PC imput to iMac

When my nephew gifted us the iPod classic, he downloaded all the songs from his PC. I want to add songs from my iMac, but the system tells me that I will erase all the PC downloaded songs, if I use the iMac. How do I get around this problem?

Your iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time. It will recognize the iTunes library on the Mac as a new library. If you sync the iPod with this new library, all content will be erased from the iPod and replaced with what is in the new library. So what you will want to do is copy everything from the iPod to your new iTunes library on your Mac first.
See this excellent user tip from another forum member turingtest2 outlining the different methods and software available to help you copy content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
B-rock

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Connecting iMAC mini to HDMI imput of my monitor

I have an 22'' Asus monitor with 3 inputs (VGA, DVI and HDMI) and connecting my iMAC mini to DVI input (through HDMI->DVI adapter) all works perfectly. But connecting it directly to HDMI input of my monitor, using HDMI-HDMI cable - the image is very unclear: especially this is remarkable for texts...
Any idea?

dumitru wrote:
I have an 22'' Asus monitor with 3 inputs (VGA, DVI and HDMI) and connecting my iMAC mini to DVI input (through HDMI->DVI adapter) all works perfectly. But connecting it directly to HDMI input of my monitor, using HDMI-HDMI cable - the image is very unclear: especially this is remarkable for texts...
Any idea?
My guess maybe that when you connect via the DVI port on the Asus, the Mac mini is correctly detecting the resolutin and setting it self to match. However when connecting via HDMI it is not chosing the same (best) resolutuon. Can you do the following to help diagnose this.
On the Mac open System Preferences
Select Displays
Make sure show in menu bar is enabled (ticked)
Now go to the Displays menu in the menu bar it should show the current resolution
Repeat step 4 for both the DVI and HDMI connections, we want to see if they are the same or different.

Video out from G3 iMac

I have a G3 iMac that I would like to donate to my church to use to run their Powerpoint slides.
How can I get some kind of composite video output? I see not suitable ports.

It's not clear but since you're running Tiger I feeling this is at least a Slot Loader < 350 MHz.
Are you sure that the projector won't accept VGA imputs. If your iMac is one that has the VGA port that would be the way to do it.
The problem I've had lately is the refresh rate. Some of the older projectors only took 60Hz.
Richard

No Audio imput

How do I connect my electric guitar to my iMac md093ll//a 21.5 in. without an audio imput?

Hi, maybe an iMic?
http://store.griffintechnology.com/imic

Problems Importing LPs and other recorded music to my iMac

Hi All
I am trying to import my vinyl LPs and other music to my iMac using my JVC MIDI System with a record dec attached. The only output connection is for a standard jackplug (headphone) socket, other than the cable connection point for stereo speakers (at the rear of the system). I was sold a standard cable with a jackplug at either end and told that by connecting this to the input side of my Mac it should work. This does not seem to regognise any form of imput from my MIDI system can anybody help please!
Thanks in advance.

Hi Martin
Thanks for your response I have only used this forum once before and wasn't tosure what details where relevant. I am also not sure if I can provide answers to all your questions but will do my best;-
It would help if you tell us the exact make & model of the equipment you are using.
Your Mac? -IMac 11,1
What JVC MIDI system? Unfortunately it is an old system now and I don't appear to have kept the manual. It is a JVC COMPACT COMPONENT MD SYSTEM MX-MD9R R-D-S EON.
What "record dec?" Actually, what do you mean by "record dec" in the first place? Do you mean yourturntable? It is an AIWA PX-E800 turntable which i connect and play through the aux side of the JVC system
Is your JVC MIDI system capable of providing the RIAA EQ for vinyl LP's? dont know
What software are you using on your Mac to do the recordings? ITunes 11.0.2
In general, I wouldn't use a MIDI device for recording analog audio. They weren't intended for that purpose.
Thanks for your help Paul

RE: Buying a new imac,, is it worth it?

I'm thinking about getting an imac with a 27 in screen, I have a g5 now but it's starting to wear out. I only use my computer to write music. Will the IMac be a good computer for me? Thanks for all your impute. George

George,
I'd recommend you look over Apple's web page of why you'll love a Mac.
http://www.apple.com/why-mac/faq/
Most everyone here are already Mac owners that love their Macs. If you have an Apple Store in your area I'd recommend dropping by, they can help answer specific questions you have and steer you to the correct Mac for your needs.
Regards,
Roger

Please help Apple community!!!! We had the iphoto icon set up on our iMac which stored over 4000 photos of our grandson sin he was a baby till 5yrs. Unfortunately my niece manage to loose this icon from the side bar and we have been unable to find it. Ple

Question!
We had the iphoto icon loaded in our sidebar and we have lost this icon along with over 4000 photos.
How can we find this icon with all our photos? And are we able to retrive them!

Hey Ralph and the rest,
I really appreciate everyone's imput for our original post so far and was hoping to have some positive news for y'all but unfortunately we are unable to retrive these photos from anywhere.
We have tried to retrive the icon in Finder and Applications but have been unsuccessful. We also
tried looking for the icon in every application within the imac but unfortunately still no success.
I know we would've, should've, could've but we never and this is the result of loosing all these precious
photos.
If anyone has any other ideas other than taking it to the experts we would greatly greatly appreciate this.
Regards
Desperate!!!!

Wi-fi on iMac not working, but works on other laptops

Hi there,
I've recently moved back home with my new iMac, and when I went to try to set up wi-fi on it for the first time, it didn't work. I received a message that "Wi-fi has the self-assigned IP address ____ and will not be able to connect to the internet.". I don't understand why it's not working when I'm currently typing this from my macbook pro which connects perfectly fine, as well as my iPhone, and my parents laptops as well. The wi-fi worked perfectly fine at my old placres
I've tried resetting my modem and router, restarting my computer, turning wi-fi on and off, deleting the keychain access for the network, and tons of other suggested solutions but to no avail. I also just tried manually imputting my IP and that told me it connected, but the network icon still showed an exclamation mark, and I wasn't able to load any websites.
Needless to say, I'm extremely frustrated about this, and nothing seems to work. Are there any other solutions I can try? I really don't know what would be causing this.

When you see an exclamation point in the Wi-Fi menu, from the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Network
Click the Assist me button and select Assistant. Follow the prompts. You may get a warning that Wi-Fi is not available, that you're too far from the base station, or that you're using the wrong password.
Assuming that you've ruled out those possibilities, click the lock icon in the lower left corner of the preference pane and authenticate, if necessary. From the Location menu at the top of the window, select Edit Locations. A sheet will drop down. Click the plus-sign button to create a new location. Give it any name you want. In the new location, set up the Wi-Fi service with the same settings you used before. Click Apply and test.

Which 17" iMac C2D for a Gamer, particularly WoW

Hi Folks:
I am trying to decide which 17" iMac to get my son. His computer is really feeling its age and it's time to get replaced. I am looking at the 17" iMac and trying to decide between the 1.83 Ghz and the 2.0 Ghz. Here's the big issue -- he's really into WoW. Here's my big issue, about $200 difference between the two.
Is there any real benefit in getting the the 2.0 Ghz for a guy really into gaming? Yes, it has more RAM and a different video card, along with a Superdrive. But does he need it for WoW because the other than that, it's basically just homework?
I guess the "bottom line" question for me is--Is the 1.83Ghz with the Intel GMA 950 graphics sufficient for WoW and other games? Or do I really need to go with the 2.0 Ghz?
Any imput or advice would be grately appreciated...
Thanks in Advance,
Anne
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) iMac, iBook, iPod and all things Apple

I looked again -- both the 17" 2.0Ghz and the 20" 2.16 Ghz iMac C2D's have the same ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of GDDR3 SDRAM graphics card. The 20" is upgradable to 256 SDRAM but it appears to be the same card. Yes?
So, basically at the very least I need the 17" 2.0 Ghz with the ATI Radeon X1600 card?
Thanks In Advance...
Anne

Alesis mixer w/usb: sound pref. shows devise but won't imput

I have an alesis usb8. When I tried us it with my imac, my sound pref. recog. the usb imput, but will not allow the the info to pass to my cubase prog. or my gar.band. The only thing I get is a high freq. pitch sound. I have tested the cables and the mixer at the music store and everything checks out ok.Everyone I have talked to, thinks it may be a hard drive prob. Help! Can't afford a big bench fee.

My bad on the version. I do have 10.3.9. All cables are ok, I have tried @ lest 6 diff. ones. As far as the sound pref. is concerned,usb imput shows up but will not but recv. the signal from the mixer. I don't find midi file info any where in the settings.

Need to rescue a found Graphite iMac!

Here's what happened, I saw a slot loading Graphic iMac by the side of the road. It was thrown out with the bulk trash. It was too beautiful not to pass up, so I grabbed it and took it home. It was raining, so I let it air out for four days. It had a 500 mg and 128 mg ram chips. I took the 500 mg ram chip and put it in my turquoise iMac. My ram is now at 1 gig and works fine.
I finally got the courage to start up the found iMac. After re-seating the ram with two 128 mg chips, it started up! It opened with system 9.2. (Any personal files and programs had been deleted)I tried to see if I could get it to start from a USB hard drive, but that did not work. Then I made the error of having it start up from system X. Now the sign in box comes up, and of course I don't have the pass word to get in. Any ideas of what I can do?
Here is what I have. Graphite iMac 400 mhz 512K 2ea 128 mg Ram chips, 13 gig hard drive,DVD, 56K modem? 2 firewire imputs, 2 USB imputs, 1 ethernet imput.
I also have a LaCie DVD/CD read/writeable player with firewire.
Disc welcome toTiger Mac OS X v 10.4
Disc iMac software install for DV models
Disc iMac software restore for DV models
Mac OS 10.2 discs
I tried starting with iMac with the Lacie drive attached and the welcome to Tiger DVD and with the "C" pressed but that did not work.

You need to figure out the level of your firmware before installing 10.2 or greater. ( The PC name for firmware is BIOS. ) Installing 10.2 with a down level firmware will most likely make your iMac unusable and difficult to fix.
Figuring out what level of firmware you have?
1) Mac OS 9.x or 8.x, you need to use the Apple System Profiler.
Apple -> Apple System Profiler
2) Mac OS X, use the System Profiler.
Apple -> About This Mac
click on the More Info... tab
click on Hardware
read the Boot ROM Version
3) Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down commandoption+of
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
On my machine, I have 4.1.9f1.
What firmware do you need?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
For a slot loading iMac, this article indicates that you need to be running 9.1 or later version of Mac OS Classic.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130
"The iMac Firmware Update 4.1.9 will only run on iMac computers with lot-loading CD or DVD drives running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local drive. If you are using Mac OS X you must boot from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD, or network disk) prior to following the update instructions."
You can download the Mac OS 9 updates from the Apple site.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387?viewlocale=en_US
For tiger, you need 256meg of memory.
This information does not apply to accounts that have filevault. I do not believe that you can change the password to a filevault account with in these methods.
Overview on how to fix password problems
Try running repair permissions and check for file integrity in disk utility. You do this from your startup disk. Try resetting the password by using the passswd or try deleting the .applesetupdone file. If this doesn't work, you are going to have to trash the netinfo database. Once you get logged on, you will need to re-access your data.
Disk Utility
This article deals with disk recovery, it will tell you how to get to disk utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
Change Password
Mac OS X:
Changing or resetting an account password via GUI:
Resetting a user's password
Resetting the original administrator account password
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156
You do not have a CD/DVD
Changing password from single user mode:
You can also change the administrator's password from single user mode or create a new administrator account.
You need to get into single use mode for steps one and two that are listed below.
This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
Basically, you hold down the command-s key then powering on your machine. The command key has a little apple symbol on the lower left. It is between the alt/option key and the space bar. On a PC keyboard, it will be the windows key, I think.
1) You can change the password on an account. ( Do you know Unix. You are in a Unix single user console. ) The setup commands you need should be listed on the screen. For Mac OS 10.4.11, the commands are:
# Type the follow two instructions to access the startup disk in read/write:
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
# Start up some utility processes that are needed.
sh /etc/rc
# You will probably need to press the return key once the system stops typing.
# To find out the users on the system type, use the list command. The l is a lower case L:
ls /Users
# One of these accounts will be the administrator.
# Pick one of the users which I'll call a-user-name and type it in this command:
passwd a-user-name
# and enter the new user password. You need six characters.
# You will need to enter your password twice. Your typing will not show up on the screen just
# press enter when you complete the typing.
# For cryptic information on these commands try:
man ls
man passwd
The root account isn't enabled by default. I am not sure if changing the password on root will enable it.
2) Get the Mac to set up an additional administrative account. You can then change the password on your old account.
Start with your computer power off. Hold down command-s. Power on your computer.
Type in the following:
The first two commands will depend on your release of Mac OS X. Look at what is typed out in the console to determine the exact format.
# Type the follow two instructions to access the startup disk in read/write. Press return after each command.
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /var/db
pwd
#List all files. The l is a lower case L.
ls -a
#The move command acts as a rename command in this format.
mv -i .applesetupdone .applesetupdone.old
reboot
Once you've done that the computer reboots and it's like the first time you used the machine. Your old accounts are all safe. From there you just change all other account passwords in the account preferences!!
Limnos adds detailed explainations:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8441597#8441597
The above the idea came from a post by JoseAranda at September 9, 2006 3:48 AM
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/howdo_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_rootpassword.html
You will need to scroll down to see this post. Search for applesetupdone
Or see:
http://superpixel.ch/articles/running-setup-assistant-again/
Once you have a new administrative account, you can change the password of your old administrative account
blue apple > System Preferences > Accounts
• You can see that it is easy to change your administrator password. You can set a firmware password that you enter before your machine will boot.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
• For the best data security, you should use FileVault. Create a good logon password. Define and use a good backup plan. I do not recommend using FileVault unless you really need the security because it is much harder to recover your data should you have a hard drive problem and you do not have your data backed up.

Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter doesn't fit my aluminum iMac

I previously had a 17" white iMac (pre-Intel) machine, and about 6 months ago I bought the mini-DVI to video adapter so I could connect it to my television. Worked like a charm. But I recently bought a new aluminum iMac, and the adaptor doesn't fit into the mini-DVI port in the back of the machine. It appears the adaptor and port are both male ends.
Has the port changed on the aluminum iMacs? The product description for the adaptor on Apple's website says it works with iMac (Intel Core Duo). Isn't the aluminum iMac an Intel Core Duo? I can't figure out why it doesn't fit and which cable I'm supposed to be using instead.
Any advice would be appreciated!

Hi Paul
Yes the Intel iMac [Spec's|http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMacMid2007.html] call for the (M9319G/A) Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter!
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M93 19G/A
The iBook, eMac, or iMac G5 use the Mini-VGA to Video adapter.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=722 C6629&nplm=M9109G%2FA
Dennis

Multiple iMacs, multiple family members -- so common, yet so hard?

I have a media-loving family of four. We're an Apple family. One shuffle, two touches, two iPhones (coming Friday), three AppleTVs, and two iMacs. We love them all.
I HATE the pain it seems to be to keep my media in synch, however.
It's not so hard keeping my account in synch with the AppleTVs and my Touch. Where I get into trouble is in wanting to allow my family members to leverage MY library as a basis for theirs. Moving and copying music and movies from my library to my daughter's, for example, just seems a lot harder than it should be. As does keeping my library on my upstairs iMac in synch with my downstairs iMac.
I've been unsuccessful in attempts to use iTunes Ranger.
What's the best way to move between accounts on an iMac?
And, is there an easy way to keep two iMac iTunes libraries in synch?
Also -- can anyone point me to some really good documentation that explains the finer points of media storage on a Mac. Everything Apple provides (unless I am missing the secret detailed manual with all of the crazy tips) seems so high level...
Many thanks in advance. Appreciate the support.
Jim

thejester77 wrote:
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple. What news are you reading? Android is not a company but a phone operating system. GOOGLE acquired Motorola, not Android. GOOGLE's 2011 revenues were 37.9 billion, NOT 22 million. Google acquired Motorola for 12.5 billion, NOT 20 billion.
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!! Again, where are you getting this information? The AT&T ETF is $325 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed. It is NOT $35. Verizon has a similar, although slightly higher ETF of $350 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed.
Yes, we can hear you, but you are not making any sense!

Cannot install windows 8.1 on imac 5k - apple support says "Correct, that machine can't install windows" Boot camp fail

I have a brand new imac 5k, with 4ghz i7, 295x GPU, 3.1TB fusion drive. Bought the machine so I could dual boot - I need windows for VR Dev work.
I've spent the last week and a half on tech support calls with Apple Senior Tech agents, and Microsoft agents as well, and today have been told that indeed this machine cannot run windows 8.1. Apparently Apple engineering knows about the issue, but says the problem is microsoft's. Ugh.
The latest iteration of the issue comes when installing 8.1 onto an external thunderbolt SSD (without even using boot camp) - I go through the EFI installer, convert the drive to GPT, format it as ntfs, but when I select the partition to install onto, the installer says it can't find the partition it just created. Smuh?
I've also tried the install through boot camp. This installation actually worked twice, but the install was unstable. After booting back into osX, then returning to Windows, the windows install went corrupt and couldn't be repaired. Subsequent attempts to install windows yielded a flurry of different errors, including "windows doesn't support GPT in this mode" or "the disk is locked, please unlock the disk" or "MBR must be converted to GPT" (where once I converted to GPT, the drive could no longer be found, despite the operation completing successfully.)
At any rate, it's a huge mess. I'd happily return the machine for a different config, but the company I bought it from will only swap it for a similar model -- so I've spent a pile on a machine that does not function as advertised; apple says "too bad, talk to Microsoft." Microsoft says "too bad, we've never seen this, this is an apple issue."
Has anyone out there gotten windows up and running on an iMac5k with fusion drive? If so, did you have to go through a crazy maze to make it work?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
MC

Michael Conelly wrote:
After much gnashing of teeth, and a half dozen support calls, I'd all but given up. I finally seem to have solved this though - sort of - by installing windows 8.1 on boot camp on an older iMac, then cloning the bootcamp disk to an external thunderbolt drive via Winclone. That worked seamlessly, sticking to winclone's instructions, and I can boot via EFI to Windows 8.1 on the new iMac. So far so good.
I usually install W8.1 via EFI by using DU and a Free Space partition. The 3TB Fusion is first split into the underlying SSD/HDD physicals. OSX and Windows OSes are installed on SSD via EFI (no BCA). The OSX part and half the HDD are then used to create a new CS volume. The other HDD half becomes NTFS for non-Windows OS files. The Hybrid MBR method is completely unsatisfactory with the 3TB Fusion drive.
How is the TB/Winclone image for performance of the OS (since pagefile.sys is also on the TB)?

[Guide] Install and run Windows 7/8 from an external drive without using bootcamp (works for late 2012 iMacs with 3TB drive)

This is a copy of a post from my blog, you can also Read it on my blog...
Introduction
After I received my new iMac with a 3 TB Fusion Drive, I was disappointed when I realized that Bootcamp was not running on this model and prevented me from installing Windows on it. I wanted to take advantage of the powerful iMac hardware to play games but I couldn't.
There are a few ways of working around this limitation, but I found most of them quite complex and most of the time they required formatting the internal hard drive or repartitioning it and go for a brand new installation of Mac OS X. I was not comfortable with that.
But there is another way, and that is to install Windows on an external hard drive, using either USB or Thunderbolt. Personally I used a Lacie Rugged 1 TB drive that has both USB3 and Thunderbolt connectors. Both work very well.
This guide may interest you if:
You have an internal hard drive of more than 2TB and you can't run bootcamp at all (like late 2012 iMacs with a 3TB drive)
You have limited space or you don't want to dedicate disk space on your internal hard disk drive to a Windows installation
What this guide will make you do:
It will make you erase all your data from your external USB3/Thunderbolt hard drive
It will make you install Windows on your external USB3/Thunderbolt hard drive
It will make you install bootcamp drivers
What this will not make you do:
It will not make you modify anything on your internal Mac hard drive
It will not make you use or install the bootcamp assistant
It will not activate the Preference Pane for the default boot drive. You have to boot by pressing the ALT key to manually select your boot drive each tome you want to boot Windows.
What you'll need
An external hard drive with a USB3 and/or Thunderbolt connector. This drive will be formatted so ensure you saved your files before going further. You can use either an SSD drive or a classic hard drive.
A Windows 7 or 8 install DVD or ISO (check whether to install 32 or 64 bits versions based on your Bootcamp drivers) and the corresponding Windows serial number.
One of the following:
Mac OS X with a Windows 7 or 8 Virtual Machine (use VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop for example. Note: VMWare Fusion seems to have some issues with Thunderbolt and USB3. Plug your drive to a USB2 enclosure or hub to work around this -it worked for me-, or use another VM software) → Read the important note below
A PC running Windows 7 or 8 → Read the important note below
Windows AIK (free) running on your Virtual Machine or on your PC, or just the imagex.exe file (the rest of the Windows AIK package is not needed)
Download imagex.exe
Download Windows AIK (this download and installation is not required if you have already downloaded imagex.exe)
Bootcamp drivers for your Mac. You can get these either by running bootcamp from your Mac (Applications > Utilities > Bootcamp) or, if like me you have a 3TB drive and can't run bootcamp at all, use the direct download links here.
A USB stick to store your bootcamp drivers
IMPORTANT: If your Mac has a 64 bits processor, your Windows Virtual Machine on OSX, your Windows installation on your PC and your Windows DVD/ISO must also be in 64 bits!
Step by Step guide
Step 1: Get the install.wim file
If you have a Windows ISO file:
Mount the ISO
If you're on OS X: double click on the ISO file
If you're on on Windows 7: Use a software like Virtual Clone Drive (free)
If you're on Windows 8: double click on the ISO file
Open the mounted drive, then go to the "sources" folder and locate the "install.wim" file. Save this file to C:\wim\ on your Windows installation or virtual machine.
If you have a Windows DVD: open the "sources" folder on the DVD and locate the "install.wim" file. Save this file to C:\wim\ on your Windows installation or virtual machine.
IMPORTANT: If instead of a "install.wim" file, you have "install.esd", you can not continue this step by step guide. And an ESD file can not be converted into a WIM file. So you must get a version of the Windows installation DVD/ISO that has an install.wim file.
Step 2: Clean, partition and format your external hard drive
On your Windows installation or virtual machine, plug in your external hard drive (can be plugged using USB2, USB3 or Thunderbolt at this stage)
Open the command prompt in administrator mode (cmd.exe). To run it in administrator mode, right click on cmd.exe > Run as admin.
Type the following and hit enter to open the disk partitioner utility:
diskpartType the following and hit enter to list your drives:
list disk
This will display a list of disks mounted on your computer or virtual machine. Make sure your drive is listed here before you continue.Identify the disk ID of your external hard drive. Replace # by your real external disk ID in the command below:
select disk #Clean all partitions by typing the following (warning: this will erase all data from your external drive!):
clean
Create the boot parition by typing the following followed by the enter key:
create partition primary size=350
This will create a 350MB partition on your external driveFormat the partition in FAT32 by typing the following:
format fs=fat32 quick
Set this partition to active by typing:
active
Assign a letter to mount this partition. We will use letter B in our example. If B is already used on your PC, replace B by any other available letter:
assign letter=b
Windows will detect a new drive and probably display a pop-up. Ignore that.Create the Windows installation partition using all the remaining space available on the external drive by typing the following:
create partition primary
Format the new partition in NTFS:
format fs=ntfs quick
Assign a letter to mount this partition. We will use letter O in our example. If O is already used on your PC, replace O by any other available letter:
assign letter=o
Windows will detect a new drive and probably display a pop-up. Ignore that.Exit the disk partitioner utility by typing:
exit
Step 3: Deploy the Windows installation image
Still using the command prompt in admin mode (you didn't close it, did you? ), locate the imagex.exe file mentioned in the "What you'll need" section and access its folder. In our example, we have put this file in C:\imagex\imagex.exe
Type the following and hit enter (remember to replace o: with the letter you have chosen in the previous step):
imagex.exe /apply C:\wim\install.wim 1 o:
This will take some time. The Windows installation image is being deployed to your external driveOnce done, type the following to create the boot section (remember to replace o: and b: with the letters you've chosen in the previous step):
o:\windows\system32\bcdboot o:\windows /f ALL /s b:
If you get an error message saying that you can't run this program on your PC, then most probably you are running on a 32 bits installation of windows and you're trying to deploy a 64 bits install. This means you did not read the important notes in the beginning of this guide
If you get an error message on the options that can be used with the BCDBOOT command, then it's because you're installing Windows 7, and the /f option is not supported. If that is the case, remove /f ALL from the command and retry.
Step 4: Boot from your external drive and install Windows
Plug in your external drive:
If you've done all the previous steps from a Windows PC, unplug your external drive from your PC and plug it to your Mac, either on a USB3 or a Thunderbolt port.
If you've done all the previous steps from your Mac using a Virtual Machine, ensure the external drive is plugged in to a USB3 or Thunderbolt port. Using USB2 should also work but you'll get very poor performance so I don't recommend doing that.
Reboot your Mac and once the bootup sound is over, immediately press the ALT (option) key and release it only when the boot drives selection screen appears. If you did not get the boot drives selection screen, reboot and try again. The timing to press the ALT (option) key is quite short. It must not be too early or too late.
On the boot selection screen, choose "Windows" using the arrow keys on your keyboard, then press enter.
The Windows installation starts. Follow the on-screen instructions as normal. The installation program will restart your computer one or 2 times. Don't forget to press ALT (option) right after the bootup sound, and boot on Windows again each time to continue the installation.
Step 5: Install bootcamp drivers
Once the Windows installation is complete, plug in the USB stick where you stored the bootcamp drivers (see "what you'll need" section), open it and right click on "setup.exe" and select "Run as admin". Follow the on-screen instructions.If you have an error saying that you can't run this program on this PC, obviously you have installed a 32 bits version of Windows and the bootcamp drivers for your Mac are made for a 64 bits version. You have to restart the whole guide and make sure to get a 64 bits version of Windows this time!
Once the bootcamp drivers are all installed, reboot and press ALT (option) after the bootup sound to boot on Windows again. And Voilà, you have Windows installed on your USB3/Thunderbolt drive running on your Mac.
Now each time you want to boot on Windows, press and hold the ALT (option) key after the startup sound and select "Windows", then press Enter.

Hi i'm trying to follow your guide, I installed windows 8 on bootcamp to do it planning to remove it after the operation is done, but i get stuck at part 3: every command i give to imagex i get a pop-up ftom windws asking how do I want to open this kind of file install.wim and imagex does nothing, what do i have to do to stop those pop-ups?

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