Want to instal windows7, via bootcamp.

I am looking online right now for which version of windows 7 to buy. 32bit, or 64bit? I have a black macbook, which I think is a 2006 model. Which version should I buy?

I think you should seriously consider win xp sp2. It will run better on your MacBook than 7 because your system is too close to 7's minimum requirements. It well exceeds xp's and that would act in your favor.

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Is installing Windows via bootcamp bad for my hardrive? (It crashed)

Hello,
I purchased my new Macbook Pro 13" in January of this year, and my hardrive recently completely crashed. I was lucky enough to have Apple pay for a new hd, but I really want to know what caused it. The only thing I can think of that makes any sort of sense is that installing Windows via bootcamp screwed up the hardrive somehow and caused it to fail from getting worked too much from always restarting into Windows / having too much of my hd dedicated to Windows (150 gb of my 750gb SATA hd). I dont know if any of this makes sense, or if I just got really unlucky and got a bad hd from the factory. I have never physically damaged my macbook (like dropping it or whatever) and have never stored it in extremely hot or cold temperatures. The copy of Windows I installed was legit and everything....so I am scared to reinstall windows in fear that my hd will fail again
So my question is this...... is there any way that the bootcamp partition could have cause my hd to fail? Is it safe to go ahead and install windows again?
Thank you for you time.

I have never heard of bootcamp causing hard drive failure. I think it is more likely that you were unlucky and ended up with a bad drive. Something like 1 in 100,000 fail, that 1 has to land on someone. If you are worried about bootcamping again I would recommend Parallels or VMWare Fusion. They are both excellent virtualization applications and offer a soft cap on the windows partition size because it is a file kept inside of OSX instead of a physical partition. I have been running Parallels for 6 months with no problems.
Best,
Stuart-

I'm new to the Mac world. I installed my Epson printer on my IMAC and it worked fine. Then I installed Windows7 through Bootcamp and I think it reconfigured a port and now I get a communication error and it won't print. Any help on how do to fix this?

Sorry, I'm new to the Mac world. I recently got a new IMAC and installed my Epson CX5800F printer and it worked fine. Then a few weeks later I installed Windows7 through Bootcamp and I think it reconfigured a port or something and now I get a communication error and it won't print. Can anyone help me with this problem, and/or help me get the port back the way it was? Thanks, Barry

While looking through profile first aid, I came across this that might help explain my problem.
Searching for profiles...
Checking 20 profiles...
/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiles/Standard.profiles/Contents/Re sources/Epson IJ Printer.icc
   Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'dmdd': Tag size is not correct.
   Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
   Tag 'dmdd': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.
   The file is locked. Could not be fixed.
Repair done - 0 out of 1 profiles fixed.

When i want to install windows7 on my snow leopard(10.6.4) with boot camp assistant,said that you must update your mac,i do this and try to install windows7 again but i have this problem again?what can i do?

when i want to install windows7 on my snow leopard(10.6.4) with boot camp assistant,said that you must update your mac,i do this and try to install windows7 again but i have this problem again?what can i do?

Graham Giles wrote:
Have you seen this type of problem before? I think it could be a serious issue for anyone in a similar position.
No; but then, I've not had occasion to use TDM. I've been using firerwire drives for over 10 years, both FW400 and FW800, with no issues except a bit of instability using a B&W G3 machine.
TDM should be safe. Using cautious, manual copying of files from the Target machine to the Host machine should not result in unexpected loss of files or damage to the Target drive's directories. It should behave exactly the same as if it were an external (to the Host) firewire drive.
• I don't suppose there is anything I can do to 'put back' lost items from a separate Time Machine drive which has an up to date backup on it.
There is probably a way to do that - seems to me that's one of the reasons for a Time Machine volume.
On the other hand, if the Time Machine volume is rigidly linked to the now-absent OS on the original drive, there may be no way to effectively access the files in the TM archive.
I know that using a cloned drive would work well in this instance.
I have no experience with Time Machine, so perhaps someone who has will chime in with suggestions.
With the machine in TDM with the other machine, have you tried running Disk Utility to see if you can effect repairs to the drive?

Install windows via bootcamp on macbook pro maverick

I am trying to install wiondows via bootcamp on maverick (I have some tools for which parallels won't do)
I have downloaded an iso image of windows seven from microsoft
I have follwed the instructions on bootcamp utility
The bootcamp utility has formatted my USB key
My Macbook drive was partitionned by bootcamp tool
But now what should I do ?
When I just start the mac it says
No Bootable device -- insert boot disk and press key
If I keep option pressed while the computer starts
I can see three volumes
The Maverick volume (When I select it it launches maverick)
The recovery volume that is an apple tool for reinstalling a fresh maverick
My USB volume called windows
When I select my windows volume it says no bootable device -- insert boot disk
What can I do ?
Thanks

Lilly,
since you just got your new MacBook Pro, at this point I’d recommend making an appointment at an Apple store to show them what’s happening when you run Boot Camp Assistant. Be sure to take your Windows 7 disc and your USB SuperDrive with you, so you can show them how it currently behaves. Please include in your reply whether they were able to resolve the problem, and if so, how they did it, so that future readers of this discussion can benefit from your experience.

I running snow leopard on my MBP- where can I find the drivers for windows XP if I install them via bootcamp? Thanks!

I running snow leopard on my MBP- where can I find the drivers for windows XP if I install them via bootcamp? Thanks!

You won't find them until you are in Windows.
Helps to read even print the guide.
If you have auto run enabled, which is a security risk, the Apple setup.exe will run.
Otherwise, just run that.
Either use your OS X DVD, or use the drivers downloaded by Boot Camp Assistant.
Two different ways to get them.

Can't find drivers to instal windows via bootcamp.

I want to instal windos 7 to play guild wars 2 via bootcamp but bootcamp won't let me donwload the drivers does anyone know where i can find them or how to let bootcamp donwload them. i have a imac with snowleapord 10.6.8.

Try looking here for starters.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=4063&tool=&query=d...

IMac not working after attempting to install windows via bootcamp, what do?

So I tried installing windows into my iMac OS X via Bootcamp. I followed the instructions from the tutorial video; however, I may have used the wrong disk. I used iWork to partition so I can get windows running, the results of this attempt was a black screen with white text saying "no bootable drive -- insert a boot disk and press any key" I cannot eject the disc at all, none of the keys on the wired keyboard responds, nor does the wired mouse I use. I need to get rid of this and go back to using the previous operating system. The only button on my computer that does work atm is just the power button. What is a solution to solve this?
Also, I did not download anything from the internet (i.e. download windows 7) to get to where I was trying to go, so I'm sure a virus did not cause this. How do I eject the disc from the computer if I cannot eject the disc using the eject key on the keyboard since the keyboard does not respond...

Hello Erick419
Try starting up the computer and holding the option key. From there you should get something similar to the image below. Then you can choose your Mac Startup Disk and also should be able to hit the eject button to get the disk out.
Startup Manager: How to select a startup volume
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1310
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

HT3986 when i want to install windows on bootcamp in bootcamp say your bootcamp cannot partioned what should i do?

when i want install windows on bootcamp in my macbookpr 13inch it said your bootcamp cannot partioned.

usually it says something else, like due to not enough free contiguous space and that some files cannot be moved.
sometimes you just need to boot into ML Recovery and run Disk Repair and Repair Permissions then zap PRAM (just once or two boot chimes).
Also do a Safe Boot.
You can easily find all of the above.
You will need 45GB for Windows and still have 20-40GB free for OS X to function and grow.
You can from ML Recovery try to shrink your HFS Mac partition as much as possible, assuming you have 75GB or more, then stretch back to full size - before restarting.
And you must have only the standard Mac and ML Recovery.
If your Mac is 3 yrs old and started with Leopard or SL then sometimes ML and Boot Camp don't work for a few cases. In which case, and you should already have backups, with TimeMachine and possible even clone your system - that gives you a means to unmount your hard drive and if necessary to erase and restore from backup.
A clone is a bootable backup copy or image of your Mac system usually and very useful to have.

Unique issue:installing windows via bootcamp

Hi
I tried googling for my issue and it looks like I am the only one facing this problem hence I suspect that I am missing or doing something wrong. Before I describe a background:
I am running late 2006 macbook pro with core 2 duo. It is running Snow Leopard OS 10.6.8.
What am I trying to achieve:
I have the release preview downloaded (way before the final version was released and I have not succeeded in installing even after it is officially released). I want to try this first given it will work till January 2013 and if all goes well I would like to install a licensed version. I am so fed up with my macbook pro and starting to hate Apple as each day passes.
According to all the tutorials online, the step to do this is run bootcamp>it will attempt to download windows support software (it attempts to download but fails consequently as mentioned in many tutorials, but not an issue if we already have the windows support software in a disc which I have too)>then click the next option to continue installing>I select how much space I need to assign for each operating system>then select the bootcamp driver partition to start installation>after inserting the windows disc and completing the installation and reboot> install the windows support software and drivers.
What happens in my case:
Start bootcamp>gives two option 1. to download windows support software or 2. if I already have the windows support files I can continue with installation> I continue with the installation>gives me a screen where I select how much space I allocate for both the operating systems>it partitions the drive>asks me to insert windows installation disc and continue> I insert the disc and continue, the machine reboots from windows installation disc>asks me to select the language>I see the installation screen>first step is it shows 'gathering device information' and this is the place where I am stuck.......
It comes up with popup window and says the disc containing device drivers are missing, please insert the disc (am i not support to run the windows support software after completing the windows installation? as mentioned in all the tutorials.) I am not sure what disc it is looking for. At this moment, I cant eject the disc with windows installation and insert the disc with windows support software as the eject button never responds, therefore I had the windows support drivers also in a usb pen drive which I browse and select - still it says 'no updated drivers found' and never gives me the option to continue with the installation. So i am fed up with this. What driver is it looking for at this moment and why did it not ask me to select the partition where I have to install the windows as mentioned in many tutorials online.
my snow leopard has bootcamp 3.0.4 version and software is upto date and cant update to new software (yes maybe after I install windows and via windows I might be able to update but not now)
Please help, I atleast want my macbook pro to run windows as it is already getting outdated and new photoshop CS and others dont support due to graphic hardware incompatibility and many others slowly cropping as it is aging.
If there is already a similar case in this forum please point me but I can find it anywhere in the web.
thanks
Sany

Are you saying that you did not complete the Windows 8 Installation? If so, you have more problems than just the drivers. Installing the drivers is supposed to occur after the Windows installation.
Please note that no Boot Camp drivers exist for Windows 8. Apple will release these drivers whenever Apple decides to. As users, none of the people on these discussion boards know for sure when this will be. Some of the users have suggested using the most up-to-date Boot Camp drivers, written for Windows 7, on Windows 8, but installing these in Windows 7 Compatibility Mode. Regardless, there are users on these discussion boards reporting major hardware malfunction, including frequent reboots (horrible for the system board, the video card (if any), and the hard disk drive) and full drive corruption (which affects your Mac OS and the Windows OS), among others. To have a reasonable timetable, it took Apple 89 days following the initial release of Windows 7 to release updated Boot Camp drivers that would handle Windows 7. Using this fact with our present situation, you are looking at January 22nd or 23rd before you might expect Apple to release drivers that will work with Windows 8. Trying to do this early on, you may end up making your system completely unusable. Judging by your previous posts, you are loathe to do so.
I would suggest waiting. Windows 8 is so touch/gesture-centric that the touchpad on your 2006 MBP will feel quite limiting. If you had a unibody MBP, Windows 8 might still be attractive, as the surface area on the touchpad is far greater. All-in-all, in your situation, saving up for a newer ultrabook with touchscreen is probably the best option to getting the most out of Windows 8. You've already stated that your computer is now virtually useless for the applications you most frequently run and you are trying one last gasp effort at restoring some of that usability by installing Windows 8. Consider that 6-7 years for a computer is practically an eternity for up-to-date software on the order of Photoshop. The only thing I can think of that might restore some of your capacity to use the hardware of your MBP longer is going the Linux route and using Gimp instead of Photoshop. Windows is seldom the route to take if your hardware has aged as much as yours has.

Trying to install Windows via Bootcamp (dual SSD, optibay)

I have an MBP 17" late 2011. I am running Lion 10.7.4. and I recently bought two Samsung 830 Series SSD drives to put into the MBP. I want to put one in the The second one I want to go into the optibay, so I bought a drive caddy. I am not able to install Bootcamp because I don't have an optical drive. I've tried a few software mods, such as adding 'mbasd=1' and here (www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?uid=225402&f=212&t=61921&start=0) to create a windows 7 USB install disk on Lion, and here (sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist) to try and get the external superdrive to work and others I've seen on various communities, but nothing seems to work. I can't use the Parallels route because my version of Windows is an Upgrade version.
A few things you should know: (1) I was able to get the superdrive working on my MBP using the software mod above, and I was excited to finally get Wondows installed on the second SSD. However, when Bootcamp goes to install it, it hangs at a black screen with "_" blinking infinitely. I feel like I'm close to finding a solution, but so far no luck. I'm close to just packing up the SSDs and returning them, even though I really like the performance I see.
I am not a beginner, but I am not an advanced programmer, so if you have ideas or fixes, please send them my way.
Here is the set up I want to accomplish:
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?

I want to install windows7 on my 27in iMAC. I have an OEM version of Win7 which is win pro 7, 64 bit english. I will use boot camp to partion the hard drive for a win7 install. Can I use this version for the installation ??

My iMAC is a 2011 3.4 GHz intel i7 based with a 27in display. A year ago, I bought a Microsoft win pro 7 64-bit english OEM OS to install over a newly assembled AMD PC. I never installed it. Now, I want to put it on my iMAC using either Apple Bootcamp or Parallels. The win 7 OEM package has a lot of verbage about using an OEM preinstallation kit (OPK) and that it must be preinstalled on the hard drive. Is it OK to install this win7 version following the Bootcamp instructions.?
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Please post in the Boot Camp (not Bootcamp) forum I'm sure someone there can answer your quesiton if no one here is able to.

Is there any way I can convert a .exe file to .iso on my MacBook Air? I'm trying to install Windows via BootCamp but the download from Microsoft is a .exe file which does me no good.

I'm trying to install Windows 8 via Boot Camp, but the download from Microsoft is a .exe file so when I go to create the bootable USB drive, it fails. I've read some of the other threads about this topic, but I want to know if there is any way to convert to .iso without having to find someone's Windows computer to borrow. Can anyone help?

No. You would require a PC in order to run the executable which is an installer, not a disc image or an archive.

Help me install Windows via bootcamp

Hello all!
I have run into the typical Bootcam problems on my macbook pro when trying to install W7.
Symptoms:
1)Bootcamp can't install the updates for my mac. Okay, whatever, can be bypassed.
Chose "I have the updates" and tried to partition my drive.
During the process, I get a:
2)"some files could not be moved" message.
Now, I know there are solutions for this, like:
1)checkdisk and repair utility - didn't work.
1a)try to format to a small partition - selected the minimum possible, it didn't work.
2)Third party partition software - No, sorry. Don't want to pay to fix a feature that should be working anyway.
3)Reinstall Macosx - won't do it. Too much time and hassle. Just no.
4)Look for the messages that bootcamp generates in the "messages.app" and remove the problematic files. This looks like the best shot, but the strange thing is that Bootcamp doesn't generate error messages that would help me identify the files that can't be moved.
5)Delete parallels and all associated files - done, didn't help.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Machine: macbook pro 2009 (non unibody), OSX 10.6.8, 4 gigs of ram.

And it's failing at that.
Since you have enough room, the only reason something like that should fail would be a locked file or folder sitting in the area it wants to allocate to the Windows partition.
If you have an external drive, you can use SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to duplicate your drive to an empty drive/partition on the external. Make sure it's empty, as either will erase what's already there to make the target drive an exact duplicate of the source drive.
Then boot to the cloned external drive, erase the main drive and clone it back. Everything will then be contiguous and you should have no problem creating a Windows partition with Boot Camp.

'No bootable disk' error message when installing Windows7 with Bootcamp

Hey,
It seems so many people have had this problem which I am having now, I've tried searching for a solution that works but to no avail. So I'll give as much detail to this problem in the hope that someone knows the answer!
When running bootcamp assistant in order to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion), I am able to go through all the steps - create USB installer, download software and partition hard drive. However, when the computer restarts I am faced with the black screen displaying "No bootable device - insert disk and press any key to continue". Nothing seems to work!
I've tried using a DVD instead of a usb to install Windows, using a burned copy of the ISO disk image (in UDF format) of Windows and I've tried using a sony and a san disk USB. I've tried holding down the option key on start up to see if I can select the disk manually but nothing appears (just my hard drive and the recovery mode).
Any help would be really appreciated! I'm in need of windows in order to run some programs to carry out data analysis on endangered species for research.

Thanks Bob! My problem was that I was following advice from elsewhere on the internet that said I should burn a DVD in UDF format when in fact just burning it using disk utility in ISO made it work. Thank you so much!

Want to instal windows7, via bootcamp.

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