Partitioning causing bootcamp problem? (x-post from bootcamp forum))

My boss's 17" MBP has 2 partitions - Mac OS (35 gb) and Vista (65 gb). The larger partition is formatted NTFS as it must be for Vista.
Attempting to revert to one partition via Bootcamp shows the "Restore the startup disk to a single volume" button grayed out and unavailable.
Verify disk and repair permissions run cleanly. The only thing of interest I can see on his system is that the internal hard disk is partitioned MBR. My iMac with XP is partitioned GUID. The boss is a little vague about the installation process he went through but is sure Bootcamp created the 65 GB partition onto which he installed Vista. Vista runs great, but he's done with the experiment and wants the disk space back.
First, why doesn't Bootcamp want to do this? Second, any suggestions short of cloning the Mac OS partition to an external device, reformatting the internal hard disk, and cloning back?
Thanks.
John

Hi Kappy,
Thanks for the comments. I didn't think an MBR-partitioned drive could boot the Mac OS, but here's a system doing it. Disk Utility: Select the disk (not either volume) -- DU says Partition Scheme: MBR partition table. An identical system that I bootcamped says GUID in the same place, as expected.
Since there's reason to believe that he repartitioned the drive (if not, how did he get it partitioned MBR?), it's entirely possible that bootcamp didn't create this partition, despite what he says. We are ready to clone to external, re-partition and reformat, and clone back.
Thanks,
John

Similar Messages

Problem with posting message in forum

This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hi dkpb,
The problem here was that IE9 at the time was incompatible with the forum software. That has since been fixed. What is your issue now? It helps if you describe your specific problem with posting so we can look into it for you.
SunshineF
Clicking the "Kudos star" to the left is a great way to say thanks!
When your problem has been solved, accept the solution by clicking the "Accept as Solution" button to help other members in the future!
Rules of Participation

Book printing - Unique Workflows? - Cross-Posted from Aperture forum

(Cross-posted. I think this post might be of interest to iPhoto users as well)
I am exploring the book printing features in Aperture. My goal was to build the book in Aperture and get this into iPhoto so that I could use MyPublisher to print the book. MyPublisher currently has a 50% off coupon for orders over $50. iPhoto needs their plugin to upload to MyPublisher instead of Apple when the BuyBook button is chosen. (code is MAC2550 - good though Dec 31). The design features in Aperture are rudimentary at best. It's simple to customize the design for photo placement, adding and deleting photos, resizing, etc. The type design features are not simple to customize, though. However, with patience a suitable design can be made. You can add and delete text boxes at will but these will always default to the template's built in style. I continually had to reformat the type by right clicking on the selected text and applying my preferred style. One trick when cutting and pasting text is to place the cursor one letter in from the beginning of a preformatted line, select the remaining text and paste - this will pick up the current style rather than default to the template default. Then delete the leftover first character of the line. From Aperture I printed the book to PDF, being sure to choose letter size and borderless paper option. Once book is printed to PDF I opened in Acrobat and "saved as" to PNG. In the PNG options I chose 600ppi (the default of 300ppi might have been just fine for quality, not sure). Saving to PNG creates an individual file for each page. In testing Apple's Preview software for this I found it would make a nice PNG - but of just one page at a time. I then imported all PNG pages into iPhoto. Within iPhoto create a book. I used "Modern Lines" with double sided pages. To create the cover (it's actually a label that is adhered to the linen hard cover book) I had to import the actual cover photo used in Aperture to recreate a new design based on the "Modern Lines" template. I then recreated my pages using the template. The key step being to assign the single photo page design for each page. For each page I dropped in the corresponding PNG file which included all type and images created previously in Aperture. One minor point when adjusting the placed PNG images in the iPhoto template is the option to fit photo to frame size (an option when right clicking on the photo). When fit photo is selected the image gets resized very slightly. I opted not to use this feature as I thought the resizing might compromise quality. I then clicked on the "buy book" button and the file was assembled and sent to MyPublisher. Since I had the 50% coupon I opted for the leather bound book option and ordered two 24 page books for $53.74 which included $9.98 standard FedEx fee. As for quality I'll have to wait and see. I'll post back once books are in hand.

It is important to realize there are two aspects to an index.
1) Topics
2) Page References
Topics have no relation to the text of the actual document. Topics can
be imported from one InDesign document to another. Also, creating topics
from a list of text is trivial. Just type all the words (or place them
from a text document or Word doc) and then press Ctrl+A to select all of
them and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[, then delete the text.
Page references, however are not as simple. These have to be created at
each place in the text where you want the page to be referenced it the
index. This *can* in fact be done Word if you are using the text from
the Word document.
What you really have to watch out for is that when you want to create a
page reference you have the "Reference" radio button selected in the
index panel. Otherwise you will just be creating a topic. It is best to
work with hidden characters turned on so you can see and make sure
InDesign created an index marker in the text after you created your page
reference.

Problem getting mail from Adobe Forums

Does anyone have any idea what is going on with this problem:
I am subscribed to certain forums under my mac.com email. But I don't get those emails on my MacBook Pro.
However, I do get those messages on my iPad and iPhone.
The only way I have been able to get forum messages has been to sign in under a gmail account and subscribe.
I just spoke to my Internet Service Provider (Time Warner) and they say they are not blocking the forum messages.
Is there something in the header of the forum mail that keeps it from getting through to my mail program on OS X?

Could there be a "spam filter" on the MacBook Pro, that is catching those Adobe e-mails - one that does not exist on your other devices?
Good luck,
Hunt

Posting from a non-BT address on the new client

I've this week been migrated to the new BT email client.
I'm having a problem about posting from a non-BT address. In the past using BT, I had no problems.
I have an email address/domain (managed by FreeParking) that I've used for very many years as my public persona. In the past with BT, I haven't had any problem about sending from that address, but now I can't.
I can still receive messages from the address because they are redirected by FreeParking.
I have tried to set up an account for this address. This works in the sense that the account appears in the left-side menu under my main account. However, if I click on it I get a 'Selected Account [xxxxx] is unavailable'. If I use the server 'mail.btinternet.com' under a POP setting, I get that message and a 'Loading Data, please wait' followed by a 'your session has expired. Please log in again to continue'.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Chris

I have a similar problem as Chris.
I've just spent half an hour attaching some images of the problem only to be told that my post cannot be more than 20,000 characters. It wasn't. I've started again.
I have a GoDaddy account which I've set up in BT Mail. The connection is working as it shows how many messages I have in that mail box but the messages just won't open. The page eventually times out.
The hotmail account won't work at all, it gives me the same message as Chris

Allowing access to select few public objects (moved from Native forum)

I am moving my posting from Java Forums > Fundamentals > Key Classes > Native forum to this one. Sorry for posting it on the wrong forum earlier. Before each reply I have added a lien for clarity.
Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: COOLNM Posts: 5 Registered: 12/21/05
Dec 21, 2005 9:59 AM
I am developing a java application. I need to provide some scripting support (using Jython or Rhino) to my application so that the user can better use my application. Now the problem is I just want a select few public objects to be accesible via scripts and not all public objects I have written internally. I read somewhere that class name and code obfuscation could be a option but not a full proof solution. Can anyone suggest how a full proof solution can be achieved? Would running the script interpreter in seperate JVM help (and propogate the calls to the original JVM) ? Would a custom class loader help? Please suggest.
Thanks,
COOLNM
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: IanSchneider Posts: 1,381 Registered: 10/26/00
Dec 21, 2005 10:14 AM (reply 1 of 10)
I read somewhere that class name and code obfuscation could be a option but not a full proof solution.Correct, someone could still can call obfuscated methods.
Would running the script interpreter in seperate JVM help (and propogate the calls to the original JVM) ?No.
Would a custom class loader help? Possibly depending upon how the interpreter dispatches calls.
Can anyone suggest how a full proof solution can be achieved?With jython, you could write custom PyObject subclasses (or general java facade classes) to expose only the methods you want to. The former technique allows more cool scripting functionality, the latter would presumably work in other interpreters. This would have to be done for every object you want to expose.
Alternatively, you could enable a SecurityManager and allow only trusted code to invoke yours.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: COOLNM Posts: 5 Registered: 12/21/05
Dec 21, 2005 9:36 PM (reply 2 of 10)
I read somewhere that class name and codeobfuscation could be a option but not a full proof
solution.
Correct, someone could still can call obfuscated
methods.
Would running the script interpreter in seperate JVMhelp (and propogate the calls to the original JVM) ?
No.Could you please explain why this wouldn't work?
The plan is:
Let say I have 2 public objects A & B and I want the user to only use A via their scripts.
In JVM1: I use both A & B
In JVM2: I write a psuedo A and not B. For all the methods of A, I propogate the calls to JVM1 (I think this is achievable but not sure how)
The script interpreter runs on JVM2.
Now if the user tries to access A then the call would go to JVM1 but if he tries to access B then there is no B available in JVM2 so the user cant access B.
I know this method could be heavy as each call would have to go from JVM1 to JVM2.
By sepeate JVMs I mean seperate instance of java.
>
Would a custom class loader help? Possibly depending upon how the interpreter
dispatches calls.
Can anyone suggest how a full proof solution can beachieved?
With jython, you could write custom PyObject
subclasses (or general java facade classes) to expose
only the methods you want to. The former technique
allows more cool scripting functionality, the latter
would presumably work in other interpreters. This
would have to be done for every object you want to
expose.
Alternatively, you could enable a SecurityManager and
allow only trusted code to invoke yours.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: allquixotic Posts: 12 Registered: 12/19/05
Dec 22, 2005 5:09 AM (reply 3 of 10)
RMI has a way for multiple JVMs to communicate programmatically; you could also use sockets on the loopback network device (localhost). These techniques are how mature Java products constrain their number of running instances to a finite number (usually 1), they terminate any starting JVM early in the initialization procedures of the main method if the "already-running test" indicates one is running.
If you use the networking method, you could basically read from a ServerSocket on the "executing" JVM, while the "scripting" JVM writes to a Socket. Then use reflection in the executing (server) side to determine if the method or object being referenced is one you want to expose. If not, do something -- like write back to the client that the method invocation was invalid. Reflection will slow down your code a lot though, so I don't recommend it for apps that already take up 50 megs or more of RAM ;)
Regards,
Sean
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: IanSchneider Posts: 1,381 Registered: 10/26/00
Dec 22, 2005 9:05 AM (reply 4 of 10)
Would running the script interpreter in seperate JVMhelp (and propogate the calls to the original JVM) ?
No.
Could you please explain why this wouldn't work?It could work. I said no because the other methods are better - easier to implement and vastly more performant without wasting resources.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: COOLNM Posts: 5 Registered: 12/21/05
Dec 23, 2005 12:48 AM (reply 5 of 10)
Ya, the seperate JVM approach seems complex and might not be fully achievable.
Can someone give small code snippets on how the method level control be achieved using Java SecurityManager. Just a recap on what I am trying to achieve -
A & B are two public objects defined internally by my app.
I have to give the user of my app the ability to write some code. But only B
is to be exposed to client and not A.
Let say I have this code -
Object A = Interpreter.InitializeEngine(..);
A.executeFromUser(stdin);
The user mostly uses some scripting language, say Python and the Interpreter
is Jython. Now my Interpreter is capable of understanding calls to Java
objects from Python. If the user tries to access B via the scripts then it
should be allowed to do so but access to A should not be allowed via the
scripting language.
Thanks,
Neeraj
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: bschauwejava Posts: 721 Registered: 1/13/04
Dec 26, 2005 2:13 PM (reply 6 of 10)
What you probably want is to give the user access to an interface - not a class - that only exposes the methods that you want to expose.
This is the way all RMI APIs are exposed to client programs.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: bschauwejava Posts: 721 Registered: 1/13/04
Dec 26, 2005 2:16 PM (reply 7 of 10)
Just one more comment. You haven't said very much about the runtime model of the scripting environment vs your java environment. How many processes do you expect to have running to make the system work? Are you expecting your java code to wind up in a jar file and get loaded by the Python process? Or are you planning on the java code executing in a separate process? If the latter, then RMI is probably your best bet.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: COOLNM Posts: 5 Registered: 12/21/05
Dec 27, 2005 4:20 AM (reply 8 of 10)
I haven't finalized on the runtime model yet as the scripting security issue is still not resolved. But I am sure that the java app code would init and run the scripting code and not the other way round. The app is pretty huge with heavy UI. Ya, the java code would be wrapped in jars (but mostly not in a single jar as I dont want the jar to be too hefty).
Can someone comment on the use of SecurityManager in this case. My initial investigation shows that the objective on implementing method level security can't be implemented by this.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: IanSchneider Posts: 1,381 Registered: 10/26/00
Dec 27, 2005 9:14 AM (reply 9 of 10)
My initial reply suggested writing a facade in java or by subclass PyObject. I highly recommend this path for ease of development, use, and runtime performance.
Given that you don't understand the basics of java security, I will recommend this again.
Re: Allowing access to select few public objects
Author: COOLNM Posts: 5 Registered: 12/21/05
Dec 27, 2005 11:33 PM (reply 10 of 10)
I have started investigating on facade in java and subclassing PyObject. But I am not sure how these would resolve the primary issue. Even if I use these and if the script writer knows that there is a public class, say XYZ in my app then he can always access that class directly skipping my subclassed PyObject or the Java facade. Or am I missing something here?

I have started investigating on facade in java and subclassing PyObject. But I am not sure
how these would resolve the primary issue. Even if I use these and if the script writer knows
that there is a public class, say XYZ in my app then he can always access that class directly
skipping my subclassed PyObject or the Java facade. Or am I missing something here?Presumably your objects are somehow connected to the application. Your user could do something like:
from com.foo import Player
p = Player()
p.setGold(Integer.MAX_VALUE)But of course the new Player object would not be part of the game. Now if you have some kind of static/singleton game state, then the malicious user could insert the Player into the game model...
The real trick lies in understanding how to setup the jython interpreter. If your interpreter classloader can only load facade classes (and system classes) then the client script could not load other classes. There is also a hook for the import keyword so you could disallow importing java classes. Each interpretor instance has the ability to setup the locals and globals for the session so you can insert live game objects.
I am only familiar with jythons internals, so this may or may not be applicable to rhino.

Viewing OSX partition from Bootcamp

After partitioning my Hard drive (post installing my bootcamp partition), I was unable to boot from my Bootcamp partition. Which was fixed by following the instructions in this thread. After launching my bootcamp partition again I was unable to view my OSX and Storage partitions whilst on my windows partition.
sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=320072933376; sectorsize=512; blocks=625142448
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 625142447
      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 294655544      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
295065184    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
296334720        640
296335360 135448576      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
431783936 193357824      5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
625141760        655
625142415         32         Sec GPT table
625142447          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 38913/255/63 [625142448 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 431783935] <Unknown ID>
*2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 431783936 - 193357824] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

Right, so the problem is that the MBR only contains the Windows partition, therefore Windows only sees itself. To fix this, you'd use gdisk to create a new hybrid MBR. Go to the recovery menu, r, create new hybrid MBR, h. And then follow the questions: yes to EFI GPT being first in the MBR; add partitions 2 4 5. Accept default type code hex values by just hitting enter when asked, and do not make 2 or 4 bootable, do make 5 bootable.
So the problem with this layout is that partition 3, Recovery HD, can't be added to the MBR. Therefore it appears to Windows as unallocated free space and is open game for being modified, erased, whatever. Which is why a 5 partition layout isn't recommended or supported and also has no meaningful advantage. But I'd fix it as suggested and just leave it alone until you have full backups of both environments and you're ready to do a major upgrade and blow everything away and start from scratch at that time. It's a fairly low risk that Recovery HD gets broken by Windows. And it's sort of risky to try to get rid of this extra partition you created, to go back to a 4 partition layout.

Solving bootcamp problems after partition

hey guys,
recently i got struck in a bootcamp problem,
this occurred when i installed b-e-t-a of recent os x 'ten' public,
bootcamp icon was not visible in alt-option boot drive selection
panel, but it was visible in startup disk in system preferences,when
i select windows as startup disk a screen saying "no bootable disk
insert and press any key..." used to appear, but later when i found
this Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partitionBy MacTavish_10, July 25, 2014
i solved it to a point in which i can make windows or bootcamp
icon appear in alt-option panel,but when i try to boot into it,
underscore starts blinking continuously but no windows starts booting.
please help....
macbook pro mid 2012, 500gb hd, windows 8.1, os x 9.4 to 10 b-e -t-a

The Apple Bootcamp implementation uses a Hybrid MBR, which has a limit of 4 partitions. OSX utilities use GPT, while Windows uses MBR scheme.
When you installed you-know-what, it removed the Hybrid MBR and put the entire disk into a Protective MBR as your fdisk shows.
Option 1.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Erase your disk, and re-store from 2 and re-install Windows.
Option 2.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using Winclone. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Erase your disk, and re-store from 2 and re-install Windows via Winclone.
Option 3.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Please remove you-know-what from your system, and the corresponding GPT partitions.
4. Create a new Hybrid MBR, with appropriate information and bring up Windows, using Startup Repair, if necessary.
Option 4.
1. Backup your Windows partition to an external disk using OSX side. You may not be able to use it again.
2. Please backup your Mavericks side via Time Machine.
3. Create a new Hybrid MBR (different from Option 3), with appropriate information and bring up Windows, using Startup Repair, if necessary.

Windows 7 Bootcamp problem?

Hello people,
Let me start from the beginning. I have been trying to make a bootcamp partition on my iMac mid 2007 to run windows 7 on. This has been a very bumpy road so far and now I'm stuck at a bump. So far, this is what all I have done:
1. Use bootcamp support to create a bootcamp partition.
2. Install windows 7 from disk.
This is where it gets bumpy. At the completing installation portion of this, my screen goes black, and doesn't return. Easy enough, its probably a driver problem. So I
3. Restart and boot to CD into repair my computer.
4. Go to command prompt, and issue the command DEL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ATIKMDAG.SYS
5. Restart. Says "Preparing computer for first time use."
Good from here right? WRONG. New error message: The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Press OK to restart and restart installation. After some searching, turns out a quick registry fix can solve this problem.
6. Press shift+f10 to open CMD. issue command regedit.
7. Go to the setup part of the registry (HKeyLocalMachine/System/Setup/Status/ChildCompletion) change the value from 3 to 1.
8. Restart. Setup continues, finishes, boots into Windows 7 and 800x600 resolution.
9. I go to screen resolution, and change it to max, and it works. Everything is great almost.
Now, remember that atikmdag.sys file I had to delete to get the setup to reappear instead of that black screen? Well turns out, with that file gone, my computer now reads my graphics driver as corrupt or as having a problem, preventing many games and applications from booting up without giving a graphics card error. THIS is where I am stuck now. If atikmdag.sys is a vital file to the driver for the graphics card, how can I keep it where it is, but still boot up without a black screen? Reinstalling my video driver or reinstalling the bootcamp drivers cause the black screen or blue screen of death, so I have to delete that .sys file again to boot correctly. But without this .sys file, it seems my computer will always throw the corrupt/problem error at me?
Let me say, I have tried to download the catalyst drivers and use the atikmdag.sy_ file from there and issue the command "expand.exe atikmdag.sy_ atikmdag.sys" to make a new sys file for it, and this works and it boots with the file, but device management then throws the error that all of the packages arent signed correctly and refuses to boot the driver at all. Any help?
Cheers, Adam

easy enough, just confirm that you have no other usb devices connected to your mac
where is your current w7 disk from? we're going to make a new one unless you tell me its a retail disk
dl a fresh w7 iso from below and google bootable iso disk on osx for steps
http://techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/
open boot camp assistant and if you have an option to delete/remove windows, do that
open disk utility and confirm that you only have 1 partition ('mac hd' unless you've renamed it), if not you need to get back to 1 partition

HELP! How can i restore/recover files from Bootcamp with Boot Failure - Missing operating system error?

Hi,
I am having a few problems with bootcamp on my imac. When i tried to move the bootcamp partition on windows 7 into free space, it crashed and turned off. Ever since i have had the error 'Missing operating system' and it fails to boot. I have some very important files on the bootcamp partition. Is it possible to recover these files or even to restore the bootcamp partition to it's original state? I do not have a backup of my bootcamp partition. Another problem i have is that ever since i tried to expand my macintosh HD partition into free space, when i hold alt while booting up (to choose which partition to boot like i normally do), the bootcamp partition has stopped appearing. This means that i cannot even boot the windows 7 bootcamp partition anymore!
So basically here are my 2 questions:
How can i restore/recover files from Bootcamp with Boot Failure - Missing operating system error?
How can i make the Bootcamp partition appear in Startup Disk and when i hold the option key while starting up my computer to allow me to boot windows 7?
Any solutions are very much apreciated!
Thanks!
I know that bootcamp (disk0s4) hasn't been fully deleted since it appears in disk utility (i cant do anything to it though)
And here is the error i see when i try to launch bootcamp (back when i was actually able to boot up bootcamp to the error screen)

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with bootcamp 3.3 on my Imac 2011. I need to updgrade to mountain lion. If I first upgrade to mountain lion, how do I go about upgrading from bootcamp 3.3 to latest bootcamp for mountain lion?

I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with bootcamp 3.3 on my Imac 2011. I need to updgrade to mountain lion. If I first upgrade to mountain lion, how do I go about upgrading from bootcamp 3.3 to latest bootcamp for mountain lion?
I have seen a lot of discussions upgrading from Boot Camp 4 to 5 but no answers upgrading from boot camp 3.3 to 5. My worry is that if I upgrade from snow leopard to mountain lion, that my bootcamp partition will no longer be able to boot up. There seem to be a lot of threads suggesting problems that are possible. Has anyone gone through this upgrade with success?

Before doing any installation restart OSX from your 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD and use Disk Utility to Both Repair The Disk and Repair the Permissions of your Macintosh HD.
Next remove your Snow Leopard DVD and restart your iMac into OSX.
Update to the latest version of OS X Snow Leopard by clicking the Apple icon and choose Software Update to install Snow Leopard v10.6.8, the latest version.
Use Time Machine to make a Full Backup of your Macintosh HD.
Shut down and restart into Windows by holding the Option key at the chime and selecting Windows.
Now use Windows Backup to make a Full Image Backup of your Windows Installation to a removable drive.
Shut Down and Boot back into OSX.
Open the Mac App Store from your Dock to buy and download Mountain Lion. Then follow the onscreen instructions to install it.
Upgrading your OSX to 10.8 should not effect the Windows Partition at all since you are only upgrading the Mac side. You should not have to run the Boot Camp Assitant 5 Utility in OSX at all.
Your Boot Camp 3.3 Windows Support Drivers et. al only effect your Windows installation and should continue to run fine after upgrading.
Which version of Windows do you already have installed on the existing Boot Camp Partition?
Is it 32 bit or 64 bit?

Installing Windows 10 with Bootcamp problem?

I've been trying to install Windows 10 Technical Preview for a while now jumping through loads of hoops with no luck. Keep in mind that I've had various versions of windows and ubuntu on both of my SSDs in the past.
Here's a look at my set up:
Macbook Pro mid 2012
Two 256GB SSD's
32GB Flash drive
Windows 10 iso from microsoft
I have tried to make the USB from Bootcamp, then install through bootcamp. It formats the SSD, then restarts the computer. Although, the computer boots up into a black screen with a blinking underscore. If I hold option, I see two options from the USB. "Windows" and "EFI Boot" If I press the Windows partition on the USB from the boot selection, I get back to the black screen with a blinking underscore. If I press the "EFI Boot" option, it brings me to the normal set up screen. After I click advanced setup, and click my drive to install, I can't click the next button. Of course I format the drive, but still no luck. It comes up with an error saying that the drive is an MBR format and needs to be in GPT. ("The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only installed on GPT disks.") I tried going through the repair option and going into the command prompt while typing the "Bootrec.exe /Fixboot" without any luck of it fixing the issue. I also tried making the USB drive through windows and back onto my Mac, no luck either. Currently I'm downloading a Windows 8.1 iso to see if I can install this, then upgrade through bootcamp. Only problem is that this will take a while. Do any of you guys have any suggestions I might have missed? I'll update this constantly with how the windows 8 install then upgrade goes, but until then, what do you guys think?

I solved my issue. The method I used was a combination of other methods I found on the internet.
1.) Went back into Mac os X and opened Disk Utility
2.) Clicked on my SSD I was going to install windows onto
3.) Went to the partition tab and selected one partition, then changed the format to free space and hit apply
4.) I booted back into the windows installation EFI
5.) Got back to the part where you choose your drive still getting an error
6.) I then hit "Shift + F10" to open command prompt, and typed this in:
"diskpart"
Found my drive by typing "list disk" (In my case, it was Disk 0)
"Select disk 0" (Or what ever your drive is, probably 0)
"clean all" Let it sit and do it's job for about 15 minutes
Closed command prompt, still might give an error
7.) Restarted computer and went back into the EFI installation
8.) Allowed me to format, then hit next like normal!
Everything is working fine for me after installing the Bootcamp drivers except for audio. I've tried installing it through the compatibility options, still nothing. Do any of you guys know any way to fix the audio issue with Windows 10?

Problem in updating the bootcamp 3.1 version

I am using win7 in MacBook Pro, when the "Apple Software Update" programme turn on automatically, it shown that i have a "Boot Camp Update" version 3.1. I have try more than 10times, to update and install it, but when next time i switch on my com, the system pomp out again the same meassage to me to ask me update the same version 3.1 of Boot Camp Update.
I tried to manually download the BootCamp 3.1 from apple download site, but it occur path issue, which system cant find "F:\516\Drivers\Apple\"...
I have uninstall the Kaspersky anti virus, but still the same problems. I m using 32-bit win7.
This problems already more than half year, can someone help ?

Check to see under device manager if you have more than one display adapter installed.
Uninstall, if any other than the Mac original display adapter is shown, that should fix your problem.
LogMeIn for example installs an additional display driver.
You can reinstall it after you applied the driver update.
Also download the orginal .exe file from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/#boot%20camp and place it in a newly-made empty folder like f:\download (if F: is your Windows 7 partition) and run the .exe file from there.
Hope that I don't need to hint that you have to run with Administrator rights, do I ?
Stefan

Bootcamp problems help!

I used bootcamp once with windows vista. I took it off after a while because vista took up too much space. Now I have Guitar Hero III for windows and want to install windows xp to see if it will work. However, when I went to install it with boot camp, it appeared as if the partitioning step of the process froze. I left it for about 30 minutes with no progress. So I used CMD+Q to quit bootcamp. When I started the wizard back up, it said I had two partitions, each -2147483648GB large. It won't let me drag the slider or anything. When I tell it to partition, it thinks for a while then generates an error message telling me to repair the disk. I stuck the OS X disc in and ran the disc utility off of it. It said it found a minor error in the header and fixed it. I reboot and came back to the same bootcamp problem. I wouldn't bother me so much, but the space I originally told it to use for the windows partition of bootcamp is now missing. In disk utility I have one partition with 111.5 GB capacity, 10.7GB available and 89.2GB used, that leaves a missing 10 GB!

This forum is for troubleshooting issues with OS X, not Windows or Boot Camp.
You should post your question in the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

Windows 7 disappear from bootcamp after maverick installation

Windows 7 disappear from bootcamp after maverick installation. What should I do to recover?
I did try co reinstall windows but it make the installation new (nothing remain from the previous). Old windows partition seems lost.

Hi Jack.........ok ive managed to create a link to that video on how to install bootcamp.....this is the tutorial i used and i managed to gain 100% completion on bootcamp 1st time no messing......like i said in my previous reply did you save the windows support files from apple....(Critical).....ok no point in messing about i suggest you start again from scratch........these are the things i used and YOU will need to complete bootcamp
mem stick or cd-r / dvd-r......original copy disc of win 7 ...i never used an iso i used original disc....allow a minimum of 30gb of space for your win 7 partition.....if you want bootcamp so you can use big programs like windows based games i.e.....Crysis/Call of duty etc etc ..then you will need to consider that you will need to allow a bigger partition to allow your HD to store the files.....this is the reason i installed bootcamp and so i made my partition i have a 750GB HD so i made a partition of 300gb for windows 7 and left the other 450gb for Mac....so you need to partition enough for what you want bootcamp for remember once you get bootcamp working you will need to install ALL Important Windows updates Including Win 7 SP1......once everything is installed you will have bootcamp up and running lovely.....u can then boot up with either win7 or mac......click this link and watch carefully and do exactly as shown ok and you should be fine...if you have any probs contact me again ok.....let me know how you get on ok..:)...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=QFIWtXTl4d0&NR=1

Partitioning causing bootcamp problem? (x-post from bootcamp forum))

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for