Install on windows7 partition

do I need to install itunes on my windows partion to listen to my files while using windows side ?

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How to install a Lion partition, currently have 10.6 and windows 7

Anyone know?

I have not tried it, but first, back up your 10.6 and windows bootcamp install. I think there is software to back up the windows side. Not sure of its name
Use disk utility to create a 3rd partition and then boot from the mac install DVD when it asks you to choose the drive to install the OS select the new created partition this will then result in in two SL partitons onthe same drive.
Boot into one of the SL partitions using startup manager and down load and upgrade to lion. Lion will now be installed on one partition, SL on the other partition will be untouched and you can choose which one to boot from the same way one chooses to boot while holding down the option key.
I know one can have SL installed twice on the same volume under two different partitions
If windows gets messed up you could always run boot camp under SL or lion and reinstall the windows side.
I would though instead have separate drives one for windows and SL and the other for LION.
As I've said I have not tried it.

How do I install LION and partition SL 10.6.8 run on same imac?

Hello If one could tell me step by step instructions:
I would like to install LION ( because icloud), but can I install LION and partition the OS so that my imac can run both SL 10.6.8 and LION?
SL 10.6.8 still runs some applications that LION will never be able to run.
So I really need LION installed,but also have SL 10.6.8 partitioned so I can run imovie HD6 with plug ins with SL 10.6.8.
Please if this can be done so I can run Lion and SL 10.6.8 on same computer
thank you so much in advance
please advise
scott

Wow, thank you Niel. I have looked on this site and have found many different ways listed on partitioning and using 2 OS on a computer. But there steps seemed very long and tedious- but of course if that is what is needed then i would do it that way. Again i was seeing a lot of different ways. But yours seemed direct.
I went thru the steps up until using the thumb drive for LION to install. I went in to disk utilities, i selected mydrive, clicked on the partition tab, and then i saw i had 96.7 GB available--without changing SL10.6.8 HD size.
it looks like you can drag and increase/decrease the partitions with the mouse control.
I really need LION for icloud, and if so all other applications EXCEPT imovieHD6
So i need to run SL for imovieHD6 the other applications like word, adobe creative suite, excel, etc ican use LION.
do you recommend having the partitions equal in GB?
I have a 250gb hard drive
should I split the partitions evenly between the two OS?
or should one OS get more GB than another?

Can't install Windows 8 - Partition problems

Hi all,
Ive recently installed a SSD (Samsung 830) into my iMac 2011. It already had a 1 TB HDD in it but I want to install Mountain Lion and Windows 8 on the SSD.
Installing Mountain Lion was a piece of cake but now im getting problems installing the bootcamp partition with Windows 8. See below
diskutil list:
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Untitled                999.9 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD           255.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.1 GB    disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              16.1 GB    disk2s1
Ive tried to creating the bootcamp partition with the DISK UTILITY and the Bootcamp assistant, but neither of these methods work. Is it because of the 1TB HDD thats causing these problems or is it something else?
Regards,
Nick

Well I also tried this option: http://huguesval.com/blog/2012/02/installing-windows-7-on-a-mac-without-superdri ve-with-virtualbox/
But no luck, getting a Save MBR failed, exit code 255 when trying to clone the VM Hard drive onto BC.
Think im going to swap the SSD to the HDD bay and put the Superdrive back in

Dual booting win 7 and arch: cannot install grub to partition

I have read the arch wiki page on dual booting and several other sources on line, but I am still struggling to get this to work.
I am trying to dual boot arch and windows 7 on my lenovo ideapad s205. the machine comes with windows 7 pre-installed.
I shrank the win 7 partition and added an extended partition with 3 logical partions for /boot, swap, and /.
I am able to install and run arch by installing grub to the mbr. when I do this, though, I cannot boot windows. (the windows section of grub menu.lst is uncommented and points toward hda0,0. I have tried hda 0,1 as well).
I have also tried to use the windows boot loader to load arch, as described in the arch wiki page on dual booting. The problem here is that, taking this approach, I should install grub to my /boot partition, but when I try to do this, the installer only allows me to install grub to sda or sdb (the usb stick).
I have read that grub should be able to boot linux from a logical partition. Is this so?
Is there something wrong with the arch installer that it is not giving me the option of installing to a partition rather than the mbr, or is this a problem with my partition scheme, or something else?
I am tempted to remove lenovo's recovery system, but on the other hand, I have already needed to use it several times while monkeying around with installing arch.
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE:
I now have the laptop dual-booting win 7 and arch. My solution ( adapted from here: http://helms-deep.cable.nu/~rwh/blog/?p=177) was to:
1. installed arch on the partitions I had created for it, but skipped the "install bootloader" stage.
2. in win 7, I downloaded and installed EasyBCD and made an entry for arch in it. I checked the option to "Use EasyBCD's copy of GRUB"
3. When I restarted, I got a grub error because the entry in grub's menu.lst was pointing at the wrong partitions for the kernel and root.
4. So I went back into the arch live disk, mounted the boot partition and edited menu.lst.
Now when I start the laptop, the windows boot loader starts and I can choose between win 7 and arch. when I select arch, grub4dos starts and gives me the option to start arch. this is not particularly elegant (nor is it fast), so I think this solution is less than ideal, but it does work.
I'd be interestd in any thoughts about what went wrong and what a better solution would be.
thanks.
Last edited by ratchet (2011-10-10 19:09:16)

ratchet wrote:II am able to install and run arch by installing grub to the mbr. when I do this, though, I cannot boot windows. (the windows section of grub menu.lst is uncommented and points toward hda0,0. I have tried hda 0,1 as well).
Is this a typo in your post or how it was in menu.lst? Surely it should be hd0,0 and not hda0,0? The entry I have in my menu.lst is as follows:
# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
What was yours?
Last edited by JHeaton (2011-10-10 20:18:22)

"Windows can't install on GPT partition style" in my Macbook Air 2014. What should I do now?

I used bootcamp and perfectly make a partition, but when I tried to install windows 8.1 , 64 bit on my macbook air then it is showing "Windows can't install on GPT partition style". What should I do right now????????

Please post the output of the following two Terminal commands? Enter you password when prompted, and it will note echoed back to you.
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Trying to install windows 7 and getting error message windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS

Trying to install windows 7 and getting error message Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS

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Created partition with bootcamp, Win 7 says cannot install on any partition

It asks me to choose which partition to load windows on, but on each one, including bootcamp, it's says it cannot install on that partition. Have deleted partition, started again only for the same thing to happen..........Help

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Boot Camp Assistant says Install rather than Partition

I have a second gen MacBook (Intel core 2 duo) I installed Windows XP via bootcamp back when I had OSX Tiger. Today, running OSX Lion, I deleted the windows partition with boot camp assistant, wanting to increase the hard drive size and install Windows 7. I successfully deleted the windows xp partition, and restarted the computer. Now I want to repartition the hard drive and install windows 7. I open boot camp assistant, click continue (only option) check 'install windows 7' and not 'download the latest windows support software from apple' as I already have this on an external hd and click continue. I choose the hard drive size, and boot camp assisnt has the option to 'install' and NOT 'partition'. I dont know why this occurs. anyway, if I click install, boot camp assistant says 'the installer disk could not be found' even though my windows 7 dvd is in the computer.
So, my question boils down to, 'why can't i partition my disk for windows 7?'
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

After restoring, I lost my Recovery HD partition. I am currently working to get a new one. Perhaps I will install it AFTER boot camp is finished, which might solve the multiple-partitions error? I could use some advice here.
At this point, bootcamp is giving me a new error which says some files cannot be moved. I am moving this to a new discussion HERE:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread/3298756
Thanks for your help! Please respond to my new thread if you think you can contribute.

Installing Windows to Partition 3

I just got off the phone with Tech Support, and am very dissatisfied with their answer. I'm hoping someone here has another possible solution to my problem.
Background:
I own a Lenovo t530. I have Windows installed on the drive that shipped with the machine. This currently resides in the UltraBay slot, and still boots properly.
I have Gentoo Linux installed on a new SSD in the primary drive bay. There is a 100gb empty partition on this drive (Partition 3).
I am trying to use my Lenovo recovery disks to install Windows 7 Professional to this third partition on the primary disk. (I will be using my own bootloader to launch it). However, Lenovo's disks do not seem to support a partition-specific installation.
Is there any way (short of buying a new Windows 7 license) to install Windows where I want it?
Thank you all,
Glenn

Don't know if this will work, but:
1) get the Windows 7 product key from that recovery disk installation.
2) get original Windows 7 disk, evaluation, MSDN, TechNet, store.
3) install in the partition you want (remember this will install Windows boot loader on first active part)
4) install your recovered product key
5) actívate with internet/phone
6) update

Re: Satellite A500 slow even after clean install of Windows7

My laptop suddenly slowed down hugely about 4 weeks ago and seemed to have a virus problem causing a BSOD. Any attempts to solve this were unsuccessful so we have just done a clean install of Windows7 in the hope of solving the speed issue.
However it still takes several seconds to respond to each mouse click at a stage where only Bullguard anti-virus and Windows 7 are installed on the laptop.
I've checked that the latest BIOS is installed v1.90.
I've checked that all device drivers are up to date.
I've checked the hard drive for faults and bad segments.
Please can anyone offer help or advice?
Many thanks.

Hi
Toshiba recovery disk allows you to set the notebook back to factory settings.
So using recovery disk you will get the same state like at the first day of purchase.
But nobody can say if your notebook would run faster after recovery procedure.
Usually the notebook should work properly also with installed Win 7
But if the notebook will work correctly after the installation of Recovery disk, then there must be something wrong with the installed Win 7 system.

Boot Camp 5 Trouble installing Windows 7. Fails to install due to partition being GPT

Using boot camp 5 I created a bootable USB for windows 7 professional. I followed the instructions up to choosing which partition to install on. Once I reformatted the boot camp partition, the installer said that windows could not be installed because the partition was of type GPT. This is a 64-bit version of windows so it should be able to be installed on a GPT partition. Any help is appreciated.

You don't have to install Windows in a GPT volume. Boot Camp creates a FAT partition that makes Windows detect the hard disk as MBR, so it looks like your computer doesn't support the Windows installation with a USB drive.
You can only install Windows with an external disk if your computer didn't come with a SuperDrive. Your MacBook Pro came with the SuperDrive, so you have to install Windows with a DVD

After installing a windows7, SAPGui disconnection issue!!

Hi friends,
After installing a windows7, I faced a SAPGui problem.
If I am gone for a while, I see the below message on my monitor.
ECP: connection to partner 'xxx.xxx.xx.xx:3200' broken
WSAECONNABORTED: Software caused connection abort
ECP: connection to partner 'xx.xx.x.xx:3200' broken
Time - Fri Feb 03 13:01:44 2012
Component - NI (network interface)
Release - 710
Version - 39
Module - nixxi.cpp
Line - 4858
Method - NiIRead: P=xxx.xxx.xx.xx:3200;
L=0.0.0.0:55849
Return Code - -6
System Call - recv
Error No - 10053
Error Text - WSAECONNABORTED: Software caused connection abort
Counter -1
Please let me know how to fix it.
Thank you.

Ki-UK Lee,
Are you really still using SAP GUI 7.10 patch 39?
Release - 710
Version - 39
Is your backend also as old as your SAP GUI. I know SAP no longer supports either SAP GUI 7.10 or SAP GUI 7.20. Depending on your SAP NetWeaver release like ECC 6.0 7.31 EHP 4 and you won't be able to connect until you upgrade to SAP GUI 7.30.
Cheers,
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Re-install OSX without losing Windows7 partition? (preserving Bootcamp)

Recently my computer stopped booting into mac OS (apparently unfixable, details on that deduction are below).
The question:
I plan to reinstall MacOSX (from my startup disc).
However, I'd like to be sure that this won't destroy Bootcamp's partitioning. (because windows7 currently still starts fine).
Can anyone confirm that losing bootcamp is not a concern?
I'm worried that maybe it is just assumed that reinstalling OSX will destroy the old Bootcamp setup?
(my google searches haven't brought up any examples of my specific situation).
More details:
After moving my iMac (i7, 27") to a new desk, I started it up and walked away. the power supply started beeping horribly (its backup battery had lost charge, i assume). I stupidly pressed the power button to turn the UPS off, to stop the beeping, even though the iMac was still starting up. This killed the power. oops.
I could swear I was able to restart in OSX that night... but maybe my memory is flawed- because ever since, the iMac has hung up while starting up. maybe "freezing up" is the better term? except pinwheel is still spinning... (I'd also swear I left the mac in sleep mode that night, but when I came back the next day it was turned off. not sure if my memory is flawed... or if gremlins are tormenting me)
The next morning when I started up, I noticed a progress bar beneath the Apple logo, which i'd never seen before. after a couple minutes this bar went away, and I was just left with the spinning pinwheel below the apple logo. I let this run for more than an hour before giving up (giving up == holding the power button for several second to force it to power off).
- I restarted with option held down, and was able to load the windows partition just fine. (and am still able to).
- I restarted with cmd-v held down to enter verbose mode and see what's up. seemed to become hung up after printing " Rebuilding catalog B-tree"
- I rebooted with cmd-option-p-r keys held down, to reset pram and nvram. no change.
- I restarted with cmd-s held down so I could type something at the command line. I entered the suggested "/sbin/fsck -fy" text.
here is quick snapshot of what it displayed, when this failed:
http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/iMacHOME-commandLine_s.jpg
(basically, it went from "rebuilding catalog B-tree" to "the volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired")
- I restarted with d key held down and ran the quick version of diagnostics. it said there were no hardware problems. (i did not run the longer version). I rebooted to the same hung-up problem.
- I held c to boot from my startup disc (which took maybe 3 minutes? long time?). ... (sidenote: I thought this would just let me into the old desktop, like booting windows into safe mode. but instead it was just a limited menu set, like I was stuck in a program I couldn't quit. I believe it was prompting me to start installing OS. I managed to switch over to the disc utility program, by attempting to exit the default program, I believe. I get so frustrated/angry/emotional over epic computer problems that it seems to affect my memory).
- In Disk Utility I clicked "verify disk permissions" button. It predicted this would take 7 minutes, but it just stopped runnig after maybe 2 minutes. no results were displayed.
- So I clicked "verify disk".
here is a quick snapshop of results:
http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/imac-verifyDiskFAIL_s.jpg
(basically, it says problem can't be fixed and I should reformat)
This is when I decided it was a lost cause and my only remaining option was to reformat the mac partition. (yeah? make sense?)
Bonus:
- I restarted in Windows and copied everything I could think of off of the old mac portion of the hard drive. I had to reformat my WDmyBook external HDD to windows friendly formatting for this. I noticed this when looking at disk partitions:
http://www.warrenblyth.com/remote/probs/homeMac-partitions_s.jpg
probably nothing interesting here. I just thought it weird that there were 4 partitions instead of two. Wondered if one of these partitions was devoted to startup, and could be fixed without destroying the core mac partition.
My gut says there is probably just some start up glitch, and if I was smarter I could fix it without erasing all the old Mac files and installed programs. Though I'm also worried it may be a physical disc error, and reinstalling OSX won't solve anything. maybe I've ruined the machine and should seek replacement HW. ?
Really just posting here to see if anyone has advice. and to help anyone else who might be in same spot of confusion.
Thanks for any tips.

#1 You need a more robust program to fix the Mac boot drive like Alsoft Disk Warrior.
I stopped bothering with using Apple First Aid.
#2 You can lose Windows
#3 Try SuperDuper to clone Mac volume to another HFS+ partition.
HFS has its weaknesses. You probably continued using OS X after freezes or other problems.
Ideal is to reformat and restore both.
If there was a bad sector that is something chkdsk could deal with.
If the bad sector is in the hidden partition tables, you have to reformat.
Reformat is the best way going forward.
Even replacing a disk drive is something you can do. You probably want backup drive for each OS though.
And there are 3rd party disk maintenance programs. And should always be backed up and ready to restore a system without exception. Even if possible to doing trial runs to make sure how to.
I would spend the money to fix the directory in Mac OS X rather than the free reinstall of OS X - after making a bootable clone with SuperDuper, and repairing the clone as well first.
You may (dare I say "should") install Mac OS only just 30GB partition on a hard drive to use for fixing your system, instead of using CD or DVDs. And a partition large enough to hold your current Mac system to use for backup clone.
Windows HFS9 driver from Paragon allows read and write ability. They also have an NTFS drive for OS X to add write support. Good Windows backup tools.
Paragon for Mac
SuperDuper
DiskWarrior

Trackpad not working for install of Windows7

I'm trying to install a new Windows 7pro 64 bit onto my MacBook Air.
When using Bootcamp assistant to create the iso file and partition the drive all goes well.
When it reboots for the Starting Windows screen I cannot hit the Next button as my trackpad or usb mouse do not work.
Any suggestions

I installed the USB iso image and the DVD Windows7 disk both attached and it worked! Don't know why.

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