Trying to repair windows XP bootcamp

I seem to have messed up my bootcamp installation and I can't figure out how to get it fixed. It started with me trying to install XP SP3. I downloaded the Bootcamp 2.1 update for XP and installed it, but the SP3 install hung right at the end (I might have run out of disk space somehow, because when I plugged the drive into another windows computer it showed only 72 megabytes remaining). So I had to give it a hard restart, and of course it didn't boot up properly. I tried to "restore to the last good configuration", but I was caught in the endless "Autocheck not found" reboot loop.
So I cleared some space on the Windows partition and tried to do the "repair install" where you boot from the XP cd, select the option to install Windows, and hit "R" to do a repair install. It seems to go through the process without any trouble, but when it reboots to Windows and tries to finish the setup it hangs every time. It gets to about the 33 minute mark where it finishes with the "installing devices" bar and the actual setup dialog (that has the language options) just pops up, but there's no on-screen cursor or any way to interact with the dialog. It's completely unresponsive and I have to do another hard reboot.
Do I have any options other than to reformat the partition and re-install?

If your Mac was originally configured with a built-in Optical drive, and it was later replaced, Bootcamp knows your original configuration and will not work properly in the modified configuration, because it uses your Mac's model string (found in About This Mac -> More Info -> System Report -> Hardware) for example, MacbookPro 11,3. The only supported method to install Windows is to restore the original HW configuration and install it and then move hardware around.
Please see Unable to Install Windows 8 on secondary Hard Disk .

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So I opened the iMac and it keeps asking me to go to windows. Windows OS also corrupted.
I tried the Option Key but the only option is Windows 7 only. So using a different keyboard, I press option and it only shows Windows HDD and the Mac HDD has gone.
What am I going to do? How can I restore Mac OS without the HDD anymore?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2) < your profile
Try using Lion Recovery

Trying to install Windows with Bootcamp

Hello. First, I do know this has been a recurrent trouble for a lot of Mac user who have tried to install Windows using Bootcamp. Believe me, I've looked it up both here in the Apple Communities and in saint Google. My situation is, however, that I have replaced my optical drive with a SSD, and now my optical drive works externally, via USB. Everytime I try to install Windows in a dedicated partition in the SSD, it just stays forever in a blank screen with blinking cursor.
Apple's troubleshot won't work for me, and I'm beginning to think that the issue has more to do with the optical drive itself. I tried:
To install Windows on the HDD instead of SSD.
To unplug every USB (even mouse), except for the optical drive with Windows 7.
To install it via USB stick (creating a bootable .iso with Disk Utility). In this case the usb stick does not even appear when holding option key.
To try another Windows 7 version (32/64 bits).
I have even read it might be because of a bad installation of the RAM memory... this makes no sense?!
If anyone has encountered this same situation, I'd appreciate some help. Hope I can get this done, because Steam's Age Of Empires won't ever work in OS X :S
Thank you all for reading and helping!
MacBook Pro
13-inch, Early 2011
2,3 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.9.5

If your Mac was originally configured with a built-in Optical drive, and it was later replaced, Bootcamp knows your original configuration and will not work properly in the modified configuration, because it uses your Mac's model string (found in About This Mac -> More Info -> System Report -> Hardware) for example, MacbookPro 11,3. The only supported method to install Windows is to restore the original HW configuration and install it and then move hardware around.
Please see Unable to Install Windows 8 on secondary Hard Disk .

Trying to install windows through bootcamp - now i'm screwed...

Ok so bought my very first mac yesterday and it has been a joy for the first 48 hours...sarcasm. I was trying to install windows xp - sp2 on my mac that has the latest and greatest version of leopard on it. Used boot camp to set up partition and was prompted to insert windows installation cd...all seemed to be running smoothly...until: the installation "completed" said that it needed to reboot to complete installation and that if there is a floopy disk in drive a:, to remove it. (***? there is no floppy disk on macs anymore...) so my computer will restart and goes to a page that says to press any key to boot from cd...ok 1)if I do press a key it leads be through the entire installation all over again and then reboots and we start again with the press any key to proceed with installation part...or 2) don't press any key and the it says "disc error, rebooting computer". so I thought that maybe i should just use parallels instead of bootcamp until I could research a bit more, but now since i can't get the computer on, it won't eject the cd - and unlike a pc, there's no button to make it eject no matter what...tried holding mouse key while shutting down and rebooting and it won't budge...
can someone please help me?? (btw - i'm writing from my problem-less pc)...i really don't want to regret the mac...

I'm a new macuser too (2 weeks). Try this. Turn off the compter and then, restart and hold down the OPTIONS key. A menu choice showing a hard drive should come up on the screen (and nothing else), this is the mac hard drive. Click on the arrow below the HD and it will boot into the MAC OS. Then, eject the CD from the mac OS. I think that should work.
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I try to press alt/option when it starts but nothing occurs. I don't know what is going on, i really need to use it urgently, i hope i won't loose my data. Well i hope someone could help me!!

Do not install MacKeeper:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3026
(Please note that references to the original developers, Zeobit, should now refer to Kromtech Alliance Corp, who acquired MacKeeper and PCKeeper from ZeoBit LLC in early 2013.

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1) Set up Bootcamp partition on second SSD. Drive #1 will be Lion, drive #2 will be a file store with Bootcamp partition also.
2) If using Bootcamp I can use my upgrade version of Windows. I can do this the traditional way of installing the older version, then the upgrade of Wondows, or simply install the upgrade version clean, then immediately reinstall it as an upgrade and the activation is clean. Before I get any grief on that, there are two things: (a) I've installed Windows several times on other machines this way and it is best because it is a clean install and (b) this was recommended to me by a MS technician when I had to call in a while back.
3) If/Once Windows is installed on MBP's second SSD (optibay), I will be using an external USB superdrive or a USB DVD/CD drive I own.
In trying to work all of this out over the past several days, there are a few observations I have:
A) I am baffled that the USB Superdrive won't work on anything except Mini and Air (even though I got it to work). I don't want to hear the "reasons" Apple does this, becuase I should be able to boot from ANY USB drive, like any other computer. What happens if/when my MBP's superdrive gives it up and no longer works? Drop another $2500+ on another computer?
Sorry for the rant.
Frustrated.

Middle of night but fwiw as long as you don't have two drives both using GUID you can do this. But you can't during install have OS X on A and Windows on B. Get Windows installed you will have to wipe out the one with Lion or disconnect it or something. Then reconnect or restore w/ Carbon Copy Cloner.
Format the one with Lion to MBR
BCA is not needed when you are not splitting a drive between both Windows DVD can be used to format the entire SSD.
Are you familiar with Carbon Copy cloner?

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I've now tried unplugging all my usb drives, but even though I've now formatted my USB Stick to MS Fat and downloaded the latest Windows support software from apple on to it, when I insert my disc the computer still does not recognize the disc. This is the message I am presented with: http://gyazo.com/454733761330896d5d214339142c3d95.png
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Macbook Pro 2011 problem with windows via bootcamp

I have macbook pro early 2011 and my disk drive not working.
I tried to install windows via bootcamp by an external disk drive but it failed to boot from the windows install disk.
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The Snow Leopard Windows drivers are on your Snow Leopard install disk. There is no download for Windows drivers and Snow Leopard.
You should include your computer model and year in your posts. Answers may vary depending on your hardware.
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I tried to install windows with bootcamp and couldn't get it to work because I had no valid product key for windows. So I deleted the windows partition to remove it from my mac. However, when I boot up the computer it goes to a black screen and tries to boot from a cd instead of just booting directly into leopard.
If I hold down the option key when I turn on the computer it bypasses that black screen and allows me to select the hard drive for leopard - then everything works as normal.
So my question is - how can I stop my laptop from trying to load from the cd and just boot directly into leopard when I turn on the computer like it used to.
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Adam

Found the answer see following post -
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6592744#6592744

No Audio for Windows 7 bootcamp, Tried to fix multiple times, STILL FAULTY!

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I have no audio and there is that red light inside my headphone jack, I can hear sounds when my headphones are plugged in but they are ridiculously quiet. I have read up on this problem just about everywhere I could find and have tried anything from installing the most up to date Realtec audio driver, to reinstalling the OS X CD drivers, to even the "poke around until you hit a switch inside the jack" trick.
While poking around inside the red lit jack I've had it go off, only to turn back on as soon as I try to watch a video or anything with audio. So that doesn't work for me apparently.
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I have the same problem, with vista, on an intel iMac.
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I have a macbook with bootcamp, Windows and Mac OS X.
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Would like to seek advice from experienced users before I do anything... wouldnt want to make OS X dead like windows too...
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Start using backups and imaging or clone software. And don't make changes without figuring out how to get back or undo.
Upgrade to Windows Vista or 7.
You tried using Disk Utility Repair on the partition? And what if you boot XP CD or Safe Mode?

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I am trying to run windows on a MacBook Pro using bootcamp.

Can anyone help? I am trying to run windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, 17 inch late 2011,
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This what I've done
I used disk utility to format a 8g flash drive in MS-DOS (FAT) format. Then I went on the microsoft site and made sure I was downloading the correct system for my Mac, using the correct bootcamp (4). I went with the 32 bit. I then purchased the full .iso windows 7 32 bit. I downloaded it and saved it to the previous flash drive. I went into bootcamp and downloaded the support software to the same USB flash drive. Then I ticked the box in bootcamp that says install windows 7, i partitioned the hard drive 40G windows and click install. The error message is that the disk can't be found. ok, not using a disk, but when I go back into my USB flash drive it says bootable :no. I hope this all makes sense to someone and you can help.
How can I make this USB bootable so bootcamp can install it? Where did I go wrong? Please be very step by step as I'm new at this.

The Boot Camp instructions are located here: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
The Boot Camp Discussion Community is located here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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You don't need to download the Windows support software, because in Snow Leopard, they are only available as a download for the Late 2010 MacBook Air.
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