What is a good program to install windows via a flashdrive...Have the iso
What is a good program to install windows via a flashdrive...Have the iso...
What are you trying to do?
You can install Windows in a Boot Camp partition and have a Dual Boot system where you run one operating system at a time. Either Windows or Mac OS X.
Or you can use one of the 3 available virtual machine software parograms to install Windows in a virtual machine on top of Mac OS X. Then you can run both Windows and OS X at the same time.
If you go with the Boot Camp option then you really need to burn that ISO file onto a DVD disc as Boot Camp likes to install from disc.
If you go with the virtual machine option then you can use that ISO file as it is to install Windows. You will just point the VM to the USB thumb drive to find the Windows OS to do the install from.
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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- -
What's a good program to use to make flyers and handouts with?
What's a good program to use to make flyers and handouts with? I'm not a wiz with computers so nothing too sophisticated is needed. Thanks!
Pages would be fine but there are hundreds, I'd recommend using the Mac App Store.
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Installing Windows 7 in Boot Camp with iso
I have downloaded an .iso file with Windows 7 on but I can't install it in Boot Camp. I've tried several things with no luck.
1. For the first, when I start up Boot Camp assistant I can't choose to "Create a Windows 7 install disk". I only have the two bottom options, the one for downloading support software and the one for installing windows 7. So I can't use my .iso file there.
2. I tried to burn a bootable dvd with the .iso file. I burned it on a Windows PC since my superdrive won't burn on the discs I've got (DVD+R). The disc works properly on the Windows PC but when i mount it in my Macbook I only get a popup that says I've put in a blank disc and some options of what I wan't to do next.
3. I tried to make a bootable flash drive and that pops up in finder, but the Boot Camp assistant won't recognize it and says I have to put in a Windows 7 install disc.
4. I also tried to open the image file in disc utility, but the result is the same as if I'm trying with a flash drive.
I'm out of ideas now so it would be nice if someone else knew any other possibilites to install Windows 7 in Boot Camp.
Or maybe there is an solution for the things I've alleready tried?
I'm using a MacBook Pro late 2008Does it boot off the internal?
Is the external a full copy of your working system?> whew! then you can always wipe it clean and start over.
As long as the partition was created properly.... though 50GB can work it can also be slim fit in the end.
Under the worst condition - and the Mini is one of the worst, too - two minutes maybe to restart.
External because there never was an internal DVD player?
zap pram.
did you buy DVD or burn DVD? if burned, then that is likely cultprit Redo at slowest burn speed (2x) with verify.
Heck, even Windows 7 SP1 has been implicated on some were pre-SP1 worked.
For a test, there is Windows 8 RP for free. And Parallels 7 will set up a VM for you with the whole download and inistall. Not everyone needs to run natively. -
Is it possible to have two versions of Muse on one Machine? WhenI open Muse from my program menu in WIndows 7 it comes up the way I am used to. I did an upgrade a week or so ago and now I have an Adobe Muse CC 2014 on my desktop. WhenI open the application that way the GUI interface looksw totally different, more like Illustrator. What is that all about?
Since posting the above, I have resolved a sensible work-around in regard to ebookstores which prefer us to have separate accounts for our separate Adobe IDs.
However, I really would appreciate it if anyone here can confirm that a DRM controlled book does actually become associated with a particular Adobe ID account at the time of first download to Digital Editions on that PC/device.
Two large book stores have said using my account with them to download books to our two separate Adobe IDs is OK, but I don't want to find my husband is unable to open his downloaded books.
Thank you folks for any advice you can give,
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Boot Camp will not let me install Windows via external hard drive
Hi,
I'm having problems installing Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro. I have the iso file on my external hard dirve and have went to Boot Camp but the following message comes up:
"The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
At one point i just clicked OK and let Boot Camp install the selected tasks, which formated the disk, copied the Windows files and downloaded the Windows support software but another message came up:
"Install this Windows support software after installing Windows"
It then only gives me an option to Quit...
I would like to add that i tried to install Windows a few days ago and everything was working well up until instead of clicking on "customize" to continue the installation i clicked on "upgrade" then it asked me to remove disk and reboot the computer, i did that and it didn't work. Luckily i got that sorted but wanted to try and install Windows again as it didn't end up getting it installed and this is what is happening now...
Can someone suggest to me what might be wrong?
Thanks in advance.My other post has been deleted. I will reply to you on this post instead.
I dragged down the Macintosh HD partition via the small triangle at the bottom right hand side of it. It now looks like this:
Is it back to normal now? Can i install Windows now or do i need to do anything else?
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I have windows 8.1 on DVD & on USB CF Reader/Card. I've followed the full steps in bootcamp, but when it restarts and its time to select the bootcamp partition to install windows (after alt rebooting to the efi startup) I get the "Windows can't be installed on this storage device. The chosen harddisk contains a MBR-partition-table. Windows can only be installed on GPT-harddisks on EFI-systems" error.
I've scoured the internet trying different solutions that seem to work for everyone else, but to no avail. I've reformatted from that screen, doesn't help. I've removed bootcamp partition and manually partitioned using disk util, leaving it empty once partition-wise, and filling it with a blank partition the second time. I've done a full back up and clean re-install of Yosemite, and nothing seems to be working.
Thats when I switched to DVD install, as I heard sometimes you can't install with a CF card. When I alt-boot, I can see EFI-windows and windows, but if I select EFI-windows, same problem as before, and if I select windows, I get the black screen of "no bootable device please insert boot disk and press any key."
I've been stuck w/o bootcamp for over 2 years now. Anyone, please help?
Mid 2010 iMac running 256gb SSD, Yosemite 10.10.1 trying to install windows 8.1I am having the same problem. Windows is trying to install. It identifies the various partitions but says that I cannot install Windows on the Boot Camp partition or any other. I select Drive options (advanced) and Format the Boot Camp drive, but it makes no difference.
This is the Windows error:
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer BIOS menu.
I am not sure what Csound1 is suggesting with that post above. There are some involved suggestions over here <https://discussions.apple.com/message/23548999#23548999> about using Disk Utility to delete the Boot Camp partition and create new ones - is that the idea? -
Having SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3 I attempted to do a pretty simple task.
Create a capture media for Windows 8 64 Bit and capture the OS.
The system in question is a Dell Latitude 6430u and OEM Windows 8.
The system ran as expected, the capture went as expected, but when I deploy the image (Back to the same laptop mind you)
The following occurs:
Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation.
Things that I've tried:
Set the SATA to various modes as it was on RAID on as speculated in some posts
Saw a posting that suggests pressing SHIFT F-10 to get in to some prompt and run oobe; doesn't work here, I think.
Added Dell Driver Packs for the system
As for log files, I'll check C:\Windows\Panther and see what's there.
Any ideas on how to correct this? Is there a way to go in to the image itself to do so?Sorry, I'm not using CM2007, but CM 2012 SP1, CU3.
I went through the smsts log and found several instances where drivers were missing so I'm guessing that's why it pitched a wobbly about not being a suitable system for the Windows setup.
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI Lid'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:54:57 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:00 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:00 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'RamDisk'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:00 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'PCI Simple Communications Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:01 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI\DELLABCE\2&DABA3FF&0'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:02 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI x64-based PC'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:02 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic Monitor'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:02 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'PCI Express Root Complex'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 - 1E10'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel Processor'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel Processor'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel Processor'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel Processor'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'USB Root Hub (xHCI)'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI Power Button'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Microsoft Basic Render Driver'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Trusted Platform Module 1.2'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Host Controller - 1E22'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'ACPI Fixed Feature Button'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic volume'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Motherboard resources'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device '3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller - 0154'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic volume'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic USB Hub'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel(R) QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller - 1E55'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'System CMOS/real time clock'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:06 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic USB Hub'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Programmable interrupt controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Standard PS/2 Keyboard'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 - 1E12'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Generic volume'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Motherboard resources'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Direct memory access controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Microsoft System Management BIOS Driver'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Disk drive'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'USB Mass Storage Device'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Failed to find a suitable device driver for device 'Integrated Webcam'. OSDDriverClient 11/15/2013 5:55:25 PM 1168 (0x0490)
Which doesn't make sense since the image that I am trying to put on the system is the one I took it from. Before putting the image out I went to Dell's web site and got the Windows 8 drivers for the system and distributed them as I usually do.
I got the drivers from here -
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/4372.latitude-6430u-windows-8-driver-cab.aspx
What I don't get is that I can take the Windows 8 install.wim and do an OSD task with it and there is no issue with drivers.
One other thing here is the log from the windows\panther folder:
2013-11-15 17:56:46, Error SYSPRP SPPNP: Failed to enumerate PnP DRP files. Err = 0x5[gle=0x000003f0]
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error [0x0f0082] SYSPRP ActionPlatform::LaunchModule: Failure occurred while executing 'CryptoSysPrep_Specialize' from C:\Windows\system32\capisp.dll; dwRet = 0x5
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error SYSPRP ActionPlatform::ExecuteAction: Error in executing action; dwRet = 0x5
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error SYSPRP ActionPlatform::ExecuteActionList: Error in execute actions; dwRet = 0x5
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error SYSPRP SysprepSession::Execute: Error in executing actions from C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ActionFiles\Specialize.xml; dwRet = 0x5
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error SYSPRP RunPlatformActions:Failed while executing SysprepSession actions; dwRet = 0x5
2013-11-15 17:57:09, Error [0x060435] IBS Callback_Specialize: An error occurred while either deciding if we need to specialize or while specializing; dwRet = 0x5 -
I can not use my mouse or keyboard when I am trying to install windows via boot camp
Please can you help!
I can not use my mouse or keyboard when I am trying to install windows via boot campStarting a couple of days ago my mouse and keyboard stopped working suddenly.
How are they connected? In my case they are wireless and their receiver is plugged into my USB hub. After an update I found the OS inexplicably not recognizing my USB hub and hence any devices which were plugged into it. My fix was to
plug the receiver into a different USB port (so I could use the mouse and keyboard; otherwise I would have had to use the OSK via Touch or pen.) Once I had normal access into my machine again I used Device Manager to remove all USB controller and
hubs (including hidden ones) and I then shut down, disconnected all USB devices and powered back up, this time using only Touch to get going. Once the OS had settled down I started plugging stuff back in the way that I wanted it to be recognized.
If I didn't have Touch I would have had to have left the wireless receiver plugged in both places which I assume would be OK. I have no idea why updates have such a catastrophic effect for USB devices.
Robert Aldwinckle -
I have an intel based mac with 10.6.8 mac os x. How to install windows 7 using usb as the bootcamp doesnot have the option of creating a bootable usb. please help
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You can install Windows from a USB drive in one of these computers:
- MacBook Pro with Retina display.
- Mac mini (Mid 2010 and newer).
- MacBook Air.
- iMac (Late 2012).
If you don't have any of these Macs, you can't install Windows through a USB drive. Instead, buy Windows on a DVD. Follow Apple's steps > http://support.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1519/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6. pdf -
Internal DVD Drive isn't working... must install Windows via Boot Camp
My internal DVD Drive has died. Just keeps ejecting every CD or DVD I put in it.
*The real problem is that i need to install Windows via BootCamp...*
I've already defraged my Hard Drive and partioned it for the Windows installation
But even using an external USB DVD Drive I couldn't get to boot up from it
to install Windows XP SP3.
BootCamp lets me use the windows disc that is inside my external DVD drive
and it even restarts... but after the restart chime, and the grey screen, it doesn't
start the windows installation... it continues to boot to my Mac partition.
(i've tried to manually change the boot disc in System Preferences, but it was in vain)
I also tried to use another Mac's DVD drive in Target Disk Mode... no results.
I even tried to Copy-Paste the entire file system of a Windows installation from a BootCamp of a friend but had no success making it to work.
*Is there any way I can install Windows with my external DVD drive?*
Because I don't have the cash for buying a new one right now...
And I really need windows installed via BootCamp...
Thanks in advance,For this problem there no alternative > I bought a new internal DVD drive and then I was able to install Windows via Bootcamp.
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**I've installed Windows 7 through bootcamp on the new 2012 iMac now I have no network drivers or graphics drivers to run aero! Help! **
I have been through it again and at the end it came up with the error:
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I just purchased the Mac Mini Server with the intention of replacing Lion Server with Lion for the first hard drive while installing Windows 7 thru Bootcamp on the second hard drive. Is it possible for me to do this? Thanks.
I would use Parallels or VMWare and use the second drive to hold the virtual machine. That way the VM only uses the space that it needs and you can still use the remainder of the drive for other things, not to mention that you would not need to reboot to run windows.
Also Time Machine does not back up a boot camp partition. -
This started with windows 7 update June 16 2011
installed windows update, appears to have been June 16 2011 at 3:00.13 am now can't get on line I did a restore to previous of install and all worked oK But This morn I restarted my computer and update reinstalled and I don't have a restore point that will help (my bad)These are the updates that were installed
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2476490)
Installation date: 6/16/2011 11:31 PM
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2544893)
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - June 2011 (KB890830)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2535512)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2503665)
Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2544521)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2536276)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2525694)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2530548)
Security Update for .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB2518867)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2488113)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2536275)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB2518870)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2476490)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB2478663)
Security Update for .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB2478661)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2544893)
Installation date: 6/16/2011 3:00 AM -
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Thanks Fred. So I bought Snow Leopard, also installed ALL updates to now 10.6.8
Problem: when I start my Boot Camp (3.0.4) it does not let me use a USB. I have been reading your article that I can be on a later Boot Camp but somehow Apple is not leading me where to actually download this Boot Camp Assistant upgrade.
Keep in mind: every update on Apple about Boot Camp has been .exe which is useless to me since I do not have Windows installed.
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