How can I install a Windows 7 Upgrade in Bootcamp?, How can I install a Windows 7 Upgrade in Bootcamp?
Hi!
I'm running OSX 10.9.1 and would like to install Windows 7 on Bootcamp.
Unfotunately, I have a Windows 7 upgrade disk and an XP full version disk.
If I install Win7, Windows won't accept the license because it wasn't installed as an upgrade. Bootcamp won't let me install XP.
Any ideas or workarounds?
I don't know of a workaround for your situation, I'm afraid.
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I'm installing windows 7 64-bit on my imac which I've done before but I get a message that the partition is GPT even after I format the bootcamp partition. I just upgraded my hard drive to a 3tb and I'm allocating 1tb for windows. How can I fix this?
No easy fix for a few reasons:
1) Bootcamp requires a hybrid MBR for the partition table. That is: both an MBR and a GPT partition table at the same time with the GPT one having all partitions and the MBR one having only the ones that are relevant, but at most 4 of them (including the protective partition and the Macintosh HD one). Which leads us to:
2) The MBR part of the hybrid partition table cannot work with 3TB hard drives. MBR is limited to 2TB.
I am working on a small EFI app that can boot Windows in EFI mode on a Mac and that would mean that you can go GPT only on your system. The progress of the app is slow due to the nature of EFI and for now requires that you do an unattended Windows install with slipstreamed graphics drivers, but we are adding VGA loading on top of EFI quite soon after the rest of the app stabilises. The status of the app is documented at:
Win7 x64 booting natively via EFI (no bios emulation)
Windows does actually successfully boot in EFI mode on most Macs (anything with a 64bit EFI should work), but does not have graphics support even if you load the driver due to the VGA pci registers not being set by the firmware. Furthermore, in Setup and Safe Mode, Windows uses VGA instead of GOP which is a failure by design since VGA is a BIOS standard and not really compatible without hacks with EFI. Other EFI implementations also add VGA compatibility at a high cost to the firmware complexity for the VGA cards available on the market that don't actually contain anything in their ROM except the VGA BIOS.
My recomendations:
1) Install on a second smaller hard-drive; or
2) Wait for the EFI app to come out officially and use that to boot Windows Vista SP1 x64 and Windows 7 x64 (RTM and SP1) in the native EFI mode.
3) Wait for Windows 8 which supports VGA-less booting acording to the AMD presentation at UEFI Plugfest. -
Hi,
I want to install Windows 7 on my imac in bootcamp. I have a windows 7 upgrade disk and a full vista disk. Normally on a PC I would install Vista, then upgrade to Windows 7. I see that bootcamp 4 only supports Windows 7.
Can I install the Windows 7 upgrade disk without first installing Vista? Will this work in bootcamp?
Thanks,
JimInstall 7. Don't bother with applying drivers and such, just reboot again from DVD and install again, it will see the existing system and this time activation will be possible.
Vista is mess, takes longer etc. Hope you have SP1 version of 7. And for Vista, only SP2+ are even supported now, by MS. -
How can I install Apple BootCamp with Windows 8 32-bit then upgrade to 64-bit?
I am trying to install Apple Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro 13-inch, bought in early 2013. I have Windows 8 pro 32-bit install package and an install package for 64-bit upgrade.
I received my Windows licenses for free (because I work for a nonprofit). I only have the Windows 8 Pro 32-bit install package. However, I also have the install package to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro 64-bit. The problem is that I can't install the Windows 8 Pro 32-bit on BootCamp to start and then upgrade.
Is there a way to install Windows 8 Pro 32-bit on Apple BootCamp and then upgrade to 64-bit?
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How can I Install BIOS Upgrade without windows installed
Hi Guys,
I want to Install BIOS Upgrade for Lenovo 3000 N100. The problem is i have a brand new hard drive, so i want to install it on command line after booting the system from bootable CD.
I have found all the BIOS updates on Lenovo site are Installer Packeges which runs on windows.
I am stuck, any help will be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
AshikI am Trying to update the BIOS on my G530-35U to 6get18ww (currently 6get17ww). I did not automatically install when I run the file 6get18ww, maybe because I did not have the battery in place (I forgot) all it did was to put all it's 17 files (BIOS.wph, mfc42.dll, ... winphlash.gid, etc.) in C:\DRIVERS\BIOS\6get18ww.
Are those files the ones you are talking about it?
Actually I will copy all but those txt files into a CD and I will try to boot from it.
otherwise I will just copy large size executable file BIOS.WPH other?
I will report here if I don't forget.
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A pop-up box in the lower right corner of the screen says the download is complete. But a search of the entire hard drive does not locate the files. I've tried restarting Firefox, restarting Windows---and even shutting down and restarting the computer---after each attempt at downloading, with no different results. I've also tried disabling other programs like V-Tuner and Eudora before downloading. I have no trouble downloading other files, including my original installation of Firefox plus the upgrades. My current version of Firefox (3.6.16) is still working just fine; I tried to upgrade only because 4.0 was announced on-screen today, and I thought I might as well have the latest thing. My operating system is Windows 2000, which I see listed as compatible.
Check that you do not run Firefox as Administrator.
Right-click the Firefox desktop shortcut and choose "Properties".
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You also need to check the Properties of the firefox.exe program in the Firefox program directory. -
Message receiving is from windows installer:the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable
Many thanks.
(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
(2) Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
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http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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I have a mid 2010 Macbook Pro, How can I install Windows 7 without an Optical Drive?
For clarity: I have a mid 2010, Macbook Pro. I recently decided to upgrade to a Crucial SSD drive, double the ram (8 gigs), and remove the optical drive in favor of using my old drive as a back up. I am also currently running Yosemite.
I want to install Windows 7 onto my SSD, using bootcamp. Unfortunately I no longer have an optical drive installed, which makes things difficult as Bootcamp does not even give me the option to create a bootable USB.
Now, this is where things get kinda fuzzy:
MId 2010 macbooks use EFI, and are quite capable of booting from USB. How do I know? Because I booted from a USB drive in order to do a fresh install of Yosemite on my SSD.
I have read mutliple forums and threads with claims that folks have had no problems doing this on 2008 Macbook Pros running Snow Leopard. However, what seemed to be required was some clever .plist modding. I have used both text wrangler, and x-code to do this, unfortunately upon booting of bootcamp, bootcamp instantly crashes. Naturally, I can restore bootcamp because I made backups of the .plist file.
It would seem that modffying the .plist file assumes that the option to create a bootable USB device is grayed out. In my case, it is non existent.
I have also read that folks have had success using rEFIt, however rEFIt has been forked to rEFIned, and the developer of rEFIned made mention on his site that Yosemite handles booting differently than previous versions of OSX.
WIth that, I was hoping that some kind person could explain to me whats going on, what I am missing, and what I can do to make this happen just shy of tearing down my MBP and reisntalling the Optical Drive and dusting off my Win 7 disc.
Also, my Model Number/Bootrom is MBP 6,2.
Thanks in advance!Thank you for your reply, and the information. This is what I came up with:
I added the strings as instructed, however when I went to sign the script in terminal, I was told:
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: replacing existing signature
/Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app: code object is not signed at all
In subcomponent: /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app/Contents/info.plist
Also, here are screen captures of the lines that I added. Mine are the top string entries:
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Dear Apple Corps;
I have an issue with your software on my PC and iPad, iPod, and shuffle! Everytime I download and update or try to reinstall files after having my computer "scrubbed" they either won't open, can't be found or work poorly. WHY???? I have been through alot of this over the last 3 years, and I am tired of files safely and securely transferred becoming corrupted or unusable or just plain deleted. Please come back with and answer. I also have invested heavy into iTunes files downloaded from the iTunes store, so how can I safely store a remote copy(s), to reload onto my cleaned hard drive or to a new device Apple or PC????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
Tired of wasted time manually loading files I should be able to use off a stored copy.
Richard Dreyer
[email protected]"Den B" wrote in message news:9528356a-7e8f-45bf-9eee-30b40b5df4aa...
Some strange glitch has erased every single unlocked & unprotected file on my C: drive. It wasn't a virus because I checked autorun records and running processes using the respective Sysinternals utilities and didn't find anything suspicious.
I restored all data except for some system files and files that had "too long" of a path using shadow copies, which luckily for me were just a few hours old. Then, I decided to reboot into Recovery Environment and run System Restore from there. For even
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Error messages so far:
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BSOD: 0x7B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, 0XFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0, 0x0), but the HDD is perfectly fine - it's a dual-boot machine
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What I need is a way to perform either an in-place upgrade without booting into Windows, or a way to fix the SXS Component Store, or rebuild the Safe Mode so that I could initiate upgrade install from there. A clean install isn't an option because I don't
have the luxury of time to run through the reboot cycles when re-installing and updating other software (I'm using Windows 8 CP for now as my work tools are mostly in the cloud).
It is not possible to do a repair install of a system unless you can boot to the system.
Have you checked the hard drive for problems? - download the manufacturer's test utility, create the disk, and run the extended checks.
Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi |
CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth -
Can Photoshop 4, upgraded to 5, be installed on my Windows 7 64 bit OS ?
I bought Photoshop 4, 16 or 17 years ago, and upgraded it to version 5 later on, and I never had trouble with this combo, on any other of my Windows controlled computers, but they were all 32 bit. I'm now in my early 60's, so another upgrade is no longer possible, but I have Photoshop CS2 and Imageready CS2, downloaded and installed. And up until now, that has been enough for my use. But this coming Friday, Feb 21, the woman I was married to passed away three years ago, and the last good photo, if it can be called that, was of her in a wheelchair in the hospital, less than 6 months before she passed on. Her skin on her arms and face, has some damage showing, as well as the trachea they gave her, to help her breathe. Thinking about it, I decided to try and remove all the skin defects, using Photoshop CS2, and I did..., except I also removed the lines of her jaw, nose and such, leaving her looking as bad without the flaws, as she looked with them. I researched it a little, and found some tips and tutorials, to BRUSH her flaws away instead of by using the magic wand and skin color, to paint over them. But it seems that what I was reading concerning the types of brushes there are and what I should use, I can't find inside CS2, so I tried to install Photoshop 4, but it came back with an error message, that this version, is not compatible with 64 bits, and said to ask the makers of the software, if there was a way to load it on the 64 bit version of Windows 7.
There are some suggestions I've found on how to bypass this problem and load it in the 64 bit machine, but I decided to reach out to Adobe,to see if there was a way to make this combo of Photoshop 4 and 5, work on my computer. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you in advance.
PaulNoel,
I must admit, your reply at the start of your answer, seems a bit confusing
to me. Photoshop CS2 here in south Louisiana, is a FREE PROGRAM that
someone can download and install..., absolutely no cost to get it.
Photoshop 4 and other upgrades, are damn sure not free. Photoshop 4 ran me
a bit over $800, and upgrade 5 at almost $425. Now, maybe I am an OLDER
PERSON, and maybe being in my 60's, means I'm a bit POOR, but where do you
get this, " there's no allowance in the law that makes it okay for older or
poor people to use unlicensed software". I know what the term PIRACY
applies to, and I'm not aware that I suggested or asked for any type of
illegal answer to my question. Photoshop CS2 was not criticized by me
except if my saying it did not have ALL the tools inside it, that the full
version of Photoshop does, is being TOO CRITICAL? How does it make any
sense, to have a FREE VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP CS2 AVAILABLE, if it has ALL THE
ABILITY THE EXPENSIVE PHOTOSHOP VERSIONS HAVE? So, please don't say I need
not be offended because I DID NOT ALLUDE TO ANY ILLEGAL SOLUTIONS, to my
question.
If your answer is what I was supposed to get, asked to someone in the
Photoshop community, then Microsoft's Windows error pop-ups, should simply
be ignored. As I had said, there were suggestions I ran across, on how to
convert past Photoshop installs on 32 bit systems into working on 64 bit
OS. One way, was to download an installed version of Photoshop off an older
Windows OS that you may have, on a Flash USB, and then take it off the
Flash USB and NOT INSTALL, but MOVE the files into x86, again, not
installed. That would leave 6 or 7 missing .dll files, which can be gotten
online, put in the Photoshop files in x86, and according to those who were
discussing it, it works just fine. I have Windows XP on my last pc, and it
is still saved up, so I could have gone that route, or maybe even another.
I'm not a lawyer, nor am I an employee of Adobe, but since I already PAID
for Photoshop 4 and 5, I am not aware of STEALING ANYTHING, by taking an
installed older version, and trying to access it on my newer pc. I'm not a
software GEEK, but if Photoshop was made in 16 bit format, and can be used
in 32 bit, but not 64 bit, then about the only loser in this attempt, would
be Adobe, since I'm not planning on spending another small fortune, buying
a Photoshop version that actually works on 64 bits. Is doing this something
that makes me a thief? Being I've been on computers nearly 20 years now, I
have ran across previous software, that was compatible on BOTH 32 AND 64
BIT SYSTEMS. So that is a possibility, but again, I am NOT A SOFTWARE
PROGRAMMER or DESIGNER, so why this software from Adobe is not compatible
with 64 bit, there may be a reason, but if there was, I sure am not aware
of that. But what do I know, asking a logical question as it was suggested
I do, and getting this type of reply for my effort. And all this, just
because I was trying to clean up a photo my deceased wife took in the
hospital, a few months before she passed on and is now with God. Go
figure...
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My Mac Book Pro had a split drive with Windows Microsoft Access on it and it was removed when Mavericks installed. I need this so how can I go back to the old system?
Restore from the backup you had prior to installing Mavericks.
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Hello. I have a mac-mini (mid 2010) and with bootcamp, was successfully running XP.
I then decided to upgraded to Windows 7 had lots of trouble installing it on my existing bootcamp partition.
I finally was able to install Windows 7, by just booting off the CD and letting it install that way.
But reading more on it, I think I was supposed to use Bootcamp to do it for me...
I had thought the Bootcamp Assistant was for only fresh installs of a Windows O.S. where no partitiion existed previously.
I had a partition so thought Bootcamp wasn't required for my needs.
But now, inside Windows 7, I have 0 drivers installed. I have an AirPort Express, so on the Mac side, I downloaded
and installed the Windows version of AirPort Utility and copied it to my USB stick. Then
I exported my settings to a text file on a USB Stick, then on Windows was able to successfully install AirPort Utility and import the settings.
But it still doesn't find my network. I am pretty sure I'm broadcasting my SSID...
So I need to know the following:
1) How to know I'm broadcasting my SSID - where do I find this in settings?
2) How I can install my mac-mini drivers on Windows 7 so I can use my existing wireless network, now that I've gone through the installation without using Bootcamp?
3) Do I need to set up network adapters and all that stuff in Windows 7 first? If so, how and what drivers do I need?
One other thing I tried was downloading Bootccamp 4.x and installing that on Windows 7 to see if it gives me the drivers that were supposed to be written to my USB stick if I had installed Windows 7 using Bootcamp in the first place... However I think the message it said was that it couldn't install as it was the wrong version. So I'm still stuck without drivers and therefore no internet.
And that is my main task - getting the Internet up and running in Windows 7.
Other Info:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 with 2 GB of memory.
I installed the 32-bit version of Windows 7 and I don't know what version of Bootcamp I'm running...
I can tell you that BootCamp Assistant is v3.0.4, but don't know if that means Bootcamp is also 3.0.4.
Hope you can help.
Thanks.I tried something that worked for me...
Knowing that after my install of Windows 7 wasn't the correct method (didn't go through bootcamp), and the BootCamp 4.x package wouldn't install under windows 7, I tried reinstalling Bootcamp 4.x in Windows 7 to see what the exact message was it gave me. The message said it couldn't install because of a 32-bit O.S. vs a 64-bit version of the package.
So that got me thinging - my XP version was 32-bit, and so is my Windows 7 installation. So I tried installing the bootcamp that came with my Mac OS X installation CD. This is bootcamp version 3.1.
Not only did it install, but it practically took care of everything driver-wise for me. I was then able to see my wireless network, enter my password and I was connected. The only thing else I had to do to get on the Internet was bring IE8 online (guess it ships offline by default). Firewall and Antivirus are now installed, just a few more things to go.
That's one thing that's just not clear that I'll be sure to note for next time... The Bootcamp packages you download are actually driver packages for Windows. That is where the Windows drivers exists that are necessary to make your Windows 7 PC work on a bootcamp partition!
I didn't need the AirPoirt Utility at all (at least, I never went into it).
Thanks VikingOSX for your post. I will not need to follow the steps you provided, but they may help someone else as all of these bootcamp issues I've been reading seem to be very unique per installation.
Hopefully my solution helps others. -
How can I install Windows on my new Mac?
This question sounds simple, but I am going nuts. I got this MacBook Pro recently, and I need Windows (to run ArcGIS 10). I know it can be done, and in fact is very common. However, I'm stuck.
Here are the problems:
- Only Windows 8.1 is currently available from Microsoft
- According to Apple, 8.1 cannot be installed on a Mac
- My download from Microsoft included only a small .exe file, not an ISO
- I don't have a CD drive. Just an 8 gigabyte USB thumb drive.
- I don't care what version of Windows I get. If there's some way to get 7, that's fine.
So what do I do? How do I buy a copy of Windows that will work? How do I download it so that Boot Camp can use it? Hasn't this been done millions of times? I was on the phone with Apple for over an hour, and with Microsoft three times. No one can help. Can you?
Thanks!your best bet is to download virtualbox and install it that way
though if it's an exe it's not a full version but and upgrade so you need to install a full version in the
virtualbox first -
I am trying to figure out how to back up ALL of my apps, games, movies, personal info, etc, that is destroyed when I upgrade ITunes ( I do not know why). If it's all on ITunes in the first place then what's the problem with installing new software after wiping it clean, then adding that software and the original apps, games, movies, tv shows, etc, that are stored on ITunes to begin with"? With that being said, I subscribed to ICloud somehow through the Itunes store, the instructions that they had for using Windows VIsta were incorrect so I signed up with the intention of using it as a tool to backup all of my data. Problem is I only got 25 gigs to start and I need 40 gigs. I also don't know how to properly set up the account or manage it, or the amount of data that it will hold. Please help me!!!! I just recently located my Touch after it being misplaced by my little sister for over a year and I'm trying to upgrade the operating system, after all, it IS over two years old.....Thanks, in advance for any help anyone can give me.
Message was edited by: cdftrimHi. The two user tips both describe a sequence of steps that should get your library from the point where it threatens to wipe data from your device to where it is syncing normally, while recovering as much information as possible. It may still be necessary to wipe and reload the device but this should only take place once all the data that can be recovered has been recovered.
Doing step 1 of 8 and then complaining things aren't the way you want them to be yet strikes me as premature...
Since you appear to have all your media content, and we are discussing an iPod classic, not an iOS device, the main worries are already taken care of. What's left is ratings, playcounts, playlist membership and checked status. Since your device holds only part of your library at best you could only recover the missing data for the content that is on the device using third party tools.
Recreating the previous checked/unchecked status of every track in your library from where you are now may not be that easy. Syncing with selected playlists has many advantages, one of which would have been that you would have a named playlist that could have been retrieved by 3rd party software if you had used this method.
You haven't explained what caused your problem in the first place, but if you have a Previous iTunes Libraries folder holding old copies of your iTunes database (generated with each iTunes update) then it would be possible to restore the most recent of these and then update the library with any changes in your media folder.
BTW Apple doesn't offer free support for this kind of issue with iTunes.
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I have iPhoto 11, version 9.4.1 installed. When my library upgraded, I got a message that the photos couldn't be inported and I need to repair iPhoto permissions. How do I do that? My photos are there, but I can no oonger drag them to the photo stream.
Disable Photo Stream in iPhoto's preferences and then go back and reenable it. See if that will jump start the process. If that doesn't help try this: make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
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3 - launch iPhoto check its preferences to meka sure all is as you expect and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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