Repair Windows 7 on a 2013 iMac with USB 3 issue
Hi. I have a corrupt Windows 7 parition on my late 2013 iMac that Disk Utility can not seem to repair. My best guess is a the 'Repair Windows' from the install disc upon booting up will fix the issue. The problem is....my 2013 iMac only has USB 3 ports available and from what I am reading it appears Windows 7 does not support USB 3. Therefore....my external CD drive is not being seen, nor are my keyboard, mouse, or anything else via the USB 3 ports (I also tried a bootable flash drive with the neccesary Windows files on there). I even went as far as making a bootable SD Card and trying to repair from that, but I still can not utilize my mouse and keyboard to advance through the prompts.
I did not have these issues when I installed it using Bootcamp because I am guessing bootcamp supplies the neccesary means to allow the USB 3 ports to be recognized. But Bootcamp does not have a feature for repairing windows. It is only giving me the option to remove Windows.
Is there anyway I can repair windows using my Windows installation CD on an iMac by means of using USB 3 ports?
Thanks in advance.
For attempting to repair a Windows 7 partition you need to be able to boot into Windows setup indeed. The complication is that Windows 7 installer has aged and does not support the relatively new USB 3 standard.
I can only this of one approach which is by downloading the available Windows ISO and use USB instead of your DVD. It is kind of a long shot and does have its risks, but I'll describe it high-level nonetheless:
- Using Boot Camp create an USB with Windows 7 edition you run as well as the appropriate Windows Support Files from Apple
- From OS X or the Mac's Recovery Console you could shrink your HFS+ partition for about 3 GB to create some free space
- Insert an additional primary partition in this free space and format it FAT
- Sync this GPT change to MBR manually using fdisk and reboot into OS X
- Pre-copy the Windows PE driver folder onto this new FAT partition to overcome the USB 3 issue
- Reboot in legacy bless'd mode to your USB recovery stick
The Windows setup screen should display an option to repair instead of install... Your mileage could vary depending on the type of corruption(!)
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No good news though. The installer run as expected however, when the time came for the iMac to boot from the newly installed Windows7, all I saw was a blank screen and a blinking dash at the top left corner of the screen.
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Hi,
I just want to know if bootcamp allready supports windows 8 with all drivers working like magic mouse gestures, the optic drive, sd card, USB ports, bluetooth al patches are working fine and if all is working ok how to intall, if is a normal bootcamp installation or requires other procedure
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64 bit: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit
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Audio (Built in version doesn't work, follow directions above)
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3) Things like changing brightness (but I would assume this would go with getting the apple frontend software to work)
Comments
1) It is blazing fast
2) While this works on 64bit, I don't think 32bit would be much different to setup
3) Using the latest ATI drivers are important because they support the new Windows 7 driver model (WDDM 1.1). While older versions may work (like bootcamp 2.1), they won't be the most advanced or fastest performing.
4) While I haven't been able to install the bootcamp software (Win7 warns that it is incompatible), from what I've read (all the posts about DPC latency), it is probably better off for performance
5) Your mileage may vary, I haven't tested this on anything other than my 24" radeon 4850 iMac. I also haven't tested it on 32bit, so don't blame me if something doesn't work right. Basically, if you break something it isn't my fault
6) Bluetooth pairing is somewhat quirky, it usually goes pretty quickly for the mouse. Sometimes it will take multiple tries (canceling out, and starting again, etc) especially for the keyboard. Once everything is paired though it works perfect without any extra drivers.
7) Remember this isn't supported by Apple yet.Hi Beta_,
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Mac Basics: Using Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461
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I think the "official" word is that only USB 2.0 is supported with the 5G ipod, but I hope this works.
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