Lion and bootcamp with Win 7
I have an Intel iMac with the latest Leopard software. I mainly use this computer to run Windows 7 via Bootcamp. IF I installed Lion, would it effect my present Bootcamp Windows partition?
I read somewhere that a buyer of Lion can install the one copy one on more than one Apple computer. We have 3 in the house (iMac 21.5, MBP 15 and a Mini Mac.) Is it true I can use one copy on all 3 computers? If so, is there an optional DVD installation disk?
Lion will not affect your Boot Camp partition.
As long as all 3 Mac's use the same AppleID you can purchase one license of Lion and install it on the other machines. If they use individual AppleID's you must purchase a license for each computer. Finally in August Apple will begin distributing Lion on a USB drive for $69, they have not announced a specific date.
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I ran bootcamp and tried to install Windows 7. I end up with a DOS screen and an unresponsive keyboard.
I have been on line with Apple and microsoft and they can't help. I have lated versions of Lion and bootcamp. HELP!
My Lion is up to date.
I used the 64-bit windows disc.
Should I try parallels?Do you have a DOS screen with a command prompt or just a blank screen?
Is your Windows 7 x64 an original MS Full Version Installation DVD?
Did Windows 7 Install Disc start?
If it did you would have had to choose the location of where to install Windows 7.
Did you select the Partition named BOOTCAMP that corresponded to the Partition Size you created in BootCamp?
Were you asked to format the Partition?
Did you format the partition to NTFS and then get an option to click NEXT and actually start the Windows 7 installation?
Do you have a wired USB keyboard and wired USB mouse?
If you actual went through the installation and restarted then here are some things to try:
First try doing a CONTROL-ALT-DELETE and see if a Windows Option Screen appears.
If you get the Screen you will have some options displayed.
You want to highlight and click TASK MANAGER which should be the bottom choice I beleive.
If Task Manager runs you will get a window showing all the processes running.
See if you can find EXPLORER.
If EXPLORER is running highlight it and go to the bottom right and click the END TASK button.
Now go to the Top Left Menu Bar.
Click FILE
In the sub menu that opens select RUN or RUN NEW TASK (Not sure which it is in Windoes 7 as I am running Windows 8)
Once RUN is selected a new window will open to CREATE NEW TASK
Type in EXPLORER and then the OK button.
If Windows 7 installed properly the Desktop should appear after a bit of time.
Your first concern is to get your keyboard running so you may have to remove and reinstall Windows using Boot Camp on the Mac Side.
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I have a 5 month old iMac running Lion and W7 with the latest version of boot camp . It has been operating flawlessly until I went to reboot into Mac tonight. Screen went black, and system is unresponsive. I've tried force quitting and turning power off. Hard drive starts, there's a small amount of drive activity and that's it.
Hi Jane, your info may still be there, look in the Users folder at root of the drive, how many users are there there?
It sounds like this may have happened...
Return to default desktop, apparent "loss" of home directory, (it can happen spontaneously too)...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854 -
Headset (inc mic) that works both in OS X Lion and bootcamp Windows 7
Hi,
Is there a headset (inc mic) that works both in OS X Lion and bootcamp Windows 7?
I have a MBP.
//FredrikActually most should work. They're supposed to be Plug-n-Play hardware.
I have an el-cheapo set of Logitech's I bought for the kid a while ago and it works in both. I think Windows 7 had to update a USB driver for it to work but it did it automatically. We have the mic/audio pins hooked to a USB audio dongle. Have no idea what model or brand it is.
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when printing from aperture my margins are unequal, even if i set my margins they come out bigger one side and not the other. i am using a macbook pro running osx lion and printing with a canon pro 9000.
please can anbody help or advise?You didn't mention any color calibration being done on your monitor. This is an essential part of any color-correct workflow. What are you using to calibrate your monitor (and your printer)?
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Printing Your Images
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I will combine Win 8.1 and Mac system in Creative Cloud program. Is that possible in same license. Start the work in Mac and continue with Win 8.1 and do presentation on Ipad ???
Cloud License allows 2 activations http://www.adobe.com/legal/licenses-terms.html
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Upgrade questions for early 08 iMac from SL to Lion and Vista to Win 7
I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum and elsewhere and have a few questions on the best way to do this so it goes smoothly with the least amount of issues. My configuration is in my sig below.
Unless someone talks me out of it this I want to go from Snow Leopard and Windows Vista Home Premium to Lion and Win 7 Home Premium. I would like to go to Win 7 64 bit but Apple doesn't list my machine as supported for 64 bit so I may have to go 32 bit. I've read elsewhere that others have gone to 64 bit with little to no problems. The individual components in my iMac
Here is what I think is the logical order:
1. Install Lion
2. Previous 2.2 Boot Camp partition should remain intact.
3. Lion Boot Camp Assistant should now be version 4.0
4. Run Boot Camp and download software to burn to CD.
5. Launch Windows and install new drivers using burned CD.
6. Install Win 7
Does this seem correct? Any suggestions?Do a clean install of Windows. Hence, remove the Boot Camp partition you have now so Lion can manage the drive.
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So this is my dilemma...
I have a 13" macbook pro, I have just installed a 128GB SSD and am using that as the main boot drive and the bootcamp. I have split that hard drive in half (64gb each), one half is for OS X and the other half for Windows 7, no data is being stored on the SSD.
I have also replaced the Super drive with the original 500GB Sata drive and am wanting to use that as my Data drive. I want to partition that drive as 400GB for OS X data and 100GB Windows 7 Data (windows is only going to be used for work which wont be using too much storage.
Lets call the SSD as the OS drive and the 500GB as the Data drive...
Now i have currently formatted the Data drive in Disk Utility as MSDOS (FAT) so that both OS X and Windows can read data from it. I am not really fussed with the Mac being able to read what is on the Windows partition or vice versa but i do want to be able to store files larger than 4GB.
In the Windows bootcamp i have formatted the data drive partition as NTFS and that seems to work but I now cannot store files in the Mac partiton that are larger than 4GB, how to i get both HFS and NTFS to work on one physical hard drive to remove the 4GB limitation?
I hope i have explained the situation clearly enough.
Thanks
AshFAT32, what Mac/OS X/Apple calls MSDOS FAT, can only store files smaller then 4GBs in size. That is the limit of FAT32. So all you need to do is format the partition you want to use for the Mac "Mac Extended (journaled)" (If you can on a MBR partition table drive, Not sure) or exFAT.
But be aware that Apple's implementation of exFAT is flawed and Windows may not be able to read a exFAT partition formatted by OS X.
Everytime I have tried to format a drive exFAT on a mac and nthen move it to a Windows computer, that is Win 7 that natively support exFAT, Windows could not read the drive.
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I'm having issues obtaining the drivers for windows 7 through lion on a prepartitioned harddrive. Before performing a clean installation of lion, I created 4 partitions on my drive, then installed lion to the last partition (I have reasons for needing to do this). I would now like to install windows 7 to the first partition, however I was unsure how I was supposed to obtain the drivers for it. After looking on here, it was suggested that they be downloaded through the bootcamp assistant before installing windows.
My problem is this: Every time I attempt to download these drivers, the bootcamp assistant throws me an error that "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." This error prevents me from moving forward with downloading the drivers. Now, before you suggest that I remove my other partitions and create a single unified one, please understand that I need to have lion installed on the 4th partition on my harddrive. By unifying the partitions, lion will be moved to the first partition, which is why my prepartitioning is necessary. Is there some other way that I can legally obtain the drivers for windows with little hassle?You may have your reason, but you should have installed or planned to install on another hard drive and then restored.
Managing Lion restore drive MacFixIt
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I see many people with newer hardware and no problems with drivers download. my error is above, if anyone known how to resolve this issue please tell me
Élio Severiano.
My error:Hello,
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I have been trying to install Win7 on a new bootcamp under Lion. I had WinXP w/Snow Leopard, lost it...I need a Windows partition, Bootcamp formats the drive in FAT but Win7 requires NTSF. I read the FAQs & it said to restart the process & let Windows installer format the disk, well, how do I do that? I have gone over this 3x & I always end up with a Bootcamp formatted in FAT.
Since the format was wrong for Win7, I tried to install XP, but no go...oh yes, how do I find the version of Bootcamp I have?
Thanks for your help.
Linda in Wilmington, NC hoping Irene passes me byTroubleshoot Compatibility Mode is all you need to do, clicking on "BootCamp64.msi"
The hard part is installing Windows 7 64-bit.and that you did.
Some keys don't work the same like eject. Just have to deal with some minor differences.
All you need is to install in Windows. 3.0 and update to 3.3
An "F" for not just post the drivers for each Mac to download while in Windows manually.
So, you need the drivers on a drve and folder that you can write to while in Windows to change Properties - Compatibility Mode and you should be off and running.
XP 64-bit was much much harder.
And yes, wait on Lion six months maybe. Install Lion on another drive and clone it back can work and not upset the partitions and Windows you had.
Format to NTFS from FAT is spelled out, and really the PDF should be printed out, if to only avoid questions and repeating the same tip 100s of times. -
Okay so my harddrive failed in my 13" Macbook I used to have a WD scorpio black 250 gb for a while. I upgraded to a WD scorpio black 500 gb 7500 rpm hard drive. Okay so I installed the harddrive and ran my friends startup disc to learn that grey face discs are specific to that computer. The start up disc ran fine (minus the error stating it could not install OSX because its specific to another computer) and I looked in disc utility after installing the new harddrive and it said verified. I lost my startup disc and did not have another one. Using a friends mac I created a bootable USB drive with mountain lion on it, I plug it in and it comes up and when I choose to start up on the harddrive a 0 with a line going throguh it appears. If I do not start up with the USB or my friends startup disc then a blinking folder with a question mark appears. So my question is what could the problem be if a startup disc runs on a new WD harddrive and says under disc utility that its verified but the 0 with a line through it appears after I try to boot it with a flash drive containing mountain lion? WHats the issue here im completely lost now
Sounds like some sort of power issue and now your drive is not working.
You'll have to take this to Apple for repair.
You should read this if you don't have recent backups of your data off the machine.
My computer is not working, is my personal data lost? -
Mountain Lion and Mavericks with new SSD
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since my Apple Care had only recently expired. Now I need to find my 2013 tax return on my Seagate
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The lost hard drive was using Mountain Lion. The new SSD has Mavericks.Well, the only place for your records would be on your backup(s). The hard drive was replaced, so there is nothing there unless Apple restored all your data from your old drive to the new one after the replacement. If they didn't, then your only hope is your backup.
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Can't access old backups after reinstalling Lion and restoring with Migration Assistant
Scenario: App Store developed a random, repetitive, failure to update certain apps. After trying two different solutions which only worked for a couple of weeks (including archive uninstall) Apple Support and I decided to go the full hog and do a full Lion reinstall. Did a full final backup with TM and proceded to reinstall from the recovery partition. All went well. I gave my new account the same name as my old original one (and this might be the root of the glitch I will describe). When Lion was working again I used Migration Assistant to recover all the users, applications, and information.
As my new main account and my old one (coming from Mig Assist) had the same name, MigAssist asked if I wanted to merge them. I said "yes". All fine. Everything was apparently there.
Later that day I tried to access my bank and discovered that my 1Password db was an old version. I went to TM to retrieve the one from my pre-reinstall backup. As I had mapped my mac back to the sparsebunddle file in TC it seemed I had access to all my files going back 1.5 years. It showed my oldest backup as Sep 2010 and 700 gb used. All seemed normal.
Unfortunately, the purple bars before the moment of reinstall are all faded and I can't retrieve any information from them. Nothing before that moment is available, not from the Finder or from withing any other application.
My new merged main user appears as "carlos 1" when it should have been just "carlos".
Do you guys have any advice that could help me? Thank you in advance.
My TC is a 1TB 2009 one.Carlos. wrote:
As my new main account and my old one (coming from Mig Assist) had the same name, MigAssist asked if I wanted to merge them.
No, there is no "merge" option:
You can rename or replace, not merge.
Unfortunately, the purple bars before the moment of reinstall are all faded and I can't retrieve any information from them. Nothing before that moment is available, not from the Finder or from withing any other application.
My new merged main user appears as "carlos 1" when it should have been just "carlos".
You have two separate accounts now.
See Problems after using Migration Assistant for an explanation of what's happened (the blue and pink boxes) and a possible fix in the tan box -- but that won't work if you've done any backups since using Migration Assistant.
If you have done backups, your best bet is to do a full system restore, selecting the last backup from before you did the Migration. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14. -
Bootcamp with Win' 8 won't start after Yosemite
After installing bootcamp I had to upgrade my windows partition, it worked until I upgraded to Yosemite.
After upgrading and rebooting and clicking alt the windows option didn't even appear.
I tried a couple of tips in the communitie threads and managed to get windows to appear as an option on reboot however I get the message
"missing operating system".
Following Loner T's suggestions I get these results:
diskutil list
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 210.0 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 30.0 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *209.6 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
ADB5ED30-596D-4CBF-95B6-3147DF954E96
Unlocked Encrypted
diskutil cs list
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group B8C99B8C-D7C4-4E0E-8AD3-BA68035C6584
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
|
+-< Physical Volume 0D9669BA-EE47-4F1C-A256-BFD369F8694E
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family BF2FC390-7959-4AD8-A73C-6A2D1ACFD56B
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: AES-XTS
Conversion Status: Complete
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: Yes
Fully Secure: Yes
Passphrase Required: Yes
|
+-> Logical Volume ADB5ED30-596D-4CBF-95B6-3147DF954E96
Disk: disk1
Status: Online
Size (Total): 209648091136 B (209.6 GB)
Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: Yes (unlock and decryption required)
LV Name: Macintosh HD
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 410156248 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
410565888 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
411835424 19807200
431642624 58591232 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856 863
490234719 32 Sec GPT table
490234751 1 Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 410156248] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 410565888 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 431642624 - 58591232] HPFS/QNX/AUX
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 410156248] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 410565888 - 1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 431642624 - 58591232] HPFS/QNX/AUX
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c 8e c0 8e d8 be 00 7c bf 00 |3.....|......|..|
00000010 06 b9 00 02 fc f3 a4 50 68 1c 06 cb fb b9 04 00 |.......Ph.......|
00000020 bd be 07 80 7e 00 00 7c 0b 0f 85 0e 01 83 c5 10 |....~..|........|
00000030 e2 f1 cd 18 88 56 00 55 c6 46 11 05 c6 46 10 00 |.....V.U.F...F..|
00000040 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 5d 72 0f 81 fb 55 aa 75 09 |.A..U..]r...U.u.|
00000050 f7 c1 01 00 74 03 fe 46 10 66 60 80 7e 10 00 74 |....t..F.f`.~..t|
00000060 26 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 ff 76 08 68 00 00 68 00 |&fh....f.v.h..h.|
00000070 7c 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 56 00 8b f4 cd 13 ||h..h...B.V.....|
00000080 9f 83 c4 10 9e eb 14 b8 01 02 bb 00 7c 8a 56 00 |............|.V.|
00000090 8a 76 01 8a 4e 02 8a 6e 03 cd 13 66 61 73 1c fe |.v..N..n...fas..|
000000a0 4e 11 75 0c 80 7e 00 80 0f 84 8a 00 b2 80 eb 84 |N.u..~..........|
000000b0 55 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 5d eb 9e 81 3e fe 7d 55 |U2..V...]...>.}U|
000000c0 aa 75 6e ff 76 00 e8 8d 00 75 17 fa b0 d1 e6 64 |.un.v....u.....d|
000000d0 e8 83 00 b0 df e6 60 e8 7c 00 b0 ff e6 64 e8 75 |......`.|....d.u|
000000e0 00 fb b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 3b 66 81 fb 54 |.......f#.u;f..T|
000000f0 43 50 41 75 32 81 f9 02 01 72 2c 66 68 07 bb 00 |CPAu2....r,fh...|
00000100 00 66 68 00 02 00 00 66 68 08 00 00 00 66 53 66 |.fh....fh....fSf|
00000110 53 66 55 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 68 00 7c 00 00 66 |SfUfh....fh.|..f|
00000120 61 68 00 00 07 cd 1a 5a 32 f6 ea 00 7c 00 00 cd |ah.....Z2...|...|
00000130 18 a0 b7 07 eb 08 a0 b6 07 eb 03 a0 b5 07 32 e4 |..............2.|
00000140 05 00 07 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 bb 07 00 b4 0e cd |......<.t.......|
00000150 10 eb f2 f4 eb fd 2b c9 e4 64 eb 00 24 02 e0 f8 |......+..d..$...|
00000160 24 02 c3 49 6e 76 61 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 |$..Invalid parti|
00000170 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 |tion table.Error|
00000180 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 | loading operati|
00000190 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e |ng system.Missin|
000001a0 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst|
000001b0 65 6d 00 00 00 63 7b 9a 4e 8b 2f 59 00 00 00 fe |em...c{.N./Y....|
000001c0 ff ff ee fe ff ff 01 00 00 00 27 40 06 00 00 fe |..........'@....|
000001d0 ff ff ac fe ff ff 28 40 06 00 d8 7c 72 18 00 fe |......(@...|r...|
000001e0 ff ff ab fe ff ff 00 bd 78 18 20 5f 13 00 80 fe |........x. _....|
000001f0 ff ff 07 fe ff ff 00 58 ba 19 00 08 7e 03 55 aa |.......X....~.U.|
00000200
Thanks.1. I started off with 30 gb and then added around 10 so it's probably choice number 2
2. I did that for the first one, and I got this:
When you say familiar files you mean real files on my windows partition?
3. I pressed q to go back and search the other MS data entry but it got me here:
Do I have to restart the process now?
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