Multiple Boot Camp Issues & Questions

Hello,
I installed windows xp on my late 2008 macbook a couple months back. My Mac has 4gb RAM and 250gb HDD. I allotted 80gb to Windows XP, as I use it to run 3D Studio Max as well as Adobe CS4. Ever since the Mac side has been running sluggish (not horrible, just not like before) It's restarts are much longer for example, and it seems the fan is working harder, regardless of it being in Mac OS X or Windows XP.
Now, I know its not the Windows partion size, because i originally had a 32gb partition and it just wasnt big enough, but it actually ran slower then. All I'm wondering is:
-could there be something wrong with my fan?
I downloaded Fan control and on average the left fan says 1600rpm and the right fan says - 1prm(why is hte right so low?)
-is there anything i can do to optimize my mac to perform at its best?
-will bootcamp 3.0 (coming with snow leopard) be able to run 64bit windows vista/7?
Sorry for the long post, but if anybody could answer some or all of my questions, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Austin

Once you have Windows installed and in use, it behaves no differently than Windows on a PC. In addition, you may run into issues related to Apple-specific hardware.

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I recently installed windows XP via Boot Camp, and wanted to chop up my "Macintosh HD" partition into two so that I have a data partition for personal storage. I'm using Disk Utility to do this, it has been running for 8 hours. I checked the number of system calls that Disk Utility is making and it seems that it is making a couple of hundred per second. I was hoping people would help me answer the following:
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You can't get the result you want following the steps you told me you followed.
Once you have created the mac partition and installed you can only create the windows partition using boot camp. You cannot do a live partition of the original leopard boot volume to create another mac partition on the same drive.
You also cannot partition a partition using Disk Utility, the only software available on the mac to partition a partition is Boot Camp Assistant and it can only do the partition when booted to the Leopard startup volume on which it is to be created.
If you want to have a further data partition on the same drive you need to create it at the beginning using Disk Utility to create that partition.
In your case that would be the data partition you wanted to create.
The drive must use the GUID partition scheme.
The Leopard individual partition (which will eventually be live partitioned to accommodate Windows) must be formatted for mac os x extended journalled.
The data partition can be formatted with any allowed format and can be changed when you decide what format you want.
Once these 2 partitions have been set up you can only use boot camp assistant to modify the partitioning and then only to create a boot camp partition on the volume that has leopard installed.
The Leopard partition, once partitioned with Boot Camp Assistant, can now only have its partition modified by destroying the original boot camp partition and then setting it up again.
You normally cannot partition a partition without destroying all data on the volume that the partitions are created on.
This live partition is an innovation that was included so that those who wanted to either remove the boot camp partition or wanted to change the size of the partition would be able to do so, without also destroying their Leopard startup volume.
Read my instructions again, the process you describe does not match what I have posted.

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I just set up a new Boot Camp partition (XP SP2), didn't have these issues previously:
1. When I get to the desktop I get a window asking me to insert the CD labeled "iSight Installation Disk #1". Not sure why and don't really care if iSight works or not under Boot Camp as I barely use it anyway.
2. The keys illuminate when the laptop boots up, is there any way to keep that from happening or do I have to manually shut if off every time?
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Mitchell, you will find it productive to post this question in the Boot Camp section of the discussions. You will find it listed under discussions down the left side listed under Windows Compatible Technology. Good luck with finding your solution.

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I bought a 13 inch macbook pro9.2 at Cash America with windows 7 Ultimate with boot camp program.
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If you reformat the partition that contain Mountain Lion and reinstall Mountain Lion, it should not effect the Windows pratition.
Have said that I suggest you backup everything you might want to save just in case.
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This is a table I use to verify that Testdisk is correct.
GPT 3 Start
GPT 3 Size
GPT 3 End
NTFS Start
Sector Offset
NTFS Size
NTFS End
584882296
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Leave your Testdisk display and start a new Terminal Window. Please use the following steps. The 104 sector positive offset is a good sign.
You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message. The following steps have values from your Testdisk output (and you can verify) in Steps 7 and 8.
Rebuild GPT4 using start/end offsets
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4   (part 4)
586151936 - Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+ 390621177 - (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
0700     (Windows part type)
P           (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
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Y           (Yes! really write the new GPT)
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Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR. Use defaults for other questions (like partition codes). The only values that need modifications are the Boot flags and step 6. Accept all other defaults that Gdisk offers.
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R   (Recover)
H (chooses Hybrid)
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N (part 3 boot flag)
Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)
W (Write the new MBR)
Y    (Yes! write the new MBR)
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Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N
Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): Press Enter/Return
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Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
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Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?
Test 2 - Can you see files in Bootcamp Volume?
Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.

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Thanks

Leeopard huh?
You need Snow Leopard w. 10.6.x to get 3.0.
If it works and no issues fine though probably the first time I have read someone did.
BC 2.2 was more about XP and some support for Vista.

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Hi,
I have a Macbook early 2008 model, with 10.5, which apparently has boot camp 2.0 installed on it. Despite this, I managed to install Windows 7 64-bit on it, without issue, until I tried to install all the bootcamp drivers for stuff like the trackpad and the function buttons. It turns out that the only way to get the drivers for 64-bit windows 7 is by updating to bootcamp 3.1, which you can't do if you have 2.0 (not totally sure about that), because the OS X cd which should install the drivers, doesnt work for windows 7 64-bit. As far as I can see, you can't download the drivers from apple without the cd, and to use the downloads you do have, I would need bootcamp 3.1, which would require purchasing snow leaopard, and completely reinstalling my entire system (which would be an enormous pain). Is there any way around this? Can I download the drivers independently? The only thing I need to be honest is two-finger right clicking, because I don't use windows much, and that is pretty essential...
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Hi Pete,
you can buy Snow Leopard for about USD 29 but you don't have to install OSX Snow Leopard in order to install the updated BootCamp Drivers from it.
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Regards
Stefan

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I'm trying to install WinXP SP2 on a drive in bay three of my new Mac Pro (with four internal drives). The boot camp instructions state that a boot camp installation should be done only on a drive in the lowest available numbered bay and that I should remove all the drives in the lower numbered bays in order to do the install. If my OS X system and the boot camp utility are on the hard drive in bay 1 and I'm trying to do an install on a drive in bay 3, this presents a problem. Apple tech support suggested that I swap the drives in bay 1 and 3 prior to the install and then swap them back, which I did. This seemed to work. The startup disk control panel in OS X seems to have no trouble dealing with setting my startup disk to either Mac OS X (in bay 1) or Win XP (in bay 3) after the drives were swapped back. However, I have problems on the windows side. The boot camp control panel in Win XP lets me set Mac OS as the startup disk but I get a permanent black screen at startup requiring me to hold in the power button to shut off the computer and then restart it. Afterwards, I can't start up in OS X unless I hold the option key down at startup and manually pick OS X. I can then reset the startup disk to the OS X in the Mac OS startup disk control panel but this never works from inside XP.
Two questions that I would greatly appreciate answers for:
1. Do you need to install windows on a drive in the lowest available numbered hard drive bay in a Mac Pro?
2. Is the hard drive swap trick I did above confusing the boot camp control panel in XP so that it can't figure how to set Mac OS X (switched back to bay 1) as the startup disk? If the disk swap trick is causing the problem, is there another way to do a boot camp install on a drive that is not in the lowest numbered drive bay?
Thank you very much!
Steve

Support for IE6 is gone. IE9 is coming in beta in Sept. And yes, IE8 can run sites in compatibility mode.
My feeling is those apps that require an old and buggy browser like 6 should be headed for the trash.
XP Mode IS XP in hardware virtualization VM. You may want Windows 7 Pro, for XP Mode but also if you have two physical cpus.
Tech support has been known to give conflicting info on a question, or throw up their hands, and seem really like they need to use Windows first, rather than gain a rep for being clueless and unable to help customers.

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Hello,
I am relatively new to Apple Products and I have a Mac Book Pro and I recently upgraded it from OX X 10.8.6 and I am now running OS X 10.9.1.
I had been using Boot Camp and running Windows 7. No issues.
When the Mavericks update was completed, everything was running fine on the Apple side, but my boot camp partician and ability to use boot camp is gone.
I now have a 55 GB particioned as disk 04.
When I used the boot camp utility my computer was partioned in a 650/100 GB split.
I am not sure how to proceed at this point.
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I am deeply sorry if anyone was offended. I did not mean yell at anyone. I just wanted to state the most important paragraph as summary. When I have to yell at someone, I put all the text in capitals and bold and also with exclamation mark at the end. But anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Finally, I solved the problem by returning to the old system leopard.

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Hi all,
I just bought HALO: Combat Evolved for PC last week and loaded it on my Dell. The graphics were really bad due to a weak but operational graphics card.
I got the idea last night to try it through Windows on my iMac. So I loaded Windows via Boot Camp with no problems and went through all the updates that Windows needed. I crossed my fingers and installed HALO and it worked. Then I tried to run the game.
An error window displayed and said "a debugger has been detected, please disable the debugger to continue." I've done some sleuthing and think that it may be related to the video driver. I'm running an ATI Mobility Radeon 2600 XT. Any of you have a suggestion for me or know if I can (and if it would be wise) to change my video driver? Can Windows and OSX run different video drivers (i.e. I change the driver in windows but not OSX)? Thanks!
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So I was able to change my video driver in Windows XP SP2 and that did it! If anyone has this same issue, I followed the directions on this web page:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1017&message=24987376
I found this somewhere else in the Apple discussions.
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Will

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i plan on installing boot camp and using windows only for my XP copy of Adobe CS. so here's my question...
how many GB's do you think is necessary to partition for this operation? i dont want to partition too much, because i know i wont be using XP a lot, but CS files can get big.
also...i have a 40GB external USB hard drive at my expense as well. could i possibly revert XP to that disc instead of partitioning?

You can refer to this forum for all of your BC questions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

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I just partitioned a 500GB drive 300/200 with hopes of installing Vista Basic onto the 200GB partition.
All my other hard drives are removed.
I got 10.5 installed and Software Updated on the 300GB volume.
THE PROBLEM IS Boot Camp Assistant is giving the following: "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
QUESTIONS:
This sounds like my boot drive cannot be partitioned and this is why I have no options in BCA -- true?
I won't be able to install Vista on a second boot-drive partition -- true?

Okay, Erasing my 200GB partition to MS-DOS (fat) let me move another step with Boot Camp Assistant.
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2) Create a 32MB Vista partition on a second internal HD (and mix a boot system with data on the same volume)? This is not good, either.
From here, it looks like either choice is goofy, but I will likely go with putting both OSes on the same boot volume (and eat any time experimenting with this new stuff when one or the other turns bad).

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Hello,
I own a MBP late 2010. I also own a copy of windows 7 ultimate. I had it installed and it worked fine for over a year. I had to reformate my system last week. So I decided to start fresh and just completely re-format my drive. Well, I made the partition useing boot camp and that worked just fine. Boot camp restarted and gave me the error saying that it was missing dvd drivers. Well, this is odd to me because ive used this same exact disk before for the same exact thing on the same exact computer. THe disk isn't messed up or scratched. I read that it means i downloaded a curroupt copy. Which can't be the case because it is a legit copy from microsoft.
So I then preceded to delete the partition and start over. Now boot camp will not partition my drives. Why? Why must this software be so stupid? What am I missing here. Why/ What is causeing this?

It wasn't an ISO, it was the actual DVD of windows 7 ultimate. I didn't add any drives to my system. It is a stock unit, no changes made.
So, I guess my question is did something change about a bootcamp update that would possibly make it not work again? I did a fresh install of OSX Snow Leapoard. It is currently updated to 10.6.8. I also waited till the macbook pro was completely updated before i attempted my Boot Camp Installation.
So my system specs are
MBP late 2010 (stock everything)
OSX 10.6.8
boot camp 3.0.4
and a pysical copy of Win7 Ultimate(64bit).
I'd like to re-add that this all worked properly in the past. I did a system reformat and this is what happened when i tried to put windows back afterwards.

Boot Camp virgin question :)

Hi all,
Sorry for posting a question that is so noobish but I wish to install XP to my Macbook Pro using Boot Camp and I was wondering if the process re-formats the HDD completely or if it creates a partition for XP on-the-fly without touching the existing data on the Mac side of things !
The reason I ask is obvious in that I do not want to lose the contents of my machine in the process !
So, basically, is Boot Camp a tool to add a partition to your HDD without disturbing the contents of what is already there ?
Thanks in advance.

Open Boot Camp Assistant and save the PDF manual and go through it.
Backup your system.
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Otherwise, after your backup, just reformat and restore to regain and unfragment free space.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

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