Trouble with Windows XP and Boot Camp

I tried to install XP on my Macbook Pro with OS X 10.6.3 through Boot Camp, but it keeps giving me the error that it can't find the End User License Agreement and quits. I successfully partitioned my hard drive and tried the process with partitions both above and below 32 GB in size, but it still gave me the same error each time. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Hi,
that seems to happen with some XP CDs.
Have a look at frederic1943 solution in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2071417&tstart=105
Hope it helps
Stefan

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Windows 7 and boot camp issue

On an iMac a1224 I installed windows 7 then boot camp from the os disc. Bootcamp version 2.1 was installed. The current installation and set up guide suggested updating bootcamp to 3.1 however that particular update requires version 3.0. That being said, is it necessary for me to update my version 2.1?
Thanks

Leeopard huh?
You need Snow Leopard w. 10.6.x to get 3.0.
If it works and no issues fine though probably the first time I have read someone did.
BC 2.2 was more about XP and some support for Vista.

Is the Apple Wireless Keyboard fully compatible with Windows 7 in Boot Camp?

If you have an iMac running Snow Leopard and Windows 7, will the Apple Wireless Keyboard work properly in Windows 7 (via Boot Camp)?
I'm asking because a friend of mine has an Apple Wired Keyboard that they want to get rid of, and upgrade to an Apple Wireless Keyboard. However, their concern is that the Apple Wireless Keyboard won't work properly (or reliably) when they run Windows 7 on their iMac.

I'm using an Apple Wireless Keyboard running Boot Camp and Windows 7 64 bit right now typing this. Seems to run just fine under Windows 7 for me. Some of the familiar Windows keyboard keys are not present, of course, though there are key mappings to get to those too. I actually like this keyboard a lot, under Windows 7 or OS X.
Windows key mappings using Wireless Keyboard: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1171

No sound on imac with windows 7 running boot camp

no sound on imac with windows 7 running boot camp

mfromyonkers wrote:
Just to elaborate further; if the Windows OS has been previously installed, go to the bootcamp assistant in OSX (found in applications/utilities). There you will have the option to burn a disk or download the needed drivers to a USB flash drive. After getting the necessary files downloaded/burned proceed and start your Windows partition, run the installer from the disc. This should solve the problem.
Did you mean to reply to the poster who has the problem?
Because that's not me.

Windows 8 and Boot Camp 5 with Mid-2011 iMac12,2 DISABLING INTEL HD GRAPHICS

There seems to be some issue with this newer Boot Camp 5 and Windows 8 becuase of the Intel HD graphics in the processor. I have a maxed out Intel iMac 27" Mid-2011 with Intel Core i7 and AMD Radeon 6970M 2GB.
When Windows 8 Pro is first installed with Boot Camp 5 USB flash drive everything seems fine. The Intel HD graphics are detected and so is the AMD Radeon. But if the machine is put to sleep the computer resumes and has a BSOD. The reason is igdkmd64.sys.
I think the only way I know of to solve this is to disable the Intel HD graphics in Device Manager before the machine begins crashing. On "first" boot the Intel HD graphics are listed in device manager. Later depending on restart, sleep, hibernate, the Intel HD graphics are listed under hidden devices in Device Manager.
IS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCING THIS?
DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE A SOLUTION BESIDES THIS?

I don't know if it's just my iMac that lists the Intel HD graphics, but one day it showed up in Windows 7 and still exists today in Windows 8. Could somebody see if theirs shows up in Windows in Device Manager? Maybe with Show Hidden Devices checked.
BTW I did a clean install and left the boot camp usb flash drive inserted during the install which automatically installs intel hd and bluetooth and then start boot camp drivers installs after Windows setup is completed.

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I WANT TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY REASON NOT TO USE WINDOWS XP AS THE ITERATION WHEN I PERFORM THE BOOT CAMP PARTITION ON MY MACBOOK PRO?

It could be done depending on when your MacBook Pro was made. Most MacBook Pro models from mid/late 2007 to early 2011 are capable of running Mac OS X 10.6.8 as well as OS X 10.10.2 that you show. If yours is capable then you would need to install 10.6.8 which supports Win XP or Win Vista with BootCamp. Find out with MacTracker at this link . http://mactracker.ca
The process would involve having a 10.6.x install disk and a clone of your existing 10.10.2 drive on an external HDD/SSD. You would use the 10.6.x install disk to erase and install 10.6.x followed by Boot Camp assistant install of Win XP/Vista. When satisfied you clone the external drive containing 10.10.2 and data back to the Mac OS partition replacing 10.6.x . I personally did not clone the recovery partition as it is well known to cause some Boot Camp problems. Instead I have a bootable installer USB thumb drive in addition to the clone of my Mac OS X partition for rescue.
It Is a lot more trouble than installing Win 7 but in my case Microsoft is to blame. They had a bunch of "Games for Windows" that required Vista that are next to impossible to make work with Win 7. And of course all help or upgrades have been abandoned. I was using Mavericks OS X and Win 7 and went through the process outlined above. I could have installed XP instead of Vista but I already had it on a MacBook with OS X 10.6.8.
http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/16/make-os-x-yosemite-boot-install-drive/

Can no longer opt boot to Windows; Parallels and Boot Camp issues

So I was reinstalling my Parallels since it wasn't reading my Boot Camp partition correctly and I removed my old boot camp profile in Parallels. I figured this would only affect Parallels. After all, I was going to make a new one since my Parallels wasn't working very well. The removal of the profile seemed painless and it was instantaneous (so I don't think it formatted the partition). I then went to restart, and now my comp won't boot to the partition.
I can no longer view (or access) my files from Windows. I panicked and restored the profile from the trash, but I still can't access the partition. I can't even see Windows from the Start Up disk, but Parallels can detect that I have Windows 7 (even though it won't boot properly).What do I need to do to be able to get my Windows partition back? Do you have any idea whats going on with my comp? Can the removal of a virtual machine profile delete an entire OS in an instant?
Disk Utility says that my partition needs to be repaired, but I don't want to do anything until I get an expert opinion.
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16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Parallels 9.0.24172
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Please tell me what I need to do! Thank you!

This is a table I use to verify that Testdisk is correct.
GPT 3 Start
GPT 3 Size
GPT 3 End
NTFS Start
Sector Offset
NTFS Size
NTFS End
584882296
1269536
586151832
586151936
104
390621177
976773113
Leave your Testdisk display and start a new Terminal Window. Please use the following steps. The 104 sector positive offset is a good sign.
You need to use the following steps. If you see any error messages during the following steps, please stop and post back here with the error message. The following steps have values from your Testdisk output (and you can verify) in Steps 7 and 8.
Rebuild GPT4 using start/end offsets
Sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk0
P (print the full list of parts)
D (delete)
4 (part 4)
N (new part)
4   (part 4)
586151936 - Start offset in bytes (start point for Bootcamp part)
+ 390621177 - (Size offset as opposed to End offset)
0700     (Windows part type)
P           (print list of all parts just to see what changes will be made)
W         (Write the new GPT)
Y           (Yes! really write the new GPT)
This will delete and re-write the GPT partition info for /dev/disk0s4.
Rebuild MBR to match the new GPT information thus resetting the Hybrid MBR. Use defaults for other questions (like partition codes). The only values that need modifications are the Boot flags and step 6. Accept all other defaults that Gdisk offers.
Sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
P (Print list of parts)
R   (Recover)
H (chooses Hybrid)
Partitions numbers to be hybridized: 2 3 4
Y (Good for GRUB question)
N (part 2 boot flag)
N (part 3 boot flag)
Y (part 4 boot flag make NTFS bootable partition)
W (Write the new MBR)
Y    (Yes! write the new MBR)
Reboot
Here is an example of the Q&A in the second set of commands.
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): Y
Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF): Press Enter/Return
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N
Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AB): Press Enter/Return
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): N
Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07): 07
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): Y
Test 1 - Does Bootcamp Volume show up in Finder?
Test 2 - Can you see files in Bootcamp Volume?
Test 3 - Can you select Bootcamp in System Preferences -> Startup Disk?
Test 4 - If Test 3 is successful, select Bootcamp and Click Restart.

How to make iSight work with windows vista on boot camp

I just installed window vista on my mac, everything work perfect but the the cam, i got a MacBook pro and my boot camp is 2.0
Please advise,
thanks

last update wrote:
I just installed window vista on my mac, everything work perfect but the the cam, i got a MacBook pro and my boot camp is 2.0 ...
forgot to mention, I only need my cam to use with MSN messenger nothing else,
Thanks,
I don't use Windows®, but the results of this search of the iSight Forum may help you:
http://tinyurl.com/2wg96fg
If you need more, try the results for this search of the Boot Camp Forum:
http://tinyurl.com/3amftuj
If you have not yet seen it, also take a look at http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
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ATI driver installation issue with Windows Vista on Boot Camp (new iMac)

I've just purchased a new 20" iMac with Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz.
Then I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on a Boot Camp partition.
Vista installation was eventless and worked nicely.
Now the problem has begun...
I downloaded the latest ATI graphic card driver (Catalyst 7.7 for Vista 32) from the ATI website. The Catalyst software did not recognize the graphic card and installed nothing. I still have generic Microsoft standard VGA video adapter, which keeps me from playing any recent 3D games...
Someone please help me on this so that I can start playing Oblivion...
Message was edited by: Giraku

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
I still have to find a verification for this, but:
Aplle has up to now always used the Mobility versions of the ATI and NVIDIA graphics chips in the iMacs and MacBooks, MacBooks Pro.
I assume that the in the new imacs, they are also using the Mobility version of the Radeon 2400/2600.
The ATI drivers you can download from the ATI/AMD website are only suitable for the Desktop Radeons, NOT for the Mobility Radeons.
ATI/AMD does not provide drivers for the Mobility Radeons, but are refering to the Manufacturer of the Computer for Drivers, which is Apple.
Sorry to say, but it seems you have to wait for a new BootCamp version which you include Driver support of the new iMacs.
Sorry
Stefan

Overall happiness with Mac Pro and Boot camp/XP

Hi all,
I am a current Windows user and need to upgrade my home computer soon. My wife (teacher) has an imac g5 at home an loves it. I am thinking of getting a refurb mac pro when Leopard is released and use Boot Camp with XP Pro. I am not a big gamer so that is not a concern. I am just checking to see how happy others using this configuration are, and maybe reccomend a configuration (separate hard drives etc.)
Thanks to all for any feedback.

I love mine. Its quiet, launches native apps practically instantly (CS2 takes a few seconds longer), and performs all the system instensive stuff I ask of it quickly and without complaint.
And while it kills me to use Windows anymore, I need to feed my old gaming habit for which Bootcamp is great. I also need to do web browser testing for IE, and Parallels makes it super convienent.
If you have need of a system this powerful, I can totally recommend it. Without knowing what you're specific needs are, the sort of "all-around" config would be:
2.66 Ghz
2 GBs of RAM minimum (third party RAM is cheaper).
Buy extra drives if you need the storage space. But don't buy these from Apple. Western Digital drives are good and quiet.
Airport and Bluetooth options are pretty self explanatory.
If you don't game, and you don't use GPU sucking apps like Motion or Maya, you won't need the video card upgrade.
I could give you more specifics if you tell us what the system will be used for.

WINDOWS ISOs and BOOT CAMP : PERHAPS A SOLUTION ?

Hello to everybody,
I think, after searching a lot, that it is not an ISO that you have to burn on a DVD, so that Boot Camp recognizes it as a Windows Installation DVD. An ISO is an uncompressed image, that contains files, folders, etc.
Here's what I found last night :
*http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm*
and on bottom of page :
"PowerISO for OSX -- This is a free utility for Mac OSX which can extract, list, and convert image files (including ISO, BIN, DAA, and other formats). Type " poweriso -? " for detailed usage information. File Size: 243KB Download Now".
So did I, and obtained that file : "poweriso-1.3-osx.tar.gz".
Clicking on it to uncompress it, I had this result in a folder :
"poweriso", which is an Unix Executable File (791 KB)
You only have to place any ISO at the same place as "poweriso", click on ISO,
and all files contained in it (which is an uncompressed image) appear.
In my case, I clicked on my "WINDOWS 7 ENTERPRISE VL ENGLISH RTM X64.iso",
and here are the 9 main items I obtained, and I think that's what is needed by Boot Camp
to recognize a Windows Install DVD :
— 1 : "autorun.inf" (4KB) ;
— 2 : "boot" (folder, 16.632.708 B for 15 items), containing 9 main items ;
— 3 & 4 : "bootmgr" and "bootmgr.efi" (Unix Executable File(s)) ;
— 5 : "efi" (folder), containing "microsoft" (folder), containing "boot" (16.062.724 B, folder), containing … etc.
— 6 : "setup.exe", 111 KB (Windows Self-Extracting Archive) ;
— 7 : "sources" (3.026.787 B, folder), containing 166 items (in Finder window bar) of all kinds, 923 items in Get Info ;
— 8 : "support" (33.804.337 B, folder), containing 3 folders, 105 items in Get Info ;
— 9 : "upgrade" (42.107.825 B, folder), containing 1 folder, 5 items in Get Info.
Unfortunately, I can't succeed, after burning under different settings (with Toast 10.0.7 Titanium)
5 DVDs with those files on them, to obtain a Windows 7 Installation Disk
that Boot Camp would recognize, IN THE END.
Am I using the right application ? I've a lot of other burning DVDs apps,
and I've also seen somewhere that Disk Utility could be used, but does it open ISOs, because I think it's the contents that matters.
I've only tried, for the moment, ISO 9660 settings (several options). Does anyone have any idea(s), suggestion(s) ? Is there a file that you think could be MISSING ? Of course, I tried not to bore you with all details of the contents of files.
Please, tell me if you have ANY info about how I must do, which ISO 9660 options I have to choose (Joliet, Mac names),
am I right using ISO 9660 rules, do I have to REMOVE or ADD anything etc. ? Should I (and could I, under OS X) MODIFY any text as we use to do sometimes in Terminal ?
I wonder also having found Mac stuff in different places : "bootfix.bin" _(MacBinary Encoded File)_ was in "boot" folder, and "efisys_noprompt.bin" and "efisys.bin" _(MacBinary Encoded File(s)) were in "efi"/"microsoft"/"boot" folder.
Why are these files in a Windows ISO ? Were they created by poweriso (for OS X) when opening ISO ?
Do I have to burn Boot Camp 3.1 for Windows (provided by Apple) on the Windows Install DVD ?
I think it serves AFTER installation, or do I make a mistake ?
*Another question :* why should I let Boot Camp create a (FAT32 formatted) 32 GB partition (in fact, it creates more if you verify, and it shouldn't), when I know that, when installing, Windows 7 Enterprise will format his space with NTFS ?
Wouldn't be more clever to afford it 50 GB, for example, and what exactly does Boot Camp when you decide the Windows partition to be greater than 32 GB ?
Thank you very much in advance for any help, even the shadow of a clue !
With my kind regards,
Olivier Herrbach
PS : I hope this text will not be considered as an already posted problem. If it is so, I sincerely apologize.

It's a simple matter to burn a bootable .ISO image to a DVD using Disk Utility or Toast.
if Boot Camp fails to recognize your DVD then it's either not a bootable disc or the DVD was not created properly. I've burned Windows 7 disc images to DVD several times and they have always worked. But if you have an upgrade image then they are not bootable. You must instead have a previous version of Windows - Vista or XP - installed in order to use an upgrade disc.
To properly burn an image file to a DVD using Disk Utility do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select Burn from the Images menu.
3. Locate the .ISO file you want to use in the File Open dialog.
4. Click on the Burn button.
You will be prompted to insert a blank disc if one is not already in the drive. When the blank DVD is recognized the Burn button in the DU window will activate.

Cannot Complete Installation of Vista with Mac Pro and Boot Camp

I only have one hard drive with my Mac Pro, and I partitioned the drive into two sections with boot camp and restarted with my Vista 64 bit Ultimate CD.
I have tried formatting the partition with Vista and it still gives me the dreaded error message of "windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria". I've tried deleting the partition during installation, and making a new partition with Vista, reformatting, then restarting the computer. Same message.
I don't know what to do. I've tried like mad searching for topics like this one here, but every one of them deals with installing vista on a second dedicated hard drive on the Mac Pro. I only have one. How do I get this to work?
Please help if you can. I would REALLY appreciate it. I'll be watching the thread. Thank you!!

Loyalty4Life wrote:
Thank you for your reply! I'll be here all night.
I have the 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors. I tried installing Vista ultimate with my 32 bit software, but I still get the same message (I own both legally, btw).
Thanks for your help.
Several things to do:
Run OS-X Disk utility and repair the disk if necessary, and file permissions.
Be sure your HD has the GUID partition scheme and if it has SMART that it's OK
Zap the PRAM
Be sure you are logged in as administrator when creating the BC partition and starting the installation of Windows from Leopard
When I installed Vista Ultimate 64-bit, I was using BootCamp beta, 1.2 or 1.3. I created the partition with BootCamp Assistant.app as you did. It's a 60GB partition that I formatted with NTFS with BC.
After starting the install in Tiger, I then simply inserted the Vista 64-bit DVD and that was it.
It just installed.
Ditto with XP-Pro on my other MBP. Zero problems with BC. It was also done with a beta, BC1.0.
I have never installed Windows using Leopard. When I updated to Leopard from Tiger nothing changed, but there seem to be more problems with Leopard and BC2.0 than there were with Tiger and the beta versions.
There are no requirements about legality until after the OS is installed, so that's a moot point.
There are some install DVDs that are in ISO format and they won't work, but it seems that yours is working but not finding a suitable volume.
You might try reformatting the BC partition with BootCamp assistant as FAt32 and seeing if that works, but you are limited to 32GB if you do that, but it would be a good test. Vista should then format it into NTFS.
Be sure that your Leopard OS is fully backed up because stuff happens when you keep fooling around with partitions.
Also look through this forum for similar problems.

Serious issue with Windows XP on Boot Camp

Whenever I run an application on Windows XP, the blue screen of death pops up after about 5 to 10 minutes or so and my computer automatically restarts. When I log back onto Windows, the system tells me that it has recovered from a serious error. Here is the error signature:
BCCode : 1000007f BCP1 : 0000000D BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 00000000
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 512600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1
Any help on solving this problem would be greatly appreciated. As a side, I've installed the latest Boot Camp updates as well as Service Pack 3 for XP.

I'm having exactly the same problem -- happened 3 times tonight!
This has been occurring for roughly the last week or so. Correlates closely with my upgrade to MAC OS 10.5.4, but I can't tie it to that precisely.

Stability problems with Win7 x64 and Boot Camp 3.1...

Before I was running win 7 with Boot Camp 3.0 and On top of that I installed my Chipset and Graphics from Nvidias Website. System was running without any major problems.
Now I have win7 and BootCamp 3.1 and the laptop runs like crap... System freezes sometimes only for a minute most of the time I need to hold power button.
The last time I has ScanDisk start on me and start checking. it found about 200 missing files some unindexed and MFT bitmap was repaired...
Do not know why, I'm unable to figure out what was causing that.
Currently I have win7 x86 with bootcamp 3.1 installed and The system works good.
I think there is an issue with the 3.1 x64 driver package.
If anyone has any Ideas on what I can do to figure out why the system runs so unpredictable with 3.1 x64 drivers installed. I'm whiling to experiment and reinstall win7 x64 as many times as needed so i can send an error report to apple to get this issue fixed.

Wow, i've been running windows 7 64 bit in boot camp since I got my copy as a beta tester in July and never had any issues like you're describing. Boot camp 3.0 worked fine (other than the light in the audio port and minimal touchpad control, and the still present inability to dim the screen dynamically based on brightness around me). And I've had no problems with boot camp 3.1 so far. In the previous BC versions, I went to the nvidia site and downloaded whatever the current driver was for the video, but nothing specific for the chipset. With 3.1 I haven't done even that, just using what the boot camp update installed. Have you tried it with just the BC 3.1 drivers, not getting anything extra from Nvidia or anyone, just to see what happens from that point first?
About the only time I had any issues with diskchecking is when I accidentally close fusion and it abends my windows session. I make a point then of booting and telling it to ignore the disk check, editing the registry to reset the flag so it doesn't do it, then just run a disk check from within windows telling it NOT to fix anything, so that it can verify it's clean. I found the normal disk check in the preboot environment is horrendous on the MBP, takes me literally hours to run through despite it never finding anything to fix.

No network devices using Windows 7 and Boot Camp

I've tried downloading on the Mac the Boot Camp Assistant drivers file, but it won't write to the USB drive and balks at using a DVD.
I've tried downloading from www.apple.com the Boot Camp Support Software for Windows 7 but when I try to open the zip file and copy to a USB, it keeps saying to provide the last volume, as if the downloaded files weren't complete. Almost to the point of giving up. Help!

Try this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
You can also us a Windows PC to download them, extract the ZIP file and copy them to a USB thumb drive if your Mac can't handle that simple task.

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