Is it safe if i do not backup files during boot camp

and also time machine backup and would assume all other OS X backup programs only backup the OS X part the windows data need to be backed up with a windows program

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I'm getting "Installer disk not found" message during boot camp 5 and windows 8 install on late 2011 MBP upgraded to Mavericks.

hello,
And thank you in advance.
I'm getting "Installer disk not found" message during boot camp 5 and windows 8 install on late 20011 MBP upgraded to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Any ideas?
I've downloaded the Window support option software and the WindowSetupBox.exe and copied it to the USB drive. I tried to create an iso image from my Windows XP machine but recieved messages that Windows 8.1 could not run on XP. I've ordered the Windows 8.1 backup media.
Any way to proceed?
Thanks Tim

download the win 8 iso from here;
http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/download-windows-8-pro/
then start over. install on to your usb along with the support software.

Installer disk not found message during boot camp 5 and windows 8 install on late 2001 MBP running Mavericks?

I'm getting "Installer disk not found" message during boot camp 5 and windows 8 install on late 2001 MBP running Mavericks. Any ideas?
I've downloaded the Window support option software and the WindowSetupBox.exe and copied it to the USB drive.
Thanks Tim

You might have better luck in the Boot Camp community. I'll ask the hosts to relocate your post.
Boot Camp Community

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).

Best way to make an image backup of a Boot Camp partition?

I want to upgrade my Windows XP partition to Windows 7. Before I do, though, I want to make a complete image backup of the partition, so if anything gets terribly screwed up, I can restore from the image and be right back where I started.
How can I make an image backup of my Boot Camp partition, and then restore it? Do I use Mac OS X Disk Utility for this?

I use Paragon Hard Disk Mgr 2011 Suite ($49) to clone to a new drive, backup, and Paragon has a number of products aimed at support for Boot Camp.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-personal/
http://www.betanews.com/article/Paragon-Hard-Disk-Manager-2011-Suite/1295234930
New product with special, Paragon Drive Copy
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/dc-professional/
http://blog.paragon-software.com/?p=1160
Migrate XP to Windows 7
http://blog.paragon-software.com/?p=85

I can not install xp through boot camp, the team just bought yesterday, is a macbook pro 13 when my old computer did it without problem with the same install disc

I can not install xp through boot camp, the team just bought yesterday, is a macbook pro 13 when my old computer did it without problem with the same install disc

There are no XP or Vista drivers for the new Apple computer hardware. Apple stopped XP and Vista support. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4410.

Content Copier does not backup files from MMC card...

The option to backup files from the MMC card is missing in current PC Suite version 7.1.40.1 (it was available before PC suite was updated in december 2009).

Hi,
Could you please get some clue from here
/discussions/board/message?board.id=topfaq&thread.id=132
I will let you know once if i get this device to check

OS X not showing up in boot camp control panel

Hi, I am using mac book pro with OS X mavericks. Recently I installed windows 8.1 with boot camp assistant. It was all running fine. I partitioned my windows 8.1 drive to a new volume. When I did this,my OS X disappeared in bootcamp control panel. It not showing up in the list of OS's when we boot the machine. any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If you are not seeing the OS X partition while holding down the option/alt key during a restart, it appears your Boot Camp installation damaged the OS X partition, which is probably why it is not showing up in the Boot Camp control panel.
Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then select the Macintosh HD partition and re-install the OS.
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Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter not working under Vista (Boot Camp).

Hi there,
I'm facing a very serious issue with MacBook Pro Unibody running MS Vista under Boot Camp: using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter to hook a projector is 95% impossible because the only resolution available is 640x480 or sometimes 800x600. No solution came from the adaptor firmware update, still same behavior: connecting the external projector/monitor toggles 640x480 resolution with no more choices available. Just 5% of attempts on selected projectors gave me access to the complete resolutions list.
This is having a serious impact on my job where I do need both Mac&Windows running natively and with external display capabilities, please I'm looking for some feedback from users facing the same problem or someone who had an official answer on this issue from Apple. Do avoid posting about using modded display drivers please: I know they exist but the adaptor should be working with original ones.
I can understand Apple does not support MS Vista issues but this seems to be a hardware/driver one.
I'd like to point out I'm using a clean Vista installation with Apple drivers (from the Leopard DVD) and I've run Vista (same version, same gfx drivers etc) under Boot Camp on my previous MPB (with integrated DVI output+adapter) on hundreds of different projectors with never a single problem.
Any feedback is really appreciated.
L.

I'm having the same problem. When I try to connect to the switch in our conference room (connecting both a flat panel display and/or a projector, both with much higher native resolutions), all I get is 640x480. This is a huge problem to using bootcamp, and I really need to get this to work. I was able to get a higher resolution 1280x800 on a separate, portable display, so I'm wondering if people have the problem with standalone projectors or only with projectors connected to some sort of switch, in my case an Extron MPX423A. I have also tried this in both Windows Vista (32-bit) and Windows 7 RC1 (32-bit), with the bootcamp drivers and the latest NVidia drivers, and the behavior is the same all around.

Windows 7 64 stuck (keyboard/mouse) but not when reboot my Boot camp

Hi Guys,
After spending more than 3 times 12 hours reading/searching/trying I've decided to seek for your help.
My problem is pretty simple, trying to install Windows 7 64bit on MacBook Pro 15 Retins (mid 2014 model - MGXC2LL) gets stuck at language selection level if system is not booted by Boot camp.
I've performed many tests and the only way to get mouse pointer moving and keyboard responding is to create partition using bootcamp and restart system.
Once rebooted, Windows 7 installer starts and I can go past language selection.
I can poweroff mac (powerbutton) and power it on, boot from USB stick and it will still work. I can even pull it out of system and mouse/keyboard will still work.
Once system gets booted to Mac and restarted to Windows installer, from the very same stick, it get's stuck - no keyboard or mouse moving.
On top of this I did integrate into boot.wim and install.wim USB3 drivers as per description from other threads. No luck.
From my side I'm fine to play even with Gparted to create partition whatsoever and I can't figure out why is this so complicated with Mac if one wants to not go with mainstream. It should be as easy as adding Mac drivers to W7 installer and booting it off the stick. Why there's this black magic that system has to be rebooted with BootCamp. What is this black magic? It has to be simple command.
Why do I care about this?
1. Well, once I get past the language selection screen, I'm getting stuck on next step as system doesn't see installation medium (No device drivers found). I'll work on this problem in parallel as seems that have found solution: http://techsavvystuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/running-os-x-mavericks-miss-windows .html
2. I'll need to have multi-boot system and will need to install another windows on same mac (Win7 too) and so far didn't find a solution to start properly installer without having partition created by Boot Camp.
Thanks in advance

I'll reply to myself, as have found the magic command thanks to guys from TwoCanoe and example at google groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/macenterprise/1FT-h8OvVL8/eG94TXpZWHsJ
sudo /usr/sbin/bless --mount /Volumes/USB_Boot_Volume --setBoot
--legacy --legacydrivehint /dev/disk1`
I'll continue my journey towards TrueCrypt installed successfully on this system then.

Can I use a Windows 7 backup in a boot camp installation

Hi,
About to buy a Mac and I was just wondering if I could use a Windows Backup System Image to install Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant in the Mac or if I need to have a brand new copy of Windows.
Apologies if this sounds like an incredibly stupid question.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Ben

If you restore the system from the backup, you would recover all your stuff, configuration, apps, etc. However I concur that you will need a new Windows license. MS offers no way of deactivating a previous instance and transferring it to a new host, at least in the workstation version. Were it a Server version, you can disable the activation on the old host and reuse the license on the new (just checked).
The license/activation key is tied to the startup volume's UUID number, which is unique.

M-Audio ProFire audio interfaice not seen by Windows/Boot Camp

It seems Windows XP SP2 under Boot Camp, running on a Mac Pro dual-quad Nahalem 2.66 has a problem with connecting to Firewire devices. It won't even boot up with Firewire 800 drives connected, and I understand from reading posts in other threads that this is a common problem.
The problem I'm looking to get resolved has to do with my M-Audio ProFire FW 400 interface. Windows will boot up in Boot Camp with the ProFire connected and powered on, and I have installed the latest driver from M-Audio. But when I launch the ProFire control panel, it reports that it cannot find a ProFire connected. I use the ProFire in the Mac OS side in Logic and ProTools, so the unit and connection are fine. I will also be contacting M-Audio to see if they know of this issue.
TIA for any help.
- Paul

hey i don't know if this helps but i have M-audio Firewire Audiophile...it seems that when you boot windows, if m-audio is "ON" it searches for the pc Bios... but maybe it's not possible on a mac...
first time i rebooted bootcamp i noticed that i could see the levels volume on the m-audio control panel but i didn't hear any audio from speakers....
so what i did???
now every time i boot windows, m-audio first is OFF...then after completely booted, i turn it on...autosearching for its drivers,wait for 2 beeps from the speakers...then
AUDIO IS ALWAYS ON AFTER MANY HOURS... :-)TESTED [OK]
but i hope they solve this problem soon...

Windows disc does not update after resizing boot camp partition

When I bought my iMac, it came with a 500 GB HDD. I used bootcamp to make a 200GB windows partition and a 300GB Mac partition. The other day I bought a 250GB SSD, and moved everything from my 300GB Mac partition onto the SSD.
My plan was to use the whole 500GB HDD for windows. So, I deleted the 300GB Mac partition and made it free space on the drive. I then expanded the boot camp partition to take up the whole drive using Mini Tool on windows 7.
Now, windows 7 shows that my drive is 465GB, but when I boot into mac, the bootcamp hard drive still reads 200GB and 300GB are "free space" even though I expanded the drive using Mini Tool.
I tried to fix this by filling up the hard drive with an extra 120 GB so it exceeded the 200GB limit that windows shows. But when I booted back into OSX to see if it had worked, none of the files were showing up in the drive, making me believe that boot camp and OS X are not reading changes I am making to the bootcamp drive when I use Windows.
How can I change this so Disk Utility shows the full size of the disc, like Mini Tool does?
I will try to upload screenshots soon.

Re-sizing Windows partitions is not supported on Bootcamp. It requires a clean install. The other option is using Winclone.
Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions
How can a Windows partition be resized after Windows is installed?
You need to delete the Windows partition using the Boot Camp Assistant, and start over to change the size of the Windows partition. Back up your important Windows files first.

Airport works on MacOS but not on WindowsXP with Boot Camp

Hi,
I just bought my first mac, a MacBook and I love the way everything works - a great computer. Tho I like OS X, I still need to use XP time to time so, I got boot camp naturally and installed XP on it. Everything went smoothly.
I have a wireless network with Belkin ADSL/Router. In OS X, I have no problem connecting to it. I use WEP on it. But when I try to connect to it in XP, it just wouldn't even establish a connection. In fact, it seems to somehow screw up the wireless router in the process that when I go back to OS X and try to connect to it, it won't either until I reset my router. In my limited understanding, I suspect the driver on XP not working very well.
Can you help? When I look at XP device manager I do find some strange USB device that isn't working properly but Airport is reported as working fine.
Thanks a bunch,
cnergy

Yes i Seem to be experiencing a similar problem as you, in which connecting to a router on OS X is easy but as soon as i try it on windows xp it cannot establish a connection but my router is already connectingto other windows pcs. Maybe this is because windows cannot recognizethe built in airport, or perhaps it needs to be configured in a way to work with both Xp and os X

Burnt windows install disk not showing up in boot camp

im trying to install windows xp using bootcamp, but everytime i insert the windows disk, it reads it as a blank disk. i have mad a 30gb partition so im not over the 32gb, i had heard that was better for compatibility.
is there anything i can do to help it recognize the disk? or do i just have to buy an authentic one?

your mac seems to think you had installed windows before
do you have more than 1 partition on your drive, if so, boot camp assistant will not work
if not, restart your mac and do a pram reset
open disk utility and repair permissions twice
open bca and try again

Is it safe if i do not backup files during boot camp

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