How to install windows 7 and parallel 7 on my mac

Hi folks,
I Need help on how to install parallel 7 and Win 7 on my iMac running on 10.8
Can anyone one out there help me with the steps?

>. I tired clean install - doesn't work
To install Windows 7 on the Win8 notebook you need to change some settings in BIOS.
Firstly you have to disable the secure boot in BIOS.
Secondly switch from UEFI BIOS to CSM and save the changes.
Now you should be able to install Win 7
But before doing this I recommend creating the Toshiba recovery medium (flash USB memory or recovery disk

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The procedure was tested on a Thinkpad R61 model 8918-B9G. It should work similar on other models.
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Everything you do is at your own risk. I am in no way related to Lenovo, other than being a customer using their
products.
Step 1) Make a full backup of your harddisk. Get yourself recovery CDs for your Thinkpad model if you don't have any. The changes we are about to make can completely screw up your harddrive. A typo is sufficient for that to happen.
Step 2) Power on the system. Check that you can boot into the Service Partition by pressing the Thinkvantage button when the startup screen appears. (Older systems may have a differently named button.) If there is a problem booting the service partition now, it is likely that the rest of this procedure will not fix it.
Step 3) From the service partition choose 'Warmstart' to reboot the system. Reboot Windows XP, logon.
Open a command prompt. CD to the following directory:
\Program Files\Common Files\Lenovo\BMGR
On a german language system (like mine) it is
\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR
If you have an older IBM system the directory may be named
\Program Files\Common Files\IBM\BMGR
or something like that. Maybe you need to search around.
In the following, I will call this the "BMGR dir".
Enter the following command:
bmgr32 /info /v
You should get an output similar to this:
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>bmgr32 /info /v
It's a Lenovo MBR
Opened Master Boot Record to see whose MBR it is.
It's a Lenovo MBR
Opened drive for reading
Partition 0 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 1 the SP? (512) Label is SERVICEV
Using version 2.05 of Lenovo Boot Manager
Reading: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
        MBR Sector 1 Index: 1   Checksum: 00    Disabled
        MBR Sector 2 Index: 4   Checksum: 03    Passed
        MBR Sector 3 Index: 5   Checksum: FD    Passed
        MBR Sector 4 Index: 6   Checksum: 58    Passed
        MBR Sector 5 Index: 7   Checksum: 96    Passed
        MBR Sector 6 Index: 8   Checksum: 7F    Passed
        Data Sector Index: 3   Checksum: F1    Passed
        Original MBR Index: 2   Checksum: BD    Passed
        No Patch Sectors
        Checksum Byte: 00
        Think Flag: 1
        WinPE Partition (0-3): 1        Alt Boot Partition (0-3): 1
        Boot Config: 2 (Service Partition containing two Service OS's)
        Boot State: 0                   Alt Boot Flag: 0
        (Normal booting operation, will boot to Customer OS)
        RRU: 00000000 00000000          Prev Active Part: 255
        Previous Partition Type: FF     Patch IN: 0     OUT: 0
        CIRT Disabled
        TOC: 0000000000000000           Lock: 0
        Show Error: 0                   Halt on Error: 0
        CIRT Load Return: 0
        CIRT Execute Return: 0
        Pause Duration: 10              Scan Code: 0085
        F11 Msg: To boot to the Rescue and Recovery Environment, Press F11
        Check Msg: There has been a signature failure
# active type      start CHS      end CHS      startLBA       size
0   0x80   0x07      1   1   0   239 255 255           63    301296177
1   0x00   0x12      0 193 255   239 255 255    301296240     11279520
2   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0
3   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>
The important thing to look for is the 0x12 partition type in the partition table at the bottom. This is the service
partition. If you do not have a 0x12 partition, then you can stop here because the rest of the procedure will not work
for you.
Step 4) Shutdown and boot gparted from CD. Shrink the system partition to the desired size. Do NOT touch the service partition! Do NOT attempt to create another partition! Leave the new white space on the disk untouched! Apply changes and restart the system.
Step 5) Reboot XP. gparted has set the NTFS dirty bit. This will cause XP to run a full CHKDSK. Depending on how much files there are on the partition this may take considerable time. Let CHKDSK run to completion. When CHKDSK finishes, the system will automatically reboot.
Step 6) XP reboots now. Logon. When loading the desktop, XP will show a popup window, stating that system settings have been changed and new devices been discovered and that the system should be rebooted. This is ok. XP actually recognized the shrunk system partition and applied the necessary changes to its own system parameters. Click YES to reboot the system.
Step 7) XP reboots. Logon. Open a command prompt, CD to the BMGR dir and enter:
bmgr32 /info /v
The output you get should be similar to the output you have seen in step 3, except that the partition 0 size column
shows a smaller value.
Step 8) Shutdown, restart. Check that you can still access the service partition by pressing the blue Thinkvantage button when the system startup screen appears.
Step 9) From the predesktop environment choose warmstart. Reboot XP. Logon, logoff, shutdown.
DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP!!! If you start the Windows Vista/7 install right after shutting down from the predesktop
environment, the Win Vista/7 setup program will screw up your harddisk! The Lenovo MBR bootmgr reboot takes two steps for completion. The first step is the shutdown and the second step is executed when booting from harddisk. A boot from the Windows CD will skip this second step and disaster finds its way...
Step 10) Insert the Windows Vista/7 DVD and boot it. Start the setup. Choose "Custom (advanced)" install. It will show the partitions on the disk. Select the white space (unallocated). Click on "disk options (advanced)". Click on "New" to create a new partition in the white space. Keep the default size, click "Apply". Click "Format". A popup window appears stating that the partition may hold OEM data. Continue. Click "Next". Installation starts.
Continued in the second post...

Step 11) Win Vista/XP will reboot several times during installation. You will always see the Windows bootmanager with an entry for "Earlier Windows version" and "Windows Vista/7". DO NOT DARE to touch the blue Thinkvantage button on any reboot or press any function keys!
Step 12) When the installation is finished, check that you can successfully reboot Win Vista/7 by selecting it from the Windows bootmanager.
Step 13) Reboot XP by choosing "Earlier Windows version" from the Windows bootmanager. Open a command prompt. CD to the BMGR dir. Enter the following command:
bmgr32 /info /v
The output will now look like this:
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>bmgr32 /info /v
Opened Master Boot Record to see whose MBR it is.
Opened drive for reading
Partition 0 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 1 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 2 the SP? (512) Label is SERVICEV
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0   0x80   0x07      1   1   0   254 255 255           63    109675692
1   0x00   0x07    239 255 255   239 255 255    109676544    191619072
2   0x00   0x12    239 255 255   239 255 255    301296240     11279520
3   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>
startLBA and size will of course differ, depending on the actual partition sizes you have set. Note that Windows setup moved the service partition to entry 2 of the partition table. If you do not see the 0x12 partition then stop here.
Otherwise the following step will likely screw up you harddisk.
Enter the following command (case sensitive?):
bmgr32 /Fbootmgr.bin /m0 /IBM /v
The output will look like this:
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>bmgr32 /Fbootmgr.bin /m0 /IBM /v
installing MBR
finding free sectors
Sector 9 is free
Sector 10 is free
Sector 11 is free
Sector 12 is free
Sector 13 is free
Sector 14 is free
Sector 15 is free
Sector 16 is free
Opened Master Boot Record to see whose MBR it is.
It's a Lenovo MBR
Opened drive for reading
Partition 0 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 1 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 2 the SP? (512) Label is SERVICEV
Setting Think bit
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>
This command reinstalled the Lenovo bootmanager in the MBR that was erased by the Win Vista/7 setup program.
Enter the following command:
bmgr32 /info /v
The output will now look like this:
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>bmgr32 /info /v
It's a Lenovo MBR
Opened Master Boot Record to see whose MBR it is.
It's a Lenovo MBR
Opened drive for reading
Partition 0 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 1 the SP? no, type 0x07 is not correct
Partition 2 the SP? (512) Label is SERVICEV
Using version 2.05 of Lenovo Boot Manager
Reading: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
        MBR Sector 1 Index: 1   Checksum: 00    Disabled
        MBR Sector 2 Index: 11 Checksum: 03    Passed
        MBR Sector 3 Index: 12 Checksum: FD    Passed
        MBR Sector 4 Index: 13 Checksum: 58    Passed
        MBR Sector 5 Index: 14 Checksum: 96    Passed
        MBR Sector 6 Index: 15 Checksum: 7F    Passed
        Data Sector Index: 10 Checksum: 01    Passed
        Original MBR Index: 9   Checksum: 12    Passed
        No Patch Sectors
        Checksum Byte: 00
        Think Flag: 1
        WinPE Partition (0-3): 2        Alt Boot Partition (0-3): 2
        Boot Config: 0 (Service Partition containing one Service OS)
        Boot State: 0                   Alt Boot Flag: 0
        (Normal booting operation, will boot to Customer OS)
        RRU: 00000000 00000000          Prev Active Part: 255
        Previous Partition Type: FF     Patch IN: 0     OUT: 0
        CIRT Disabled
        TOC: 0000000000000000           Lock: 0
        Show Error: 0                   Halt on Error: 0
        CIRT Load Return: 0
        CIRT Execute Return: 0
        Pause Duration: 10              Scan Code: 0085
        F11 Msg: To boot to the Rescue and Recovery Environment, Press F11
        Check Msg: There has been a signature failure
# active type      start CHS      end CHS      startLBA       size
0   0x80   0x07      1   1   0   254 255 255           63    109675692
1   0x00   0x07    239 255 255   239 255 255    109676544    191619072
2   0x00   0x12    239 255 255   239 255 255    301296240     11279520
3   0x00   0x00      0   0   0     0   0   0            0            0
C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\Lenovo\BMGR>
So you have actually regained the Lenovo bootmanager. But you are not done yet.
Step 14) Shutdown. Restart the system. DO NOT PRESS THE BLUE THINKVANTAGE BUTTON AT THE SYSTEM STARTUP SCREEN!!! IT DOES NOT WORK YET! When the system startup screen DISAPPEARS, quickly press F11 (maybe several times). The system should now boot the predesktop environment from the service partition.
Step 15) When the predesktop is there, choose "warmstart". When the system startup screen appears, press the blue Thinkvantage button. The system should again boot into the predesktop. The blue Thinkvantage button now works permanently.
Step 16) Check that you can boot Win XP and Win Vista/7 from the Windows bootmanager. You're done!

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I'm very new to the Mac world. I just purchased a lovely new iMac.
I would like to install my Windows XP Professional (SP3) on to my iMac.
I purchased Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac and before I do anything, I want to know what I should do first.
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If you will never want to run Windows natively, then you don't need Boot Camp. Otherwise, install first on its own partition, get it setup, then Parallels, and only then activate. Or reactivate. After you have Parallels Tools installed.
Really ought to check on Parallels forum.
http://forum.parallels.com/forumdisplay.php?&f=58
To get the hang of OS X, no matter level of expertise, even though Apple has their 101 Help and Switching, "Missing Manual for OS X" is excellent 900pg reference to get the most out of it.
http://www.apple.com/support/
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/02/27/1551206.shtml
http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Snow-Leopard-Missing/dp/0596153287/
Switching to Mac? not so useful.
http://www.amazon.com/Switching-Mac-Missing-Manual-Leopard/dp/0596804253/

How do I install windows and bootcamp on my macbook Air

Hi
I need to install Windows and Bootcamp on my macbook Air, due to a software tool a customer needs that only runs on windows.
The initial instructions say I cannot do this with a remote DvDplayer,
Who has experienced this?
Chris

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

How do I install Windows 8 on Mountain Lion (mac mini) 2010 Server using bootcamp with out Optical Drive?

I have a 2010 Mac Mini server running 10.8.4 (12E55). I just bought a brand new copy of Windows 8 from micrsoft. I have tried using boot camp and it will not recognize a burned DVD in my remote optical drive on my laptop running windows 7 or my macbook running Lion 10.7.5. I have had Microsoft on both of my computers remoted in for about 8 hours and they tried just about everything that I've tried.
Microsofts tech support has made me a bootable DVD and a bootable Flash Drive through remote desktop (awsome good job microsoft tech support). I have even tried formatting my mac mini's second 500GB hard drive to FAT32 using this whole disc as my windows partition. I know that when I go to install windows 8 it is going to reformat the drive to NTFS but all the articles that I've found, say this is what you have to do to get the drive formatted properly to get the ball rolling and get windows will fix it when it goes to install by reformatting to NTFS.
Ok so right now I have my second 500GB hdd on my mac mini formatted to FAT32 and I have tried to reboot holding my option key like I do on my mac book. If I want to boot to a different hdd on my macbook all I do is hold the OPTION key during start up and you get prompted to choose one of the bootable disc that is on your computer. Well if I put my USB drive which is bootable on my macbook into my macbook and do this right now its not showing up.
Now I just put the DVD that they made me in my macbook and it shows up as bootable disc. But the USB doesn't. (1 hour later) I just got microsft to remake the USB drive and am going to try that again so ta ta for now and I'll come back on to post to tell you if it works.

mikkel-kj wrote:
These apps paralells and fusion and virtualbox, are they in Mac App Store? And when I have the app installed what then, now it ain't only bootcamp what shall I do now to install windows 8?
Mikkel
Parallels, Fusion, and VirtualBox are available from their respective sites. Read their installation instructions which explain how to install Windows.

Is there ANY way to install windows (for parallels) WITHOUT a superdrive?

I have Parallels (build 5600) and Win XP running fine on my iMac.
I want to run it on my MBA, too.
I have successfully installed Parallels (on a new trial license for now), and when I went to install Windows, learned that it can't be done via Remote Disk.
I'd really rather not spend $100 on an external drive JUST for this purpose.
Can I make a disk image of the windows disk?
Or connect to the imac in target disk mode (or something?!) to use THAT drive?
Or... can I somehow just copy my "virtual machine" from the imac to the MBA? Not sure if that will cause windows serial number police to freak, though...
Glancing through a quick search here, it seems it's possible to migrate the virtual machine. But what files, exactly, do I need to migrate? Just the .hdd file?
I'd prefer to do a nice clean install from the CD, but I don't know if that's possible.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!

Ok, I may have answered my own question.
I am copying my Virtual Machine from my imac, but it will take a long time to copy, and takes 10gb of space, so trying that is a last resort.
in the meantime I found this on the parallels site. Looks like you CAN use a disk image. I'm going to try it now- fingers crossed!
http://kb.parallels.com/en/4826
I'm using Macbook Air and cannot install Windows to Parallels Virtual Machine by means of CD/DVD drive “borrowing” feature. What should I do?
RESOLUTION
Unfortunately Macbook Air CD/DVD drive “borrowing” feature doesn’t support direct media streaming and thus cannot be used to install Windows (or any other Guest OS ) to Parallels Virtual Machine. To install a Windows VM on Macbook Air you can either create an .iso image of Windows installation disk on some other computer with CD/DVD drive and copy it to Mac or use an external CD/DVD drive that Apple offers for Macbook Air.
Please refer to this article for the instructions on how to create an .iso image for Parallels VM on Mac - http://kb.parallels.com/entry/32/458/

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