Necessary to reinstall Boot Camp after restore?

I am fixing to back up and reinstall Leopard on my MacBook to fix a partitioning problem (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7524490#7524490). I got my MacBook from my university, and they didn't include the Boot Camp installation disk with the laptop (it was already installed when I received it). I have a Vista installation DVD and the Leopard installation DVD.
If I backup and restore Leopard, will I still be able to install Vista by running the Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities Folder, or will I need to get a copy of the Boot Camp DVD?

Hi Jbarber,
What is the Bootcamp installation disk? If you have the Leopard install DVD, everything needed for bootcamp is on that DVD. When you reinstall Leopard, Bootcamp Assistant will be there, and after you install windows, you just insert the Leopard DVD again to copy over the bootcamp drivers.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtDYNCldC24
After doing what he did on the video... I can't no longer find my "boot camp assistant" in my utilities menu. Can anybody tell me how I can reinstall "boot camp assistant"? or at least find it?
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Hello chimmon,
In order to restore missing Applications or Utilities that are installed with the operating system, the entire operating system will need to be reinstalled.
Mac OS X 10.6: Reinstalling Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6606
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Allen

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Hi there HarryAmadeo,
According to the article below, it looks like you will need to reinstall OS X in order to reinstall Boot Camp.
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Ok, so i traded in my last macbook for the newest 2.4 ghz macbooks and I had them transfer the data. When i got my computer back the partition was gone but all of my data was put into a file on the new comp, is there a way i can partition the disc with bootcamp and just put all of the data on that partition cause i no longer have my xp install disc and i want all of my old data back.
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Hi there HarryAmadeo,
According to the article below, it looks like you will need to reinstall OS X in order to reinstall Boot Camp.
OS X Yosemite: Reinstall apps that came with your Mac
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how to go about recovering my original partition (I did a backup of the partition prior to the Lion Update)
if my Windows 7 is an upgrade disk, will I need to install Vista first?
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How to reinstall Boot Camp 4.0

Hi,
my hardware : MB Pro 13 " mid 2010 (Intel)
my system :
- one partition of 230 Go withLion (update from Snow Leopard, so non Lion DVD), Boot camp 4.0
- one partition of 20 Go with Windows 7
my goal : install Windows (for running with my Polar software)
What I did :
- install Windows 7 with Boot camp 4.0, but Win freezes
- extract and install Boot camp 3.0 from SL DVD (to install XP instead of 7)
My situation :
- Boot camp 3 doesn't want to continue because it see that the disk has partition but can^t remove the window's one
- Boot camp 4 doesn't start any more
what I tried :
- restore boot camp 4.0 from Time, but it cannot be restored because "system requires it"
Any further Idea before restore whole system ?
Thanks a lot

Hi Star1,
finally I reinstalled Lion and Boot camp 4.0 works now.
So I could delete Win 7 partition.
But boot camp 3.0 continue to say that the disk is partitionned.
It seems that boot camp isn't up compatible.
I will reinstall snow leopard to have en Win XP partition.
Thanks for your help,
JL

Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition

I'm running OS X 10.8 and Windows 7 x64 Pro.
After properly setting up Boot Camp to dual-boot Windows on my Mac mini, I decided to test whether or not it was true that creating another partition (a data partition for OS X) would interfere with Boot Camp. Wikipedia claims it does interfere but without citing a source, whilst the Boot Camp documentation itself only specifies that the disk must be a single partition _prior_ to setup - there's no mention of whether the disk must be _kept_ that way afterwards.
I opened Disk Utility, reduced the size of my OS X parition from 420GB to 80GB, and created a new partition in the unallocated space. Here's how it looks now:
When I attempted to proceed with the process, I did receive a warning that doing this (and I quote), "may" cause problems with Boot Camp. Seeing as it was inconclusive, I thought I'd give it a shot - nothing ventured…
Of course, it borked Boot Camp, otherwise I wouldn't be posting here. Whilst OS X boots just fine, the Boot Camp partition now no longer shows up in the Startup Manager, though it does in the Startup Disk prefPane. If I do attempt to boot into Boot Camp, I receive the following message on a black screen:
No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key
The advice given to someone who had this same problem was, "fix your damaged Boot Camp volume." But I'm at a loss as to how to do that.
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Hi,
@Christopher Murphy:
Okay, you seem confident. Let's give this a shot. I use the command-line myself for the odd thing, so I'll try not to bail.
Results of the "sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0" command:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
     409640 156303528      2 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
156713168    1269536      3 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
157982704 659841040      4 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
817823744     262144
818085888 158687232      5 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
Results of the "sudo fdisk /dev/disk0" command:
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
         Starting       EndingSignature: 0xAA55
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
Does this indicate a fix is possible?

Trouble reinstalling Boot Camp 2.1 on Windows XP SP3

I started having problems getting BootCamp Manager to start, so this morning I decided to uninstall and attempted to reinstall without much luck.
First, I inserted my Leopard disk which has BootCamp Manager 2.0 on it, and I always get an error 2753 stating that the "installation has encountered an unexpected error".
So I pulled out my old BootCamp Manager v1.4 disk, and I get the same exact error.
Then, I went to the Apple website to download the latest version (2.1) but it throws an error at me stating that it's an upgrade and can't be installed without a prior version of BootCamp installed (which is frustrating because, as far as I understand, 2.1 is the only version that can be installed on top of SP3).
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What should my next move be? I REALLY don't want to have to reinstall Windows today. Is there a full 2.1 installation package out there that doesn't require a previous installation of BootCamp to run?
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Which model year do you have?
Leopard DVD version?
Boot Camp 2.1 is over a year old. It isn't required. And with Mac Pro, there is a lot you can do w/o Apple drivers. The ones you would be missing are:
OS Switcher - Boot Camp control panel startup disk
Apple Time Services - sync time between OS X and Windows
Once you have XP installed, backup though that can be slow.
Use NTFS instead of FAT32.
Ditch XP and while Windows 7 RC is still available for download, grab the 64-bit version.
Some people are fine installing Boot Camp 2.0.x and it is only when they attempt to install or after installing 2.1 that trouble ensues.
Definitely uninstall all the Apple programs in Programs control panel; disable any services and startup items still showing from Apple - type msconfig to get there. I don't need or want MobileMe and other things that get thrown in along the way, so I always uninstall and disable those.
BC 2.1 was suppose to do something for upgrading from SP2 to SP3, but I've yet to see or hear any evidence that it did anything.
Something is wrong though and you may need to start over. In the meantime, try uninstalling, try running chkdsk, and then run system file checker from cmd.exe
sfc /scannow
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How to use boot camp after using Parallels.

I have parallels installed on my iMac. How can I create a Boot Camp partition in order to use, without having to reinstall my MS Pro 7 and software?

maybe the users in the boot camp forum will know: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp. wish I could help further.

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blueinsmoke wrote:
Thanks for the re-assurance Fortuny ! One follow-on question if I may (and apologies for my total ignorance). Will installing XP again on the same machine really cause the automatic loss of XP on the Parallels partition ?
Hi,
yes it will.
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Regards
Stefan

Mouse not working with Boot Camp after 10.5.7 update

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How many of you trashed Boot Camp after installing it?

The challenge is over. After installing and playing with windows on a Mac, I'm going to get rid of it. I feel like I'm at work when using it. Good god windows is ugly and uninviting. And that sound, that familiar windows is booting sound is enough to make me barf. The main problem is dual booting, maybe I'll try Parallels desktop when it becomes available. BTW, anybody know how to properly uninstall Boot Camp?

Actually it's working fine for me. Since I'm in a long transition process of going from Windows to Mac this is the perfect solution for me - one computer instead of two. Half the cost the way I see it. The only problem I ever had was with the Mac keyboard uninstalling itself on the Windows side intermittently - sometimes once an hour and sometimes every couple of minutes. Turns out it is a Mac issue either with the USB ports on the iMac or the keyboard itself not having enough power. Two solutions: 1) use a Windows keyboard, or 2) use an AC powered USB hub and plug the Mac keyboard into it.
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Hello,
During the bootcamp installation by mistake I erased the macintosh HD partition, but before continuing the installation of windows I stopped the process.
Using a bootable live cd I saw that all the partitions are still there. I changed the boot options and managed to see the mac HD partition on the boot screen (when pressing alt).
After booting I could see all the information on mu mac and the present partitions information is like these:
Andres-MacBook-Pro:~ arlourenco$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1465149167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
      409640 1385344952      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1385754592     1269536      3 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
1387024128         256
1387024384    78123008      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
Andres-MacBook-Pro:~ arlourenco$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   1 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -         39] <Unknown ID>
2: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [        40 -     409600] Win95 FAT-32
*3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 1385344952] HFS+
4: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1385754592 -    1269536] HFS+
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The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
Can you help me to fix the problem?
Andre

Everything was fine... Issue started when I tried to increasec the size of my bootcamp partition (from 100gb to 200gb).
I did the following:
1. I decreased my mac hd by 100gb using disk utility
2. Then I loaded bootcamp and used the "mini partition wizard" to increase the size of the partition by 100gb (unallocated space I free on mac hd)
3. I rebooted and everything went poof!!!!!! (Just for bootcamp)
Then, since bootcamp was not staring I found the solution you posted at the beginning:
·         sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
p
setpid 4
07
flag 4
p
write
y
After this os x was still fine but windows was jus getting stuck at boot (black screen with blinking cursor)
Then I decided to do the following:
·         sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
p
setpid 1
07
flag 1
p
write
y
After this everything brok! Mac HD disapeared and windows was showing "missing os"

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scoutusmaximus wrote:
I have just updated from 10.6.1 to 10.6.2 through software update facility. I noticed my boot camp disk (a separate disk inside my my Mac Pro) is now missing. I can't see it in disk utilities or Tech Tool Pro.
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