Where's boot camp assistant

I bought one of the newly released macbooks and am thinking about installing boot camp on it. Looked up how to install it in help; it said use boot camp assistant in the utilities folder. However, when I looked in utilities there was no assistant for boot camp. I also checked my installation disks and did not see it in the bundled software package or optional software folder

This should help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306868

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Where can I found download for Boot Camp assistant. app?

I'd installed WindowsXP a few years back on 24" iMac it did not work well, uninstalled then I lost Boot Camp assistant out of Utility folder completely, now I just bought a 27" iMac and want to use 24" to re-install WindowsXP or may be Windows 7, but no Boot Camp, can I reinstall Boot Camp Assistant app.? if so where do I find it?

Get Pacifist and use it to install Boot Camp assistant from your 10.6 installation disk.
http://www.charlessoft.com/

Where is my Boot Camp assistant?

I can't find the Boot Camp assistant in the Application/Utilities folder where I was told it was located. Is there somewhere I can download it?
Thanks,
Wyman

crazysxycool wrote:
Thanks again Stefan. I won't worry about the boot camp for now. I'm looking into getting another Mac.
Best regards,
Wyman
Hi Wyman,
if your PPC G4 still suits your needs and your needs for running Windows are more basic, you might consider getting a rather in-expensive Windows-PC.
(Gosh, I would have never guessed to propose this anymore )
Stefan

Where can I download Boot Camp Assistant 3.3?

The version that comes with a fresh install of Snow Leopard is 3.04. I plan to install Windows 7.

Yes, Boot Camp Assistant for Snow Leopard is stuck at 3.04. But, I went ahead and partitioned the hard drive, installed Windows 7, and then installed Boot Camp from the Snow Leopard DVD. Once installed, Boot Camp can be updated directly from Apple through Apple Software Update. Problem solved.
I'm afraid that Snow Leopard is the end of the line for me on this machine. It ran Lion so hot that I had to downgrade. Might be the ATI graphics on this old MBP that weren't supported well under Lion. Anyway, Windows 7 runs well and is getting regular security updates.

Where can I find the Boot Camp Assistant on Leopard?

I have a new MacBook with Leopard, but I can't find the Boot Camp Assistant anywhere. Not with spotlight, not in my Applications folder, not in the Utilities map. I checked the both Leopard CD's that came with my MacBook, but no luck. Anyone who can help me find it?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306868

Boot Camp Problem:Where is that Boot Camp Assistant

I just finished installing window 7 64 bit and put the serial key. (I started up Window 7 for 1st time)(I was able to access both mac and windows)
But when i take a look in my window, i did not find the Boot Camp Assistant(Which is supposed to be in the taskbar)
Can anyone help me with this?
Problem:Can not find boot camp assisstant on the taskbar in Window 7(Which should be, since my friends has it) nor in the control panel.
I also cannot see the Mac Drive for some reason(I used my friend boot camp to referance this)

Bootcamp Assistant is what you used to create the Bootcamp partition. It will not show up in Windows. If you mean the Boocamp Control Panel, did you install the Windows Support software?
You should visit the Bootcamp Forum https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.2 & 10.9.3 Broken?

Boot Camp Now Hangs Every Time & Every Which Way
My Fall 2013 installation of Windows 8 was a breeze! I’ve been running Windows 8.1 until a week ago when my internal “Windows” drive was no longer visible as a boot drive. I option-key boot into one of three internal drives:
SSD / 10.9.3
1TB HD / 10.6.8
1TB HD / Windows
Convincing myself that I must have missed something, I’ve studied and re-studied the Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide and have read and tried the procedures described in numerous discussions and youtube videos.
Expect that this seems radical but thought it smart maintenance to back up all Windows HD data and reformat the Windows HD. I pulled my SSD (no mess with), booted into Recovery-10.9.3 and installed a clean 10.9.3.
>Put Windows installation DVD in CD drive >Shut down >reboot w/ Option+Command+p+r (reset PRAM) >Reboot 10.9.3
Mac Pro is now configured simply as:
1TB HD / 10.9.3
Windows DVD
32GB Flash
My failed installs with Boot Camp Assistant (5.1.2):
1.
Boot Camp Assistant adds a partition to 10.9.3, downloads and installs Windows support software >system auto reboots >black screen >chimes >grey screen >Windows CD spins up> then spins down >I wait for an hour+ but nothing seems to be going on and grey screen remains. (I never get to the Windows setup phase.)
reboot >launch Disk Utility >remove partition added for Boot Camp >shut down and reboot
2.
Boot Camp Assistant adds a partition to 10.9.3, downloads and installs Windows support software >system auto reboots >I option-key and 10.9.3, Recovery-10.9.3, Windows (CD), and Boot EFI (CD) options are presented >I select Windows but it immediately hangs. (Can’t boot to the Windows Installation DVD.)
reboot >launch Disk Utility >remove partition added for Boot Camp >shut down and reboot
3.
Boot Camp Assistant adds a partition to 10.9.3, downloads and installs Windows support software >system auto reboots >I option-key and 10.9.3, Recovery-10.9.3, Windows (CD), and Boot EFI (CD) options are presented >I select Boot EFI > Windows setup begins >I enter my Windows 8 key >Windows can’t find a drive for installation (even, from within Advanced option, formatting the disk during Windows setup process).
reboot >launch Disk Utility >remove partition added for Boot Camp >shut down and reboot
4.
Purchase AnyToISO for $23 to extract the ISO from my Windows 8 DVD. Easily done.
Edited the info.plist file for Boot Camp Assistant (youtube video VBAQ3CNgfxc) so that “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk” would list as an option under Boot Camp Assistant’s "Select Tasks" window. Checked all three options. >Selected the fresh ISO file with the installation destination being my 32GB flash drive. Boot Camp downloads and installs latest Windows support software from Apple. >system reboots >black screen >chimes >grey screen >Windows CD spins up> then spins down > I wait for an hour+ but nothing seems to be going on and grey screen remains. (I never get to the Windows setup phase.)
Checking the content of the 32GB flash (now named “WININSTALL”) it contains:
          $WinPEDriver$ (folder)
          autorun.inf
          AutoUnattend.xml
          boot (folder)
          BootCamp (folder)
          Bootmgr
          bootmgr.efi
          efi (folder)
          the .iso file
          setup.exe
          sources (folder)
          support (folder)
>shut down
I option-key reboot >10.9.3, Recovery-10.9.3, EFI Boot (flash drive), Windows (CD), and EFI Boot (CD) options are presented >I select the flash drive Boot EFI >Windows setup begins >I enter my Windows 8 key >Windows can’t find a drive for installation.
The only significant hardware/software differences (between now and my initial installation of Windows) is the progression of OS updates to the current (10.9.3) and the current version of Boot Camp Assistant (5.1.2).
Other recent procedures:
-verified my HD
-repaired permissions
-reset PRAM
For most install attempts I let Boot Camp Assistant build the partition. However, I’ve also tried adding a second partition manually w/ Disk Utility to make room for Boot Camp and Windows support software.
Do I need to regress to 10.8? IF that’s what was on my Mac Pro when received Fall 2013, it worked just fine!
What a nightmare!
I’m going crazy here!
What am I missing?
Any suggestions appreciated!

I've ordered Mountain Lion 10.8 from Apple Store. (Possible that my Mac Pro was not running Mavericks when received.)
Today I downloaded the trial of ntfsmac. It adds "Windows NT Filesystem" and "Windows NT Filesystem (compressed)" to Disk Utilitie's format options. I formatted a 1TB internal HD with "Windows NT Filesystem."
Shut down Mac Pro >pulled all drives and placed the 1TB internal HD in bay 1 (Windows install DVD is in disc drive). Reboot to Windows and proceed through first pages of setup but dead end as with previous installations:
Where do you want to install Windows?
Windows can't be installed on Drive 0 partition 1
Windows can't be installed on Drive 0 partition 2
I select "Drive Options (advanced)" and format partition 2.
outcome: "Windows can't be installed on Drive 0 partition 2"

Windows 7 install via boot camp assistant fails

I have a iMac 2.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with Mac OS X Version 10.6.8.
I also have a USB drive formated as Master Boot Record in MS-DOS (FAT) format. The USB has a capacity of 4GB+ and for now only includes a file named 'unattend.xml' and a folder named 'drivers'. I created this USB drive when advised by a Boot Camp support site, because the Windows 7 install created a blank screen with a small flashing line on the upper-left of the screen.
The I have burned an ISO file of Windows 7 Pro English 32 bit from the Microsoft site (I'm Gold partner).
So I started of by clicking on the Boot Camp Assistant, tried to download the nesecarry Windows drivers, but it refused... This seemed to be a normal problem which I could ignore (I heard). So I selected 'I have the Max OS X Installation Disc....' and pressed continue. I now prepared the size of the Windows environment and when that was finished, I inserted the burned DVD (which works perfectly fine on non-Apple computers).
All this time, the USB drive was in the back of the iMac.
I waited a while and the computer rebooted. A white screen appeared and after a while, the screen went to black, with the flashing little line on the upper-left of the screen...
What is it that I do wrong? Any help is really appreaciated.

Partitions are not drives
you are just seeing user volumes
your sig showed you still run 10.6, not Lion, no recovery partition (which is hidden)
The update to lion puts the recovery partition between where Mac and Boot Camp use to be and would have been.
I am opposed to upgrading to Lion. Do clean install, even to an external drive.
To me all that is needed is in the manual and here
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp

Can i install windows 8 on my mbpr using boot camp assistant?

can i install windows 8 on my mbpr using boot camp assistant?
pls help

Go to the Bootcamp forum where the Bootcamp gurus hang out. https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

Boot Camp Assistant: "Can't move files"

Hi,
I'm trying to create a 500GB partition with BCA and it keeps giving me the "Can't move files, back up data, format, etc." error.
I've currently got a 2 TB HD; the first time I attempted this I had about 633GB of data on the drive, so about ~1350GB free. I received this error so I bought iDefrag and let it run for a long time (~14 hours or so) until it was finished, and again I received the error.
(Prior to defragging I verified and repaired permissions through Disk Utility)
So I transferred a 110GB file over to my external drive, deleted off ~150-180GB of movies and TV shows (which are safely stored on another computer), culled some other stuff, did a verify + repair permissions, and now I'm only using 378GB of a 2TB disk.
It still won't work. I really, really, don't want to format and restore my info.
Any idea's how I can get this working? Thanks

Clone your drive and erase restore
iDefrag has to be run from a CD you burn, or from another hard drive. I definitely favor always having bootable clone backups for OS X.
Has to not have locked files where installers can place there
Boot CAmp Assistant should have iDefrag capability, but it doesn't (should also by now just be part of Disk Utility too).
Partitioning relies on not just free space, but contiguous and unfragmented.

"Booting from Boot Camp Assistant created USB Drive...Failed to load BOOTMGR"

Hi Apple Ppl of the Wrld: I need help I been working on installing windows 8 on my Mac.
Spec of equipment:
Mac Book Pro Mid 2012
Bootcamp Version: Version 5.0.4 (473)
Bootable USB Flash Drive: Type Scan disk 4 GB windows 8 pro iso image but without the driver and the 2nd Scan disk USB flash drive with 32 GB with the Bootcamp Drivers downloaded and saved to this drive.
Please Note: I also have the original back up installation disc for Microsoft 8 Prof 64 from Microsoft where I purchased it from.
1st Bootcamp is not recognizing the Original Microsoft 8 Pro backup disk from microsoft itself.
Solution: I created the New Image from the Original Microsoft installed disc in my desk top and changed the extension to .ISO then burned the ISO image into the newly purchased DVD+R. Then I ran Bootcamp Once again and it get the following error message "The installer disc could not be found -- Insert your Windows installer disc and wait a few seconds for the disc to be recognized. Solution
2: Created a bootable usb drive with bootcamp assistant successfully with bootcamp. Yes I close, ejected or un-mounted any image that was open or had been previously used then i restarted the Mac. Next, I start the bootcamp assistant tool once again then i get the same insert your windows installer disc message.
3: Then I try to resolve the installer disc not found issue: this are the steps i took: a). Lauch disc utilities
    1. Selected the top most drive 750 GB Macintosh HDD
    2. On the right you’ll see 5 tab buttons: First Aid | Erase | Partition | RAID | Restore.
    3. Choose Partition. Then I clicked + to add another partition size of the partition was 222 GB
    4. Change the Name of the Partition to BOOTCAMP
    5. Change the Format to MS-DOS (FAT)
    6. Click Apply to save the changes and then reboot your Mac and we’ll begin Windows installation.
    7. During reboot, press and hold the alt/Option key and you’ll be presented with drives to boot from.
    8. Use the arrow keys and return button to select the Windows yellow USB key drive containing your Windows 8 installation files.
    9. This will begin the Windows install. --> then i get the following message: "Booting from Boot Camp Assistant created USB Drive...Failed to load BOOTMGR".
4: Take the Mac to best buy and let them resolve the issue and charge me like a million dollars for it :'( since i have no other idea who to get this bootcamp working at all. This has been a terribly lengthy issue and it is not as simple as it is claimed to be since i started with the Original Windows Disc Purchased from Microsoft and I have the Optical disc drive which it should be simpler from what I understand.
Please can you help It would be of great help.
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from what i understand you are trying to install win 8 pro from a "backup disk" the one that you purchased from microsoft.
this will not work, it is not an installer disk.
you need to start the process again. erase the partition you made on your hdd. in disc utility click the minus button after selecting the bootcamp partition, then manually drag the divider down fully then apply.
next, erase your usb then format it.
download win 8 iso from here;
http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/download-windows-8-pro/
it is perfectly legal to use your purchased product key in this install.
in bootcamp select the iso image you just downloaded, select your preferred partition size, check all 3 options.
you have the support software on another usb but you wont need it so it can be discarded. the install will work far better with the iso and support on the same drive.

Boot camp assistant problems: please help!

ok, so i was running boot camp assistant on my macbook pro (13 inch) and everything was going fine. But when it was partitioning a space for the windows portion it never showed the bootcamp partition icon to the right on my desktop. I didn't know this was a problem until I tried to install the windows on my computer and it would not work because apparently it does not have the ntfs format. I tried it again two more times, both with no applications running. Is there something I am doing wrong?

You should post in the Bootcamp forum where the Bootcamp gurus hang out.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
EDIT
Once again I am thwarted by my slow typing. Follow the advice of rkaufmann87
Message was edited by: BobTheFisherman

I CANNOT USE BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT 4.1 ON MAC BOOK PRO 15 INCH

i installed windows xp using boot camp Boot Camp Assistant 4.0.1 version, which was on system along with macbook pro 15", quad core processor,
windows were also installed with the partitions, but after windows were installed, drivers were missing and wen i went back through options to open boot camp on mac os it boot camp was nt working, i deleted the partion where i installed windows xp, and then too boot camp options to make partion is nt showing, kindly guide to repair BOOT CAMP ASSISTANT, and also how can i upgrage my Os frm lion 10.7.3 to mountain loin.

Reinstall OSX using the online recovery.
Then use Boot Camp Assistant. One of the Boot Camp Assistant menu items is download the Windows Support Software (drivers). Make sure you follow the Boot Camp instructions.
Or, Reinstall OSX using the online recovery.
Then install a virtual machine like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox. Then install Windows in the virtual machine.
You can use either Boot Camp or a virtual machine to install Windows. Neither method requires any driver cds.

Boot Camp Assistant says "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved." What can I do?

I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate on my MacBook Pro that runs OS X Lion. I have read through a lot of the other threads and I think I understand that the I need a clean, defragged part of the hard drive to do this on. Boot Camp Assistant tells me to "Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again." That's all good and everything, but I don't have any idea how to do that. I don't want to risk losing any of my data and I don't want to download any "freeware" to try and help me accomplish this task. I would like a step by step guide on how to make this work. Also, is there anyway that I could have prevented this error? I don't understand why Boot Camp Assistant is even on my MacBook Pro if everyone that uses it will get the same error. I have done nothing but taken it out of the box and started using the Apple software that came installed on it. If there is not a simple way to do this in the Disc Utility, then I don't want to do it at all. I really don't like the idea of putting all my data on an external hard drive just to have this done.

Just installing OS updates and programs will
Write the installer
Uncompress the file at say 7x and write the actual installer in a free area that often may be anywhere but at the far end of the partition is common.
Write new version or copy of the files being changed/updated (myfile.new and myfile.old)
Delete the entry in the directory for the temp files and versions.
A program that can show your hard drive and where files are and where free space is, and show fragments.
OS X tries to eliminate small files with fragments when they are rewritten and when it can find contiguous free space to write the new file.
That can actually work against you, as it might fragment the free space also.
When a drive gets down to 20% free space there is a performance hit, you are using slower areas of the drive (inner tracks are usually 50% slower) and having more trouble finding filles and where to write files.
Clone Mac OS is one of the easiest and safest methods.
Click on source (Mac Harddrive), click on or drop the backup partition / drive into target icon.
Click "Run"
you end up with bootable (test it to be certain) exact copy.
Unplujg and keep it on a shelf
Update it before you inistall a new version etc of OS X or make changes.
Have two: one safe on the shelf from Week #1 and new Week #2
Disk Utility can do that.
With huge hard drives free space should not be an issue. The lack of a feature to defrag as part of Boot Camp or Disk Utility is why there are iDefrag and others, but they are slow and best run from.... a 2nd hard drive running OS X rather than from CD. and never great idea to do w/o backups or on live system.

Boot camp assistant ignores legit disks if the boot disk has a raid slice

I don't know if this is the right place to post... sorry if not.
Here's my setup:
disk0
Mac OSX HD
OS Share
Mirror (RAID slice)
disk1
Mac Fast
Windows Fast
Mirror (RAID slice)
disk2
Time Machine (one big Journaled HFS+ partition, that's it)
I wanted to use the assistant to make a new BOOTCAMP partition on disk2, but it never let me get past the opening screen because the startup disk had been partitioned outside of the assistant (true, it was) and was not a single Journaled HFS+ partition (also true). But disk2 is perfectly ripe for the, uh, boot camping.
I got rid of the RAID completely, and the assistant was happy to let me create the BOOTCAMP partition on disk2. After I got that working, I went back and re-created the RAID on disks 0 and 1. Everything works perfectly now.
Was I doing something wrong, or is this just a (subtle) bug in the Boot Camp Assistant?

Just installing OS updates and programs will
Write the installer
Uncompress the file at say 7x and write the actual installer in a free area that often may be anywhere but at the far end of the partition is common.
Write new version or copy of the files being changed/updated (myfile.new and myfile.old)
Delete the entry in the directory for the temp files and versions.
A program that can show your hard drive and where files are and where free space is, and show fragments.
OS X tries to eliminate small files with fragments when they are rewritten and when it can find contiguous free space to write the new file.
That can actually work against you, as it might fragment the free space also.
When a drive gets down to 20% free space there is a performance hit, you are using slower areas of the drive (inner tracks are usually 50% slower) and having more trouble finding filles and where to write files.
Clone Mac OS is one of the easiest and safest methods.
Click on source (Mac Harddrive), click on or drop the backup partition / drive into target icon.
Click "Run"
you end up with bootable (test it to be certain) exact copy.
Unplujg and keep it on a shelf
Update it before you inistall a new version etc of OS X or make changes.
Have two: one safe on the shelf from Week #1 and new Week #2
Disk Utility can do that.
With huge hard drives free space should not be an issue. The lack of a feature to defrag as part of Boot Camp or Disk Utility is why there are iDefrag and others, but they are slow and best run from.... a 2nd hard drive running OS X rather than from CD. and never great idea to do w/o backups or on live system.

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