum...er,uh...people.
Jim
PowerBook G3 500 Mhz "Pismo" (Wonna buy it so I can get a MacBook?) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Mac Mini Server Boot Camp Windows 8.1 White Screen Issue

Hello Apple Peeps!
I have a Mac Mini Server 2012 which I have had for around 6 months. I use it quite a lot mainly for Music Production on the OS X side and Graphic Design on the Windows side.
I recently decided to factory restore it as I wanted to spring clean it and reorganise the way some of my apps were installed. The way I had it set up was it was running OS X on one SSD and Windows 8.1 (installed using Boot Camp) on the other SSD. The way I went about the factory restore was I first used disk utility to erase/format the Windows SSD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and then went about the factory restore of OS X onto the other SSD as normal (following instructions from the Apple website).
The issue I am having now is that my newly installed Windows 8.1 (used solely on a single SSD) is hanging on a white screen for quite a long time before the Windows splash screen shows up, where before when I would boot or restart into Windows there was no white screen and it would go straight into the Windows splash screen and load to the desktop very quickly.
So my question is...
Why do I get this prolonged white screen before the Windows 8.1 splash screen appears? How can I get rid of it? It was certainly not present on my previous installation. Can anyone advise me what the computer is doing during this time so that I can do some further research into a solution.
What I have tried already....
1) PRAM & SMC reset.
2) Setting the startup disk to Boot Camp in both OS X and Windows 8.1.
3) Reinstalling Windows 8.1 through Boot Camp.
MAC MINI SERVER (LATE 2012), 2.6GHZ QUAD CORE I7, 16GB RAM, 2 x 256GB SSD, OS X 10.10.2, Windows 8.1 (Retail), Boot Camp Assistant (5.1.3), Covered By AppleCare.
I would really appreciate some help with this ;-)

I have right clicked on each SSD in Device Manager and selected the option 'Properties' from the drop down menu, which brings me to this window...
I'm not sure where I can find Device Attributes, I have clicked on each of the tabs in the window above, as far as I can see none of them mention AHCI enabled or anything similar. Thanks for all of your responses by the way...much appreciated!

Mac Pro/ Leopard/ Boot Camp/ XP and 2 ATI Radeon XT1900 ????

I recently went surfaced from a hardware nightmare with my Mac Pro. I need 4 monitors on the XP pro/ boot camp side and was unble to do so using an added ATI XT1900 to my Mac Pro. The drivers would not successfully load. Also the added card buggered the original card. After uninstall and some trouble shooting I was able to get back to a functional configuration with 1 card.
Now that Leopard is out with the new boot camp.... does anyone have experience (successful) with 2 video cards (ATI radeon xt1900) in boot camp/ XP pro??? I dont want to go through me last experience as my job depends on the XP/ boot camp working.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dan

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the original poster didn't ask or mention anything about Crossfire. (though as a side note, I have read that some people have sucessfully got their 7300gt's into SLI by purchasing a special dongle and downloading a hacked driver.)
And as to whether a user would need two or more monitors for their needs is completely up to the them if it fits their needs, the way i see it the term 'waste' is subjective depending on the user and his/her needs.

Cannot Complete Installation of Vista with Mac Pro and Boot Camp

I only have one hard drive with my Mac Pro, and I partitioned the drive into two sections with boot camp and restarted with my Vista 64 bit Ultimate CD.
I have tried formatting the partition with Vista and it still gives me the dreaded error message of "windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria". I've tried deleting the partition during installation, and making a new partition with Vista, reformatting, then restarting the computer. Same message.
I don't know what to do. I've tried like mad searching for topics like this one here, but every one of them deals with installing vista on a second dedicated hard drive on the Mac Pro. I only have one. How do I get this to work?
Please help if you can. I would REALLY appreciate it. I'll be watching the thread. Thank you!!

Loyalty4Life wrote:
Thank you for your reply! I'll be here all night.
I have the 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors. I tried installing Vista ultimate with my 32 bit software, but I still get the same message (I own both legally, btw).
Thanks for your help.
Several things to do:
Run OS-X Disk utility and repair the disk if necessary, and file permissions.
Be sure your HD has the GUID partition scheme and if it has SMART that it's OK
Zap the PRAM
Be sure you are logged in as administrator when creating the BC partition and starting the installation of Windows from Leopard
When I installed Vista Ultimate 64-bit, I was using BootCamp beta, 1.2 or 1.3. I created the partition with BootCamp Assistant.app as you did. It's a 60GB partition that I formatted with NTFS with BC.
After starting the install in Tiger, I then simply inserted the Vista 64-bit DVD and that was it.
It just installed.
Ditto with XP-Pro on my other MBP. Zero problems with BC. It was also done with a beta, BC1.0.
I have never installed Windows using Leopard. When I updated to Leopard from Tiger nothing changed, but there seem to be more problems with Leopard and BC2.0 than there were with Tiger and the beta versions.
There are no requirements about legality until after the OS is installed, so that's a moot point.
There are some install DVDs that are in ISO format and they won't work, but it seems that yours is working but not finding a suitable volume.
You might try reformatting the BC partition with BootCamp assistant as FAt32 and seeing if that works, but you are limited to 32GB if you do that, but it would be a good test. Vista should then format it into NTFS.
Be sure that your Leopard OS is fully backed up because stuff happens when you keep fooling around with partitions.
Also look through this forum for similar problems.

Blank screen on Mac Mini running Boot Camp 3.1 with XP SP3

After upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 of Boot Camp I now am getting a blank screen after Windows finishes it's loading screen.
Booting to safe mode works.
I have tried uninstalling 3.1 and reverting back to 3.0, but the issue remains. Reinstalling 3.1 again also gives the same error.
I uninstalled and reinstalled 2.1 (from a older system disk I had around) and the issue seems to be resolved however the refresh of items and windows on the screen are very slow.
I have isolated the issue to the NVidia drivers, however I am unable to find any besides the bootcamp ones that seem to work. I've read through the forums and people have mentioned downloading drivers for other models but not the Mac Mini.
So, two questions that would be very helpful in my quest to fix this:
1) Anyone know where to get the latest working Nvidia drivers for the new Mac Mini (besides bootcamp)
2) Anyone have a good utility or know of a good cleanup utility to get rid of all the previous nvidia drivers all over the place and in the registry? I read about a few, but it would be nice to know which ones actually work with bootcamp/xp, etc.
Thanks for any assistance on this!
- David

I fixed it. All I had to do was change the output to the Cirrus audio device instead of the ATI.

Urgent help needed related to boot camp and Win7 32 bit

I have installed boot camp and Win7 32 bit on my iMac (2010) but I can't start from my mac os even by holding the option key. Windows doesn't recognize my wireless mouse either, but for now going back to the mac os is the priority. Can anyone help please?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Hold the Option (Alt) key after hearing the startup chime and until you see all bootable partitions in the screen. Do you see the OS X partition? If so, select it to start up in OS X. If you want to start up in OS X by default, open System Preferences > Startup Disk, and select your OS X partition.
Respecting to your wireless mouse, you have to install the Windows support software. To download it, you can use Windows or OS X, from this site > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1630 If you are in Windows, decompress the file and run the installer. If you are in OS X, follow the steps of the website to burn it to a USB drive

Mac book pro Boot Camp / track pad

Hello, recently i bought a Mac Book Pro- 15.4 inch- 2.4 ghz- I want to run windows on the computer as a dual boot using boot camp. I noticed that parallels has an option to sorta "steal" my curent desktop PC's information and use that as the windows part. Is there a way to do this with bootcamp so i do not need to re-purchase windows? if so please share :]. Also i dont know if this is normal or not but my tackpad (edge nearest the keyboard) seems like it doesnt have very much adhesive under it, because it starts sticking up like a sticker does when its running out of adhesive. is this something easily fixed by the genious bar, or do i need to leave it for awhile.
Thanks for you help,
James Gravis

You should probably post your question in the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

Mac HD unmounted; Boot Camp partition still available

Hi there,
So I've seen many different threads regarding this issue, but I'm in a particular situation and I am looking for some advice.
Regarding my situation, I have the problem where every time I boot my Mac, the "grey bar" loads for a bit, stops, and shuts down. I went to Disk Utility in Recovery Mode to check it out, and it stated that the disk can't be repaired and advised me to back-up and restore the drive. The thing is, I don't have a back-up of my drive. I know, in hindsight, that it was stupid for me not to consider backing it up, but as the title suggests, I still have access to my Windows partition where i'm able to copy and paste files from my Mac Drive to either my Windows Drive or other disks.
From the windows partition, I can see all the files of the damaged Mac Drive and copy/paste them where I want (I have already copied/pasted individual important files on a flash drive), so my question is, is there a way of backing up my Mac HD drive via something like Time Capsule now or is it too late at this point? I know I can back-up individual files but is there an easier way of restoring from say, a previous state that is stored somewhere?
Any help is appreciated. If you need any more information, please let me know as i'm unsure about what other information is needed.

Opey:
How about trying the option from the Windows side? Here is how:
1. Boot into Windows
2. *Right Click* on the *Boot Camp Icon* (Black diamond shaped icon in the Windows system tray near the clock).
3. Choose *Boot Camp Control Panel* on the pop up
4. Click on *Startup Disk* tab
5. Choose *Macintosh HD* and choose OK
6. Shutdown Windows normally and reboot.
See if the above procedure works for you.
Axel F.

HELP!!! Boot Camp Disaster

hey you guys, i recently got a macbook pro and i tried to install the boot camp program. everything ran fine, but when i ran the xp installation cd, it wouldn't let me hit enter to continue the install. i tried to hit f3 to quit, but no response. i eventually turned my macbook off by pressing & holding the power button. when i turned it back on, i ejected the cd. now there's a message that says, "no bootable device--insert boot disk and press any key" at this point i just want to go back to my normal os x settings. i don't want to mess with xp as of now. cany you guys help me? by the way, the cd i inserted was the reinstallation cd for windows xp. is that where i went wrong? help me please! i want my old settings back.

OK so I have the same original problem.
I try to install XP on a MacBookPro using Boot Camp - The XP installer loads a lot of stuff into memory and then asks me to press a key to tell it what to do next. At this point the keyboard seems dead and I so I can't progress into the installation phase.
So I worked out for myself how to recover a working MacOS system but this doesn't alter the fact that I can't install XP.
I tried the Firmware 1.0.1 update and I also tried plugging in an external USB keyboard - but no joy.
Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or found a work-around?
MacBookPro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Help with queries about boot camp and partition, please.

Hi, I am hoping to partition my HDD. I have done this before, when I first got my macbook but got rid of it, and now I can't fully remember the do's and don'ts' of boot camp. I just need a few questions answered before I take any action.
1. I have a 120GB HDD with about 15GB free space. If I partition the drive will I lose any data on my existing HDD?
2. What is the minimal amount of space I can partition the drive and install Windows?
(I have a copy of Windows XP SP2, and really only need to install it for the use of one program that isn't available on the Apple operating systems.)
3. I tried using Parallels in which Windows took up about 6GB, will it be about the same again? I uninstalled it because I found it to lag a bit.
If you can help with any of these queries I would really appreciate it, thanks!

Maybe you should first get a larger drive; you don't have much more than the minimum 10% free space that Mac OS needs.
Retry with Sun's VirtualBox. Maybe you just need more memory.
Lose data? Step #1: backup.
You may need to backup and erase your hard drive and then restore.
I'd invest in 300GB drive though.

Would a virus in windows damage the mac hardware when boot camped

HI guys, I'm thinking of boot camping with windows 7 for a few must have programs as yet not available on my new Mac. I am worried about potential hardware damage from viruses and any warranty issues that might arise from a different os running on a mac. Thanks for any feed back.

Yes well there is FAQ and HOW To and guide to help get started
www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
no one would recommend jumping w/o a safety net but not everyone seems to take backups seriously. that goes for cloning OS X, using TimeMachine, and WinClone 3 to handle Windows as well as Windows system restore images.
Not everyone knows how to manage and maintain OS X either. But they use it.
And for some, they are better off probably staying with running Windows as a guest VM rather than natively. Games of course won't perform well.

Overall happiness with Mac Pro and Boot camp/XP

Hi all,
I am a current Windows user and need to upgrade my home computer soon. My wife (teacher) has an imac g5 at home an loves it. I am thinking of getting a refurb mac pro when Leopard is released and use Boot Camp with XP Pro. I am not a big gamer so that is not a concern. I am just checking to see how happy others using this configuration are, and maybe reccomend a configuration (separate hard drives etc.)
Thanks to all for any feedback.

I love mine. Its quiet, launches native apps practically instantly (CS2 takes a few seconds longer), and performs all the system instensive stuff I ask of it quickly and without complaint.
And while it kills me to use Windows anymore, I need to feed my old gaming habit for which Bootcamp is great. I also need to do web browser testing for IE, and Parallels makes it super convienent.
If you have need of a system this powerful, I can totally recommend it. Without knowing what you're specific needs are, the sort of "all-around" config would be:
2.66 Ghz
2 GBs of RAM minimum (third party RAM is cheaper).
Buy extra drives if you need the storage space. But don't buy these from Apple. Western Digital drives are good and quiet.
Airport and Bluetooth options are pretty self explanatory.
If you don't game, and you don't use GPU sucking apps like Motion or Maya, you won't need the video card upgrade.
I could give you more specifics if you tell us what the system will be used for.

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