Snow Leopard + Boot camp Win 7 + HFS External Drive

My OSX partition shows up fine in my Bootcamped Windows 7 x64, and I can read/write to it fine. My external, a Western Digital 1tb drive formated HFS+, is connected thru firewire, and it doesn't seem to mount or show up at all.
Anyone else having this issue?

I can not get my Win 7 (32) os to see my Mac 10.6 partition. Is there something I need to set or turn on to get this to work?
As for your problem, perhaps Windows is not seeing the FireWire bus?

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What hard drives are compatible with OSX Snow Leopard Boot Camp?

Recently when the video card in my desktop Mac died, I decided to make some upgrades, one of them being the hard drive. After doing some research, I fixed on the Western Digital 3TB Caviar Green 3.5-Inch and had it installed at the same time as the new video card. I installed OS 10.6.8, opened up Boot Camp Assistant, set the partition sizes: 2.5 TB for my Mac side and 500 GB for the Windows. XP wouldn't install so I ordered Windows 7 and began trying to set up the Windows partition. Each time I tried, I got the same error -- Windows 7 couldn't install on the 500 GB partition since it was formatted GPT which was strange since when I looked at the partition inside of Disk Utility, it said NTFS. While troubleshooting, I came across the following:
・Mac users should know that WD's new drives do not support Boot Camp, therefore they cannot be used as a dual-boot hard drive.
・The MBR part of the hybrid partition table cannot work with 3TB hard drives. MBR is limited to 2TB.
・In a 32-bit MBR world, a disk larger than 2TB is probably invalid, and different OS's and tools react wildly differently when this is forced beyond 2TB.
I called Western Digital to confirm which of their drives were in fact compatible with Boot Camp and they replied since Boot Camp was a third-party application, they have no information on compatibility. They told me to call Apple to get the information. Before purchasing a new drive and sending back the 3TB WD, I want to be sure I know which specs to look for in a hard drive in deciding whether it is compatible with my machine. Any helpful advice or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Here are the specs for my Mac:
2006 24" iMac 6,1 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
OS 10.6.8
Boot Camp Assistant 3.0.4

Thanks for responding to my question. I guess I'm not sure I understand your reply though. I had no problem installing OS X on the 3TB WD Caviar Green and WD assured me that if I wanted to install only Windows 7 on it, there would be no compatibility issues. The problem lies with wanting the drive to be dual-bootable I guess via using Boot Camp (I know of no other way to go about it). The tech at OWC (where I bought the drive) said he had never heard of any problems with being able to install both Mac and Windows OS on the drive. In fact, he gave the same reply as yours: most hard drives should be able to work perfectly fine with your Mac. It's just that I can't get XP or Windows 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) to install on the 2nd partition, making the drive I have now not dual-bootable. The tech said 2TB hard drives were different and should solve the problem but when I asked him for any discernible spec I could look for in shopping for a replacement drive, he couldn't give me one, i.e. most drives should be okay. I have paid to have the 3TB installed and will have to pay to get the drive taken out and a replacement put back in -- I want to make sure whatever drive I put in this time allows me to have 2 partitions: one for my Mac OSX system and the other for my Windows enviroment (either XP or Windows 7).
If there is a work-around not involving Boot Camp, please let me know. I thought the reason for using Boot Camp as opposed to Disk Utility to create the dual-bootable drive was the benefit of using Mac drivers on the Windows side.
If there is another way, I don't understand why PC world made this blanket statement:
"Mac users should know that WD's new drives do not support Boot Camp, therefore they cannot be used as a dual-boot hard drive."

Snow Leopard Boot Camp Install Woes

I'm having some trouble installing boot camp. I have a MBP 2.2 and I have just installed OS 10.6 and I am trying to reinstall my boot camp partition. I am using an HP external USB DVD drive (which has been used to installed boot camp successfully in the past and is what I used to install SL). Anyway, 10.6 installs with no problems and then I am able to use boot camp assistant to set up the partition and the computer restarts. Then the disc attempts to spin up (I am trying with both Windows 7 32-bit and Windows XP... both discs have been used successfully in other situations) and then the screen usually stays grey/blank. Sometimes I can hold option and I get the HDD icon and it hangs. If I disconnect the drive and start the computer I get the apple icon and then it flashes a circle with a line through it and goes no further. Does anyone have any ideas? I am pretty sure the drive and the discs are good because I have used them to install windows on other macs with no problems.

I've also got this problem, after upgrading to Snow Leopard I couldn't access my windows partition anymore, the startup screen would hang after clicking the arrow under Windows HD. We removed it with Boot Camp Assistant and now when we try and re-install Windows (XP), the installations progresses until it hangs on a grey screen (we don't make it to BIOS) and we have to restart.
Additionally after the installation attempt, we can't get past the grey screen of death on startup (we get the startup noise - no apple logo) and have to use reset my Mac's PRAM and NVRAM to progress.
Also, after going through this process a Boot Camp disk image is created but it's empty.
Disk utility isn't detecting any problems. Could we have removed the partition incorrectly and something is jarring the process?

Snow Leopard & Boot Camp

I have Boot Camp on one of my 13" macbooks and I cannot install Snow Leopard on the Mac side. I have the latest Tiger updates installed, but i get an "invalid drive" error message when I try to install Snow Leopard. Does anyone why this would be happening?

Just to contribute to the thread, I just installed Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, and it works fine so far.
MacPro Quad 2.8GHz/10GB ram/4TBhd/10.6
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz/4GB/10.6/Bootcamp XP
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Snow leopard - Boot Camp - Windows XP

Hi Guys!
One quick question, I had installed Windows XP using Boot Camp on my iMac, when it was still running Leopard. The installation was successful, I don't go online using Windows, as I only use it to play some games with my children, and I don't want any virus... and mainly... I don't need Windows for anything else!!!
After installing Snow Leopard, do I have to update any Windows driver using Boot Camp?
If so, how do I do it? Just launch Boot Camp and let it look for the drivers?
Thanks a lot for any help...
: )

*Hey kappy / hatter*
Thanks a lot for your responses...
I thought about booting from the SL cd as well, but I was not sure about it... hatter, what do you mean by?
*"You don't have to install Boot Camp 3.0 to XP"*
Does it mean I shouldn't do the procedure recommended by Kappy?
About my XP partition, I use it solely to play games like, Zoo Tycon, CimCity, Lego, etc with my little children... so i have no back up... in case it goes bad... I don't lose anything, and reinstall XP. All my professional apps and files are on my iMac partition... Photoshop, Flash, etc... then I have both a bootable SuperDuper backup, and a Time machine backup too.
On XP, I just wanna make sure I have all the drivers installed to run the games ok...
Thanks

13" Macbook (black), Snow Leopard, Boot Camp, Windows 7 display issue

OK I don't know where to post this. I couldn't find an appropriate forum under Boot Camp (nothing for display). Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
I am attempting to run Windows 7 using Boot Camp. Here is the behavior:
Booting Windows 7 without any monitor plugged in works fine.
Booting with an external monitor plugged in, I get the display on the external monitor. Now when I unplug the external monitor, the LCD display backlight is off and is completely dim. I had to reboot it in order for the LCD display to work again.
This is not a macbook display issue. But it has to do something with the way Windows 7, BootCamp are compatible with a macbook. Anyone seen this or know what the fix is?
Thanks
Sri

I can not get my Win 7 (32) os to see my Mac 10.6 partition. Is there something I need to set or turn on to get this to work?
As for your problem, perhaps Windows is not seeing the FireWire bus?

Boot Camp on an External Drive

Does anyone know why Apple has chosen not to allow installion of Windows on an external drive? I don't think I am going to be willing to risk putting Windows on my internal drive.
Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Mike -- thanks for your input. I guess Windows is just a worrisome thing for us Mac guys. Part of what always gets me is unknown code that goes into Windows. I did a Google the other day to see if I could get a feel for the "roots" of the upcoming Vista.
Who knows what Vista is really based on -- a modification of NT that was in part based on DOS and VMS? From my limited experience, I am not sure there is enough shelf space to hold the manuals to run VMS successfully. Of course, why worry; Boot Camp and other things will change before Vista gets here.
The bottom line is that I will use all the Windows security fixes.
Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Re-installed fresh Snow Leopard, Boot camp boots,but wont show on startup..

Ok, I had Boot Camp on my iMac with Snow Leopard fine. I decided to reinstall Snow Leopard fresh.
Chose the Mac HDD partition, it re-installed fine. I then thought I'd have to do the Boot Camp again, but I held don "alt" key and Boot Camp boots fine and works.
So I normally have the Boot Camp to boot 1st, as wife and kids use Windows. However I go into Boot Camp on Mac OS, and it doesn't show the boot camp startup disk. Where's it gone?
As I say everything is fine, apart from it now looks like its lost track of the Boot Camp partition.
Is there anyway I can get it back? I ran Boot Camp wizard on Mac, but it either wants to create a new Boot Camp partition, or run windows installer, both which I dont want.
Any help please
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Set the default startup disk in Windows.
There is no Boot Camp on Mac OS ("go into Boot Camp"?)
Try:
System Preferences / Startup Disk
On Windows, the Boot Camp Control Panel to used set the default OS
Wizard: by this assume Boot Camp Assistant, which is only a partitioning tool.
Boot Camp doesn't "boot," Windows boots.
Boot Camp - Assistant to create a partition
Boot Camp - Set of drivers and services
Boot Camp - Control panel in Windows to set default boot OS (Mac OS X volumes or Windows, with some other features for laptops I believe)
Personally, too many things use the same name and lead to misunderstandings.

Snow Leopard & Boot Camp & Windows XP & Bluetooth

Hi everyone,
I just bought a new iMac. I upgraded to Snow Leopard. And I installed Windows XP on Boot Camp. The installation went perfectly until I had to pair my wireless keyboard and mouse to Windows.
When the installation finished, I opened the Bluetooth Device on my control panel. I was able to scan for devices. My computer found both the keyboard and mouse. I was able to pair the keyboard, but I couldn't get the mouse to work. Trial and error, error, and more error occurred. (I know now about 0000 and the mouse.)
At one point, I unpaired the keyboard and restarted the machine. Now when I open the Bluetooth device it says:
"Device Status: Windows has stopped the device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)"
The bluetooth device was just working. I can't figure out how to make it work again. It won't find the mouse or keyboard. I tried installing and uninstalling the Bluetooth device from the device manager. I tried repairing the device drivers from the Snow Leopard disk. I've googled and googled.
Does anyone know how I can pair my Windows XP with my mouse and keyboard? Should I erase the partion and start over again?

For the record, I gave up and booted my computer back to Snow Leopard. After about a week, I decided to try to fix this problem again. I booted up Windows from Bootcamp. And miraculously the problem was solved. The bluetooth was working; I paired both the keyboard and mouse. I don't know what fixed the problem but it was fixed.

Snow Leopard, boot camp partition not mounting.

Hi all,
I have a system that was leopard, and I installed Bootcamp with Windows 7 64bit. Was working well until I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
The Bootcamp partition is not being seen in Snow Leopard. I can, however, hold down the option key on the Mac and select the window 7 partition to boot from.
I have looked through the forums but haven't really seen this issue addressed, or if It was, then I didn't see it (so sorry.)
Please any advise or help would be great.
John

Is it on the same drive?
On Mac Pro, I would not, I'd keep them separate.
With ANY OS update/upgrade (10.5. -> 10.6) I ALWAYS reformat and initialize the drives first before installing - there are changes to partition tables, and while some systems are fine, you should have backups for both Windows and Mac OS before you began, too.
Other than repairing Mac OS, and checking that you aren't using NTFS driver, and everything is up to date and SL-compliant... and you can set the default in 7 to reboot back into 7 or OS X.
4-core... does that mean 2006? or 2009?

Snow Leopard Boot Camp and Windows 7 64bit

I have a late 2006 Mac Pro with 2xDual Core 2.66ghz procs and 6 gigs of ram. I've been thinking of running Windows 7 64 bit in Boot Camp for a few games and had an EFI question. I searched thru the forum but can't seem to find an answer (possibly my own ignorance of not understanding, but that's not the point).
Since I'm running 32bit EFI will I be able to run the 64 bit version of Win7 in boot camp or am I limited to 32bit version?

It is a PITA.
Install a 32-bit version, as a mini-OS to bootstrap yourself into 64-bit;
Or, modify the DVD you will burn by editing the ISO, which can be done with VirtualBox etc.
I did it multiple times and posted a long rambling thread over on Boot Camp AD.
It is weird.
For fun, I install W7 x64 on PC, moved it over to Mac Pro and Windows gracefully just updated all the needed chipset drivers for me.
As usually, there are multiple ways to do anything.
Pull Mac drive and system, install a RAW drive or format as MBR and MSDOS, you'll want 3-4 partitions or multiple drives.
By using 32-bit version, you can then create a couple volumes.
8GB for editing the ISO and DVD or to run the installer from. This is a very fast way to do any install. Same idea works with Mac OS and restoring the DVD to disk.
When you burn Win7 DVD, do so at slow/reduced speeds.
20GB for first Win7 32-bit partition.
Whatever you want for x64.
Data volume?
A 64-bit can't be installed over 32-bit, but it will install to another volume all while you are booted into Windows 7 x32.
It took some playing around.
Modifying the ISO with a Windows utility worked, once but I never got the hang to do it again, kept getting unbootable copies and wasted DVDs.
Intel has UEFI 2.3 as the latest and I have been tempted to become EFI Group membership just to nuke the olde EFI32 - I now work mostly on a pair of i7 machines running 7.

I want to install Yosemite onto an external hard drive, and keep Snow Leopard installed on the internal hard drive. I want to be able to boot from either system, depending upon circumstance (at least until Yosemite is stable). Is this possible?

iMac, Model Identifier iMac12,1 with 121.5" screen, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, 1 TB internal hard drive, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from internal drive.
I want to install Yosemite onto a 1 TB external hard drive (OWC) , and keep Snow Leopard installed on the internal hard drive. I want to be able to boot from either system, depending upon circumstance (at least until Yosemite is stable). Is this possible?

It is possible. I'll let you read some articles that cover the setup:
Starting from an external USB storage device (Intel-based Macs) - Apple Support
or
http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/22/boot-mac-external-drive/

Boot camp on an external hard drive

Is it possible to use bootcamp and run windows on an external hardrive rather than the built in one with out sacrificing speed. Im looking to get a hard drive for all my windows stuff and I was hoping to be able to run windows straight from it but I understand that alot of them dont run fast enough to support running an operating system. Any suggestions as to a hard drive to look at getting. I'd be looking at something about 100 gigs. The most important thing would be running Vista or xp. Any suggestions? Thanks - Peter

I belive there might be a way, I just haven't gotten around to trying this out.
1) use disk utility to partition the external drive to ntfs (i think)
2) attach this disk to a pc and install the OS
3) install refit onto your mac
4) attach the drive via fw800, or even better yet esata, to you mac.
5) Start up your mac
6) choose the win xp option from the boot menu
7) install bootcamp drivers
this seems, in theory, that it should work. but this would probably be an easier solution:
1) use disk utility to partition the external drive to ntfs (i think)
2) install XP onto your internal drive via boot camp.
3) create a disk image of XP
4) drop the files from the image onto your external drive
5) install refit onto your mac
6) attach the drive via fw800, or even better yet esata, to you mac.
7) Start up your mac
8) choose the win xp option from the boot menu for the external drive
9) once you have determined that this works, you can delete the xp partition from your internal drive and you will have all the space of your external drive for XP
I would def think about getting an esata drive and the express card for this solution though.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEAQ7320GB16/
http://refit.sourceforge.net/

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk?

I used my snow leopard disk to erase my hard drive. Now I want to eject the snow leopard disk to clean install from the lion boot disk I made. How do I eject the snow leopard disk? It is the start up disk and I can't figure out how to get it out of the computer so I can put my lion boot disk in. Thanks

turn the mac all the way off. turn the mac on by pressing the power button. as soon as the apple logo appears, pres and hold your mouse button(trackpad mouse clicker etc...) until the CD comes out.

I have an older IMac 5. I installed snow Leopard on. Now my DVD drive is not working. Discs go in but it dosn't boot up or show in finder. Then disc won't eject unless i shut down and restart. HELP !

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Snow Leopard + Boot camp Win 7 + HFS External Drive

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