New-imac-early-adopters-boot-camp

Just got this from a google alert.
Anyone knows if paralels is also not comparable with the new imacs?
http://bgr.com/2012/12/19/new-imac-early-adopters-boot-camp-259318/

It is because of the 3TB drive. Since BC needs to create a FAT volume for Windows to install to it can't do that on that large a drive, 2TB limit.
There was a post the other day how to get around this and use BC to install Windows. It has to do with Partitioning the drive to a smaller size from a Boot disc/USB thumb.

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Yes... There are issues with the new iMac, early adopters baby!

Hi, I am a new iMac owner.
Being a network engineer and having worked for the "devil" himself, let me tell you... I would rather be dealing with the tiny glitches with the new iMac than owning a Dell, Toshiba, HP but most importantly running Vista!
This is a new machine with new HW and drivers. I enjoy trying the latest and the greatest. I realize there will be hurdles to overcome with any new product, but come one people! Let's stop whining, and help everyone out here. We are all here to provide constructive feedback to Apple while helping everyone out.
Yes there Display issues.
Yes there are Keyboard issues.
Yes there are WoW issue and UT as well.
Target disk issues.. Yes
Lock ups.. sure!
My suggestion... If you think you are better off with a PC and Vista, well go to it mate!
Sorry for the ramble, but I just got tired of all the whiners thinking that buying an iMac was their solution to never having issues by leaving the PC world, or should I say MSWorld... LOL

I think few, if any people claimed they were going to ditch their new iMac for a PC. I like Macs, but I don't love them like I used to.
Half the reason people buy them, is because they think they can rely on Macs more. They are supposed to be stable, fuss free and easy to use. And they still are for the most part.
But these new iMacs make a complete mockery of that because they don't represent very well what Apple stands for. "If" I bought a PC I would honestly expect some problems here & there. Its just part and parcel of the PC package. And although I don't expect Macs to be 100% perfect 100% of the time, I certainly expect better than this diabolical shambles that is the new iMac.
Just as an example.. My 4 year old G4 powerbook.. Not 100% problem free, granted. But mighty close. However, it has not crashed once the entire time I have had it. My new iMac however, crashed 4 times yesterday alone, and it didn't even get used as much as my old powerbook.
Maybe now you get the picture a little better?
Just my 2 kernel panics worth...

Brand new iMac won't boot :-(

Hi All,
I just got a brand new iMac. I did a clean install of Leopard, imported a couple of CDs into iTunes, and then thought I'd give Bootcamp a go.
I created the disk and the machine duly rebooted into Windows setup. As the installer couldn't see the Bootcamp partition (I was using XP without SP2). I told the installer to quit and reboot.
Now all I get is a hanging white screen when I power up my iMac. If i hold down the Alt key I get a mouse pointer which locks up after a couple of seconds and that's it.
I've tried:
- Holding down alt on bootup - this brings up a pointer which locks after about 2 seconds
- Holding down alt+C - with Leopard in the drive - nothing happens
- Zapping the PVRAM - AltCMD+PR" - this had no effect
- Resetting the SMU - hold down power whilst plugging in - now all the fans are running at maximum speed
- An open firmware update as per this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5984118
Is the machine completely toast?

The same thing happened to me this last week. After talking to Apple on the phone for hours they decided that it was dead and declared it doa (even though it was working for a few hours before boot camp). I am getting my new one this week. I can promise you that boot camp will not be put used on this one.
-Billy

How do I restore data to a new mac with windows boot camp partition?

Hi
I have a new iMac and an old MBP, I'd like to copy all of the data of my old MBP to the iMac.Would doing that affect the windows boot camp partition?
and how do I do it?
right now im backing everything up on my MBP using super duper
both the MBP and the iMac are running on Lion

I am assuming the Boot Camp partition is on the old MBP and that the SuperDuper clone is on an external drive and is bootable. The Super Duper clone does not include the Boot Camp Partition.
To get the Mac Data moved you can use Migration Assistant and if you want to transfer the Boot Camp partition you would need Winclone to move/copy it to a newly created Boot Camp partition on the iMac. The SD Clone ( and a Winclone backup) is your insurance policy if some kind of difficulty arises.
Links to more detailed info.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6025
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11275
http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html
http://twocanoes.com/support/winclone/migrating-a-bootcamp-partition-with-winclo ne
http://twocanoes.com/support/winclone/using-sysprep-when-migrating-boot-camp

IMac 24" Vista Boot Camp Video Display Problems

Just recently, as of Christmas 2007, I have had a new alumninum 24" iMac. Great machine! One annoying problem (really annoying) is under Boot Camp's Vista OS. I have a valid Vista Home Edition installed and operating quite fine.
Here is the issue:
After running in the Vista partition for more than an hour unattended (screensaver is set to blank or any other), the display is all distorted and wavy.
I have seen people mentioning video issues, and I have reinstalled Leopard BootCamp drivers, manually installed drivers as advised by others on this forum, yet nothing works. I keep getting the same ol' problem.
To explain in more detail: The screen is very pixelated and color gradients (i.e. standard Windows Vista wallpaper looks like an ugly histogram graph). When it's usually very smooth gradients of color, it's very sharp and distinct "smearing" appearance. Text and icons look terrible too!
As any tech support person would say: "Just reboot!"
Sure, rebooting clears the issue and it looks great again. Just give it an hour or two and the same ugly discoloration is back.
Anyone out there having issues with this in Vista? Of course Apple really promoted their new iMacs to run Windows under bootcamp (but they won't support it). Poor marketing if you asked me (it is their hardware).
Under the Leopard partition, I have not seen any issues with this display resolution. Leads me to believe it is for sure a windows driver issue. I have fiddled with just about all of the ATI Radeon HD drivers but cannot come up with a solution.
Any help, or updates on the drivers that may solve this would be greatly appreciated.
I'll try Apple again. Wish me luck.
Machine Details:
24" iMac (newer Alumninum - December 2007)
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
OSX 10.5 Leopard w/ Boot Camp Windows Vista Home Edition (32 bit)

So, after three days with new drivers, I may have found an ATI driver package that might be working.
Here is what I downloaded and installed:
8-3vista32_dd59752.exe
Found here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista32/common-vista32
I installed the package and by default set the ATI graphics card driver as an "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT" - so far so good!
I will keep you updated if this ends up not working, but so far no smearing screens and gradient issues within Vista (32-bit) Home Edition on my iMac.
Just thought I would share - again, Apple was unable to help. On my own.
Let me know if others have success with this.

How to run WinXP Pro on iMac using both Boot Camp and Fusion/Parallels

I have read on various forums that there is a specific order in which you need to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac (mine is a new iMac running Leopard), so you can run it natively with Boot Camp and simultaneously with OS X 10.5 using a third-party program such as VMWare Fusion or Parallels.
Does anyone know the installation procedure/order in which to install VMWare (or Parallels) and XP (I bought a standalone copy of XP Pro), so that I can also run XP Pro natively using Boot Camp?
I have been using Parallels for a year, but am thinking about switching to Fusion. Any thoughts on which one is preferred would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I am using Fusion 2.1 on a MacPro Duo. Installed it after creating a boot camp partition.
Follow the instructions with fusion for multiple options. I boot into WXP Pro to use multi-monitors for work-related stuff on a corp. network. Otherwise, I use a virtual machine using the bootcamp partition to run both OS's simultaneously. Fusion is great (USB support, firewire, etc.) but does not yet support multi-monitors. Be sure to install boot camp drivers off of the Leopard DVD on the boot camp WXP machine AND on each/all virtual machines.......then everything works great!
Before you set all of this up, decide how large you want your boot camp partition to be. Once you create it, you cannot change it (and the virtual machine off of boot camp either). I have grown into another hard drive and have to start over from scratch rebuilding my corporate windows machines!

Brand new iMac will not boot, just make's funny "bonk" sound.

I have a brand new iMac (Intel, 20-inch flat panel). Just out of the box. Ran through set-up wizard. Used firewire to transfer files from an old CRT iMac. All was good for about an hour.
Tried to empty the trash. Finder says Trash was emptied, but, if I open the Trash, the 50-odd files I just deleted are still visible! If I try to select one, its icon immediately disappears. Hmmm....
I decide it's time to restart.
Upon restart, computer will not boot.
I push the power button. I hear the startup chime as usual. Screen lights up gray. But no apple logo on the screen. There is a long pause. Screen remains gray. Computer then starts making a soft "bonk" sound every 4-5 seconds. (Kind of hard to describe the sound, just imagine clipping the very first fraction of a second of the normal Mac startup chime, and repeating it every couple seconds.) This continues indefinitely.
If someone has experienced this, or has advice, please let me know your thoughts. Feeling rather bummed. Thanks in advance!!!
iMac Intel 20-inch 2.16 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Boot from the Install Disk 1
I cannot boot at all (see my post above). The
machine just sits there with a blank gray screen.
I appreciate the article link, though. I've already
read it and it will make a great reference for the
future, provided I can get back to a place where this
iMac actually runs.
Since you're new to Macs, I'm sure you don't realize that while your iMac is sitting there with only a gray screen, you can insert/push in "Install Disc 1" - and it will be accepted. Then press and hold down the power button until iMac shuts down. After waiting a few seconds until everything has settled, press power button and immediately upon hearing the usual Mac startup tone/chime/chord hold down the "c" key until you see the spinning progress indicator below the Apple logo. It will boot to the DVD, you will be able to use (from the Utilties pull-down menu) Disk Utility to "repair" the hard drive directory, then you will be able to quit the installation process, choose Startup Disk from that same Utilities pull-down, and restart your iMac:)

My new imac will not boot up.

I purchased a new imac 2.15" I7 processor and it has been working fine until today. It will not boot up. The background is white and the boot symbol just spins and spins. Powered the system off and back on and didn't work. Also unplugged waited for a minute and tried again. Same result. What should I do?

Try holding the shift key while booting. This is booting into safe mode. The computer will boot using only the necessary Apple kernal extensions. If it boots up in safe mode it may be that additional software you installed is the culprit.

Windows 7, iMac 27-inch, Boot Camp 5.0 quandry

Though I was told the iMac I bought could run Windows 7 in a partition separate from my OS X 10.8.1, it seems quite impossible. Here's what I tried:
Failed to download "Windows Support Software" as first step. Boot Camp Assistant stalls about halfway through "download."
Tried using the Install Windows option in Boot Camp Assistant. The Assistant will only create a FAT32 volume; Windows 7 need NTFS+.
Used a hack (NTFS-G3) to restore NTFS as an option in the Disk Utility. Partitioned the drive with an NTFS partition (216GB) called BOOTCAMP.
Ran installer for Win 7 Home Premium, but cannot get it to complete because the installer can't control the restarts.
For now I've given up. What gives? Perhaps the iPhone market is sucking the life out of Apple computers. It's the first time I've had this experience with an Apple in 30 years of using their products.

MrClyne wrote:
Though I was told the iMac I bought could run Windows 7 in a partition separate from my OS X 10.8.1, it seems quite impossible. Here's what I tried:
Failed to download "Windows Support Software" as first step. Boot Camp Assistant stalls about halfway through "download."
Be patient. Read the hundreds of Windows Support Software posts. The download servers are notoriously slow. Keep trying.
Tried using the Install Windows option in Boot Camp Assistant. The Assistant will only create a FAT32 volume; Windows 7 need NTFS+.
Boot Camp Assistant does format the Boot Camp partition NTFS. You have not followed the Boot Camp Installation Guides. Select the Advanced menu option when you get to the part of the process about needed to format the drive. Make sure you select only the Boot Camp partition to be formatted. Boot Camp will automatically format it as NTFS.
Used a hack (NTFS-G3) to restore NTFS as an option in the Disk Utility. Partitioned the drive with an NTFS partition (216GB) called BOOTCAMP.
Use only Boot Camp Assistant to do the NTFS formatting.
Ran installer for Win 7 Home Premium, but cannot get it to complete because the installer can't control the restarts.
For now I've given up. What gives? Perhaps the iPhone market is sucking the life out of Apple computers. It's the first time I've had this experience with an Apple in 30 years of using their products.
Follow the Boot Camp Installation Guides.

Pairing with brand new 2008 bluetooth keyboard, Boot Camp 2.0

I have a very simple question. I've searched the forums and seen a lot of information about older versions of Boot Camp, old drivers, and a lot of problems. However, none of these answers have really helped.
I have a brand new Bluetooth keyboard - brand new, as in bought it last week.
I have a relatively new MacBook Pro. Relatively new, as in bought it six months ago.
The Bluetooth keyboard works stunningly well under OS X 10.5.4. I'm using it right now. It works. I don't want that to stop.
So the question: can I have the keyboard work under BOTH Windows XP (under boot camp) AND OS X?
I did try to see if I could make it work....
1. Reboot under XP (boot camp whatever the latest version is, I installed boot camp two weeks ago).
2. Select Control Panel - Bluetooth Devices
3. Check the box
4. Press button on right side of keyboard
5. Quickly press "next" button.
The first time I did this, the keyboard came up in the dialog box. It then asked me for a pass key, which I typed on my laptop's keyboard. I then tried typing the same pass key (my phone #) on the bluetooth keyboard and pressing Enter. The dialog box closed.
The keyboard did not work. At all.
Rebooted Windows. Keyboard still did not work. "Did not work" means did not register any key presses at all in the Notepad application.
The second time I tried steps 1-5 I got a different result. Instead of listing my keyboard, the Bluetooth wizard couldn't find a keyboard, or any nearby bluetooth devices.
So, if I 'un pair' the keyboard under OS X, and then 're pair' the keyboard under Windows, will I then need to 'un pair' the keyboard under Windows and then 're pair' it under OS X to make it work?

I paired my brand new Bluetooth keyboard (3 days old) with both the OSX and WinXP sides of my Mac Pro without a problem. I did OSX first and then Windows. On the Windows side it displayed a passkey but never gave me a chance to enter it on the keyboard. It just moved on to the next dialog screen and from then on it worked.

My new imac doesn't booting even my windows also giving blue screen error how i recover my datas please help me guys

my new imac was doesn't getting booting into osx mountain lion 10.8 and also in windows when i try to click on option key it shows only windows parition if i select that windows os getting bluescreen error this problem caused by when i'm using imac suddenly power went off so after that i'm trying it's not booting so if any option give solution for to recover the datas stored in imac please

A new Mac comes with 90 days of free tech support from AppleCare.
Why not make use of it?
1-800-275-2273
Best.

Built in Mic not working on Imac Windows 7 boot camp

I've been doing research and a lot of people seem to have problems with macbook pros mics not working for vista or XP. My current problem is on an Imac running Windows 7 32bit boot camp. The built in mic REFUSES to work be recognized or show any signs of picking up sounds. It won't work in Sound Recorder, Ventrillo or any program. Any help is appreciated if you need any more info let me know. Yes my mac is fully updated with both windows updates and mac updates.
-Nick.
Edit: I'm running an Imac Version 10.6.6 intel core 2 duo, 2.4GHz

Same Here... is there any solution? i have 64 bit windows 7 and still the same problem.. external mics don't work either!

New gen Mac Mini: Boot Camp install problems

I've got a new version Mac Mini that was just released, 4GB RAM, 250GB hard drive.
Fired up Boot Camp, and pressed the button offering a 32GB Windows partition.
It rebooted into my OEM XP Pro SP2 CD, and installed OK (as in it loaded the files).
The Mini then reboots, and dies with these 3 lines:
*Press any key to boot from CD.....*
*Disk error*
*Press any key to restart*
BTW, pressing any key does NOT restart anything. I have to use the power button to down it.
I popped out the XP boot CD by holding down the mouse, and then downed the system again.
Then I held down the Option key, which offers me the boot menu, and I selected Windows.
It then dies again with the bottom 2 lines.
I've tried removing the partition, and asking Boot Camp to make a 30GB partition.
Same end results (it takes awhile obviously to get to the failure).
Also tried a brand-new XP Pro SP3 install CD. Same results.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi Austra,
I figured it out last night, and you are correct, the default Windows install method will NOT work.
When XP first boots, it actually offers 5 choices, and the default is "Use this filesystem as-is without formatting". It will happily install, but that default choice does not write the MBR (master boot record) onto the disk. When you reboot again, the MBR isn't there, and the firmware halts. One little 512-byte sector keeps it from working.
Really, Apple should write a MBR onto that partition during the Boot Camp process, it wouldn't be all that much extra trouble.
- Tyler

I have a message on my iMac 24 says Boot Camp does not support 64-bit on this computer. how do i fix is?

I have a late 2009 iMac 24 that i downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on. When i tried to download Windows 7 Support, i got a message that says Boot Camp does support 64-bit on this computer. I do have Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit CD. What would be the easy way to fix this. Thanks

There is no OS X 5.0.5. If you can boot to OS X on your computer select About This Mac from the Apple menu. It will display the version you have installed.
I think the message meant you can only install 64-bit Windows 7.
Perhaps one of these will help you:
Mac Basics- Using Windows on your Mac with Boot Camp
Boot Camp- System requirements for Microsoft Windows operating systems
Boot Camp Help- Overview of Boot Camp setup
Boot Camp- Installing Windows 7 Frequently Asked Questions
Boot Camp 4, OS X Lion and Mountain Lion- Frequently asked questions

Migration Assistant crashed new iMac, won't boot

I bought a new i3 iMac and skipped the migration assistant initially. Things were going fantastic, I imported and built a new iTunes library, iPhoto library etc.
It is running 10.6.6.
Then last night I decided to use Migration Assistant to move things from old Intel MacBook (running 10.5.8). As the migration was going to be something like 20-30 GiG's, I unchecked everything except Applications, and a few select folders from each user account (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, Movies). Since one account had the same name as the account on my new iMac, I asked Migration Assistant to rename the old account. I then went to sleep.
When I woke up, iMac screen was black and would not wake up from sleep. Old MacBook tells me that the connection was dropped.
I had to depress power button to force shutoff. Upon restart, at the apple boot logo, all I get is a message saying the computer has to be restarted, which appears in multiple languages. There seems to be nothing I can do to get it to boot.
Help?

elvenkind wrote:
I bought a new i3 iMac and skipped the migration assistant initially. Things were going fantastic, I imported and built a new iTunes library, iPhoto library etc.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
That's likely a complication. You'll now have an extra user account with that stuff in it, and the account(s) you transfer won't have permission to it.
I had to depress power button to force shutoff. Upon restart, at the apple boot logo, all I get is a message saying the computer has to be restarted, which appears in multiple languages. There seems to be nothing I can do to get it to boot.
That's a *kernel panic.*
They are usually caused by hardware problems, but can be software.
Try running this: [Apple Hardware Test: iMac (Mid 2007) and later models|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1883]. Run the Extended tests.
and the (free) Rember, a heavy-duty memory tester, from: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/
If that doesn't help, start with this Apple article: [If “You need to restart your computer” appears|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8965.html].
Once you get it started, check the transferred user accounts; most likely, the transfer was incomplete, and you'll have to delete the partial accounts and run the Migration again.
If your Apps were only partially transferred, just select them again -- Migration Assistant will just skip any that already exist on the new Mac. The only problem you might have is if it was in the middle of transferring an app when it failed; in that case you may have a partial copy of the app.

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