IMac Boot Camp Problem

Hey!
I have a late 2009 iMac 27 inch and trying to install Windows 7 via boot camp.
The internal disc drive is blocked, so I have to use an external superdrive (i use apples external drive).
But after I've created the partition and the computer restarts, the screen goes black and it says "no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key".
It seems that Windows doesn't recognize the Apple external superdrive with the Windows disc in it.
What should I do?
Thanks

Hello,
No panic, download the ISO on Internet, and burn it to an USB Stick. Then go to System Preferences, and to Start Up (maybe, I don't know, I am French...) and select the boot device, then hit reboot. To burn the ISO to the USB stick, go there : http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net, and the ISO from Windows 7 is here : http://www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-serv ers/, but don't forget to activate it to avoid viruses and to get a "Microsoft Original Software"

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First, the Boot Camp problem
I don't know exactly how to explain, but I kind of made the partition and restored them into one single startup disk, for several times. It was OK for the first few times, but then it required me to run Disk Utility (from startup) to repair the disk before I can partition. It happened for one time. But after that, it started to ask me to back up the hard disk, format it, and restore it, then try Boot Camp again. So, the ending of the story is I can never do boot camp again now because I wouldn't waste at least 70 quid for a hard disk large enough to back up solely because I need to run Boot Camp. Is there anybody here know why this is happening? And, eventually I think I'd have to buy an external drive and back up, format, restore, then run Boot Camp. But doesn't it sound dumb and familiar? This is exactly the ONE AND ONLY way to fix any problems in a PC. Aren't macs supposed to be far better than PCs? Why do we have to do what PC users have to painfully do? I hope somebody here can come up with a solution that doesn't involve "backup>format>restore".
Second, the partitioning,
I came up with an idea to solve the above problem. But I don't know whether it actually works, so I'm seeking for advice. I was hoping if I run Disk Utility from start up, make two partitions (or more) for the mac HD, one HD being the one holding all the data, and the remaining being empty. Then I can format the empty one (which seems rather redundant), and do the Boot Camp thing on this partition. However, there are two points I have doubts with. One, if I split my current single mac HD into multiples of partitions, will any or even all my data be lost? Because I can only specify how much to partition, I wouldn't have the chance to "tell" the computer to keep all existing data on one partition. Two, I know that Boot Camp can run on an external HD, so is it possiible to run on a different partition?

Just an idea for you. There is an entire Apple Discussion forum dedicated to Boot Camp and Windows XP.
Whereas, not everyone here with an Intel iMac has installed, tried to install or has experience with BC & XP, everyone there has or at least has an interest. You may attract help more quickly there.
The Forum is at the bottom of the main Apple Discussions page under Windows Compatible Technology.
Here is a link;
Forum: Boot Camp Public Beta

More boot camp problems new 5k imac 3 tera fusion drive

there seems to be problems with Yosemite and boot camp assistant
i'm cross posting this to the iMac forum but I spent hours online with apple tech today and none of the several foks I talked to there had even seen a 5k 27" yet and my call back from Cupertino and engineering is no till tomorrow so I thought I should post here too
MMy bto 5k shipped from China sunday night and arrived in Maine this morning.... Amazing when you think about it for a bto
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so carved off a 700 gig boot camp partition which the assistant formatted fat I then plugged is the lighting to FW adapter in a LaCie 2 tera fw 800 drive to act as a bridge to my LaCie DVD burner which uses the old fw400 cables and inserted my new shrink wrap win 8.1 retail 64 DVD and up comes the win 8 install in very tiny type in a tiny window which got a bit of a laugh out of me.
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( At this point all I want to do is put the computer back in the condition it was in when i started with a plain Yosemite on an unpartitioned 3 tera fusion... Then deal with boot camp when it can have its own drive)
am betting it will take a Unix comand line to reformat but be aware there may be boot camp issues with my configuration
and any help here will be great fully received

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         2.3 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:          Apple_CoreStorage                         708.1 GB   disk1s4
   5:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s5
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *2.4 TB     disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                 B413D0D6-817A-438A-B60A-CAE9B7AC4703
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 ABOOTCAMP               15.6 GB    disk3s1
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            IR3_CCSA_X64FRE_EN-... *4.1 GB     disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data Union                   500.1 GB   disk5s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Shimmo                  499.6 GB   disk5s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk5s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Orange                  500.1 GB   disk5s5
   6:                  Apple_HFS Newcastle               499.4 GB   disk5s6
Ls-iMac:~
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diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 1869B0B4-B850-413D-8726-41934602250B
|   =========================================================
|   Name:         Macintosh HD
|   Status:       Online
|   Size:         2412498640896 B (2.4 TB)
|   Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 7F622DCA-6D45-4940-BE17-893BB57CF948
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    0
|   |   Disk:     disk0s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
|   |
|   +-< Physical Volume 50B22A72-6463-4CEA-9189-C708884DF658
|   |   ----------------------------------------------------
|   |   Index:    1
|   |   Disk:     disk1s2
|   |   Status:   Online
|   |   Size:     2291509788672 B (2.3 TB)
|   |
|   +-> Logical Volume Family 9064DC1E-5E23-4887-9B99-46507C4A15AF
|       ----------------------------------------------------------
|       Encryption Status:       Unlocked
|       Encryption Type:         None
|       Conversion Status:       NoConversion
|       Conversion Direction:    -none-
|       Has Encrypted Extents:   No
|       Fully Secure:            No
|       Passphrase Required:     No
|       |
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|           ---------------------------------------------------
|           Disk:                  disk2
|           Status:                Online
|           Size (Total):          2407000178688 B (2.4 TB)
|           Conversion Progress:   -none-
|           Revertible:            No
|           LV Name:               Macintosh HD
|           Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
|           Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
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+-- Logical Volume Group 510FD803-3431-4C23-9BAA-1D1CA0C0B065
    =========================================================
    Name:         Winboot
    Status:       Online
    Size:         708089155584 B (708.1 GB)
    Free Space:   707736829952 B (707.7 GB)
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IMac 27" with Thunderbolt Display connected, Boot Camp Problem

Hi everyone.
Let me start off by saying that I'm using a late 2012 iMac 27", 3.4 GHz i7, 680MX, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB Fusion, with a Thunderbolt Display connected.
I installed Windows 8 via Boot Camp, and it works just fine. Here comes my problem:
I have dual screens and I play Minecraft. Minecraft's full screen is basically crap, and therefore I disabled the iMac display. I used Windows-button+P to use only the secondary display. This turns the iMac display off entirely, and leaves the Thunderbolt Display on. Note: This is not possible in Mac OS X. Then I played a little Minecraft. When I was done, i wanted the main iMac display to come on again. I then used Windows-button+P again, to turn both displays on. Then bam, totally looked like the iMac display was broken. See the images below, to see how it looks:
1) http://cl.ly/image/1p2e3c1Z1z1C
2) http://cl.ly/image/2g0n1M1Y0t0g
3) http://cl.ly/image/2Q2P1c1J220d
4) http://cl.ly/image/113b3K2O1Z43
5) http://cl.ly/image/1q2v1s1n3w1f
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Anyone can tell me what I can do? I guess I could try reinstalling, but it seems more like a hardware issue, than a software issue.
Thank you for your time, and thanks in advance.
Another note: I'll try doing the opposite, and see if it happens on the Thunderbolt Display as well. (Windows-button+P, and then only using the main display)
//ifraaank

Ok, I am marking this as "answered", as I have solved it myself, while I still have no clue what lead to the problem in the first place.
I've been on the phone with Apple Care today, and they were as clueless as I was and had never heard of this before.
After we tried the usual stuff (unplugging all wires, PRAM Reset, SMC Reset), to no avail, I was told it could well be a hardware problem and that I should have the iMac examined at the Genius Bar, so an appointment was made.
I'll cancel that one though, as I was able to cure it by myself for now (and carrying around a 27" iMac in Munich's busy downtown pedestrian zone is not really fun).
This is what I did (and I'm so happy I tried):
In Display Settings, I switched the external display back to landscape mode and selected "mirror displays".
Then I rebooted, and voilà, the problem was gone (Apple logo on white background was showing).
I switched it back to 90 degrees rotation and no mirroring, and it's still all ok.
I booted Windows 7 in Bootcamp, then back to Snow Leopard, and it's all still fine.
I can still only wonder what messed this up in the first place, but for now I'm happy.

Boot Camp problem.

I need boot camp and i have a 3tb fusion drive hdd on my new imac.
I need windows both on vmware fusion (and everything is ok with it, it works perfectly) to execute fast simple applications not availabale on mac os And on boot camp to execute 'heavier' programs.
Following the http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/installing-windows-via-boot-camp-on-a- large-(2.2-tb-or-larger-)-drive-in-lion-(10.7)-and-later
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The twocanoes guide theory is clear but i need a step-by-step instructions with utility disk:
here http://d.pr/i/pSSw i understand i've got to partition the hdd in 3 slices, but i can add just one as you can see here http://d.pr/i/4dRN . I can't do nothing, just add one partition and change size with the arrows (i can't write the numbers by myself but this is not a problem, i simply don't understand why).
I tried to create a partition, one is macintosh with mac file system, 2tb size. The other one called windows with fat file system and took the remaining size available.
After 8 hours it finished and i found this http://d.pr/i/oYZP.
I don't understand why the win size is 2tb and not 1 and mac one is so small and not 2tb.
I'm a bit upset because working with mac+windows is crucial for my work and i'm wasting a lot of time.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
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1) I opened Boot Camp, and allocated 32 GB to Windows.
2) My dad's computer partitioned successfully with no problems at all.
3) I was prompted to put the installation disc in so I did, and click Start Install.
4) The computer then restarted, and automatically booted into Windows (it said loading Windows files) and then I was taken to a screen to choose my language and everything.
5) I left the options at default (it was set to English, US) and then I clicked next. Then I was taken to the screen were I received the device driver error message.
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Thanks for your answering. I know Windows 7 could be stable, rock solid, for I've been using that OS on the laptop I once had before getting the new mac.
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Hey! So here i am. i open up Boot Camp Asistant, get to partioning. start partinoning then after about 5 minuets i get this message:
*The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.*
Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again.
I have checked in Disk Utility & More and i am not sure hoe to fix it.
Here is a picture of both my "Disk Utility" and the Boot Camp Error:
BC ERROR: http://twitpic.com/ehre1
Disk Utility: http://twitpic.com/ehrdo
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First I can't say I'm a MAC expert, so keep that in mind. But if I tell you my interpretation of that issue, which I also have actually, it might help. I think the probably is that when you partition a HD you can't really be on it, so the Mac needs to allocate enough memory which is either the minimum needed for windows or the amount you choose then separate those needed memory cells from the other memory cells used by the Mac so it can create the partition. Then formats the memory in the partition. However if there isn't enough unused consecutive memory cells then the Mac needs to move files to create consecutive memory cells to partition. But, as you can see, sometimes those files cant be moved so the Mac needs to have the entire hard drive formated so the files can be moved. At that point the partition can be inserted without an issue. Of, course the idea of formatting your HD is not exciting to say the least. Its not hard but it can take awhile to do and then you'll have to reinstall all the third party programs you have. An alternative idea to explore is to use the firewire port on the Mac [if you have one] and you likely do. And get an external HD to run through that and put windows in the external HD. Firewire is a higher speed data transfer option then USB. You can run programs through firewire just as USB does to a lesser extent. But there are limits. So it may, in the end, not work for what you want.
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