Imac Bootcamp installation without cd drive

hello I want to buy the new Imac. And I want to install Windows 7 on it with Bootcamp. But how can I install Windows 7 without a Cd Drive. Maybe on a USB Stick? but how does it work?

You need a .iso image with Windows 7 to create the USB drive. You'll download the .iso if you've purchased Windows 7 as a download from the Microsoft Store. If you've the iso, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow steps

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How should I best proceed to avoid losing programs/data on drive C when replacing drive D? Should I remove drive D, and try to boot from the Vista Ultimate SP1 retail CD to "repair" drive C? Is there some other approach that would avoid having to start from scratch with a new Vista installation?
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So you do have at least one good backup. And you have used Vista file and PC backup as well, so you could do a restore if needed?
Whatever you do, I would pull all your drives and drop in one or two fresh drives.
I've never felt comfortable or safe with Acronis - doesn't support GPT.
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My system is Vista and Windows 7 on one drive, data and such on #2 and multiple backup drives - one internal and a couple hot swap external.
SMART is not very good at predicting and you are at the point where what? I/O errors? bad or weak sector(s)? have you ever used the disk check to repair files and attempt to fix any bad blocks?
Depending on the make of the drive, you want to use the vendor's utility - often before even using a drive - to do a full surface scan and repair.
I remember when you had trouble installing.
Oh, and I would make a new backup. Even if it means pulling your OS X drive and dropping a new drive in there, and make it a backup of programs, files, documents, whatever, and maybe a system image backup.
Can you restore from the server? while booted from Vista DVD?
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I've just bought on ebay an iMac G5 1,6 Ghz (without isight) with the motherboard dead.
I assume you managed to fix that "motherboard dead" problem, since there would be no point in installing an optical drive in a Mac that does not work.
If you can't get the slot open because it is intentionally closed, maybe you can get an external optical drive and stick something else into that internal space. For example, will it fit a 2.5-inch (laptop size) IDE hard drive for additional internal storage? Or you can get an IDE-to-compact-flash adapter card and give your iMac a solid state flash drive (like MacBook Air); CF cards are getting pretty cheap, even at the 16GB size, and you can get even larger ones for a higher price. Maybe you can even boot from it.
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emanuelefromrescaldina wrote:
Csound1 wrote:
You can't install Windows on your machine as it stands.
There is your answer, now stop stressing and move on without it.
Sure, good answers.
Apple doesn't want to = You can't
Apple doesn't let you = You shouldn't
Too bad i made it. So it is possible, even if you and apple said it's not.
I installed virtualbox, created a virtual machine with the full disk access, started installing windows, when the copy of the files ended and the vm was rebooting i simply closed it and rebooted my imac and finished the installation directly on the imac, everything went well...
Luckily i didn't take apple's word as a written law and i use my own brain..
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I need to install Windows 7 on my machine.
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I input that into mac terminal while running os? And then you'd like me to post the results on this discussion board?
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