HT1461 Leopard upgrade and existing Boot Camp

Will upgrading my Mac to snow leopard have any effect on the existing Boot Camp/windows partition?

Not unless a problem occurs. Back everything up first, and then update the drivers by inserting the 10.6 install DVD when the computer is booted into Windows.
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Possible to use Leopard disk to install Boot Camp on 10.4.1 ?

I have a MacBook Pro running 10.4.1, and I have a number of Mac programs that are not yet compatible with Leopard. I would like to install Boot Camp, but I can't install Leopard until those programs are updated. I have already purchased Leopard (but haven't installed it), so I do have the Leopard disk. (I was asleep at the wheel and didn't download the Boot Camp beta before it was pulled.)
Is it possible for me to use the Leopard disk to install Boot Camp on my 10.4.1 system now, but wait to make the Leopard OS upgrade later?
Thanks

Ah. There may be other mirrors around.
You may be able to install just Boot Camp Assistant from the Leopard DVD, but I'd be a little suspicious about how well it would work, and whether it would cause other problems. You should certainly be able to use the Leopard DVD instead of burning a drivers CD.
If you can't locate a copy of Tiger BCA, you might want to look at some of the posts that describe doing all of this manually - mostly that's creating a partition that Windows can use. Disk Utility will want to erase the entire drive to add a partition, though, which you may not be willing to do. Some third-party partition utilities claim to be able to do this without a reformat. Regardless of what path you take, be sure you have a good backup of anything not easily reinstalled or restored from other places!
Doug

How do I upgrade my "expired" boot camp beta?

I haven't used bootcamp... ever... since getting my mac 2-3 years ago. Recently, I've had cause to want make a windows xp partition, but when I install and start Boot Camp Assistant, it says Boot Camp 1.3 beta is expired, so I try to upgrade to 2.0 or 3.0, but the update is a windows file, making it quite difficult to upgrade.
How do I get Bootcamp on my computer again?

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
with OSX 10.5 Leopard BootCamp became a part of OSX.
So if you have OSX 10.5.8 installed on your Mac (as your signature states) then the BootCamp Assistant (in the Applications/Utilities folder in OSX) should be updated as well to the non-Beta version.
If you are still running OSX Tiger on your Mac, then you have to install/upgrade to OSX Leopard to use BootCamp.
Furthermore the OSX 10.5 Leopard Install DVD you have contains the 2.x version of the BootCamp Windows Driver package.
Once you have Windows installed with the BootCamp Assistant you should insert the DVD while in WIndows and the Driver Setup usually starts then automatically.
Regards
Stefan

Will Windows 8.1 upgrade work with Boot Camp on OS X Mavericks?

Will Windows 8.1 upgrade work with Boot Camp on OS X Mavericks?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Of course. Make a backup of your files in Windows, and install Windows 8.1 as an upgrade. The Windows support software supports it without any issue, so if it is updated, you do not have to worry

HT5628 When I install Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro(13-inch,Early2011),the Super DVD Drive doesn't appear in Windows 8 and installing Boot Camp 5 drivers doesn't solve my problem,what can I do?

When I install Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro(13-inch,Early2011),the Super DVD Drive doesn't appear in Windows 8 and installing Boot Camp 5 drivers doesn't solve my problem,what can I do?

Go into your system preferences and click the startup disk icon then select your Mac HD.

I just updated to OS X 10.9.2 and My boot camp assistant won't turn on.

I'm trying to install Windows 7 as I did before.
But now, when i double click the boot camp assistant on desktop it gives me the error message window and says "Boot Camp Assistant has quit unexpectedly".
Please help.

When I got the computer, boot camp assistant was on the desktop and I used it to install windows 7 before.
I have never really seen it on my applications folder and right now it isn't in my applications folder either.
Would this be the problem?
I couldn't find out how to re-download the boot camp assistant either...

How do you backup and restore Boot Camp?

I thought I'd drop by and ask my perenial question: How do you backup and restore Boot Camp?
I'm running Windows 7 if it matters, on a MBPn 17 2010 core-i7 and my daughter will soon be running on a MBP 13 2011 core-i7.
I'm currently using SuperDuper! and Time Machine for the Mac side, and am backing up using Disk Utility capturing the entire Win7 partition but have no confidence that it will work if I restore it.
What does everyone here use, and have you successfully restored your Windows 7 environment?

For me, Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011.
It contains Clone OS and other tools, for $49.
I'm not sure Paragon Backup is "Apple Boot Camp" friendly or not.
All available Paragon Hard Disk Management technologies are available in onesuite.
Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011
While lack of mention of Apple Boot Camp in System Backup may not be an issue, I have never used it. Paragon also has volume snapshot and other Mac OS tools - but then they are not all offered in a Suite to provide NTFS, HFS, Mac repair, etc.
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Lion will have to modify the partition tables to add its own Windows 7-ish system recovery partition, so I would definitely get a good backup strategy in place - and tested - ahead of time. Contrary to the "shouldn't have any impact" I always see an impact, and also re-initialize drives when a new OS comes out (though maybe wait for the .2 release).

How do I install Lion on an MBP with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, Boot Camp'd XP and a Master Boot Record?

I think this is called "a pickle."
The machine is a 13" MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo w/ 4 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD.
The HDD has a Snow Leopard 10.6.8 partition, and a Windows XP partition, via Boot Camp. Its Partition Map Scheme, sadly, is a Master Boot Record. I need to reformat it to a GUID Partition Table scheme to install Lion, but when I attempt to boot it from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD to wipe the drive, it grey-screens. Dead end.
From what I can gather on the forums, I can't boot a 10.6.8 machine using a Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD. I can't find my grey DVDs for this machine – still looking for those – but I expect those won't work either, being Leopard-generation?
The machine works fine, for the most part, including the optical drive. Has occassional display and wake glitches. Its HDD is backed up on a Drobo via Time Machine. I also have a 15" MBP Core i7 (with the exact same problem: 10.6.8, XP, MBR) which I can use for Target Disk Mode via FireWire. If I try to wipe the HDD on the 13", using Disk Utility on the 15" via Target Disk Mode, will the 13" then boot successfully from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD?
I just want to wipe the 13" machine, reinstall a fresh copy of Snow Leopard, then update it to Lion and restore from Time Machine, and never touch anything Windows-related ever again. (And then do the same for my 15", for which I've found my 10.6.3 grey disc. Not sure if that's any more promising.)
Any help appreciated!

Sounds like something is wrong with your disk. Have you tried cleaning it?
The Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD is fine – it mounts on both my 13" and 15", and I successfully created an image of it on my 15". I also tried my wife's Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD, also clean, which produced the same grey screen result.
Have you tried to use boot camp to erase the Windows partition?
Yep, this is supposed to be the proper way to remove a Windows XP partition from Boot Camp, so this was the first thing I tried. I get the same error as everyone with a Master Boot Record scheme appears to get:
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.
So, if I can't launch the Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard DVD, my next best guess is wiping it from my 15" over Target Disk Mode. However, if I try that, and still can't get it to boot from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD, then I'm stuck with an MBP without an OS.
My conclusion – that 10.6.0 DVDs can't boot to 10.6.8 machines – was based on forum posts about downgrading from Lion. I was wondering if there's a way to create a "10.6.8 restore DVD," and try booting from that. Shot in the dark perhaps.

Can I upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 8.1 in an existing Boot Camp?

I have a Full Version 64-bit Windows 8.1 disc and my iMac has the current Version 10.9.1 OS X (Mavericks) installed.
I already have a Boot Camp partition of ample size (100GB) with Windows Vista.
Can I upgrade to Windows 8.1 within my current Boot Camp environment or do I have to completely remove and rebuild my Boot Camp partition and Windows software?
Thanks,
David

I've tried both independently.
The one I upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 had graphics driver problems but I eventually got around them by deleting/installing the drivers in safe mode.
The Windows 8.1 that I'm currently using installed fine and I've also installed 2 Nvidia driver upgrades direct from Nvidia.
But as I said earlier, I may well have just got lucky with my hardware. Others have definitely not been as lucky as me.
It really depends on how much you want to upgrade and what the risk is to you if things don't go well.
You could lose everything in Windows. I would recommend making an image of your Windows partition (I use Clonezilla Live - which is a bit involved to use, but it works).
The risk is yours

Screen freezing, leopard won't load, boot-camp and parallels,

This problem started a while ago, around the time that I installed boot camp so I think it may be related. Sometimes when I am playing a DVD or a game or using something I've downloaded my macbook will freeze or automatically restart. It happened once a week or so and afterwards it wouldn't load, it would sometimes gets as far as the gray screen and the loading symbol and the freeze and restart and this would happen over and over again and would happen on the windows and mac partitions of boot-camp. I got a bit sick of it so uninstalled boot-camp and decided to try parallels instead, the problem is even worse now and the screen will freeze but will restart up to leopard fine but a while later it will freeze again or sometimes it will do as soon as the logins screen appears. What could be wrong and could it be related to having windows on my computer as it seems to happen quicker when I am on windows. Any help appreciated.

+*I'm trying to install Snow Leopard from an external harddrive*+
Is there a reason that you are trying this method as opposed to using your DVD?
Do you have a working installation of Snow Leopard on the external drive or have you tried to create a bootable image of the install media on the external drive?

HT1461 How do I get Boot camp assistant on Leopard 10.5.8?

I want to download Boot Camp Assistant like I need to and I can't figure out how... please help

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
If you are running OS X 10.5.8, you already have Boot Camp Assistant. Open Finder, choose Applications in the sidebar, go to Utilities folder and double-click Boot Camp Assistant, and follow the steps.
Note that PowerPC-based Macs can't use Boot Camp as they aren't compatible with Windows

Fresh install and preserve boot camp drive?

I have an older 2007 MacPro (2 dual core CPUs @ 3Ghz) that has the following...
MacPro Internals:
Mac HD drive = 500GB (Bay 1)
Mac RAID drive = 500GB (Bay 2) + 500GB (Bay 3)
Windows drive = 320GB (Bay 4) - boot camp drive with Vista 64
ATI 3870 HD Video
BlackMagic Designs Intensity Pro
2nd Firewire card
External devices:
Motu Ultralite FW Audio interface
Mackie Control Surface
M-Audio AXIOM 25 MIDI keyboard
LG Blu-Ray eSATA Burner
30" Mac HD monitor
24" Dell Monitor
42" HD TV
15" SD TV
Oki C5800L color laser printer
Software on my MacPro:
iWorks and iLife 09
Final Cut Studio 3
Logic Pro 9
Adobe CS4 Extended
FX Factory
Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD
QuickTime Pro (purchased version)
I'd like to do a clean install of SL. The reason I want to do a fresh install is that when I went from Tiger to Leopard (2007 MacPro) vs. Leopard pre-installed new (on my 2008 iMac), there are indeed some difference -- specifically different Leopard driver support that appeared on a fresh install iMac, but not when "upgrading" on my MacPro (printer drivers for example).
My hunch is that SL will detect existing drivers and NOT upgrade them to the SL version -- which may or may not be a good thing especially if the SL version drivers are 64bit while my L version drivers are 32bit. So the end result with going the "upgrade" route will be a mixed bag of 32bit and 64bit drivers. I'm pretty sure this is NOT gonna be a good situation if I ran the "upgrade" rather than a fresh install.
However, it's CRITICAL that I not lose my Windows Drive (Boot camp) with Vista 64 on it. This is a separate physical drive (Bay 4) but if I do a fresh install of SL, will the installer recognize I have a Boot camp drive and will it still allow dual boot using option key at startup (showing my the Mac or Windows drive to boot to)?
Rob.

Hi Rob,
Sorry been out of the country
Yes you are correct the EFI Looks after the booting of OS's from any hard drive.
if you hold down the alt key while booting it will give you a list of drives it thinks it can boot from.
In theory any windows volume with XP SP2 or newer should boot (+though if not installed on the same hardware originally is will complain about divers & if more than 15% of the hardware has change windows sometimes needs to be reactivated+)
I run multiple systems at my office using the same multi hard drive setup you have and have never had any problems changing / updating the Mac HD while leaving the Windows HD fully intact.

Will reinstall of OSX wipe out existing Boot Camp partition?

After a trial install of Parallels corrupted my XP side I have had to reinstall XP on a new boot camp partition, (seen as C: drive).
But soon after that I noticed a few apps not working properly or not at all in the OSX side.
I've tried to start up from the Tech Tool disk by holding the C key but it will not do it. It always just starts normally at the sign in prompt rather than running from the disk. I used the Disk Tools app. on the OSX installer disk to Repair Disk Permissions that seem to be needed. It then verifies the corrections are completed, but show back up again in repeat tests. I've concluded that I probably need to just do a fresh install of Osx but does that mean it wipes out the XP side as well?
All this reinstalling takes a ton of time that I need to be doing my job instead.

I installed Leopard over Tiger on two machines (normal upgrade not A&I) and on both machines the XP and Vista sides were still working just as before.
If you system is clean, there is no reason for an install of one to affect the other. Bootcamp is over and done with, once it creates the partition. At that point you have a dual-boot system and the partition wall will prevent one from OS from changing the other.
I have not even run BC2.0. My partitions were created with BC1.3 which I updated to 1.4 before installing Leopard.

Install SL OS and a boot camp as disconnected from internet?

i am considering installing an install of Snow Leopard and Boot Camp Windows XP on a hard drive in my Mac Pro and i am wondering if i can keep this disk/OS disconnected from the internet.
i am assuming that Safari and Mac mail will come pre-loaded with the OS but i am wondering if there is a way to keep this a very stripped down without all the annoyances of being connected.
my other OS's are utilizing the world wide web in this machine.
TIA

Since I do absolute nothing with anything from Microsoft, I am going to have to guess here on that and say that I doubt it seriouslly.
There must be a way to turn off the network under Windows I would guess in a similar way that I suggested for OS X is also my guess. Exactly how to do that would take someone more knowledgable with Windows then me. Sorry.
Allan

Windows 7 upgrade and existing Windows Vista Home Premium license...?

Hi,
As per Lenovo's scheme, after applying for Windows 7 64 bit upgrade and upon receiving the installer DVD, do I need to compulsorily install it?
Does "upgrade" here really mean that the day when the Windows 7 DVD was issued on my name, my existing Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit license will become Invalid or get expired? Or I can continue using my existing installed Windows Vista on my Laptop and install the received copy of Windows 7 as and when I want or even don't install it on my Laptop, if happy using existing Windows Vista only?
Regards,
Aniket Dumbare

More Information
I just found instructions to run "BCDEdit" and the results were the following so it looks like the "Boot Manager" is on S while the "Boot Loader" is on C (Whatever that means)
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>Bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=S:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {2164a006-c421-11de-8836-de5db8963170}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {2164a008-c421-11de-8836-de5db8963170}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {2164a006-c421-11de-8836-de5db8963170}
nx OptIn
C:\Windows\system32>

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