HT1461 can i play a pc cd with the boot camp

I have a macbook air and bout the USB superdrive... im wondering if i can play a PC made game on the macbook or i need to buy the mac version or if i download the boot camp will it work

BootCamp is only an app that enable your Macintosh to restart and launch on Windows. To do this, it creates a PC partition on your hard drive, but you NEED to install Windows on it.
See this:
Mac Basics: Using Windows on your Mac with Boot Camp
There's another way to have Windows apps on your Mac, like the emulators. Different exist, free or to sold, but you can search on google for these:
VirtualBox
CrossOver (no need to install Window! but perfectible)
Parallels
VMWare Fusion

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Real Bonehead Question-What do I do with the Boot Camp Update 2.1?

Hello All,
The speakers on the iMac don't seem to work using boot camp/Windows Vista and some folks suggested I download the update from Apple.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/BootCamp_Update_2_1_for_Windows_Vista32
Well, I have done so. Uh..Now what? When I opened the download, all I get is a text edit full of gobblygook. I suspect I am doing something wrong...
Any words of wisdom? Don't be afraid to describe in great detail, using very small words on this topic. I take foolproof as a personal challenge.
Thanks,
Brian

Hi Brian,
the file you downloaded is an .exe file which can only be run in Windows not in OSX (as you obviously tried).
Copy the file to an USB-Memory-Stick, reboot your Mac into Windows and copy the file from the USB-stick to your Windows partition.
(I prefer a Folder in the root directory for this, e.g. C:\Download)
But before running this driver update you should check which driver versions you have installed already.
Since your signature states that you are using OSX 10.6.4 Snow Leopard I assume that you have installed the BootCamp Drivers form the OSX install DVD which would mean that you have at least the 3.0 Drivers (or later) installed.
Right-click on the BootCamp 'diamond' icon in the lower right side to see which version you have right now.
You might also use the Apple Software Update in WIndows to see if you are uptodate.
Regards
Stefan

Does the Boot Camp 2.1 Update For Vista 64 Work With Windows 7 Ultimate 64

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It is. Win7 Ultimate64 is running on it right now, with the Boot Camp 64 drivers from the original boot camp drivers on the macbook CD.
It IS the Snow Leopard Boot Camp - is that 2.1 already ? I can't find a version number with it...

BIG PROBS with Creating RAID 0 with the Boot HD

Hey Everybody,
i have a Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.5.3 and the folloring configuration:
1) a boot DH with 250GB
2) 2 x 500GB HD as a Raid 0 for Data
now i buy a new 250GB HD (then i have 2 x 250gb and 2 x 500 gb HDs) to create a nother RAID 0 with the boot HD... but that doesent work!
W H Y ? ? ?
i have look here in the forum fpr help, dont find a thread.
can some one help me? can i create a raid 0 with the boot hd? and when...how?
king regadrs..
christian

Lets say A and B are your 250gb drives with your current boot drive A. The two 500's are data drives C and D. My process would be to run Disk Repair on B, C and D. Then I'd run Disk Warrior on B C and D. Then boot from your DVD and run Disk Utility to repair A, just to ensure all is good. Then I would double check C and D to ensure they were duplicates, doing a Super Duper clone if needed. Then remove either C or D from your computer for safe keeping. Let's say you remove D. I would then wipe C clean and use SuperDuper to clone A to C and verify I have made a bootable perfect copy. You might even want to partition C into two drives and make two copies of A...just for temporary safety. After C has a boot copy, boot from C. Then you can use DiskUtility to create a simple RAID0 on A and B, and when that is done you can copy your C drive back into your A/B RAID. After booting from your RAID0 and then you can copy your data back from D to C (after reformatting C).
You cannot simply drag a drive from one to the other to copy it. It will not work as a boot drive doing that.
Keep in mind, if you do this, your A/B RAID has no backup. If you screw up an installation and hose it, you have nothing to fall back on. Time machine alone, or SuperDuper set to clone every day, or any of the commercial backup (or at least some of them) will give you more safety than a RAID0. RAID0 is great to save you from a single drive crashing, but more often than not the problem is installing some nasty piece of software that screws things up royally and RAID0 is wortheless for that. With your scenario, I'd buy another 250 so you can backup the RAID to that on a regular basis so if you totally screw up something you have a real bootable "last-known-good" image. After that get ANOTHER backup going to rotate off-site to save you from thieves and fires. At that point you can smile and know you really are reasonably safe. There are other ways to do this as others will explain. Several ways to skin this cat, but this is one option that will work.

Can't get Vista 64-bit to format Boot Camp partition

Okay. I went through all the normal steps, I checked back here, read as many threads as I could, and still nothing has worked. The core problem is that after I use boot camp to partition my drive, I boot into the Vista DVD, it sees the partition, I use the Format button to format it to NTSF, it does, then it says "Windows cannot find a suitable volume for installation".
Here's my setup:
Mac Pro 2.8 GHz 8 core, 10 GB RAM, 8800GT card.
3 internal HDs, 2 500 GB drives for my system, apps and media stuff, and 1 250 GB drive just for Windows.
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (yes, a real store-bought copy) Note that this is an OEM copy that's 64-bit ONLY, as opposed to the retail version that has 32-bit and 64-bit on the same DVD.
Here's what I've tried:
- Zeroed out all data on the Win drive, formatted as OS X extended, used Boot Camp to partition for Windows
- Formatted drive as OS X extended, then used Boot Camp to partition it into a 5 GB OS X volume and a ~230 GB Win volume
- Used Boot Camp to partition it as a single Windows volume
- Used Boot Camp to partition it as a single Windows volume, then tried to install Vista onto it without formatting it to NTSF
- In the Vista installer, tried deleting the main partition, creating a new one, then formatting it
- In the Vista installer, tried deleting both partitions (including the 200 GB EFI one that Boot Camp creates) and recreating them
In every one of these cases, after Vista formatted the partition it would not allow me to install Vista onto it, saying it couldn't find a suitable volume for installation.
I noticed that when Boot Camp does it's thing to your drive, it's supposed to create a partition named BOOTCAMP. In my case, it failed to do that when I told Boot Camp to create a single Windows partition on the drive. Instead, the drive would simply disappear from my desktop. It would then show up in the Vista installer, but it had no name. It just said Drive 1 Partition.
However, when I used Boot Camp to partition the drive into a 5 GB OS X volume and a ~230 GB Windows volume, it did create the BOOTCAMP volume and mounted it on the desktop, in addition to the 5 GB Untitled OS X volume. And in the Vista installer it did show up named BOOTCAMP, however formatting it had the same results as all my other attempts.
So after doing this for over 5 hours today, I don't know what the problem is. Nothing I've done, either in Boot Camp or in the Vista installer, is letting me install Vista onto the volume. Vista is simply refusing to install onto my drive no matter how it's been erased, partitioned or formatted. I don't know if this is a problem with the Boot Camp drivers, or with Vista. Maybe it's something to do with this Mac, it's pretty new just got it last week, there's a lot of variables here. The Mac is 100% perfect in all other ways though.
Any suggestions?

It worked! The only way I could get it to work was to pull out both my 500 GB drives so that the boot camp drive was the only one left. And even though the drive wasn't named BOOTCAMP Vista finally installed onto it. So it looks like the bug is just in Vista's installer - specifically that it appears to ignore the fact that you've selected the correct partition to install onto, and it gets confused if you have multiple HDDs installed.
Once Vista installed everything else went fine. I put my drives back in, updated Vista, installed the Boot Camp drivers and it's peachy now. Thanks again for the help.

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